Re: [coLinux-devel] XML configuration

[Digital I. Inc. <ok...@di...>]

Hello Chris,

I have no reason to stick to Cygwin/X.
So I also consider possiblity of VNC too.
and I will write coLinux frame buffer with DirectX accelarated,
I totally have no reason to stick to Cygwin/X.

I just want to investigate every possibility
before I do something actually.
I believe that slow start with a right plan reachs the goal faster.

the biggest problem would be, I have very little knowledge of Linux as client PC.
I usually use Windows as client, and Linux as server.
For me, Linux means an unfancy window called "Putty" or "Tera Term".

             --- Okajima.

>
>I downloaded startx.zip today and renamed my c:\cygwin It did not work.
>I checked out what is going on with filemonitor and registry monitor from
>sysinternals.
>
>It actually looks for lots of files including /etc/passwd and /etc/groups
>the big problem seems to be the /tmp and the fonts when I created a
>c:\cygwin\tmp it created a log and it seems to be that the fonts are the
>point of failure.
>
>It seems to get c:\cygwin from HKCU I created a new user and when running
>under the new user it started looking for the files in c:\etc....
>c:\usr......
>
>I really don't think making cygwin's version of X portable would be a
>trivial matter.
>
>Okajima,
>Do you have a reason for wanting X instead of vnc for coKnoppix?
>The windows vnc client uses the registry too but changing that code to
>skip the startup dialog and use an address passed on the commandline would
>probably be trivial ( I don't know that may be posible already
>
>chris
>
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>>
>> Hello Chris and Kerver.
>>
>> thanks for advise.
>>
>> I want to confirm one thing -
>>   in your env, you can run startx.zip without /cygwin/usr/bin/X11R6 ?
>>   for example, you do
>>       [Cygwin]$ mv /usr/bin/X11R6 /usr/bin/X11R6.notfound
>>   then you can run XWin.exe from startx.zip?
>>
>> at least, it fails in my env.
>> Windows does not complain. Just Xwin.exe fails without any message.
>> and I found that font files in /usr/bin/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts are necessary.
>> and it also requires /tmp.
>>
>> To make Cygwin/X installer, I have to fix what is really necessary.
>>
>> I hope you try it and send me the result.
>>
>>      thanks in advance, Okajima.
>>
>>
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>>>>
>>>> and Kerver, I found that your startx.zip needs full Cygwin/X install.
>>>> if you dont understand, change your c:/cygwin/usr/bin/X11R6 to other
>>>> name.
>>>> your zip does not run. you have any idea?
>>>>
>>>>                  --- Okajima.
>>>
>>>
>>>A little tip I found is that when adding cygwin directories to the
>>> windows
>>>path add them under user variables not under system variables. That way
>>>you can have an account that does not have access to them for testing
>>>unless the program finds the file without using PATH
>>>
>>>Okajima, does windows not complain that it cannot find a certian file?
>>>
>>>chris
>>>
>>
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