* Tuukka Toivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-07-06 15:58] schrieb:
> My coworker wants to start learning LaTeX, and of course I suggested him
> LyX. Unfortunately he is using windows. And I haven't never used really it
> so it's difficult for me to help.
>
> I installed huge amount of packages, starting from full MikTeX (direct net
> install so it was the newest version whatever it was). Seems to be working
> ok.
>
> Then I installed full CygWin from the net. Seems to be working fine, too.
>
> Then I grabbed and installed XFree/CygWin. Again, seems to working mostly
> fine (altought gives some error messages at startup, eg. "can not start
> mxterm" and something.) I downloaded and compiled and installed icewm from
> source inside CygWin, and since it seems to be working quite fine I think
> the install is ok.
>
> Then I installed the LyX .zip package given somewhere on the LyX web
> site. I extracted the .zip (using CygWin's tools, there didn't seem to be
> unzip on Windows) and installed it. Everything seems to be ok so far.
>
> Now, when I start first X server and then try to start LyX, XFree crashes
> immediately (ie. the X window disappears). I tried running LyX remotely
> >from my Linux box, and it worked fine.
did you a try an x-server from the test series?
maybe a strace of the x-server could help the cygwin developers
if it's not working use starnet's xwin32
>
> It is a Windows NT box.
>
--
ronny
