[Xastir] Xastir on Windows 10

David Ranch xastir at trinnet.net
Thu Aug 18 07:58:27 PDT 2016


Hello Hans,

> Yup I installed it and it works great for commandline stuff.  But with
> a couple of minor tweaks that can be found online

Can you cite some URLs?


> and the installation of an X windows system, and there's at least 3 free ones, you can run
> gui Xwindows programs.  There are issues with some programs
> but.

Which one did you use?  I've always used Cygwin but it's not exactly 
fast and they keep changing some of the default on people (recently, no 
longer accepting TCP connections via SSH Xwindows forwarding, etc).


> Because the subsystem is Ubuntu based, I used the instructions in the
> wiki, specifically the great script that does all the work for you.
> And it works flawlessly

Wow.. impressive!

--David
KI6ZHD


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