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Old 09-02-2009
Cygwin X11 Packages
I see that I need these packages..

xorg-x11-base
xorg-x11-bin
xorg-x11-bin-dlls
xorg-x11-devel
xorg-x11-func
xorg-x11-fonts
xorg-x11-xwin
xorg-x11-etc

but in Cygwin 2.573 I do not see any of these under X11. Could someone tell me, do I have a wrong version of Cygwin or what?

The xorg-server, xinit and xorg-docs are the only packages I see that may be relevant, but not sure. I'm trying to get a seamless Unix feel but I realize the X11 packages are really needed for that. Please help.

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Could someone point me in the right direction please? Are the xorg-server, xinit and xorg-docs the packages that I need? Thanks.
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Old 09-02-2009
CygWin runs on a Windows workstation, the xorg-* packages would go on a Linux workstation, which are you trying to X display your application to?.
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Old 09-02-2009
For windows. There are some commands that are not working such as sudo, clear and root. I read that in order to get everything working correct you need the xorg-x11 packages, none of which is listed shown on the Cygwin setup packages list.
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Old 09-03-2009
Sounds like you really need a *nix installation, if it has to run on your Windows desktop then what about running OpenSolaris or Linux in VirtualBox or if not then how about Multi-Booting?
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Old 09-03-2009
cygwin/x
I think I'm making this more complicated than it should be. I actually have Ubuntu 9.04 installed in my XP partition, on a Mac. I dont mind logging into Ubuntu to do my bash stuff but i'm primarily working in Windows. What I want out of Cygwin is the whole shebang from Ubuntu's terminal. Below is the packages I installed and now I got Cygwin/x and the rxvt native version but still no luck on having the full functionality of a linux terminal. Cygwin/x is actually pretty ugly looking too, is there a script package in there where it will add a gui for the background and fonts?

I'm downloading opensolaris and will try it out to see what it can do. Suck's that Cygwin can't do apt get, and other stuff.


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Archive : p7zip, unzip, zip,

Base : all packages,

Database : gdbm, libdb4.1, libdb4.2, libdb4.3, libgdbm, libgdbm-devel, libgdbm3, libgdbm4,

Devel : gcc-core, gcc-g++, gcc, make, ruby, subversion, git, git-completion, libiconv, mingw-runtime,
w32api, expat, libncurses-devel, pcre, readline, curl-devel, gcc-g77, gcc-mingw, libfreetype2-devel,

Doc: libexpat0, man, pcre-doc,

Editors : VI, nano, mc,

Graphics : imlib, gv

Libs : libiconv, libiconv2, libintl, libintl1, libintl2, freetype2, libecpg5, libfontconfig1, libfreetype6, libgdbm, libgettextpo0, libncurses-devel, libncurses7, libpgtypes2, libreadline5, openssl097, sunrpc,

Mail : getmail, fetchmail,

Mingw : mingw-bzip2, mingw-libbz2_1, mingw-zlib,

Math : xcalc,

Net : openssh, ncftp, inetutils,

Perl : perl-libwin32, perl,

Shells : bash completion, zsh, rxvt, tcsh,

Utils : bc, pal, time,

Web : wget,

X11-obsolete : xorg-server, xinit, xorg-docs, xorg-x11-xwin, xorg-x11-libs-data, xorg-x11-etc, xorg-x11-fnts,
xorg-x11-fenc, xorg-x11-bin-lndir, xorg-x11-bin-dlls, xterm, xfig, xwinwm, xerces c, xorg man pages
xfree86 (base, bin, etc, fenc, fnts, lib, lib-compat, man, prog, prt, startup-scripts, xserv) X-startup scripts
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