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RE: Unable to connect to X Server -- Updated
- To: "Giridharan Iyengar" <giyengar at us dot ibm dot com>,<cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: Unable to connect to X Server -- Updated
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 11:05:49 +1100
- Thread-Index: AcCnXX9qpDGVyYpjSUmRaDN26k8aXwABgC8g
- Thread-Topic: Unable to connect to X Server -- Updated
IIRC for xfree86 - "Unix" file mode.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Giridharan Iyengar [mailto:giyengar@us.ibm.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 10:28 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: Unable to connect to X Server -- Updated
>
>
>
> I tried putting a delay of a minute and stopped using nohup
> and both did
> not seem to help. I even tried starting everything manually.
>
> My startxwin.bat looks thus now:
>
> set PATH=.;%PATH%;\cygwin\bin;\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin
> set DISPLAY = 127.0.0.1:0
>
> start XWin -screen 0 800x600x8 -whitepixel 255 -blackpixel 0
> sleep 60
> start /B xhost +
> start /B xterm -display :0
> start /B twm -display :0
>
> It does not seem to work still. I feel I must have a corrupt
> installation.
> My other
> install on a win2k desktop works just fine.
>
> When I setup cygwin initially, do I have to choose "DOS" mode or
> "Unix" mode for the files. If I am installing binaries only,
> it should not
> matter, right?
>
> -giri
>
>