pdfEdit versus cygwin/ X windows

["Defoucault, Herve" <herve dot defoucault at siemens dot com>]

Hi,

I try to run the 'pdfedit' application under cygwin.
It seems that the problem is due to the 'X server' configuration as the 'pfedit' team guy has written me (see below).

Would you mind having a look ?

Thanks in advance.

Hervé de Foucault
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-----Message d'origine-----
De?: Michal Hocko [mailto:msts@seznam.cz] 
Envoyé?: 04/01/2008 17:11
À?: Defoucault, Herve
Objet?: Re: pdfEdit versus cygwin/ X windows

On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 03:39:36PM +0100, Defoucault, Herve wrote:
> Hi Michal Hocko,

Hi.

> 
> Thanks for your answer of yesterday. Since then I have progressed a little bit. (I use my professional email to avoid HTML format ;-))

Thanks ;) Sometimes it is really hard (annoying) to read html emails in
console...

> I've got now a new question regarding 'pdfedit'.
> 
> I was able to install cygwin on my windows XP computer.
> I am able to start the shell.
> 
> 1/   My error message is now:
> =============================
> "PDFedit 0.3.2
> 
> Fatal error!
> Environment variable DISPLAY is not set - cannot run GUI for PDFedit"

I am not an expert on cygwin, but seems pretty like problem with your
X server configuration under cygwin. DISPLAY property *should* be
*always* set inside X session.

> 
> I then tried to set the DISPLAY variable thanks to the command 'export':
> Export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
> This is the localhost address by default.
> 
> 2/   A second error message:
> ============================
> "Pdfedit: cannot connect to X server 127.0.0.1:0.0"
> 
> 3/   After running 'xwin'
> =========================
> I ran 'xwin' to launch the X window server. I had 1 new X window titled: "X cygwin/X - 0:0" but with the following error message:
> 
> "A fatal error has occurred and cygwin/X wil now exit. Please open /tmp/XWin.log for more information.
> Vendor: cygwin/X project
> Release: 6.8.99.901-4
> Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> XWIN was started with the following command line: xwin"
> 
> 4/   Content of the xwin.log
> ============================
> Welcome to the XWin X Server
> Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
> Release: 6.8.99.901-4
> 
> Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> 
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> XWin was started with the following command line:
> 
> xwin 
> 
> (II) XF86Config is not supported
> (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information
> MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support
> XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shared memory support in the kernel
> (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31
> (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "0000040C" (0000040c) 
> (--) Using preset keyboard for "French (Standard)" (40c), type "4"
> (--) 5 mouse buttons found
> Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list!
> 
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
> 
> Conclusion.
> ===========
> Do you have any idea or should I contact the cygwin/X team ?
> I suppose I missed a configuration somewhere

I think that you should check some cygwin/X howtos.

Best regards
-- 
Michal Hocko


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