X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,BOTNET X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-id: <4B7C396B.9010303@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:46:03 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: correct way to start X server in 1.7 References: <4B7C2E03 DOT 3070705 AT onetel DOT com> In-reply-to: <4B7C2E03.3070705@onetel.com> Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On 02/17/2010 12:57 PM, mike wrote: > Hi, > > I'm just a jerk user so be gentle with me. I've looked at the user guide > and searched the mailing list but I may have missed something. I don't > know what information is relevant so this is long. Sorry. > > I've been running some version of Cygwin 1.5 for many months now. I > would always just double-click on the "XWin Server" icon and then export > the display variable and ssh into what is currently an F11 box. > Typically I then only run thunderbird, emacs, firefox and oowriter. This > all worked pretty well. The Cygwin-X list handles questions and issues concerning X on Cygwin. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple