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Re: Cygwin/xfree86 & Win2000 does not start!
- To: "Piero Cosi" <cosi at csrf dot pd dot cnr dot it>, <cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: Cygwin/xfree86 & Win2000 does not start!
- From: "poidras" <poidras at dstu dot univ-montp2 dot fr>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 17:21:16 +0100
- References: <015801c087b0$aa281000$300db296@piii733>
hello
in startxwin.bat (usr/X11R6/bin/) change vtwm with twm.
greetings
----- Original Message -----
From: "Piero Cosi" <cosi@csrf.pd.cnr.it>
To: <cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 4:57 PM
Subject: Cygwin/xfree86 & Win2000 does not start!
> I found your work incredibly helpful for my work!
> Thanks!....Really!
>
> I have some problem with xfree86! I hope you can help me!
> I am not a Unix expert!
> I am using a PentiumIII machine with Windows 2000
>
> I installed Cygwin (the latest one) in C:\Cygwin and it seems OK!
> I got the whole xc4-binaries files. I bunzipped and untarred them
> into C:\Cygwin and I tried startxwin both with doubleclick from Explorer
> and within bash shell of Cygwin!
>
> In both cases:
>
> I got an error like ....
> Impossible to find vtvm ...
> Infact, I saw I do not have this executable!
>
> in Xwin (Dos black) window I saw this message:
> owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> (I run everything by my administrative login)
>
> and after few feedback lines and a full grey (or ligth green) screen
> everything stops going back to Windows 2000!
>
>
> At the end in the dos cmd window I see these messages
>
> C:\Cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin>start XWin -screen 0 1024x768x16 -whitepixel
> 255 -blackpixel 0
>
> C:\Cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin>start /B xterm -sl 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms red -fg
> yellow -bg black -e bash
>
> C:\Cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin>start /B rxvt -fn "Lucidia Console-12"
>
> C:\Cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin>start /B vtwm
> XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server
> "127.0.0.1:0.0"
> after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
>
>
> Could you help me. I do not what to do!
> Ciaoooo
> Piero
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> Piero Cosi
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