Re: installing cygwin/XFree86 on windows 2000

[Brian Genisio <briangenisio at yahoo dot com>]

Make sure you have downloaded all the necessary tarballs before you install. 
Xterm is included in Xbin.tgz, along with all of the other X apps.  


--- Arnaud Legout <legout@castify.net> wrote:
> Hello,
> I followed all the step in the online documentation to install
> cygwin\XFree86,
> but when starting startxwin.bat,
> a pop-up message says:
> Cannot find the file 'xterm' (or one of its components). Make sute the
> path and filename 
> are correct and that all required libraries are available.
> 
> in the command window I got:
> startxwin.bat - Starting on Windows NT/2000
> ddxProcessArgument ()
> ddxProcessArgument () - screen - argc: 5 i: 1
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows NT/2000
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Allowing PrimaryDD
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw4 installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported engines 0000001f
> winSetEngine () - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking
> winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL () - Using Windows display depth of 16 bits
> per pi
> el
> winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed () - WindowClient w 1024 h 768 r 1024 l
> 0 b 768
> t 0
> winAllocateFBShadowDDNL () - lPitch: 2048
> winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Masks 0000f800 000007e0 0000001f BPRGB 6 d
> 16
> winCreateDefColormap () - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap ()
> 
> 
> 
> Xwindows starts but without an xterm, and it is not possible to start an
> xterm.
> 
> During the install, one asked me to modify a termcap file, but I did not
> really understand what I was supposed to do.
> 
> Do you have any idea on how to solve my problem.
> 
> Regards,
> Arnaud
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