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RE: X Servers on Win 9x
- To: "Vinod Mukkamala" <vinod_mukkamala at yahoo dot com>, <cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: X Servers on Win 9x
- From: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 12:23:39 -0400
> Hi,
> Please accept my congratulations on having X
> Servers running good on Windows. According to Suhaib's
> June 19th mail "Xwin and Win95/98", I am assuming that
> none of X Servers will run on Win9x. Am I right? I am
> trying to get X Servers working on my win98 with
> Cygwin New Net release, it never ever got to a point
> beyond, "RGB_DB" error and "fixed" font error.
It means, X server is unable to find /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 directory
which contains rgb.txt and fonts subdirectory.
If you are using cygwin 1.1.1, the XWIN should be installed
in X:\cygwin\usr\X11R6 (X is your disk letter)
> I tried
> doing all the stuff suggested in mailing list. But if
> anybody has X Servers running for cygwin1.dll could
> you please send me more info.
if you mount points are:
c:\cygwin\usr /usr
then everthing related to X goes in C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6
Suhaib
>
> Thanks a lot
> Vinod.
>
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