Re: Windows Vista

["Brian Wisti" <brian dot wisti at gmail dot com>]

To clarify, Cygwin/X worked fine for me when I was running 32 bit
Vista, but I had to resort to the XMing solution under AMD64.

Kind Regards,

Brian Wisti

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Scott Fordin <scott@ohelp.com> wrote:
> Cygwin does indeed run on 32-bit versions of Windows Vista.
> Don't know about 64-bit versions. In my experience, there
> are a few catches to getting Cygwin to work on Vista:
>
>   1. Run the Cygwin setup as Administrator and in XP
>      Compatibility Mode.
>
>   2. I had better luck when I did the install in two
>      stages: First, I just downloaded the packages, then
>      I ran setup again and chose the install from local
>      repository option.
>
>   3. After installation, run Cygwin's rebaseall command
>      from an ash (not bash) shell.
>
>   4. When you finally run the Cygwin bash shell for real,
>      be sure to use Vista's "Run as Administrator" option.
>
>   5. Also make sure that your firewall is not blocking
>      Xwin.exe or bash.exe.
>
> FWIW, the Xming X server works just fine on Vista, and you
> can use Xming as your X Server when running PuTTY or many if
> not all of the Cygwin X-based apps.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Scott
>
> Monson Hayes wrote:
>> Not sure how to reply to a thread, but here are the details of what
>> happens when I try to run Cygwin/X.  First, I would like to comment
>> that the following was suggested:
>>
>> Be sure to set up $DISPLAY in your .bashrc:
>>
>> export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
>>
>> What is interesting, is in my installation I cannot find a .bashrc
>> file, although I did find one in my Windows XP installation.
>>
>> I am told to look at the XWin.log file on my computer running Windows
>>  Vista when I get the following fatal error:
>>
>> "A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit Releast
>> 6.8.99.901-4 XWin was started with the following command llin
>>
>> /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin -multiwindow - clipboard -silent-dup-error
>>
>> The XWin.log file is:
>>
>> (WW) /tmp mounted int textmode _XSERVTransmkdir: ERROR: euid !=
>> 0,directory /tmp/.X11-unix will not be created. (II) XF86Config is
>> not supported (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html
>> for more information winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows
>> display depth of 32 bits per pixel winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating
>> DIB with width: 1680 height: 1050 depth: 32 winInitVisualsShadowGDI -
>> Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32 null screen fn
>> ReparentWindow null screen fn RestackWindow InitQueue - Calling
>> pthread_mutex_init InitQueue - pthread_mutex_init returned InitQueue
>> - Calling pthread_cond_init InitQueue - pthread_cond_init returned
>> winInitMultiWindowWM - Hello winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Hello
>> winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock ()
>> winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () MIT-SHM
>> extension disabled due to lack of kernel support XFree86-Bigfont
>> extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shared
>> memory support in the kernel (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500,
>> rate=31 (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000409" (00000409) (--)
>> Using preset keyboard for "English (USA)" (409), type "4" (--) 8
>> mouse buttons found Could not init font path element
>> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list!
>>
>> Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'
>>
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