I have just installed the X components of Cygwin and am hoping to
eventually connect with XDMCP to my Linux machine. But I'm having some
serious teething problems.
First, XWin seems to be having difficulty finding the dlls. If I run
"XWin -query [computer name]" I First I get an error message saying that
it can't find cygwin1.dll. If I copy that dll file from the cygwin\bin\
directory into C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin, the error message changes to
another dll. If I copy that dll to the X11R6\bin directory, it moves
onto yet another one that it can't find.
If I run "startxwin.bat" instead, I don't get the dll error. But when I
try to run startx, I get:
winCheckDisplayNumber - Cygwin/X is already running on display 0
Fatal server error:
InitOutput - Duplicate invocation on display number: 0. Exiting.
If I try "startxdmcp.bat", I get a similar result:
mkdir: Cannot create /tmp/.X11-unix with root ownership
winCheckDisplayNumber - Cygwin/X is already running on display 0
Fatal server error:
InitOutput - Duplicate invocation on display number: 0. Exiting.
The supposed cause of this error is that I am running two sessions of
XWin, but that is simply not the case. I get the same results if I add
:1 to the batch files.
Any suggestions?
PS.
This may be relevant: When I installed Cygwin/X, selected all of the X
components, rather than just the ones that are automatically selected by
the x-org base package or whatever it was called. Is this bad?
