On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 07:28:18PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
Chris Green wrote:
Some time soon I'm going to have to upgrade my present Cygwin/X
installation which is mostly 4.3.0.x Xfree to the latest Xorg
versions.
How painless is this likely to be? I run Cygwin/X on a Win2k machine
and use it to display my Slackware Linux desktop using xdm.
There should be only minor issues. XF86Config is not compiled in anymore.
Lot's of bugfixes...
But actually xorg 6.7.0 was just the next evolution of xfree 4.3.0 and
fits in the old release tree
xf 4.2
xf 4.3
xorg 6.7.0
xorg 6.8.0
xorg 6.8.1
So there should not be any big problems
Here's one major PITA: xterm has moved from /usr/X11R6/bin to /usr/bin.
If you have any scripts, batch files, or shortcuts that hardcode
/usr/X11R6/bin/xterm, you'll need to either change them to use
/usr/bin/xterm, or add a symlink in /usr/X11R6/bin to /usr/bin/xterm.
Igor
Thanks both, it sounds like it should be reasonably painless then. I
don't have many (any?) scripts or anything that will be affected by
the xterm move as my major use for Cygwin/X is as an X server for my
Linux desktop on my Win2k machine.
We're getting broadband this week hopefully so I'll probably wait for
that before doing the big download/upgrade.
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