[ILUG] X Windows Query

[Brian Foster]

  | Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:08:33 +0100
  | From: "Dave McMullin" <desertpalace at gmail.com>
  | 
  | On 4/16/08, Ciaran Johnston <cj at nologic.org> wrote:
  | > [ Cygwin X server is ] pretty good, but xming
  | > ( http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/ )
  | > is IMO a better route to take, if only for it's
  | > tighter windows and putty integration and nice
  | > GUI launcher.
  | 
  | Thanks; never seen that before but I must check it out.
  | Putty integration would be very handy :)

 I second Ciaran's recommendation to look at Xming.
 I was using it quite extensively for awhile, and it
 was (almost) flawless.  The only(?) problem I can
 now recall was copy-and-paste from an M$ disaster
 to a *ix window (or maybe it was the other way
 around, I cannot recall now) caused Xming to die;
 but since I essentially never used M$ disasters,
 it didn't matter (to me).  Others did not report
 having the problem, so it could have been something
 with my admittedly very peculiar (and old) setup.

 Fortunately, I'm now back in a pure *ix world, and
 so couldn't give a feck anymore (excepting e-mails
 from brain-dead M$ disasters are very annoying!).

cheers!
	-blf-
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