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On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Erik Abrahamsson wrote: > Hi all! > I have been running Cygwin/X for some time, with very low performance. > In the Cygwin/X FAQ this is explained by the fact that I have a personal > firewall (in this case it's Zonealarm). It is also the process vsmon.exe > that is draining my system while using Cygwin/X. The solution to this > problem would be do disable the firewall, which is not an option on > Win2000 or XP... Why is this not an option on Win2k or XP? > Previously I used F-Secure with Himmingbird Exceed as X-server, without > any problems. > > So my question is: Is it possible to run Cygwin with the X-server of > your choice, which in my case is Exceed? What do I need to do? Yes, and nothing but set your DISPLAY variable correctly. You would get much more informative responses if you actually describe a particular problem you have when trying to do this. Also, see http://cygwin.com/problems.html. > I am quite familiar with win, but not *nix. > > Thank you for any help I can get! > > /Erik -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained pilot... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
