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On 12/3/2012 4:44 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu> writes:
>> and the Cygwin build of emacs-nox.exe now has mouse
>> support, as requested in
>>
>>     http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-10/msg00027.html
>
> Are there some special settings to make this useable in mintty?  I've been
> trying to move the cursor around in a dired, but obviously it doesn't recognize
> this yet.

M-x xterm-mouse-mode

>> In this release, for the first time, I've been able to build Cygwin's
>> emacs-X11 with all of the upstream defaults.  In particular, the build
>> uses GTK+-3 instead of GTK+-2, and it supports GNOME's GSettings and
>> GConf features.
>
> Would it be possible to build emacs-X11 without Gtk and provide emacs-Gtk as an
> additional package, like some Linux distributions do?

I'm not sure what you mean by "without Gtk".  Do you want some other X 
toolkit, such as Lucid or Motif?  Or no X toolkit?  What would be the 
advantage of that?  The emacs build uses Gtk by default, so I would need 
a good reason to do something different on Cygwin.

Ken

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