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Re: Love Cygwin, Why do I need Xfree86??
- From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak <ronald at landheer dot com>
- To: zzapper <zzapper at ntlworld dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 13:32:19 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: Love Cygwin, Why do I need Xfree86??
On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, zzapper wrote:
> I can do everything I want with CyGwin or can I?
> What do I gain from using X Windows, is it just for those who want a totally
> Unix look & feel??
Basically, what you gain from X is being able to use the apps that depend
on it.
There are some packages that have X11 versions that need X11 to run.
You could also use it as a way to make X11 apps under Windoze..
(IIRC GNOME and KDE are being ported to Cygwin, for example)
or just to get a UNIX look & feel
rlc
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> zzapper
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> vim -c ":%s/^/WhfgTNabgureRIvzSUnpxre/|:%s/[R-T]/ /Ig|:normal ggVGg?"
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> http://vim.sourceforge.net/tip_view.php?tip_id=305 "Best of Vim Tips"
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