Re: XWin: necessary internet access?

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net wrote:

> I am attempting to mount and run a necessarily reduced Cygwin and selected
> applications from a 64MB USB stick drive. It's built incrementally (as
> follows: include a .exe in /bin; then, if that fails with a "missing .dll"
> message include the .dll too) and at approx 48MB usage including a massive
> statistics application program it works just fine.
>
> I'd like to include X (specifically xdvi.exe to read .dvi files). In this
> context the main system (i.e. complete Cygwin on a HD) is started by
>
>     start XWin -multiwindow
>     run rxvt -display localhost:0.0 -e bash
>     xdvi test.dvi
>
> (that's for 98SE: in XP I omit "start") and this works faultlessly.
>
> As far as I know all components necessary to achieve the same end are
> included on the stick (i.e. there are no more "missing .dll" announcements).
> Unfortunately I must be wrong because even before starting rxvt I find XWin
> is "very transient". By this I mean that after the command
> "XWin -multiwindow" the X icon appears briefly in the system tray in the
> taskbar, but then evaporates almost immediately. Then, of course, the rxvt
> line fails because the display cannot be found.
>
> I have tried any and all of XWin &, XWin -multiwindow &, running XWin after
> bash rather than before  ... I cannot get it to "stay".
>
> I am sorry not to have made my circumstances any clearer than they are (e.g.
> what's on the stick). AND I know it is disagreeable / impossible to offer
> advice for non-standard systems. I attach a cygcheck -srv in case it is
> obvious from that what further necessary component I still lack.
>
> Thank you for any help.
> Fergus

Fergus,

Since your goal is to save space, and unless you want to use X for other
things, you might consider using a Windows GUI dvi viewer, e.g., yap.exe
from the MiKTeX package, instead.  With all of its associated DLLs it's
just under 1M, and I doubt you can pare X down to take up so little space.

If you do need X, however, good luck.
	Igor
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