Hi Harold, First off, as this is my first submission to the list, I'd like to extend my thanks to you and all of the other contributors to Cygwin/X. After trying a very early version (long before multiwindow appeared), I tried a lot of commercial X servers before returning to cygwin about the time that rootless appeared. The current XWin is by far the best of the bunch (for my purposes at least). It is the only server I've found that will work reliably with VirtuaWin's virtual desktops.
Most of the traffic headed your way on the list is, by the nature of these things, negative so I thought I'd try to redress the balance ;-) I'm sure I speak for most of the subscribers in saying that your efforts are greatly appreciated. But enough of this sycophancy... > Harold L Hunt II wrote: > 1) A Japanese user has reported that the new icon was garbled on his > Windows NT (I believe) system. This is an isolated case so far and I > think it is due to something with that particular system and is not > something that we should worry about unless it starts getting reported more. This is a pretty mature list, followed by the sort of people who can resist the urge to send in "me too" messages. I suspect that there are others like me who saw the original fault report and thought "OK, it's been logged already, I'll await the results". Therefore, please don't discount solitary fault reports. I am running NT4 and as you'll see from the attached shot, I too get a mangled icon. (In case the maintainer of rxvt monitors this list, that application also suffers the same problem) Of the different .ico files I have seen, all could be read and correctly displayed by IrfanView, but most were either mangled by Windows, or "contain no icons". FWIW, here are my observations on the discussion so far: a) It makes no sense to inflict a random splodge on users of older OSes, just because a newer OS is able to display a prettier version of the current icon. b) As a user of an older OS, I would gladly live with an amorphous blotch if you could get the clipboard to work with emacs! c) I would guess that most XWin _users_ are actually professionals like myself, who need an X server to connect a cheap PC to more exotic hardware running various flavours of Unix. We are busy and therefore don't have the time to make a lot of noise on lists such as this. d) Most true geeks (a hat I wear myself when I'm at home) won't touch Windows of any flavour from choice and therefore won't be needing cygwin. e) A disproportionate number of electrons has been devoted to the transmission of messages about 144 pixels. Phil Betts <<X-icon-bustage.png>> ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **********************************************************************
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