Re: launch server x without startx command
Alexis Cothenet wrote: I have seen http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-01/msg00476.html ( tried with my own ip) but it doesn't work for me. i'm working with tcsh shell. Maybe there is a place where i could launch the startx script ? I took a slightly different route that either of those posters did. The end result should be the same, but it's still worth a try, since you seem to be able to run startx once you have a POSIX shell. My system has c:\cygwin\bin;c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin at the end of $PATH$, and I simply stuck a shortcut to 'sh startx' in the default user's startup folder. As long as startx works on your system, this should too, since it's simply automating the invocation of the startx shell script. This should work in user-specific environment variables and startup folders too, and if you don't want to edit your Windows path variable, prefixing the Windows path to bin/sh to the shortcut should produce the same end result as well.
Re: Duplicate invocation problem with xwin.exe
Martin Gill wrote: Ok, managed to find out what the problem was. Seems it's Zone Alarm. I had to completely uninstall it to solve the problems. Just thought I'd post this in case anyone else ever has the same problems. I've sent a note to ZA support... if they offer a solution i'll post it here. On cygwin, some of the socket interface is emulated by using loopbacks on internet sockets, so Xwin, Xinit, and several other programs need to have access to the internet, and Xwin needs server rights. If server rights are denied, xterm would not have been able to connect to the X server (and might have attempted to reinvoke xinit...I'm not sure whether there is any special handling in there). Did you check ZA before uninstalling to make sure you hadn't blocked access?
Re: problem with opening DISPLAY
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just installed cygwin/x and have the problem of "cannot open Display 127.0.0.1:0.0. Looking at the FAQ, it seems to be a problem with my firewall, which is McAffee Personal Firewall 4, which i use to protect my broadband Connection. Has anyone had the same problem, and is there a solution?. It must be very common now with broadband Give XWin.exe and any X programs you use permission to access IP 127.0.0.1 on all ports and protocols, and XWin.exe specifically needs server rights under the same conditions.
Re: cygwin/x and zonealarm firewall
BJ Garman wrote: I saw on the website that some users had problems getting cygwin/x to run properly with ZoneAlarm firewall by zonelabs to work. I myself played around with it and found that it can be made to work easily by setting a few simple things within your zonealarm firewall. Cygwin/x must be able to act as a server and must be able to use its default ip addressing. It's not that simple. ZoneAlarm implements it's security by replacing the Winsock with it's own code. In some cases this irreparably breaks programs that depend on the Winsock, like Cygwin/X. ZoneAlarm 4.5 works fine, but ZoneAlarm 5 doesn't, as far as being able to run X. Other programs work with ZA 5 but not 4.5. Some simply don't work with either.
Re: password
george opstad wrote: This may sound stupid but I have cygwin running OK but I never put in a password for the superuser and now I can't add users.Is there a default password? On Cygwin there is no superuser. Use Windows to add users, then "mkpasswd > /etc/passwd" to update /etc/passwd. incidentally, this is the wrong list for this. Reply-to has been set to the proper list. Future inquiries that don't relate specifically to Cygwin/X go to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X startup hangs
electa wrote: ZoneAlarm is known to change the behaviour of Windows TCP/IP stack and this seems to cause troubles with cygwin since cygwin must provide unix like semantics and has problems if something does not work it was expected. But I tried shutting down Zonealarm--> X still hangs. Do you think it ss really a ZoneAlarm problem? ZoneAlarm replaces the TCP stack with it's own. You cannot fully shut it down until after uninstalling it and rebooting. The most recent version of ZA broke every POP/SMTP mailer on my system. Shutting it down, removing it from start up and rebooting did nothing to change that. Uninstalling it magically fixed everything, and several other problems I hadn't attributed to ZoneAlarm as well.
Re: How to use ddd with XWindows?
Siegfried Heintze wrote: I apologize if I had already posted this question. However, I did not see my own posting and I assume it never made it to the mailing list. I see from the posting below that you are using startx. H... I think that is the command I use on Linux. I tried it on Win2003 server running cygwin and there is no such command. Just to interject, the startx script does exist on Cygwin. That's how I typically start X. You have to invoke it in a posix shell on some versions of Windows because of the way Windows detects executable scripts, though.
Re: Using xterm via cygwin
S Wade wrote: > Fatal server error: > Cannot open log file "/tmp/XWin.log" Try checking the permissions on /tmp and /tmp/XWin.log. /tmp should be world-writable, and XWin.log probably should be as well.
Re: Error while trying to run startx which in turn is trying to start fvwm2
Narayan Moni wrote: XWin was started with the following command line: X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard -multiwindow has an internal WindowManager that maps X-11 calls to Windows GDI calls. If you want to use fvwm2, try editing startx to call X with -rootless instead (or without either flag if you want to see the X-11 root window). I not sure if this is the actual error you're seeing, though. It looks to me like X is dying before fvwm is called.
Re: window manager
Chris W wrote: Brian Ford wrote: What I want is to be able to change colors and font sizes on the fly and AFAIK, font sizes are application specific and have nothing to do with the window manager. I'm not sure what you mean by colors. You mean like the Windows desktop themes? I meant the xterm background and text colors, I guess that doesn't really have anything to do with the window manager. Create an .XDefaults file (note: most Windows tools won't allow it, as a file starting with a period cannot have a valid MS-DOS 8.3 filename, and they all require it to be creatable for backwards compatibility) and populate it with the desired settings. 'man xterm' should have the list of valid settings. 'man startx' may as well, but I'm not certain about that. some way of opening more windows or other x applications with a menu of some kind. Is Start->All Programs->Cygwin-X not sufficient? You want a real X window manager instead of the Windows one? I guess I was thinking more along the lines of linux windows managers. The instation didn't create a Cygwin-X entry in my start menu and I'm not sure how to add one. I can add the startxwin.bat but I can only run that once and when I try and create a shortcut to xterm.exe it just exits right after it loads. Install the x-org-icons package. Incidentally, most X programs will start correctly if the X-server is already running. Setting DISPLAY=0:0 as a Windows environment variable, or in you shell's rc file, will get all of them working this way, but rxvt will stop working in W11 mode if you do this (in the case of the rc file, Windows shortcuts to rxvt may still start it in W11 mode).
