RE: X server fails to create window

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

Try cygwin1.dll from a recent snapshot

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tzafrir Cohen [mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il]
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 4:09 PM
> To: Cygwin-XFree list
> Subject: X server fails to create window
> 
> Hi
> 
> I have lately installed XFree on my cygwin installation, and now
> the X
> server falis to create a window (it does start, and listen on port
> 6000, I
> haven't tried attaching clients, though).
> 
> When I run 'startxwin9x.bat' I get a couple of console window
> opened (as
> expected - for each 'start', I figure). Specifically the one that
> runs
> XWin has rthe following output:
> 
> )( ddxProcessArgument
> ddxProcessArgument () - screen - argc: 4 i: 1
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows 95/98/Me
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw4 installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported engines
> 00000017
> winSetEngine () - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking
> winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL () - Using Windows display depth of
> 32 bits per pixel
> winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed () - WindowClient width 800 height
> 600
> winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed () - MapWindowPoints () failed
> winAllocateFBShadowDDNL () - lPitch: 3200
> winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff
> BPRGB 8 d 32
> )( winCreateDefColormap () - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap
> 
> At this point I can see that there is something that listens on
> port 6000.
> When I press Ctrl-C in that console window it soon closes, and
> netstat no
> longer shows that someone listens on port 6000.
> 
> my startwin9x.bat:
> ------
> @echo off
> set CYGWIN=c:\cygwin
> SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
> SET PATH=%CYGWIN%\bin;%CYGWIN%\usr\X11R6\bin;%PATH%
> 
> attrib -s %CYGWIN%\tmp\.X11-unix\X0
> del %CYGWIN%\tmp\.X11-unix\X0
> rmdir %CYGWIN%\tmp\.X11-unix
> 
> start XWin -screen 0 800x600x16
> start xterm -sl 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms red -fg yellow -bg black -e
> /usr/bin/bash
> start twm
> ------
> 
> Running 'XWin.exe' from the bash prompt seem to give the same
> result (give
> or take complaints about /tmp/.X11-unix ownership)
> 
> My system: win98se, latest standard cygwin (currently cygwin
> 1.3.2-1).
> XFree is also generally the latest "stable" from the mirrors. I
> have also
> tried replacing XWin.exe with test39 . No change.
> 
> Before installing the newely-packaged XFree, I had XFree working
> on the
> same system.
> 
> Any ideas? Anything else I should check?
> 
> Also: while sending a message to the list: Is there any good
> reason why
> the X libs and X clients are not part of the standard cygwin
> distro?
> Aren't they stable enough? Those clients can be used with other X
> servers
> (either commercial ones, or the little WeirdX which is about as
> free as
> XFree).
> 
> 
> --
> Tzafrir Cohen
> mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
> http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
> 
>