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RE: Environment windows not opening
- From: john_staroba at agilent dot com
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 19:05:10 -0700
- Subject: RE: Environment windows not opening
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
I believe I installed all the xfree86 files, and still have the problem described below. Any ideas?
Thanks,
John
-----Original Message-----
From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu]
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 4:43 PM
To: john_staroba@agilent.com
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com; cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Environment windows not opening
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 john_staroba@agilent.com wrote:
> I just installed cygwin without any trouble. The command prompt window
> appears to be working fine, as does the vi editor. When attempting to
> launch an xwindow, only the main window will open and the system
> apparently hangs. Prompt window displays
> ..
> ..
> ..
> ..
> until you close the main xwindow, and then displays:
>
> giving up.
> xinit: No such file or directory <errno 2>: unable to connect to X server
> xinit: No such process <errno 3>: Server error.
>
> I'm running win NT. Any ideas on what to do?
Yes. Run an X server. For details, see http://xfree86.cygwin.com/
If you have problems, please direct any queries to the cygwin-xfree list
(I set the Reply-To: field to it, and also Cc'd this message there).
Igor
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