From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24255 invoked by alias); 4 Mar 2004 16:28:24 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 24244 invoked from network); 4 Mar 2004 16:28:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sys26.mail.msu.edu) (35.9.75.126) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 4 Mar 2004 16:28:23 -0000 Received: from [207.179.68.222] (helo=msu.edu) by sys26.mail.msu.edu with asmtp (Exim 4.24 #37) (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) id 1Ayvhv-0003Nh-1H for cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; Thu, 04 Mar 2004 11:28:23 -0500 Message-ID: <40475927.1070201@msu.edu> Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 16:28:00 -0000 From: Harold L Hunt II User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Reducing configuration headaches for cygwin-xfree References: <1078320234.8051.43.camel@famine> <20040304140613.GA18789@redhat.com> <20040304160408.GC21030@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus: None found by Clam AV X-SW-Source: 2004-03/txt/msg00118.txt.bz2 List-Id: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > >>On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 04:07:00PM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote: >> >>>On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> >>>>AFAIK, you wouldn't want to install X without also installing some >>>>other things like bash, at least. I would think you'd want other tools >>>>like 'cp', as well. Since people always complain that the minimal >>>>installation for cygwin (which is the default) doesn't have enough >>>>stuff in it, I don't really understand why the minimal installation + X >>>>would have too much. >>> >>>One scenario is the stand-alone xserver which just acts as terminal for >>>remote access. >> >>How would you manage remote access if you didn't at least have bash, >>though? Run xterm + cmd.exe, maybe? >> >>cgf > > > Remote access as in running a remote xterm and displaying it on a local X. > Either that, or XDMCP. The first obviously also needs some other way of > connecting to the remote machine (e.g., telnet). Note that it also works fine with any ssh implementation, such as PuTTY. Harold