Cygwin/X server displays nothing, sh.exe hangs

2004-12-27 Thread Mark Allen
I have been trying to set up cygwin/X on my laptop, Using exactly the same startup scripts packages that work on my desktop, however it keeps failing (been trying for 2 days now). I run the startXwin.bat script (or my own versions of it), 4 processes appear: Xwin Xwin Xterm sh.exe sh.exe

not loading gnome packages

2004-12-27 Thread Peter Bismuti
cygwin isn't loading gnome packages/programs such as gnome-terminal. Are they not available? Are their existing packages I haven't loaded? Thought I loaded everything. Thanks in advance Pete

Re: not loading gnome packages

2004-12-27 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Peter Bismuti wrote: cygwin isn't loading gnome packages/programs such as gnome-terminal. Only a few gnome packages are availbale in the cygwin distribution. Check http://cygnome.sourceforge.net for non official gnome packages. bye ago NP: Dekoy - Shoot To Kill -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: not loading gnome packages

2004-12-27 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Peter Bismuti wrote: cygwin isn't loading gnome packages/programs such as gnome-terminal. Are they not available? Are their existing packages I haven't loaded? Thought I loaded everything. The Gnome desktop is not available yet, sorry. Gerrit -- =^..^=

Looking for OpenGL hello world

2004-12-27 Thread Peter Bismuti
Trying to get cygwin working to practice writing OpenGL code, but ready to throw in the towel. As usual, I'm having Win OS based problems that are chewing up massive amounts of time. I'd be better off ordering a new computer and installing Redhat myself I think, although finding an OpenGL