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Re: rootless cygwin emacs howto?


On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Thomas L Roche wrote:

> I've been running NTEmacs for awhile, and Cygwin for awhile, but have
> only occasionally used X. I'd like to cut over to the cygwinized
> Emacs if I can keep a single desktop, i.e. run X rootless. Could
> someone point me to a howto illustrating setup and running of the
> cygwin Emacs on X, rootlessly? (If possible, please also CC: me.)
> Apologies if this is a FAQ, but I tried Googling
>
> cygwin emacs rootless
>
> (i.e. not the phrase) and saw only claims that it can be done.

Thomas,

Looks like my reply to your cygwin-apps message prevented other replies on
this list - sorry about that.

Did you look at the -multiwindow option to X?  This will make Explorer
your window manager, so all of your X windows are managed just like any
other Windows programs.
	Igor
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