RE: Xclients don't work in win2K

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

Do you some firewall or VPN software installed?  

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Day [mailto:jasonday@mediaone.net] 
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 4:45 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Cc: jasonday@mediaone.net; cygx
> Subject: Re: Xclients don't work in win2K
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 03:28:56PM -0400, Harold Hunt wrote:
> > Jason,
> > 
> > Could you please give Test29 a shot to see if it exhibits 
> the same behavior?
> > 
> > http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/shadow/
> 
> Same results:
> -----
> C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin>startxwin
> Path not found - C:\cygwin\tmp\.X11-unix
> The system cannot find the file specified.
> The system cannot find the file specified.
> 
> C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin>xterm Xt error: Can't open display: 
> 127.0.0.1:0.0
> twm:  unable to open display "127.0.0.1:0.0"
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows NT/2000
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Allowing PrimaryDD
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw4 installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported engines 0000000f
> winSetEngine () - Using user's preference: 4
> winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL () - Using Windows display depth 
> of 16 bits per
> pix
> el
> winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed () - WindowClient width 1024 
> height 768
> winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Masks 0000f800 000007e0 
> 0000001f BPRGB 6 d 16
> winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Returning
> winFinishScreenInitFB () - Calling winCreateDefColormap ()
> winCreateDefColormap () - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap ()
> Could not init font path element 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing
> from li
> st!
> -----
> 
> At this point, however, the server is running, and I can 
> telnet to one of
> our Solaris boxes, set the DISPLAY to the ip of my box, open 
> an xterm, and
> the xterm pops up in my server.  It's just local clients that 
> don't work.
> 
> I haven't tried running local clients on a remote display, but that
> apparently doesn't work either:
> 
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2001-q2/msg02046.html

Jason
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Harold

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