From within a mintty shell, I get: $ 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. ---Jan On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Jon TURNEY <jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk> wrote: > 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/