RE: How do I run it?

["Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Perry,

Take a look at /tmp/XWin.log... my suspicion is that you goofed on
installing the fonts.

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Perry Hutchison
> Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 5:51 PM
> To: huntharo@msu.edu
> Cc: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: How do I run it?
>
>
> Finally getting back to this after a very busy week.
>
> > http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/ug/
> >
> > The User's Guide tells you how to install Cygwin/XFree86, including the
> > startup batch files and shell scripts.  I can guarantee that
> you will not be
> > successful in installing Cygwin/XFree86 until you follow those
> instructions.
>
> Got it.  It turns out I had muddled through steps 1-5, but not 6-8.
>
> I have now extracted the startup scripts, and subsequently tried all
> 3 startup methods from Chapter 4, without success.  There seems to be
> some kind of problem in getting the X server to start.
>
> startxwin.bat in a command window says
>
>     startxwin.bat - Starting on Windows 95/98/Me
>
> then a window titled xterm appears.  After a few seconds a window
> titled twm appears, then both close.  After a few more seconds this
> appears in the command window, followed by the command prompt:
>
>     /USR/X11R6/BIN/XSETROOT: unable to open display '127.0.0.1:0.0'
>
> startxwin.sh in a bash window says
>
>     X connection to 127.0.0.1:0.0 broken (explicit kill or server
> shutdown).
>
> and the prompt appears, followed a few seconds later by this message:
>
>     xterm Xt error: Can't open display: 127.0.0.1:0.0
>
> startx in a bash window says
>
>     xinit: not found
>