Re: Cygwin/X under XP fails to start only on 2nd User Account

2005-08-31 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Iain Campbell wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Iain Campbell wrote: I'm new to the list. Hi! I have two accounts on my laptop, one for use on my home network and the other for use at my place of work. I'm going nuts trying to get X working on my office account, even

Re: Cygwin/X under XP fails to start only on 2nd User Account

2005-08-31 Thread Iain Campbell
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Iain Campbell wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Iain Campbell wrote: I'm new to the list. Hi! I have two accounts on my laptop, one for use on my home network and the other for use at my place of work. I'm going nuts trying to get X working

Re: Cygwin/X under XP fails to start only on 2nd User Account

2005-08-31 Thread Iain Campbell
Iain Campbell wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Iain Campbell wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Iain Campbell wrote: I'm new to the list. Hi! I have two accounts on my laptop, one for use on my home network and the other for use at my place of work. I'm going nuts

Problem solved, sort of (was Re: Cygwin/X under XP fails to start only on 2nd User Account)

2005-08-31 Thread Iain Campbell
Tried starting X using 'startx' from the problem account and discovered a vital clue. There was an error message suggesting that the process couldn't write to /tmp/XWin.log Rather than delete the file, I've set permissions to 0777 and it fixes my problem. I am, however, if this was the

Re: Problem solved, sort of (was Re: Cygwin/X under XP fails to start only on 2nd User Account)

2005-08-31 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Iain Campbell wrote: Tried starting X using 'startx' from the problem account and discovered a vital clue. There was an error message suggesting that the process couldn't write to /tmp/XWin.log Ah, good, that was my next question... :-) I'm glad you found the problem.

cygwin X on XP

2005-04-13 Thread beau
Hi all, Do folks really fire up, say, windows XP, then fire up cygwin, then run linux-ish X apps from cygwin? Is it much harder than anything else I've done? What I'd be most interested in is integration of browser-webmail-gpg that I had with my old setup. Is that a fairly straightforward

Re: cygwin X on XP

2005-04-13 Thread Alan Ning
beau wrote: Hi all, Do folks really fire up, say, windows XP, then fire up cygwin, then run linux-ish X apps from cygwin? Is it much harder than anything else I've done? What I'd be most interested in is integration of browser-webmail-gpg that I had with my old setup. Is that a fairly

Re: cygwin X on XP

2005-04-13 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, beau wrote: Hi all, Do folks really fire up, say, windows XP, then fire up cygwin, then run linux-ish X apps from cygwin? Yes, with one correction: first fire up Windows, then fire up *the X server* (which may or may not be Cygwin/X), and then run X apps from Cygwin.

Re: cygwin X on XP

2005-04-13 Thread beau
On 4/13/05, Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the cygwin-xfree list, which is dedicated to exactly that sort of roger wilco -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: