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Special Forums Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions From WinXP to Unix with X-window Post 62996 by luke on Tuesday 22nd of February 2005 06:43:09 AM
Old 02-22-2005
Cygwin

XLiveCD sounds good: it uses Cygwin. Cygwin is free, and includes an X server.
See http://cygwin.com/, and for info on installing see
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-net.html#AEN194

Note one trick: the default install is minimal - no X, it's barely serviceable. If you select All when selecting packages (click on "Default" until it changes to "Install"), then you'll be installing over a GB of programs.

One more trick: there are lots of mirrors of Cygwin, and because it's big and frequently updated, often the mirrors are incomplete, especially while major updates are rippling out.

I haven't been able to convince anyone to run my script that automatically runs the md5 sig checks and "publishes" the results at the root of the Cygwin mirror. So I'm afraid checking the mirror's integrity is left as an exercise for the reader. (Tip: download and check the download, directory by directory.)

But usually the mirrors are okay.

Don't forget to run mkpasswd, mkgroup (with both -l and -d options), and run ssh-host-config to setup ssh after you've installed it.

Oh, and when you ssh into the Unix box to run the X application, use the -Y option on ssh, not the -X.
 

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XChangeSaveSet(3X11)						     MIT X11R4						      XChangeSaveSet(3X11)

Name
       XChangeSaveSet, XAddToSaveSet, XRemoveFromSaveSet - change a client's save set

Syntax
       XChangeSaveSet(display, w, change_mode)
	  Display *display;
	  Window w;
	  int change_mode;

       XAddToSaveSet(display, w)
	  Display *display;
	  Window w;

       XRemoveFromSaveSet(display, w)
	  Display *display;
	  Window w;

Arguments
       change_mode
		 Specifies the mode.  You can pass or

       display	 Specifies the connection to the X server.

       w	 Specifies the window that you want to add or delete from the client's save-set.

Description
       Depending on the specified mode, either inserts or deletes the specified window from the client's save-set.  The specified window must have
       been created by some other client, or a error results.

       can generate and errors.

       The function adds the specified window to the client's save-set.  The specified window must have been created by some other client, or a
       error results.

       can generate and errors.

       The function removes the specified window from the client's save-set.  The specified window must have been created by some other client, or
       a error results.

       can generate and errors.

Diagnostics
       Some argument or pair of arguments has the correct type and range but fails
		 to match in some other way required by the request.

       Some numeric value falls outside the range of values accepted by the request.
		 Unless a specific range is specified for an argument, the full range defined by the argument's type is accepted. Any argument
		 defined as a set of alternatives can generate this error.

       A value for a Window argument does not name a defined Window.

See Also
       XReparentWindow(3X11)
       X Window System: The Complete Reference, Second Edition, Robert W. Scheifler and James Gettys

															      XChangeSaveSet(3X11)
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