On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:17:47PM +0100, Robert Latest wrote: >Hello people, > >I've recently installed cygwin-xfree and I'm loving it. Finally, my >beloved fvwm on my Windows PC at work! > >Anyway, while some X apps start right up without trouble (fvwm, xcalc, >xterm...), others (xmgrace, for example) don't start at all. I type >"xmgrace" at the command prompt, and the prompt comes right back >without anything happening. "ps afx" shows nothing. > >What's going on here?
Try running cygcheck on the full path of the program in question to see if you're missing a DLL, e.g.: cygcheck /usr/bin/xmgrace If you are missing a DLL you can find the package which contains it by going to http://cygwin.com/packages/ . cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
