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Re: installation under winME


Hi,

Having watched and posted for a while, there seems to be a common theme
that some people, (including me) cannot get Xfree to work on WindowsME and
Win98.

To sum up:
Using startx, the client waits forever for the server to start accepting
connections.
A window does appear, and the cursor works, but thats it.

As suggested, I and others have tried using both 127.0.0.1 and the ethernet
address of the
machine, to no avail.
The exported DISPLAY variable is OK.

I have tried starting it from the batch file, a shell file supplied by
Suhaib, and from the command line.
All methods show the same result.

As to the version, I am using the latest version available of both cygwin
and Xfree. Just this
morning I deleted Xfree and reinstalled it with the latest downloadable
version, no change.

I guess everyone is very frustrated, I know I am, but I am determined to get
to the bottom of this...

Some questions:
    What port does the server listen on?
    When the server opens and binds its socket, where does it get the
address and port from?
    Given the description of the Xserver window above, ho far is it through
it's initialisation?
    Should I stop waisting my time and wait for a later release (i.e.What
stage of development is Xfree at)?

Regards to everyone....
         Roger


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