From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 121096 invoked by alias); 21 Apr 2015 16:09:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 121086 invoked by uid 89); 21 Apr 2015 16:09:12 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: newsaf.bio.caltech.edu Received: from newsaf.bio.caltech.edu (HELO newsaf.bio.caltech.edu) (131.215.12.41) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:09:12 +0000 Received: from apache by newsaf.bio.caltech.edu ([local]:local) with local id 1YkajW-0004Uo-Fs - Using Exim-4.72 (MandrivaLinux) MTA (return-path ); Tue, 21 Apr 2015 09:09:10 -0700 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Magic Cookie - SSH Secure Shell HTTP-Posting-Client: 131.215.12.39 HTTP-Posting-URI: saf.bio.caltech.edu:443/roundcubemail/index.php HTTP-Posting-User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0 SeaMonkey/2.33.1 X-PHP-Originating-Script: 0:rcmail.php MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:09:00 -0000 From: mathog Cc: nfitzkee@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <55365E49.8070503@dronecode.org.uk> References: <000d01d07ae4$ef4c6dc0$cde54940$@gmail.com> <55365E49.8070503@dronecode.org.uk> Message-ID: <2654b48a25d38c2989172a6eb34d3c37@saf.bio.caltech.edu> X-Sender: mathog@caltech.edu User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.9.5 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: apache@saf.bio.caltech.edu X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on newsaf.bio.caltech.edu); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-04/txt/msg00005.txt.bz2 > On 19/04/2015 22:08, Nicholas Fitzkee wrote: >> Ultimately, I have graduate and undergraduate students who need to be >> able >> to quickly set up their own Windows systems to run X11 apps on my >> linux >> server. These students are often not particularly tech-saavy, so I'd >> like >> my tutorial for them to be as simple as posslble. As an example, you >> can >> see what I wrote for the old xinit at this link: If you don't mind using a slightly older version of the Cygwin X11 server you might point your students to this instead: http://sourceforge.net/projects/minimalcygwinx/ This was put together for exactly your stated purpose. It is a Cygwin installation pruned down to just the parts needed for X11 to run with Putty. Since it uses the older X11 server it doesn't have any of the "features" (ie, problems from the perspective of your intended users) that the current X11 server does. Regards, David Mathog mathog@caltech.edu Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/