Re: problems with running Gnome applications

2006-01-13 Thread Alessandro Lendaro
Christopher Faylor wrote: That said, however, we don't provide support for cygwinports. You downloaded that from another site and there is another mailing list devoted to it. The fact that it has the word cygwin in it doesn't mean that many people here are familiar with it. Well, my problem

problems with running Gnome applications

2006-01-12 Thread Alessandro Lendaro
hi everybody. I'd like to have a clue on how can get Gnome and Gtk applications work on cygwin. It would be cool to have a clean and as complete as possible tutorial/wiki with infos about installing Gnome and applicationso n cygwin and make them work. I got many problems with gconfd (errors

Re: problems with running Gnome applications

2006-01-12 Thread Alessandro Lendaro
Dave Korn wrote: This is a http://cygwin.com/acronyms#WAG, but have you got CYGWIN=server set in your environment, and are you running the cygserver? That's a pretty common cause of Bad system call errors. Of course, I would already have known the answer to those two questions if you had

Gnome Ports

2005-01-04 Thread Alessandro Lendaro
perhaps this isn't the right NG/ML. But... the GTK/Gnome/XFCE contribution ports to the CygWin X do not appear to be very publicized/documented/supported. I'd like to have more clarity about where packages are stored (i.e. the URLs tio be added in CygWin setup.exe), how to install them, which

Re: cygGNOME2

2004-05-05 Thread Alessandro Lendaro
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 04:22:42PM +0200, Alessandro Lendaro wrote: I can't make GNOME2 work on cygwin. I installed the packages found at cygnom2.sourceforge.net/install but I don't knowh which commands must be issued to start a GNOME2 session. When I try to launch apps

Re: cygGNOME2

2004-05-05 Thread Alessandro Lendaro
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 12:28:54PM +0200, Alessandro Lendaro wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Why are you asking about this here rather than using the resources at the web site where you downloaded the package? because I didn' t find any resources for my problems

cygGNOME2

2004-04-30 Thread Alessandro Lendaro
I can't make GNOME2 work on cygwin. I installed the packages found at cygnom2.sourceforge.net/install but I don't knowh which commands must be issued to start a GNOME2 session. When I try to launch apps like Gaim or Bluefish I get a win32 error saying the app is unable to locate the

cygGNOME2

2004-04-30 Thread Alessandro Lendaro
I can't make GNOME2 work on cygwin. I installed the packages found at cygnom2.sourceforge.net/install but I don't knowh which commands must be issued to start a GNOME2 session. When I try to launch apps like Gaim or Bluefish I get a win32 error saying the app is unable to locate the

[newbie] trouble with cygwin-X and cygGNOME2

2004-04-22 Thread Alessandro Lendaro
I'm tryin' to run GNOME2 on cygwin-X on W2000 Server. The cygwin - dll is the latest available. But I get a runtime error sayin' it's impossible to find the cygfontconfig-1.dll I've checked and it seems I'm missing that file, though I did installed X11 following step-by-step the instructions in

[newbie] trouble with cygwin-X and cygGNOME2]

2004-04-22 Thread Alessandro Lendaro
I'm tryin' to run GNOME2 on cygwin-X on W2000 Server. The cygwin - dll is the latest available. But I get a runtime error sayin' it's impossible to find the cygfontconfig-1.dll I've checked and it seems I'm missing that file, though I did installed X11 following step-by-step the instructions in

Re: [newbie] trouble with cygwin-X and cygGNOME2]

2004-04-22 Thread Alessandro Lendaro
Alexander Gottwald wrote: Have you tried http://cygnome.sourceforge.net? Yes, but it only gives information on the GNOME 1.4 installation/execution

Re: [newbie] trouble with cygwin-X and cygGNOME2]

2004-04-22 Thread Alessandro Lendaro
Many thanks Alexander, but you apper to not acknowledge my problem. Asid from the font dll I'm missing, I'd like to have a tutorial on how to install GNOME2 (via cygwin setup.ex or other way) but there's nothing alike on the sites you mentioned. Bye. Alexander Gottwald wrote: They have a link