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RE: Cygwin/xfree86 & Win2000 does not start!
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- Subject: RE: Cygwin/xfree86 & Win2000 does not start!
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 11:34:16 -0500
or get the vtwm from "contrib" directory
startxwin.bat is SAMPLE file, users NEED to customize it for
PATHS and Windows Managers they want to use.
Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: poidras [mailto:poidras@dstu.univ-montp2.fr]
> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 11:21 AM
> To: Piero Cosi; cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Cygwin/xfree86 & Win2000 does not start!
>
>
> hello
> in startxwin.bat (usr/X11R6/bin/) change vtwm with twm.
> greetings
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Piero Cosi" <cosi@csrf.pd.cnr.it>
> To: <cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 4:57 PM
> Subject: Cygwin/xfree86 & Win2000 does not start!
>
>
> > I found your work incredibly helpful for my work!
> > Thanks!....Really!
> >
> > I have some problem with xfree86! I hope you can help me!
> > I am not a Unix expert!
> > I am using a PentiumIII machine with Windows 2000
> >
> > I installed Cygwin (the latest one) in C:\Cygwin and it seems OK!
> > I got the whole xc4-binaries files. I bunzipped and untarred them
> > into C:\Cygwin and I tried startxwin both with doubleclick
> from Explorer
> > and within bash shell of Cygwin!
> >
> > In both cases:
> >
> > I got an error like ....
> > Impossible to find vtvm ...
> > Infact, I saw I do not have this executable!
> >
> > in Xwin (Dos black) window I saw this message:
> > owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> > (I run everything by my administrative login)
> >
> > and after few feedback lines and a full grey (or ligth
> green) screen
> > everything stops going back to Windows 2000!
> >
> >
> > At the end in the dos cmd window I see these messages
> >
> > C:\Cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin>start XWin -screen 0 1024x768x16 -whitepixel
> > 255 -blackpixel 0
> >
> > C:\Cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin>start /B xterm -sl 1000 -sb
> -rightbar -ms red -fg
> > yellow -bg black -e bash
> >
> > C:\Cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin>start /B rxvt -fn "Lucidia Console-12"
> >
> > C:\Cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin>start /B vtwm
> > XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server
> > "127.0.0.1:0.0"
> > after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
> >
> >
> > Could you help me. I do not what to do!
> > Ciaoooo
> > Piero
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Piero Cosi
> > Istituto di Fonetica e Dialettologia
> > Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
> > Via G. Anghinoni, 10 - 35121 Padova
> > Phone: +39 049 8274413 /21
> > Fax: +30 049 8274416
> > E-Mail: cosi@csrf.pd.cnr.it
> > www: http://nts.csrf.pd.cnr.it/IFeD/Pages/piero.htm
> >
> >
>