Re: Why don't I get an xterm ??

2006-09-27 Thread mp.griffin
Hi Charlie, Thankyou very much for your email, I very very much appreciate it !!! I have now turned off Norton Internet Security and used startxwin.bat instead. I then set the DISPLAY variable (according to the host name that I get from hostname. I then type xterm to no effect (ie. it

Re: Why don't I get an xterm ??

2006-09-26 Thread Charli Li
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark just had to cough out the following stream of bytes from the specified email client, on 9/25/2006 2:02 AM: Hello, I've recently installed cygwin (with ALL of the x11 stuff) and am trying to open up an xterm, though to no success. I get

Why don't I get an xterm ??

2006-09-25 Thread mp.griffin
Hello, I've recently installed cygwin (with ALL of the x11 stuff) and am trying to open up an xterm, though to no success. I get a pile of messages from startXWin.sh (which to my novice eyes are unintelligible, there is something in there about XF86Config and I've tried reading the cygwin