On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just installed cygwin without any trouble. The command prompt window > appears to be working fine, as does the vi editor. When attempting to > launch an xwindow, only the main window will open and the system > apparently hangs. Prompt window displays > .. > .. > .. > .. > until you close the main xwindow, and then displays: > > giving up. > xinit: No such file or directory <errno 2>: unable to connect to X server > xinit: No such process <errno 3>: Server error. > > I'm running win NT. Any ideas on what to do?
Yes. Run an X server. For details, see http://xfree86.cygwin.com/ If you have problems, please direct any queries to the cygwin-xfree list (I set the Reply-To: field to it, and also Cc'd this message there). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Water molecules expand as they grow warmer" (C) Popular Science, Oct'02, p.51 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/