Re: Uses for Cygwin/XFree86

[Randall R Schulz <rrschulz at cris dot com>]

Chris,

There are 139 executables in the /usr/X11R6/bin directory of my 
installation. Granted, most of them are just X and XFree86 utilities and 
elementary components, but it's more than just XTerm and XEyes.

I've compiled the NCAR graphics environment (version 4.2.3) under 
Cygwin/XFree86.

Somewhere along the line I picked up xfig, but I can't remember where (it's 
not listed as a part of the Cygwin distribution). Ahh, there we go: 
<http://xfree86.cygwin.com/ported-software.html>. That must be where I got 
it. Look there for other contributed software. OpenDX looks cool.

Also try this page: <http://lassauge.free.fr/cygwin/> 
(<http://lassauge.free.fr/cygwin/en_cygwin.htm> for English).

What sort of applications are you looking for? What do you wish you had 
that you don't?

I don't know for what purposes others use this "very powerful tool," but 
it's an integral part of my plan for world domination.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 16:04 2002-10-21, Chris Plonski wrote:
> I have used Cygwin/XFree86 for a couple of years now almost exclusively 
> for XDMCP.  I think it's one of the best products available for this.  And 
> now with the new rootless mode, Irix seems quite at home on my PC!
>
> However, every time I fire it up in "stand-alone" mode (non-XDMCP) via the 
> startxwin.bat or .sh scripts, I am amazed by the apparent dearth of X 
> applications (with the exception of xterm and xeyes).  Are most people 
> using this product for home-brewed applications or am I missing something 
> really obvious?  I would really like to know what most people are using 
> this apparently very powerful tool for.