Re: Is my X Servier not fully started (Rel: 6.8.2.0-4)
John Ormerod wrote: I get the X icon showing in the system tray, but it's 'dead'. By which I mean there I no context menu for it - I get the impression from reading around that there should be a menu... even if only to stop it. If I let the mouse pointer hover over it, the tool tip says: Cygwin/X Server - 0:0 The icon in the system tray is supposed to react to two inputs: - a double-click with the left mouse button should trigger the "Exit" dialog - a right-click should pop up a menu that is trivially simple until customized with an xwinrc file. Does yours react to neither? -- 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: Is my X Servier not fully started (Rel: 6.8.2.0-4)
John Ormerod wrote:
> Hello
> I've been struggling all day in what is a new world for me. I
> need to have GUI access to a Linux system that runs in a
did you comment out this line from your .bat file?
If you did, uncomment it.
run xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l
...snip
REM Startup the X Server with the integrated Windows-based window
manager.
REM WARNING: Do not use 'xwinclip' in conjunction with the
``-clipboard''
REM command-line parameter for XWin. Doing so would start two clipboard
REM managers, which is never supposed to happen.
run XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error
REM Startup an xterm, using bash as the shell.
run xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l
..snip
I believe the context menu you are referring to is controlled by a
.XWinrc file in your home directory
$ cat .XWinrc
# XWin Server Resource File - EXAMPLE
# Earle F. Philhower, III
# Place in ~/.XWinrc or in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/system.XWinrc
# Keywords are case insensitive, comments legal pretty much anywhere
# you can have an end-of-line
# Comments begin with "#" or "//" and go to the end-of-line
# Paths to commands are **cygwin** based (i.e. /usr/local/bin/xcalc)
# Paths to icons are **WINDOWS** based (i.e. c:\windows\icons)
# Menus are defined as...
# MENU {
#EXEC
# ^^ This command will have any
"%display%"
# string replaced with the proper
display
# variable (i.e. 127.0.0.1:.0)
# orMENU
# orALWAYSONTOP
# ^^ Sets the window to display above all others
# orRELOAD
# ^^ Causes ~/.XWinrc or the system.XWinrc file
#to be reloaded and icons and menus
regenerated
# or SEPARATOR
# ...
# }
# Set the taskmar menu with
# ROOTMENU
# If you want a menu to be applied to all popup window's system menu
# DEFAULTSYSMENU
# To choose a specific menu for a specific WM_CLASS or WM_NAME use ...
# SYSMENU {
#
# ...
# }
# To define where ICO files live (** Windows path**)
# ICONDIRECTORY
# To define a replacement for the standard X icon for apps w/o specified
icons
# DEFAULTICON
# To define substitute icons on a per-window basis use...
# ICONS {
#
# ...
# }
# In the case where multiple matches occur, the first listed in the
ICONS
# section will be chosen.
# DEBUG prints out the string to the XWin.log file
// Below are just some silly menus to demonstrate writing your
// own configuration file.
// Make some menus...
menu apps {
rxvt-green_on_blackexec"rxvt -sl 2000 -sb -sr -cr red
-geometry 80x40+200+100 -fg green -bg black -e /usr/bin/bash"
rxvt-yellow_on_blackexec"rxvt -sl 2000 -sb -sr -cr red
-geometry 80x
40+200+100 -fg yellow -bg black -e /usr/bin/bash"
"Emacs" exec"emacs"
xterm exec"xterm"
notepad execnotepad
}
menu root {
// Comments fit here, too...
"Reload .XWinrc"RELOAD
"Applications" menuapps
SEParATOR
}
menu aot {
Separator
"Always on Top" alwaysontop
}
menu xtermspecial {
"Emacs" exec"emacs"
"Always on Top" alwaysontop
SepArAtor
}
RootMenu root
DefaultSysMenu aot atend
SysMenu {
"xterm" xtermspecial atstart
}
# IconDirectory "c:\winnt\"
# DefaultIcon "reinstall.ico"
# Icons {
# "xterm" "uninstall.ico"
# }
DEBUG "Done parsing the configuration file..."
reid
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Is my X Servier not fully started (Rel: 6.8.2.0-4)
Hello I've been struggling all day in what is a new world for me. I need to have GUI access to a Linux system that runs in a VMWare image in my Win XP + SP2 system. I downloaded the X11 package which I think contains what I require, and let it install. I am unable to get an X window (is that the right term?) to open in Windows. This seems to be a very common problem from my searches. However, I would like to establish first if the X Server is starting properly. I get the X icon showing in the system tray, but it's 'dead'. By which I mean there I no context menu for it - I get the impression from reading around that there should be a menu... even if only to stop it. If I let the mouse pointer hover over it, the tool tip says: Cygwin/X Server - 0:0 The only way I have found to end this is via the Task Mgr - I see 3 processes: Xwin.exe, xterm.exe, xkbcomp.exe, which I kill one by one. This doesn't seem right to me. Hence this question. I started X Server using startxwin.bat. Researching via Google, I removed some options to end up with "run XWin -multiwindow" Here is the XWin.log - that might show that initialisation has not completed, or a problem during startup. If this is working as designed, then I'd like to know of a smarter way to stop it, and I'll join a long list of people who seem to have initial problems in getting a Unix system to open an X window in Windows (and yes, I have tried stopping my firewall). >> Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 6.8.2.0-4 Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com XWin was started with the following command line: /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin -multiwindow ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1024 h 768 winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning _XSERVTransmkdir: Cannot create /tmp/.X11-unix with root ownership (II) XF86Config is not supported (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information (==) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/,/usr/X11R6/lib /X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75d pi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1024 height: 768 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 winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Hello 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: "0809" (0809) (--) Using preset keyboard for "English (United Kingdom)" (809), type "4" >> Thanks in advance, regards John --- John Ormerod erebor limited -- 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/
