Enrico Forestieri wrote:
"Notice that if you make a shortcut to lyx-x11.exe, you don't need to
manually start the X server. If needed, lyx-x11.exe will start the X
server using the /usr/local/bin/startxserver script which performs the
same exact actions as the /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.{sh,bat} scripts,
minus launching an additional xterm.The program lyx-x11.exe is a wrapper to the real binary lyx-x11bin.exe and sets up a proper environment, also assuring that the X server is running before launching lyx-x11bin.exe. The latter is thought to be used from the command line and you can simply symlink it to "lyx" to save typing." -- Enrico --------------------------------------------------------- I think this applies to using LyX after opening or inside of Cygwin. I wanted to put links on my Windows Desktop that would automatically start LyX up. The problem with LyX and Xemacs too was that cyg*.dlls were required. It is fairly ugly to copy all those files into the /cygdrive/c/cygwin/usr/local/bin directory containing lyx-x11.exe So I solved this less than elegantly by appending run c:\cygwin\usr\local\bin\lyx-x11.exe to the bottom of startxwin.bat and then renaming that to LyX11.bat I made a similar Xemacs.bat too. So it works with a double-click from the Desktop and the Viewers all work without a problem. It is a little more messy to exit. Just the Lyx XWindow method works, the win-bin stuff generates only a 4cm. x 12cm. rectangle; that is Ok because the fonts seem crisper. I've used less than 2gigs of an 8gig harddrive and the 450 cpu is adequate, luckily I have 224mb of memory. I put the Bakoma fonts in /usr/share/texmf/fonts - texhash - and in /X11R6 fonts since I wasn't exactly sure where they went. lyx-1.4.1-cygwin.tar.gz file at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.1 seems to me an excellent solution for people who want LyX to work on Win98, especially since it doesn't appear that the (Qt?)problem is going to be fixed and enthusiasm for Win98 has waned. lyx-winbin works well for Win XP pro of course. I think you did a bangup jobon this release even extending to non-intimidating instructions. I'm buttering you up so you don't label my solution an abomination :-)
Best regards from an average Word user, Stephen
