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To: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Fonts: Cygwin/X, ssh -Y, TigerVNC -- who's in charge?
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Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2020 10:35:33 +0100
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From: "Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
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Jon Turney writes:

> On 18/06/2020 17:53, Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin wrote:
>> [Warning, gnarly X-windows issues below, read at your own risk]
>>
>> I run XEmacs on several Linux servers, and sometimes (always for the
>> time being) access them via (Cygwin) ssh -Y and/or (Windows)TigerVNC.
>
> I'm not sure if you're using 'XEmacs' here to refer to 'GNU Emacs as
> an X11 client' or 'XEmacs (the fork derived from Lucid Emacs)'

The latter.  It's been moth-balled, but still works, and even compiles
from source.

> [lots of useful info]

Thanks very much for taking the time to give detailed and useful
answers.

I'll read your earlier post and do some more experimentation.

Thanks,

ht
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