RE: various X-based apps (konsole, mplayer, mencoder) fail to start
John J. McDonough, WB8RCR wrote on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 12:01 AM:: Do ANY X applications work? Have you ever seen a GUI screen on your XP laptop? Bringing up a Cygwin terminal window is NOT the same as starting an Xterm. Do you have the Cygwin X displayed in the tray? This is a valid question, but I think the lack of any error message points to a missing DLL. If it was due to there being no X server, the normal response is to say something to the effect that it cannot connect to the display. Running cygcheck konsole.exe will show if any DLLs couldn't be found. If any DLLs are missing, e.g. C:\cygwin\bin\cygkdefx-4.dll, run cygcheck -p /bin/cygkdefx-4.dll to find out which package needs to be installed. Phil --McD - Original Message - From: Marco Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 5:51 PM Subject: various X-based apps (konsole, mplayer, mencoder) fail to start hello all, hopefully one of you can help me: i have a win xp home sp2 laptop here; i have cygwin up and running (mirrors are sunsite.dk and xmission.com). the only thing that does not work are any of the kde apps (e.g. konsole) or mplayer/mencoder, which are AFAIR compiled with X support (at least mplayer must be). even if ran in a (working!) xterm, they simply exit without displaying an error or other info or displaying some GUI. this also prevents the kde desktop from being started, as kstartupconfig suffers from the same problem. any idea what might go wrong here? thanks, the|m. -- This email has been scanned by Ascribe PLC using Microsoft Antigen for Exchange. -- 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/
Re: various X-based apps (konsole, mplayer, mencoder) fail to start
Phil Betts schrieb: This is a valid question, but I think the lack of any error message points to a missing DLL. If it was due to there being no X server, the normal response is to say something to the effect that it cannot connect to the display. Running cygcheck konsole.exe will show if any DLLs couldn't be found. If any DLLs are missing, e.g. C:\cygwin\bin\cygkdefx-4.dll, run cygcheck -p /bin/cygkdefx-4.dll to find out which package needs to be installed. wouldn't windows itself spawn a missing dll error then? anyways, apparently nothing is missing: $ cygcheck konsole.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\konsole.exe C:\cygwin\bin\konsole.exe C:\cygwin\bin\cygkdeinit_konsole.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cygDCOP-4.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNEL32.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\RPCRT4.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\Secur32.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cygqt-mt-3.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cygGL-1.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cygX11-6.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cygxcb-xlib-0.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cygxcb-1.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cygXau-6.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cygXdmcp-6.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cygXext-6.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cygICE-6.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cygSM-6.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cygXcursor-1.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cygXfixes-3.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cygXrender-1.dll C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\cygXft-2.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cygfontconfig-1.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cygexpat-0.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cygfreetype-6.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cygz.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cygXi-6.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cygXmu-6.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cygXt-6.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cygXrandr-2.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cygminires.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cygkdecore-4.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cygkdefx-4.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cygart_lgpl_2-2.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cygidn-11.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cygiconv-2.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cygintl-8.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cygkdeprint-4.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cygkdeui-4.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cygkio-4.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cygkdesu-4.dll C:\cygwin\bin\cygkwalletclient-1.dll -- 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/
Re: various X-based apps (konsole, mplayer, mencoder) fail to start
Do ANY X applications work? Have you ever seen a GUI screen on your XP laptop? Bringing up a Cygwin terminal window is NOT the same as starting an Xterm. Do you have the Cygwin X displayed in the tray? --McD - Original Message - From: Marco Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 5:51 PM Subject: various X-based apps (konsole, mplayer, mencoder) fail to start hello all, hopefully one of you can help me: i have a win xp home sp2 laptop here; i have cygwin up and running (mirrors are sunsite.dk and xmission.com). the only thing that does not work are any of the kde apps (e.g. konsole) or mplayer/mencoder, which are AFAIR compiled with X support (at least mplayer must be). even if ran in a (working!) xterm, they simply exit without displaying an error or other info or displaying some GUI. this also prevents the kde desktop from being started, as kstartupconfig suffers from the same problem. any idea what might go wrong here? thanks, the|m. -- 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/ -- 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/
