On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, ROBERT T JOAN V SAVAGE wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed cygwin and am having troubles running xwin or xwin > -multiwindows. > > Running xwin pops open window, but has not drop down menus to start, for > instance and xterm. > > If I run xwin -multiwindow nothing seems to happen. The log file is as > follows: > > Welcome to the XWin X Server > Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project > Release: 6.8.1.0-5 > [snip] > XWin was started with the following command line: > X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard > [snip] > winClipboardProc - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 > winInitMultiWindowWM - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the display. > [snip]
What exactly did you expect would happen? The log shows the X server as started and waiting for connections. Now you need to open an X application (e.g., xterm) -- it won't be opened automatically when you start the X server directly the way you did (by running XWin.exe). You have a few choices: - Install the X-startup-scripts, and use either "startxwin.sh" or "startx" to start the X server (both will, IIRC, open at least an xterm for you). - Install the X-start-menu-icons package and use the Start menu to open whatever applications you need. - Use the old-fashioned way and open a regular Cygwin console (via the Cygwin icon on your desktop), and from the prompt run DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 xterm & - Do the above, but run a window manager instead (provided you're in non-multiwindow mode, which in itself is a window manager). Most X window managers (e.g., twm, fvwm, WindowMaker, openbox) will have a desktop menu that allows to start X applications. Note that only twm comes with X by default, others have to be installed separately. - Starting the X server should have created an icon in your system tray. ISTR there was some work on adding a menu to that icon that would let you start applications and control the X server. Don't know if that was ever completed, though, or if it's been included in the default XWin package... There are other ways, but they are more arcane... :-) Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT