RE: Recommended packages?

[Harold Hunt <Harold at compasstechnologies dot com>]

So, what did you use to get the windowed screenshot seen on the homepage?

And, what is twm for?

Harold L Hunt II
Phone: 800-850-1616 ext 108
Email: harold@compasstechnologies.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Suhaib M. Siddiqi [mailto:ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com]
Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 7:14 PM
To: Harold Hunt; Cygx (E-mail)
Subject: RE: Recommended packages?


> I am listing the following packages as necessary in my How-To document:
>
> xfree86-4.0-DLLs.tar.bz2
> xfree86-4.0-fonts.tar.bz2
> xfree86-4.0-Xterm.tar.bz2
> xfree86-4.0-Xwin.tar.bz2
>
> With those packages I can get a full-screen X/Server up and
> running (albeit,
> with really wacky colors), and Xterm works.

The colors problem will fixed once we have multi-windowing working.
For multiwindowing, users will not need to download the X-servers
binaries, HOPEFULLY, only replacing xf_dx.dll with a newer one
would be ebough.  It will use colors and depth whatever will be set for your
widnows.

>
> Should I be recommending other packages, such as:
> xfree86-4.0-Prog.tar.bz2
> xfree86-4.0-Xnest.tar.bz2
> xfree86-4.0-Xprt.tar.bz2
> xfree86-4.0-Xvfb.tar.bz2
> xfree86-4.0-twm.tar.bz2

They are not MUST, but nice to have.  That is why I packed them in separate
archives.

>
> Should I recommend one of the contributed X/Servers?
> X-servers-v-1.0.-exe.tar.bz2

Only for Windows 95/98, but it works on NT/2000 too without wakey colors
problems.

>
> Please include a description of any package that I should recommend, as I
> can't seem to figure out what most of these packages are for; for example,
> xfree86-4.0-Xwin.tar.bz2 includes vtwm.exe, but there is a
> package named twm
> as well, so, what the heck is the twm package for?

I would recommend mxterm, which in contrib directory.  It's MOTIF scrollbar
makes it easy to use.

Suhaib

>
> Harold L Hunt II
> Phone: 800-850-1616 ext 108
> Email: harold@compasstechnologies.com