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Re: weird situation with Xnest
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Ariel Burbaickij wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:27:34 +0200 (MEST), Alexander Gottwald
> <alexander.gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Ariel Burbaickij wrote:
> >
> > > Hello dear mailing list participants,
> > > following pretty strange thing happens
> > > to me:
> > > if I start Xnest and then try to start
> > > xterm on it I get Bad system call and
> > > window of xterm does not appear
> > > in nested server.
> >
> > Which version of Xnest you're referring too?
>
> I do not know how it is possible to obtain
> version of Xnest. The release of Xwin
> is 6.8.0.0-1
There were two fixes to Xnest which might apply to your problem in
xorg-x11-xnest-6.8.1.0-1. Please try this version.
>
> > Do you have cygserver running for IPC support?
> How can I do it ?
cygserver-config does install cygserver as windows service.
> > does the CYGWIN environment variable contain "server"
> Eeeh, there is no CYGWIN variable at all neither with
> or without server ;-). So gain where should it be set?
For example in the windows environment variables panel.
bye
ago
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