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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!The-Star.honeywell.com!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: Small X for 386 bsd?? Message-ID: <s1hn7an.hasty@netcom.com> Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 19:57:58 GMT Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) References: <1992Aug31.153743.24065@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Lines: 22 In article <1992Aug31.153743.24065@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> venkates@frith.msu.edu writes: >Hi >Even the binary only release of X for 386bsd requires lotsa disk!, >I was wondering (forgive me if this sounds stupid) if one trim the existing >X release to it's barest minimum, I am only interested in having some >sort of a windowing system running on the PC and am not paricularly >intersted in having a vast number of fonts etc being available to me. >On the same note, if X cannnot be made any smaller, are there other windowing >systems that can be used? >Thank you all in advance > >Venkatesh Gopinath >Michigan state University. You can strip the binaries and pick and choose your configuration. If this becomes a problem, please let me know The stock X386 1.2E 1.0.1 server with no debug symbols is about 1 MB. Amancio Hasty