xlaunch is a simple Windows GUI tool for starting XWin.
xlaunch was written by Alexander Gottwald in 2005, and is included with the
Xming and VcxSrvX Windows X servers (which derive from the same upstream
sources as the cygwin X server).
I'd like to package this as:
- It simplifies launching the X server with custom options, avoiding the
complex instructions in FAQ 4.2 [1]. It also avoids the forward-compatibility
problems those instructions might have.
- It also makes it possible to automate starting XWin and a remote X client
without writing custom scripts.
- It might help to make running complex desktop environments in windowed mode
work out-of-the-box.
I've done some work to make it functional on cygwin, but it probably needs a
bit more work to be truly useful.
setup.hint:
category: X11
requires: libxml2 libX11_6 libstdc++6 bash mintty keychain xorg-server
sdesc: "GUI tool for configuring and starting the XWin X server"
ldesc: "GUI tool for configuring and starting the XWin X server"
files:
http://www.dronecode.org.uk/cygwin/release/xlaunch/xlaunch-20120311-1.tar.bz2
http://www.dronecode.org.uk/cygwin/release/xlaunch/xlaunch-20120311-1-src.tar.bz2