Following update to XWin or xorg-server: changed syntax to get a xterm terminal window

2015-06-10 Thread Fergus Daly
For ages I used XWin -nolock -nolisten local -multiwindow & xterm -display localhost:0.0 to get a xterm terminal. Following recent updates I get a fatal error: "Cannot establish any listening sockets." In the past, updates to XWin have sometimes led to similar difficulties, but I have alw

Re: Basic question 1 - Traffic

2005-09-27 Thread Fergus Daly
> startx -- -screen 0 1200 900 # your startup Does this give you a xterm terminal and a xterm prompt, at which you start your Strathclyde stuff? > Does the quite mode you mentioned fit in here somewhere? I'm sorry, I don't use startx, with or without arguments. But I do notice that if at t

Re: Basic question 1 - Traffic

2005-09-27 Thread Fergus Daly
> generates constant internet traffic I don't know what your startup command is/are but mine are /usr/X11R6/bin/run /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin -nolisten local -multiwindow # to start XWin in "quiet" mode /bin/xterm -display localhost:0.0 # to start xterm, but you might w

xpdf: error messages

2004-10-26 Thread Fergus Daly
I assume this is the place to comment on the recent provision of xpdf (not cygwin@). Thanks for this. One minor irritation. It doesn't matter what .pdf I choose to view (I've tried many) it turns out that on quitting the successful viewing and before the resumption of the Cygwin prompt, six identic