Re: X application fails
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Terry Dabbs wrote: I'm new to cygwin/X. I installed the cygwin/X package, and an using it with the expectation it will provide a display for hpux clients. What does work: - I use either startxwin.bat -or- startxwin.sh, type xhost + in the shell, then go to the hpux machine and set the display, send xrdb commands, and xterm runs on my pc from the hpux client. Logging in with XDMCP works, it looks very good. What does not work: I have an X application, Agilent's HPSmarttest, which runs OK with reflections XDMCP, but with both methods above it gives the error message (in a window on the display server!) that it can not create background window. Since it works using Reflections, I assume there is some setting, or something that is not set by default. Maybe it's a problem with the missing 8bit colorplane on Cygwin/X server. You might try to run Cygwin/X in 8bit mode (XWin -depth 8 -fullscreen) bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
Re: Xwin multiwindow
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Rahil Hussain wrote: Hi, I'm trying to run Xwin, but the multiwindow option won't work. The program just stops when it tries WinClipboardProc - Call to select(). How can this be fixed. This happends if you have some kind of personal firewalls like ZoneAlarm or Symantac antivirus installed. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
RE: XWin crashes when finishing in W98.
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Rodrigo Medina wrote: Hi all, The cygwin1-20050407 snapshot cures the crashes of XWin previously reported in the cygwin-xfree mail-list. Good to know. Thanks for looking after this. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
RE: Multiple XWin.exe programs loading and no xterm
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Phil Betts wrote: IIRC, there was talk a while back of making the multiwindow manager an external client. I don't know if anythng has been done in this direction, but if this were done, there would at least be a consistent startup for all WMs. There is an external MWWM client, but, IIRC, it doesn't work too well ATM. Kensuke would be the best person to talk about it, I guess... An alternative that I've not seen raised before: I was wondering if it would be possible to run XWin as a Windows service (presumably via cygserver). Services are run by 'cygrunsrv', not 'cygserver'. 'cygserver' provides Unix shared memory and IPC services for Cygwin. The upside is that it would probably make more sense to those coming to X from a Windows background. The downside is that there are so many different ways to start X (i.e. local/remote, multiwindow/external WM etc.) that you'd still need to support the traditional startup methods. Well, I don't recall if XWin has a way of selecting the next available display (I do know it's not on by default, even if it exists), but that would be pretty much a must in coping with an X service when one needs to also start an XDMCP query, for example. I know zip about the issues involved in running as a Windows service, but if it's simple, it may be something to consider, perhaps as a default installation. It's pretty simple to start a program as a service. One wouldn't want to have it as a default option, certainly, but a config script akin to that of other service packages (e.g., cron, openssh, cygserver, etc) that *installs* such a service for the user to start would be very useful. As a sidenote, historically (IMHO), X startup has been a bit of a mess. A lot of old X servers were started by running X and a WM in the background, then running xterm as a foreground task, just to enable switching (or more likely restarting) window managers. If they inadvertently closed the initial xterm, the poor user was stuffed! I know - I was that user! It would be trivial to write a keepX program that connects to the server and does nothing (but is a client, so X stays around even if no other clients are present). If such a program were contributed to the xorg packages (or, better yet, the upstream X distribution), the default xinitrc could invoke it in the background before the xterm. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: I have some problems whit my cygwin/x.
Have you installed the xterm package? If you have installed the xterm package, then you either need to add /usr/x11r6/bin to your path (And any scripts that might be used to invoke xterm), or create a soft link from /usr/x11r6/bin/xterm.exe to /usr/bin/xterm.exe. On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 14:48:47 +, Dag wrote: When I try to start up cygwin/x whit the startxwin.bat I get a error message. The error message says: - Error: Couldn't find xterm anywhere. I even looked in the PATH I also tried appending the following extensions: [1]: [2]: .exe Then there is another that says: Error: Could not start C:\usr\X11R6\bin\XWin.exe -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error. What should I do about this? any help would be very welcome. Thanks, Dag Holmberg _ Hitta rätt på nätet med MSN Sök http://search.msn.se/
RE: X application fails
Thanks, I won't be able to try it until Monday. On vacation today, so no direct access. I will let you know... Terry -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alexander Gottwald Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 3:41 AM To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: X application fails On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Terry Dabbs wrote: I'm new to cygwin/X. I installed the cygwin/X package, and an using it with the expectation it will provide a display for hpux clients. What does work: - I use either startxwin.bat -or- startxwin.sh, type xhost + in the shell, then go to the hpux machine and set the display, send xrdb commands, and xterm runs on my pc from the hpux client. Logging in with XDMCP works, it looks very good. What does not work: I have an X application, Agilent's HPSmarttest, which runs OK with reflections XDMCP, but with both methods above it gives the error message (in a window on the display server!) that it can not create background window. Since it works using Reflections, I assume there is some setting, or something that is not set by default. Maybe it's a problem with the missing 8bit colorplane on Cygwin/X server. You might try to run Cygwin/X in 8bit mode (XWin -depth 8 -fullscreen) bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
new install, errors while startx.
Hi, I'm new to the list, probably someone can help me with this. I'm really stressed that this is not working, and probably because something came in corrupted... I'm installing over a Windows 2000 box with SP4. This PC is joined into a Domain Controller. anyway... This is what happends. I have included a screenshot 6kb file. This same error comes up when loading X and when I was installing cygwin at like the 90%. I can give more info on the debug of when X is starting up, but I'm currently doing a reinstall to all. ( I did not delete the source. I hope the MD5 is OK) Thanks. attachment: lib.gif
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