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RE: basic stuff
- To: "Ling F. Zhang" <lingfengz at yahoo dot com>, <cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: basic stuff
- From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 23:50:02 -0400
Ling,
> error opening security policy file
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
You can ignore this; everybody gets this warning, it is not important, nor
is it the cause of any problems.
> Could not init font path element
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from li
> st!
Did you use WinZip et al to untar the Cygwin/XFree86 archives? WinZip and
other Windows archive programs will not correctly unzip the Cygwin/XFree86
archives. You must unpack the archives as documented in the User's Guide:
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/howto/cygwin-xfree-ug.html
Specifically:
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/howto/cygwin-xfree-installing.html
> meanwhile, here's another problem:
> when xfree86 starts, it annoyingly uses usr/sh as its
> shell, I would like to use bash but don't want to run
> it everytime I start xfree86? any solution?
Search the Cygwin/XFree86 mailing list archive... this question has been
ansked and answered several times.
Thank you for your interest in the project,
Harold