This has worked perfectly. Thank you very much. I am thinking it could go into the instalation instructions as I don't recall seeing it anywhere.
-----Original Message----- From: Florimon van Putte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 27 June 2002 17:18 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: New Xfree User Question Martin Bosticky wrote: > Harold, > > I am doing as you have said. I have now also downloaded the > previous version > of XFree and that seems to be working fine on the same machine. > > So I have no clue but perhaps the latest release has > something funny with > the configuration? I would not know how to tell. I've had the same problem with the disappearing xterm. When you run xterm with the -hold option, you'll see what's going on: right before freezing it prints "setuid failed: Permission denied" . As some other posters pointed out in the past couple of days, with the latest cygwin release security has been tightened a bit. For things like xterm to work, an entry for the user that you're logged in as, has to be present in /etc/passwd. The problem is that, when you install Cygwin from scratch, at post-install time, it only creates entries in /etc/passwd for all the local accounts. If you're logged in as a (non-local) domain user, you'll have to add an entry for it yourself to /etc/passwd. It's easy to do so, all I had to do to get my own 'fputte' account added was (from a cygwin prompt) : "mkpasswd -d -u fputte >> /etc/passwd" . After this, exit Cygwin, restart it, and you should be able to run xterm. rgds, Florimon > > Martin. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Harold Hunt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, 27 June 2002 11:22 > To: Martin Bosticky; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: New Xfree User Question > > > You're not supposed to launch startxwin.bat from a Cygwin > prompt, you are > supposed to double-click the batch file from Windows Explorer > or you can > launch startxwin.bat from a Windows command prompt (not a > Cygwin command > prompt). > > Harold > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Martin Bosticky > > Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 9:14 PM > > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > > Subject: RE: New Xfree User Question > > > > > > Dear XFree crew, > > > > can I add that i also have the same problem and that I > tried to get the > > latest cygwin snapshot as described in a recent email and > it didn't help. > > Perhaps i have missed something during configuration i suppose > > but the bash > > shell seems to be working fine. I am running Windows 2000 > > > > Martin. > > > > >I have run into a problem when I started to learn / use Xfree on my > > >XP laptop. > > > > > >When I launch via /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.bat at the > Cygwin prompt, > > >I get the background window, but the terminal window, which on my > > >Win98 machine is my shell running bash, appears to be iconized in > > >the upper left corner, and when I click on it, it disappears. > > > > > >I apologize for the awkward and no doubt technically > incorrect way I > > >have explained this, but I was hoping someone would say, oh, I know > > >what that idiot is babbling about. > > > > > >Wayne Keen > > > > > > > > > Martin Bosticky > > Software Engineer > > Opcom > > Office +61 7 3371 1311 > > Fax +61 7 3371 1257 > > Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Web www.opcom.com.au <http://www.opcom.com.au/> > > > > >
