There have been discussions on the cygwin-xfree mailinglist which
cygwin-'packages' is necessary for a successfull X installation, if I
got things right, the only thing necessary was the cygwin1.dll (or
what it is called nowadays).
It was a while ago, and I don't know if it is uptodate today..
You can remove quite a bit of the stuff from the cygwin installation,
not needed for X, on straight hand I think of gcc, gnutella, perl,
ghostscript, postgressql, bison, byacc, gawk, ghostscript (can be good
to have), python, gperf.
An alternative BTW is to use VNC, http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/,
runs the x-server on your machine, it runs on the remote host, and the
screens are transferred therefrom to you with the VNC-protocol..
It is free, usable.. and works great, allows the connection to die and
so on :-)
/Andy
/ chris chizk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Hi, I have recently installed cygwin and X on my PC.
| I have installed the full cygwin instalation and the
| minimal X install. Documentation suggests the cygwin
| should take about 175 MB and I am assuming the X
| instalation to add some more. I can afford about 250
| MB, as this is on a laptop with a small HD. my
| instalation of cygwin and X has taken up about 700 MB.
| This is not good (I have no more space on my HD), as
| all I want X for is to run some X applications on a
| unix machine from my office where I only have a PC.
| Can you confirm that this is reasonable, or can you
| suggest a minimal installation of cygwin. I did find
| some minimal installation info on the web, but when I
| did that, X did not install properly, because of
| missing things.
| Thanks,
| Chris.
|
| Chris.
|
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| Christopher L. Chizk
| http://www.cvs.rochester.edu/~chizk
| University of Rochester
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