Re: Xwin only in VGA mode (first time user)

[Reini Urban <rurban at x-ray dot at>]

Harold Hunt schrieb:
> Your problem with video modes is simple:
> 24 bit depth screens have to be a multiple of 4 pixels wide, for alignment
> purposes.  Cygwin/XFree86 must trim the specified screen width when you
> specify a screen width greater than the largest client area allowed for a
> window.  Cygwin/XFree86 does not currently ensure that 24 bit screens are a
> multiple of 4 pixels wide after trimming the width.
> Workaround: specify a screen width on the command line that is a multiple of
> 4 pixels wide and that will not result in automatic trimming.  (e.g. -screen
> 1024x768x24 on a 1280x1024x24 screen)
> 
> Let us know if that works,

not really. still crashes with any screensize >vga
but I got xfce working now.

.profile:
export DISPLAY='127.0.0.1:0.0'
export XFCE_DATA="/usr/X11R6/var/xfce"
export LANG="de"

/usr/X11R6/bin$ ps
      PID    PPID    PGID     WINPID TTY  UID    STIME COMMAND
     1368     912    1368        536  -1 1000   Apr 16
/usr/local/bin/ipc-daemon
     1268       1    1268       1268  -1 1000 19:20:06 /usr/bin/bash
     1596    1268    1596        660  -1 1000 19:35:24 /usr/bin/ps
/usr/X11R6/bin$ XWin -fullscreen &
[1] 660
/usr/X11R6/bin$ _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to
root
winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows NT/2000
winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed
winDetectSupportedEngines () - Allowing PrimaryDD
winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw4 installed
winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported engines 0000000f
winSetEngine () - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking
winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Masks 0000f800 000007e0 0000001f RGB 6 d 16
winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Returning
/usr/X11R6/bin$ startxfce &
[2] 440
/usr/X11R6/bin$ /usr/X11R6/bin/startxfce: X server already running on display
127.0.0.1:0.0
xscreensaver: not found
XFWM message (type SessionInit):  X Session Manager not available
Using builtin session management instead

/usr/X11R6/bin$ps
      PID    PPID    PGID     WINPID TTY  UID    STIME COMMAND
     1368     912    1368        536  -1 1000   Apr 16
/usr/local/bin/ipc-daemon
     1268       1    1268       1268  -1 1000 19:20:06 /usr/bin/bash
      660    1268     660        712  -1 1000 19:35:41 /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin
      440    1268     440       1524  -1 1000 19:36:07 /usr/bin/sh
     1168     440     440        108  -1 1000 19:36:07 /usr/X11R6/bin/xfwm
     1568    1168     440        556  -1 1000 19:36:12 /usr/X11R6/bin/xfce
     1480    1168     440       1428  -1 1000 19:36:17 /usr/bin/sh
      644    1480     440       1464  -1 1000 19:36:18 /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm
     1288     644    1288       1640   0 1000 19:36:19 /usr/bin/bash
     1592    1168     440       1160  -1 1000 19:36:21 /usr/X11R6/bin/xfsound
     1460    1168     440       1656  -1 1000 19:36:21 /usr/X11R6/bin/xfpager
     1272    1168     440       1204  -1 1000 19:36:22 /usr/X11R6/bin/xfgnome
     1148    1268    1148       1544  -1 1000 19:39:08 /usr/bin/ps
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Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/