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Setting up a minimal "Xterminal" package
- From: "Bernie Cosell" <bernie at fantasyfarm dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 13:24:49 -0400
- Subject: Setting up a minimal "Xterminal" package
- Organization: Fantasy Farm Fibers
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: bernie at fantasyfarm dot com
As part of a guerilla effort to get the college I teach at to be more Linux-
accepting, I'd like to put together as small and simple a package as possible
that I can drop onto a Windows box that'll turn it into an Xterminal running
Gnome off of a nearby RedHat box. Is there some howto or other docs/messages
that describe how to do this ? I figure all I need is XWin.exe and enough
DLLs to make it happy [and probably some setup/config files], but I don't know
enough about the intricacies of the distro to know if that's even correct, much
less how to extract that subset and install *just*that*much* by itself, and I
know I'm in WAY over my head on this...
my goal here is to repackage *JUST* the pieces I'll need in a self-contained,
self-installing zip archive, so that the students will be just "one click" away
from being able to connect to the Unix server and run GNOME off of it [and
they'll have to do it every day, because the PC-lab-police wipe the HD and
reimage the HD every night! UGH!! Hence it needs to be fairly easy,
uncomplicated, etc]
Thanks!
/Bernie\--
Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers
mailto:bernie@fantasyfarm.com Pearisburg, VA
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