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- From: Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:33:15 +0000
- Subject: cygwin-x-doc refresh
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Yaakov,
I've finished off a first pass at updating the cygwin-x-doc package I started
some time ago. Updating the text was a bit less traumatic than expected as it
makes good use of entities for things like filenames and paths
Interestingly there are CVS repositories for this package at both
sourceware.org and at X.org. The X.Org one seems to be more up to date, and
seems to contain some (formatting) changes after the 1.0.4 package was made.
For your reviewing convenience I've generated a patch of my changes
against the X.Org CVS head, which can be found at:
http://www.dronecode.org.uk/cygwin/release/cygwin-x-doc/cygwin-x-doc-cvs-to-1.1.0.patch
I've also built packages which are in the same directory.
I'm afraid I had to build this on a linux host. I managed to get jadetex
installed, but DSSSL stylesheets defeated me. Ofc, when I gave up and built
it on a linux host, I start trying to package it and notice the README says
"build this on a linux host". :S
The keyboard stuff in FAQ section 5.1 probably needs more work bringing up to
date, preferably by someone who understands how X keyboard stuff is supposed
to work this decade, I'm afraid I've lost track.
The installation guide contains some nice images of the setup program which
date back to XFree86 times, and so didn't match the text even before I changed
it. Yet another thing for the todo list :-)
One unrelated point: whilst reviewing the installation instructions I noticed
that at the moment, xorg-server does not require xinit, so someone making a
new installation (as oppposed to upgrading an existing one) may end up
with no obvious means of starting the server after installing it?
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