Hello I've been struggling all day in what is a new world for me. I need to have GUI access to a Linux system that runs in a VMWare image in my Win XP + SP2 system. I downloaded the X11 package which I think contains what I require, and let it install.
I am unable to get an X window (is that the right term?) to open in Windows. This seems to be a very common problem from my searches. However, I would like to establish first if the X Server is starting properly. I get the X icon showing in the system tray, but it's 'dead'. By which I mean there I no context menu for it - I get the impression from reading around that there should be a menu... even if only to stop it. If I let the mouse pointer hover over it, the tool tip says: Cygwin/X Server - 0:0 The only way I have found to end this is via the Task Mgr - I see 3 processes: Xwin.exe, xterm.exe, xkbcomp.exe, which I kill one by one. This doesn't seem right to me. Hence this question. I started X Server using startxwin.bat. Researching via Google, I removed some options to end up with "run XWin -multiwindow" Here is the XWin.log - that might show that initialisation has not completed, or a problem during startup. If this is working as designed, then I'd like to know of a smarter way to stop it, and I'll join a long list of people who seem to have initial problems in getting a Unix system to open an X window in Windows (and yes, I have tried stopping my firewall). >> Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 6.8.2.0-4 Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com XWin was started with the following command line: /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin -multiwindow ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1024 h 768 winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning _XSERVTransmkdir: Cannot create /tmp/.X11-unix with root ownership (II) XF86Config is not supported (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information (==) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/,/usr/X11R6/lib /X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75d pi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1024 height: 768 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 winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Hello 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: "00000809" (00000809) (--) Using preset keyboard for "English (United Kingdom)" (809), type "4" >> Thanks in advance, regards John ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- John Ormerod erebor limited -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/