Re: X server fails to start on Vista

2009-05-14 Thread Kim Goldov
It worked with /usr/bin/XWin :1 The X icon appeared and the xterm application worked as expected. netstat -p showed nothing before or after XWin started. It also showed nothing with a live SSH connection started from my Cygwin bash shell. After starting XWin with XWin :1 the process appeared

Re: X server fails to start on Vista

2009-05-09 Thread Kim Goldov
to start the X server with the Run as Administrator option. Ditto for the Cygwin bash shell. Scott Paul Loewenstein wrote: And make sure the icon isn't hidden (I set Vista to always show the X Windows icon). Paul Kim Goldov wrote: I downloaded Cygwin-X per the instructions in http

X server fails to start on Vista

2009-05-07 Thread Kim Goldov
I downloaded Cygwin-X per the instructions in http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/setup-cygwin-x-installing.html When selecting Cygwin-X - XWin Server in the start menu, X does not start and I get the following /var/log/XWin.0.log ... /usr/bin/XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error