RE: Actually, it was the Readme that messed me up. . .

[Harold Hunt <Harold at compasstechnologies dot com>]

So, xfree86-4.0-Xwin.tar.bz2 includes the DirectX X/Server that should be
able to run in a window?  Cause without installing any of the contrib
X/Servers I always get a full screen mode by default.  If the DirectX
X/Server is included with xfree86-4.0-Xwin.tar.bz2, is there a setting that
I can change in startxwin.bat to run in a window?

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 7:09 PM
To: Harold Hunt; 'Suhaib Siddiqi'; cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
Subject: RE: Actually, it was the Readme that messed me up. . .


>
> There is a readme in the xfree ftp root, such as
> ftp://ftp.sunsite.utk.edu/pub/cygwin/xfree/, that contains a README file,
> which makes the following claims,
>
> 1) In listing the files to download from xc-4-binaries, the README claims
> that there is a file named xfree86-bin.tar.bz2, however, there is no such
> file, and it is rather confusing as to whether we are supposed to download
> xfree86-Prog.tar.bz2 or xfree86-Xwin.tar.bz2, as both of them sound like
> they contain the main executables for Cygwin/XFree.
> 2) The README claims, "All of the above binaries support only Cygwin v 1.0
> and Development Snapshots.", however, you have indicated that Cygwin 1.1.4
> works just fine.

I noticed that some mirror sites are kind of archiving old archives etc.

> 3) There is no mention of the /contrib directory containing the DirectX
> X/Server, as other documentation seems to indicate.

The X-server in contrb directory is something like MI/X, runs in
single window mode, and also slow like MI/X. It does work on Windows 98/95.
But is built from plain X11R6.3 and lacks a lot of features e.g.LBX.
However it is good enough for most work.

>
> Hell, just getting rid of the README would prevent confusing some
> people :)

We will remove it.

Suhaib

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