Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <018801c0b0ba$ef575ea0$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> From: "Robert Collins" To: "Heribert Dahms" , "Earnie Boyd" References: Subject: Re: How to make Ghostscript 5.50 using native windows GUI Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 08:24:07 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Mar 2001 21:18:30.0645 (UTC) FILETIME=[25880250:01C0B0BA] Not quite, the point is that with a server (even a headless dummy one) you have to have it running _first_. That's not the Win32 end-user expectation for programs like Xemcs/ghostview etc. Rob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Heribert Dahms" To: "'Robert Collins'" ; "Earnie Boyd" Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 8:22 AM Subject: RE: How to make Ghostscript 5.50 using native windows GUI > Hi Rob, > > or the headless dummy X-server Xvfb (X virtual frame buffer), > which comes in the X11R6 sources. > But I've only a horrible port to HP-UX 10.20 ... > > Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de) > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Robert Collins [SMTP:robert.collins@itdomain.com.au] > > Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 22:13 > > To: Earnie Boyd > > Subject: Re: How to make Ghostscript 5.50 using native windows GUI > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Earnie Boyd" > > To: > > Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 12:36 AM > > Subject: Re: How to make Ghostscript 5.50 using native windows GUI > > > [Heribert] [snip] > > > You do know that W was also a windowing project? Just to put my 0.02c > > into the mix (Now I actual understand the point :]) I think one good way > > to do this would be a "serverless" X-client library - because a lot of X > > is not display protocols, but the client server communication. And all > > of that is usualy accessed via the client libs. So... a dynamically > > bound client lib would allow those of us who need X (because we have two > > machine (even two windows machines)) to still get behind and help/throw > > peanuts... > > > > Rob > > > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple