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Paul McFerrin wrote:
> I see a lot of packages under Cygwin called something like: xorg-x11-*
> 
> Obviously I don't need everything (hopefully) but what do I really need?
> Which windowing X-server do I need?  What font libraries do I need for 
> the "normal" stuff?
> 
> Can someone advise me on the above?  I'm sorta interested in installing 
> the "rxvt-unicode-X application since rxvt no longer has active support.


Just let 'setup.exe' tell you what you need.  Pick the packages you want
and leave the rest to 'setup.exe'.

If you have any Cygwin-X specific questions, those should go to the
Cygwin-X list.

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