RE: Recommended packages?

["Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

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

The one in contrib directory. Do not mix anything with from xc-4-binaries
directory.

> And, what is twm for?

Window manager. Very basic one.
Use XFCE from contrib directory if you want a nice Windows Manager plus a
desktop,
instead of gray wavy background.

Suhaib

>
> 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