RE: Manuel - Support of Win98 ?

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

You can add at the bottom of startx script

twm&

This should start twm windows manager.
You need to put .Xauthority in your $HOME directory
If you do not want to customize, .Xauthority file can be
an empty file too.
Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Manuel Pouchon [mailto:mpouchon@hotmail.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 4:27 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Manuel - Support of Win98 ?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am running "Windows 98 Second Edition 4.10.2222 A" on a 
> "Pentium II".
> Cygwin: Latest release (DLL version 1.3.2)
> 
> My problem has already been addressed by Ryan Hairyes on 24 
> Feb 2001. When 
> starting the x-server from the cygwin-bash (with startx) the 
> x-server starts 
> with an xterm in it. Unfortunately no windowmanager is activated. The 
> following messages are written to the cygwin-shell
> 
>     _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
>     winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows 95/98/Me
>     winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed
>     winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw4 installed
>     winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported 
> engines 00000007
>     winSetEngine () - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking
>     winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL () - Command line depth: 16, 
> using depth: 
> 32
>     winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed () - WindowClient width 
> 640 height 480
>     winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 
> 000000ff RGB 8 d 
> 32
>     winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Returning
>     error opening security policy file 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
>     cat: /home/m-pouchon/.Xauthority: No such file or directory
>     cat: /home/m-pouchon/.Xauthority: No such file or directory
>     cat: /home/m-pouchon/.Xauthority: No such file or directory
> 
> When I do the same by using the DOS-prompt (with startxwin), 
> exactly the 
> same happens except that there is no error message concerning 
> the missing 
> .Xauthority file. I can also get rid of the SecurityPolicy message by 
> creating an xserver - folder containing a copy of the 
> SecurityPolicy file 
> (contained in 4.0.3 the distribution). However, this doesn't help.
> 
> I know that Windows 98 was not supported when Ryan had the 
> same problem. 
> Does the message "Cygwin/XFree86's development server has 
> stabilized" (14. 
> April 2001 in the latest news) mean that it is supported now?
> 
> First I had installed the 4.0.3 binary files (all of them).  
> After having 
> this problem, I installed the 4.1.0 binary files (all of 
> them), I then found 
> that "libz.dll" was missing, I then copied this dll contained 
> in the 4.0.3 
> distribution to the ..\bin directory and had again the same 
> problem (no 
> windowmanager). Then I installed the 4.0.3 binaries again and 
> tried to 
> overwrite with the 4.1.0 binaries. Maybe this is stupid, I am 
> not good at 
> these things, sorry about that. However none of these 
> combinations worked.
> 
> Please tell me whether I do something completely wrong. I am 
> quite new to 
> UNIX related problems.
> 
> I want to use OpenDX on this x-server. Could there be further 
> problems 
> concerning Win98 or any version of the programs I am using?
> 
> Thank you very much
> Manuel
> 
> 
> Manuel Pouchon
> mpouchon@hotmail.com
> 
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