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RE: How do I run it?
- From: perryh at pluto dot rain dot com (Perry Hutchison)
- To: huntharo at msu dot edu
- Cc: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 20 Apr 02 14:51:28 PDT
- Subject: RE: How do I run it?
- >received: by pluto.rain.com (4.1/SMI-4.1-pluto-M2011117)id AA04453; Sat, 20 Apr 02 14:51:28 PDT
Finally getting back to this after a very busy week.
> http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/ug/
>
> The User's Guide tells you how to install Cygwin/XFree86, including the
> startup batch files and shell scripts. I can guarantee that you will not be
> successful in installing Cygwin/XFree86 until you follow those instructions.
Got it. It turns out I had muddled through steps 1-5, but not 6-8.
I have now extracted the startup scripts, and subsequently tried all
3 startup methods from Chapter 4, without success. There seems to be
some kind of problem in getting the X server to start.
startxwin.bat in a command window says
startxwin.bat - Starting on Windows 95/98/Me
then a window titled xterm appears. After a few seconds a window
titled twm appears, then both close. After a few more seconds this
appears in the command window, followed by the command prompt:
/USR/X11R6/BIN/XSETROOT: unable to open display '127.0.0.1:0.0'
startxwin.sh in a bash window says
X connection to 127.0.0.1:0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
and the prompt appears, followed a few seconds later by this message:
xterm Xt error: Can't open display: 127.0.0.1:0.0
startx in a bash window says
xinit: not found