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Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 18:34:46 -0400
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To: beau <phaedral AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cygwin X on XP
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From: Alan Ning <alancning AT gmail DOT com>

beau wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>Do folks really fire up, say, windows XP, then fire up cygwin, then
>run linux-ish X apps from cygwin?  Is it much harder than anything
>else I've done?  What I'd be most interested in is integration of
>browser-webmail-gpg that I had with my old setup.  Is that a fairly
>straightforward task?
>
>Thanks, all, btw, for giving me somthing tasty for my sigline; I'm
>actually in a law program, so it's quite topical, and funny (well, at
>least to me)
>
>  
>
This is a college student's perspective.

I use Cygwin X when I use WinXP and need to ssh in some unix machine. I 
need X server to display Emacs, and a nice Xterm. From time to time, I 
also run Wmaker with Cygwin X, it gives a unix friendliness to coder and 
entertainment power of windows at the same time.

Of course, I will never run Firefox under Cygwin X when I already have 
it installed in Windows.

... Alan

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