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RE: Cygwin X11 newbie question
- To: "Matt Lewandowsky" <mattl at d2k dot com>, <cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: Cygwin X11 newbie question
- From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 20:48:22 -0400
- Reply-To: <ssiddiqi at ipass dot net>
Ummm forgot to mention, there is URL for cygwin-xfree now
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/xfree and it says
X-servers are not functional yet, work is in progress.
Please note that X-server is huge project which often needs
several developers and we have so far only 2 committed contributes... see
cygwin-xfree URL
Regards
Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com]On Behalf Of Matt
> Lewandowsky
> Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 1999 8:29 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Cygwin X11 newbie question
>
>
> OK... since there appears to be no FAQ for X11R6.4 for Cygwin anywhere,
> I'm going to ask a simple question:
>
> I've downloaded x11r6.4-cygwin-ss-dev.tar.gz, but I can't start X
> because I don't have /usr/X11R6/bin/XGGI. (Or any other "Unixy" X
> server, as far as I can tell...) Am I stuck with Exceed? If not, what do
> I do? I want to dump my Exceed NT install, but can't if I need it. :(
>
> TIA,
>
> Matt Lewandowsky
>