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Re: Cygwin-Xfree for XDM clients
- To: Rasjid <rasjidw at bigpond dot com>
- Subject: Re: Cygwin-Xfree for XDM clients
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at informatik dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 14:40:41 +0200 (CEST)
- Cc: cygwin-xfree at xfree dot cygwin dot com
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Rasjid wrote:
> Hi all. Just joined the list.
>
> I was planning of putting together a cut down version of Cgywin-Xfree
> that would only have enough to connect to a XDM server (running on Linux
> for example). Basically something to replace the shareware X-servers
> that exist already for Windows. Longer term plan would be to create a
> nice GUI interface and installer.
>
> I would like to know if someone has already done this, as there would be
> no point in re-inventing the wheel.
There were often questions to the ml, what components of xfree are needed.
But no one build a minimal package.
If you only want to use xwin as xdm login screen, then you only need
Xwin.exe and the cygz.dll. You can use the fonts from your linux machine
by setting up a fontserver. This was also discussed on the ml. So you
might want to check the Mailinglist archives.
bye
ago
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