On 12/11/06, Wayne Anderson wrote:
Hello mailing list. I'm new to Cygwin/X, and I'm trying to use it to run Micros 8700 apps (on a SCO OpenServer 5 machine) from my Win2K PC.
Welcome aboard!
I'm running an out-of-the box default install of Cygwin/X, except for adding the -ac switch to the startxdmcp.bat file (thanks to Matt Flemming's web site). I can successfully run startxdmcp.bat and log in to the OpenServer desktop. All the built-in OpenServer apps seem to work, and all the Micros 8700 apps work except one (Configurator), which of course is the one I need. When I attempt to start the app, the outline of the window begins to display, but before the contents become visible it immediately disappears. The XWin.log file looks exactly the same whether I run a working app or the nonworking one, so that doesn't seem to give me any clues. I tried Xming on a WinXP PC and got the exact same results. The app in question does work just fine when I run it on the UNIX server, so that's not the problem. I don't know where to go from here to troubleshoot - any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.
See > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Can you run the application successfully if you use ssh and X tunneling? I've actually never even tried to get Cygwin to function as a regular old X server. I have always tunneled it through ssh and have never had issues. You'd have to start X up with just startx and then use ssh with at least -X and possibly -Y. Have you tried disabling any local firewalls or anti-virus protection on your Windows system? Are there any meaningful logs on the OpenServer system? -Jason -- 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/