Cygwin-X is back

Last month I made the mistake of updating the X part of my Cygwin installation on my working laptop, which turned out to be a step backwards. There's now a version again that does the Windows window-manager properly (no root window), and though I had to explicitly install some non-default fonts to make it work, and go through some nonsense with trying to revert gs to an earlier version, then giving in and reinstalling the new one, I think I have everything working again now. Interestingly, this development is not noted on the main page; I stumbled across it because Firefox remembered the URL for the discussion thread and it cropped up in some unrelated context this afternoon.

There's a certain irony here; part of the motivation for using the laptop is to have MS programs available, but then I do my best to make it pretend to be running Linux, and use xterm and xdvi and emacs. Not having the X things working nicely was not a disaster -- I have MikTeX as well -- but it was annoying.