RE: Further problems with xFree86

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

The startxwin.bat is a sample file.  You need to edit it for your PATH and
installed executables (xclients).

Suhaib


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ed Mullen [mailto:horizonscience@mindspring.com] 
> Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 10:03 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@xfree.cygwin.com
> Cc: bub@io.com
> Subject: Further problems with xFree86
> 
> 
> I am using Windows 98 and I downloaded cygwin and xFree86-4.1.0 as an
> xServer.  I followed all the instructions to download and install
> xFree86-4.1.0 and it seemed to go fine.  There were no 
> errors.  The last
> page of the xFree86 instructions say that to start xFree86 you should
> doublclick startxwin.bat.  The startwin.bat file is as follows:
> 
> @echo off
> SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
> SET PATH=.;%PATH%;\cygwin\bin;\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin
> 
> rem cleanup after last run
> attrib -s \cygwin\tmp\.X11-unix\X0
> del \cygwin\tmp\.X11-unix\X0
> rmdir \cygwin\tmp\.X11-unix
> 
> 
> start XWin -screen 0 1024x768x32 -engine 4
> 
> 
> start rxvt -fn "Lucida Console-12" -e bash
> start xterm -sl 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms red -fg yellow -bg black -e
> /usr/bin/bash
> start mxterm -sl 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms red -fg yellow -bg black -e
> /usr/bin/bash
> start twm
> 
> REM set stty=intr ^c susp ^z start ^q stop ^s quit ^\\ erase ^?
> @echo on
> 
> 
> When I doubleclick this file I get several DOS screens.  Some 
> of thme have
> errors on them.  The first DOS screen with an error on it says:
> 
> rxvt: can't load font "Lucida Console-12"
> 
> 
> The second DOS screen with an error on it says:
> 
> Path not found - \cygwin\tmp\.X11-unix\X0
> Path not found
> Invalid path, not directory,
> or directory not empty
> Cannot find file 'mxterm' (or one of its components). Check
> to ensure the path and filename are correct and that all required
> libraries are available.
> 
> C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin>
> 
> I looked into this and found that the \cygwin\tmp folder is 
> empty.  That's
> why the path \cygwin\tmp\.X11-unix\X0 is not found.  I don't 
> know what to do
> to fix it, however.
> 
> 
> The third DOS screen with an error on it says:
> 
> winFinishScreenInitFB () - Calling winCreateDefColormap ()
> winCreateDefColormap () - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap ()
> error opening security policy file 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
> Could not init font path element 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing
> from list!
> 
> On investigating this, I found the folder "xserver" doesn't 
> exist in folder
> X11 and a file called "SecurityPolicy" doesn't exist on the 
> PC at all.  The
> second error on this screen is caused by the fact that the 
> folder "CID" does
> not exist in folder "fonts".  Folder "fonts" has several 
> other folders in
> it, however, such as 100dpi, 75dpi, encodings, misc, Pex, 
> Speedo, and Type1.
> 
> Any ideas how I can fix these problems?
> 
> Ed Mullen
> 
> P.S. Should I just go to 4.03?  would that solve the problems?
> 
> 
>