100 more X experience

More with X:

1. Check out the Cygwin installation that's already on your machine in the lab. Cygwin is a Windows application that offers a Linux- or Unix-like look and feel.
   
   
2. Read about how to install and use Cygwin
   here. Since Cygwin is already on your lab machine (I make this claim with fingers crossed), you don't need to read the first two pages today. Still, the installation routine is interesting, and you might like to see how it works — up through step 9.
   
   
3. Jump to item 11 to work with Cygwin as a terminal app.
   
   
4. This week, use Cygwin rather than Xming (which we used last week) as your local X handler. We'll use the secure shell program built into Cygwin rather than PuTTY. Cygwin also offers more window managers than our Linux installation at wocsc.
   
   
5. To establish the universality of our graphics programs, copy one to wocsc and run it remotely from your Cygwin session. Use the class RandomPoints on page 228 of the text. You can cut and paste it from this pdf from the authors' PowerPoints.
   
   
6. When you have RandomPoints running in an X window driven by wocsc, show it to the instructor.
   

This page has links that tell some of the resources I used to learn how to do these things. Here are some links on window managers one, two, and a couple on twm in particular: one, two. See a sample twm command set (on wocsc) in /etc/X11/twm/system.twmrc.