Cygwin problems under Vista

[Vinod Gupta]

So, I guess every one in Cygwin community is happily running Cygwin and 
Cygwin-X under Windows Vista. That is a great news! It seems only I 
missed the train :-(

Vinod

On 2008-03-20 15:50, Vinod Gupta wrote:
> I see that quite a few people have experienced problems running cygwin 
> and applications like XFree86 server under Windows Vista. We have been 
> using Cygwin under XP for may years and would love to continue using 
> it under Vista. I will appreciate suggestions to the following questions:
>
> 1) Some people have suggested running rebaseall under ash. I tried it 
> and it helps. Shall I be required to rebaseall every time there are 
> new versions of DLLs released? Why not make it a part of cygwin 
> installer?
>
> 2) It seems there is no reliable fix for XFree86 and people have 
> suggested Xming which works fine for me. While XFree86 was integrated 
> with Cywin's main installer which was a huge advantage. Is there any 
> way to replace XFree86 by Xming so that only Xming packages are 
> installed/updated.
>
> Vinod
>

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