Re: Windows Vista
I still haven't been able to get Cygwin/X working under Vista yet. I was able to use XLaunch and fire off X applications from the cygwin shell. http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/ Be sure to set up $DISPLAY in your .bashrc: export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 I'd love to know if there's a better way, though. Kind Regards, Brian Wisti On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Monson Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried to install Cygwin/X under Windows Vista, and get fatal errors when trying to run Cygwin/X. Has anyone been successful and, if so, is there documentation on how to get Cygwin running under Vista? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Can anyone help with a multiple monitor system?
I found a log file called XWin.log and it immediately told me what was wrong winScreenInit - Monitors do not all have same pixel format / display depth. Using primary display only. As an experiment, I tried setting both my monitors to 1200x1024 at 16-bit depth. XWin then launched and worked as expected. Curiously, I found that I can set my monitors to different settings AFTER I start XWin and it seems to be quite happy to carry on working. It just doesn't seem to like *starting* if the monitor settings are different, which is a pity. Armed with my new knowledge I decided to search Google. I'd always thought that I was unusual in having twin monitors running at different resolutions but in fact, it seems to be quite common. I found lots of comments about the same problem - though not all of them about Cygwin. Some were about a package (project?) called comp.windows.x. I've never heard of this. Can anyone tell me if it's connected with Cygwin or is it something totally different? Cheers, John - Original Message - From: John Emmas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Sent: 23 August 2008 09:31 Subject: Can anyone help with a multiple monitor system? I have a dual-head (twin monitor) setup using a Matrox Millenium G400 graphics card. I've been using this successfully for many years under both Windows and Linux (64Studio). Using GTK, I've built a myself a small Hello World type app. It's just a simple GTK dialog box with a label saying Hello World and a 'Close' button. If I build it under GNU GCC and run it under Linux it runs fine. However, if I re-boot into Windows and build it under Cygwin, it only displays properly on my left-hand monitor. If I drag the dialog box to my right-hand monitor, the dialog gets displayed - but not its contents. I'm starting my X server by running startxwin.bat which can be found in c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin. I've already taken a look within startxwin.bat and I noticed that it offers various command-line switches to Xwin. One of these is '-multiplemonitors' which I thought might help. I modified startxwin.bat to add this as an extra parameter when starting Xwin but it didn't make any difference. Can anyone suggest anything else I could try? Thanks, John -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Windows Vista
Not sure how to reply to a thread, but here are the details of what happens when I try to run Cygwin/X. First, I would like to comment that the following was suggested: Be sure to set up $DISPLAY in your .bashrc: export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 What is interesting, is in my installation I cannot find a .bashrc file, although I did find one in my Windows XP installation. I am told to look at the XWin.log file on my computer running Windows Vista when I get the following fatal error: A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit Releast 6.8.99.901-4 XWin was started with the following command llin /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin -multiwindow - clipboard -silent-dup-error The XWin.log file is: (WW) /tmp mounted int textmode _XSERVTransmkdir: ERROR: euid != 0,directory /tmp/.X11-unix will not be created. (II) XF86Config is not supported (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1680 height: 1050 depth: 32 winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 00ff ff00 00ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32 null screen fn ReparentWindow null screen fn RestackWindow InitQueue - Calling pthread_mutex_init InitQueue - pthread_mutex_init returned InitQueue - Calling pthread_cond_init InitQueue - pthread_cond_init returned winInitMultiWindowWM - Hello winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Hello winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shared memory support in the kernel (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31 (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: 0409 (0409) (--) Using preset keyboard for English (USA) (409), type 4 (--) 8 mouse buttons found Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list! Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
