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RE: Xwin needs rgb
- To: "John Huddleston" <John dot Huddleston at usda dot gov>, <cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: Xwin needs rgb
- From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at InspirePharm dot Com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 13:18:03 -0500
What was the name of the archive you downloaded? The name of the binary
archive which contain
Xwin.exe?
There are two different version of XWin.exe in 2 different archives.
NO, you cannot change rgb.txt to rgb. It should be rgb.tx in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11
The X knows it and knows how to read it.
Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com]On Behalf Of John
> Huddleston
> Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 1:22 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Xwin needs rgb
>
>
> To cygwin-free,
>
> I downloaded the cygwin-xfree binary for B20 and
> installed it. When I run the Xwin command to start
> server it cannot find the rgb database under /usr/lib/X11
>
> So, I downloaded the xc-1.tar.bz2, built the rgb.exe
> from the source, went to the lib/X11 directory and used
> the command 'rgb rgb < rgb.txt' to create the database.
>
> The Xwin server will still not start. I have the link
> /usr/lib/X11 to the /usr/X11R6.4/lib/X11 directory.
>
> Is there something else I can do to make it work?
>
> John Huddleston