On 14/07/2011 10:29, Jan Chludzinski wrote: > First, THANKS! > > $ startxwin > giving up. > startxwin: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to > connect to X server > startxwin: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
Sorry, I hadn't quite grasped that is the whole of the output. For obscure technical reasons, the output of XWin doesn't appear in a cmd.exe terminal if cygwin wasn't started with CYGWIN=tty. Can I suggest you install mintty, and try running startxwin from that, which should produce some more informative output. It looks like Cygwin/X FAQ 2.4 could do with some improvement :-) > The server is never started - no process in the Windows "Resource > Monitor". When I try to start xedit (or whatever X based app) nothing > happens, nothing appears. > > As for FAQ, I'm afraid I don't see anything that might help. I looked > before I posted the original e-mail. > > ---John > > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Jon TURNEY <jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk> > wrote: >> On 12/07/2011 09:10, Jan Chludzinski wrote: >>> I just did a complete installation of X11 from Cygwin 1.7 setup.exe. >>> But when I try to start the "XWin Server" using the "Start" menu >>> nothing happens. If I try either "startxwin" or "startx" or "xinit" >>> from the BASH shell I get: >>> >>> giving up. >>> startxwin: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X >>> server >>> startxwin: No such process (errno 3): Server error. >>> >>> Any suggestions? >> >> Looking at the XWin.0.log you attached, it looks like the X server is >> starting >> up successfully. >> >> If clients are unable to connect, this might be due to firewall configuration >> or other software which interferes with cygwin sockets (see [1] in the >> Cygwin/X FAQ for some suggestions) >> >> [1] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-cannot-open-display -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- 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/