Re: Windows Vista

[Scott Fordin <scott at ohelp dot com>]

Cygwin does indeed run on 32-bit versions of Windows Vista.
Don't know about 64-bit versions. In my experience, there
are a few catches to getting Cygwin to work on Vista:

   1. Run the Cygwin setup as Administrator and in XP
      Compatibility Mode.

   2. I had better luck when I did the install in two
      stages: First, I just downloaded the packages, then
      I ran setup again and chose the install from local
      repository option.

   3. After installation, run Cygwin's rebaseall command
      from an ash (not bash) shell.

   4. When you finally run the Cygwin bash shell for real,
      be sure to use Vista's "Run as Administrator" option.

   5. Also make sure that your firewall is not blocking
      Xwin.exe or bash.exe.

FWIW, the Xming X server works just fine on Vista, and you
can use Xming as your X Server when running PuTTY or many if
not all of the Cygwin X-based apps.

Hope this helps,

Scott

Monson Hayes wrote:
> Not sure how to reply to a thread, but here are the details of what 
> happens when I try to run Cygwin/X.  First, I would like to comment
> that the following was suggested:
> 
> Be sure to set up $DISPLAY in your .bashrc:
> 
> export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
> 
> What is interesting, is in my installation I cannot find a .bashrc
> file, although I did find one in my Windows XP installation.
> 
> I am told to look at the XWin.log file on my computer running Windows
>  Vista when I get the following fatal error:
> 
> "A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit Releast
> 6.8.99.901-4 XWin was started with the following command llin
> 
> /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin -multiwindow - clipboard -silent-dup-error
> 
> The XWin.log file is:
> 
> (WW) /tmp mounted int textmode _XSERVTransmkdir: ERROR: euid !=
> 0,directory /tmp/.X11-unix will not be created. (II) XF86Config is
> not supported (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html
> for more information winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows
> display depth of 32 bits per pixel winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating
> DIB with width: 1680 height: 1050 depth: 32 winInitVisualsShadowGDI -
> Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32 null screen fn
> ReparentWindow null screen fn RestackWindow InitQueue - Calling
> pthread_mutex_init InitQueue - pthread_mutex_init returned InitQueue
> - Calling pthread_cond_init InitQueue - pthread_cond_init returned 
> winInitMultiWindowWM - Hello winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Hello 
> winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () 
> winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () 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: "00000409" (00000409) (--)
> Using preset keyboard for "English (USA)" (409), type "4" (--) 8
> 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'
> 
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