Cygwin-X-Ug Manual

Cygwin/X User’s Guide

Harold L Hunt, II Jon Turney

Cygwin/X User’s Guide by Harold L Hunt, II by Jon Turney

Copyright (c) 2000 Harold L Hunt II. Copyright (C) 2009, 2010, 2011 Jon Turney. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free SoftwareFoundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Table of Contents
1. Cygwin/X Overview...............................................................................................................................1 2. Setting Up Cygwin/X.............................................................................................................................2 Installing Cygwin/X...........................................................................................................................2 3. ConfiguringCygwin/X.........................................................................................................................10 Configuration overview....................................................................................................................10 Windowing mode....................................................................................................................10 Command line parameters...............................................................................................................11 XWinrc configuration file.................................................................................................................11 4. Using Cygwin/X ...................................................................................................................................12 Starting Cygwin/X...........................................................................................................................12 Starting Cygwin/X in multiwindow mode (startxwin) ...........................................................12 Starting Cygwin/X in windowed mode (startx)......................................................................13 Other startupmethods.............................................................................................................14 Switching out of Cygwin/X .............................................................................................................14 Stopping Cygwin/X..........................................................................................................................14 Windowmanagers............................................................................................................................14 Windows Clipboard integration .......................................................................................................15 Shared memory support ...................................................................................................................15 Remote sessions via XDMCP..........................................................................................................15 Displaying remote clients.................................................................................................................16 Secure ssh ...............................................................................................................................16 Insecuretelnet or rsh (Not recommended) .............................................................................17 Hardware Accelerated OpenGL (AIGLX).......................................................................................18 A. GNU Free Documentation License....................................................................................................20 0. PREAMBLE...