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RE: X server won't start in win95a
- To: "'Raymond Kwong'" <kwong at control dot toronto dot edu>, "'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: X server won't start in win95a
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 07:26:58 -0400
> I recently installed cygwin and cygwin-xfree 4.0.3.
> Everything works except
> for the X server. If I run startxwin.bat, XWin window comes
> up but does not
> change into the X root window. Xterm and vtwm then come up,
> stay for a while
> and exit. XWin window stays black and blank and does not
> exit. I need to kill
> it manually. There are no error messages for XWin.
We need more info.
post your startxwin.bat
what are the messages displayed in DOS window when you use startxwin.bat?
>
> I also tried running startx from the bash prompt. I created
> .xinitrc and
> .xserverrc. When I run startx, the bash window changes to
> XWin,
Never heard of a bash window chnaging to xwin??? Can you explain what
do you mean, a bash window can never change to xwin or x-server window,
whatever.
Suhaib
> and after
> a little while, an error message comes up saying "waiting for
> X server to
> begin accepting connections" followed by periods. If I kill
> it by Ctrl-C,
> an error message comes up saying "xinit, no such file or
> directory (errno 2):
> unexpected signal 2".
>
> I am still running the ancient win95a, but I am under the
> impression that
> the X server works for all versions of win9x. It is
> interesting to observe
> that the win32-x11 server works (as does xvnc), but it is
> excruciatingly
> slow. Can anyone point out where the problem lies?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Raymond Kwong
>