On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 12:39:40PM -0700, David Masterson wrote: >* When looking at the categorized list of things to select to install, >I would expand a category by clicking on the "+". Most systems would change >the "+" to a "-", but not setup.exe (a very minor issue).
This is fixed in the lastest setup snapshot. >* After installing everything, if I couldn't get X to work properly >(see below), I would immediately use setup.exe to uninstall everything. >While doing the uninstall of some packages, setup.exe would report missing >DLL(s), but it didn't give an indication of what to do about it (other than >acknowledge the error). A known problem. But, then so is the mind set of "uninstall everything and try again". The first is fixable at least. >* After I installed everything and had modified my /etc/passwd and >/etc/group, I tried to bring up the X server via /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh. >It brought up the X server and tried to bring up the xterm, but the xterm >died before it finished printing my prompt. I've posted about this before, >but no replies to this and I haven't got the time to do the serious debugging >necessary. If you've posted X problems to the general Cygwin mailing list, I wouldn't expect much in the way of replies. >* Previously with 1.5.17, the xterm did come up properly, but Emacs >(started locally or remotely) would immediately fail. XEmacs (started >locally or remotely) would seem to work until you tried to exit and then >would crash. > >I guess I'll give Cygwin some time to "mature" and come back to it in the >future. Ok. The thousands of people who are using Cygwin and X on Cygwin will be right here waiting for you. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
