It would probably be easier to start messing around with this from
within a cygwin bash, firing up xfree through the startxwin.sh
script.. Check if that works..
What does /usr/X11R6 look like from within the working bash shell?
/Andy
/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Following the Cygwin X-Free86 installation instructions gives me a 300
| MB installation directory. But everything works -- great job! With less
| free disk space available, I removed programming support, fonts I'd
| never use, and most documentation to get down to a working 40 MB
| installation. I put the software in a separate directory and mounted it
| as the cygwin root (mount -b L:/myDir/cygwin /). Works, but I have a
| reason to keep the cygwin root directory set to L:/ while installing and
| running the software from L:/myDir/cygwin. I need help to get this to
| work (or am I just too greedy?).
|
| Now the mount command reports "\cygwindrive\l on / type user (binmode)"
| and the startxwin.bat contains "SET CYGWIN_ROOT=L:\myDir\cygwin". The
| bash shell works, but when I start startxwin.bat, it reports "Couldn't
| open RGB_DB '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb'" or font "fixed" not found. Is
| there a shell variable, undocumented XWin command line option, or any
| other magic to tell XWin what the root directory of my /usr directory
| tree is where it can find rgb.txt and the "fonts" directory?
| (CYGWIN_ROOT does not seem to do the trick and I don't want to change my
| root directory mount.) Any help would be greatly appreciated!
|
| ThanX,
| Reinhard
|
|
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