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Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:33:25 +0000
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Subject: Re: Strange case of missing XWin
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2010/1/14 Fergus:
> I installed portable Cygwin to a low-capacity USB stick by "picking" Base
> and then extras from the selection menu. Amongst other things I picked up
> xterm, Lyx, TeX. (I've done this item-by-item selection a few times in the
> past but not recently; and never with 1.7.)
> Somehow I am still missing XWin. So trying to kick things off with the
> command run XWin -multiwindow is failing.
>>> bash: XWin: command not found
> I could have blinked and done something wrong. But are all the dependencies
> in place that should be?

Yes. X applications do not depend on XWin (i.e. the xorg-server
package) because they can be used with any X server, including one
running on a different machine.

Andy

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