cygwin-x-doc/ug using.xml,1.6,1.7

Alexander Gottwald xserver-commit at pdx.freedesktop.org
Sat Oct 2 22:25:30 UTC 2004


Committed by: ago

Update of /cvs/xserver/cygwin-x-doc/ug
In directory gabe:/tmp/cvs-serv6459/ug

Modified Files:
	using.xml 
Log Message:
2004-10-02  Alexander Gottwald  <ago at freedesktop.org>

        * faq/using.xml:
        General revision. Updated SHM section to describe cygserver support


Index: using.xml
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RCS file: /cvs/xserver/cygwin-x-doc/ug/using.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.6
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -d -r1.6 -r1.7
--- using.xml	10 Apr 2004 18:13:51 -0000	1.6
+++ using.xml	2 Oct 2004 22:25:28 -0000	1.7
@@ -196,21 +196,6 @@
 for more information on the <parameter>-clipboard</parameter>
 command-line parameter.</para>
 
-<note>
-<para>Clipboard integration between the &x-window-system; and
-&windows; is not easy to provide.  As of 2003-09-19, the &project;
-clipboard integration still suffers from a shortcoming that causes
-selected selected in X programs to be immediately unhighlighted.  This
-issue is very well known and will take somewhere between 40 and 120
-hours of programming to fix; no one has the time to fix it.  Please do
-not report this to the mailing list as a bug.</para>
-</note>
-
-<para>&project; also has a legacy external clipboard integration
-system that consists of a stand-alone executable called
-<command>xwinclip</command>.  <command>xwinclip</command> can be
-installed via &cygwin;'s <command>setup.exe</command>.</para>
-
 </sect1>
 
 <!-- END clipboard integration -->
@@ -221,20 +206,19 @@
 <sect1 id="using-shared-memory">
 <title>&title-using-shared-memory;</title>
 
-<para>As of 2003-09-19, shared memory support (i.e. the MIT-SHM
-Extension) is enabled in the default distribution of &project;.
-However, the shared memory support is only enabled at runtime if the
-&cygwin; IPC Daemon (i.e., <command>ipc-daemon2</command>) is running.
-The &cygwin; IPC Daemon is available via the
-<filename>cygipc</filename> package from &cygwin;'s
-<command>setup.exe</command>.</para>
-
-<para>The &cygwin IPC Daemon can be installed a service on NT-based
-platforms and there are some options for starting it automatically on
-non-NT-based platforms as well.  Please see the
-<filename>cygipc</filename> documentation
-(e.g. <filename>/usr/share/doc/cygipc-2.01/README</filename>) for more
-information.</para>
+<para>Shared memory is provided by the <command>cygserver</command> service.
+On Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP cygserver can be installed as 
+a windows service.</para>
+<para>To install cygserver run the <command>cygserver-config</command>
+script. It will install the service.</para>
+<para><filename>XWin.exe</filename> will not use Shared Memory if the 
+<parameter>CYGWIN</parameter> does not contain the <parameter>server</parameter>
+keyword. Starting <command>&file-server-exe;</command> with
+<screen>
+CYGWIN=server &file-server-exe;
+</screen> will enable Shared Memory support if the cygserver service is 
+running.
+</para>
 
 </sect1>
 



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