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Re: problems with XFree
- From: Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- To: dforeman at stny dot rr dot com
- Cc: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 08:58:57 -0400
- Subject: Re: problems with XFree
- References: <NEBBKCGPGLGENLAGHNDJAEHHDDAA.dforeman@stny.rr.com>
Dennis Foreman wrote:
The message said to type "xterm -help", not "xfree -help". My error. Here is
what I got:
foreman@FOREMAN ~
$ xterm -help
bash: xterm: command not found
I suspect that it is because the xfree directories are not in the basic
cygwin path. Again, for newbies, one cannot assume that they will know how
to set this path or that it even needs to be set. To be a really helpful
application, these things should be considered.
Yes, the problem is because /usr/X11R6/bin is not in the path by default.
Yes, we have thought many, many times about how to fix this.
No, no one has yet come up with a solution that will work for all cases.
Yes, we are very much looking forward to your patch that fixes this problem.
As for the differences in xterm options between cygwin and SunOS, I will
prepare a list of differences and validation of the errors I have received.
That won't be very useful to us. Sun almost certainly develops their
xterm from their own code base, while XFree86's xterm is developed from
a different code base. Comparing these two xterm's is just like
comparing any other proprietary implementation of a UNIX utility with
its primary free implementation (e.g., sed, awk, grep, etc).
What would be extremely useful to us would be a list of differences
between an xterm from XFree86 on Linux and an xterm under Cygwin. Any
differences there are likely errors on the Cygwin side. However, no one
has reported any differences to date.
You have an alternative solution here. Sun, I believe, provides XFree86
packages for Solaris. You can install the XFree86 packages for Solaris
and you will no longer have differences between the two commands.
Remember, we Cygwin/XFree86 folks are but mere packagers of XFree86 for
Cygwin; none of us work on xterm. If you have problems with xterm, you
can take them up with the XFree86 project or with Thomas Dickey, the
primary developer of XFree86's xterm:
http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.html
Harold