Cygwin GDI/VNC

[Suhaib Siddiqi]

The xvnc-win32.tar.bz2 should extract into a /usr directory, with
lib and bin subdirectories.  Make sure you extract at the top of
directory on the disk you wish to install.

The colors are not great at the moment and need some work.

Suhaib



> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com
> [ mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com]On
> Behalf Of Phil dawes
> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 3:52 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Re: Cygwin GDI/VNC
>
>
> Hi Braddock,
>
> I wasn't able to get it working installed it in by cygwin root
> directory, but I found that unpacking it straight onto
> the root of my d
> drive (i.e. d:/usr/...etc..) made it work. The colours in
> pixmaps are
> still screwed up though - has anybody got the colours working?.
> (N.B. with the new version, you must supply a geometry
> otherwise you get
> "Couldn't add screen" error.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Phil.
>
> Braddock Gaskill wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I'm very excited about your GDI/VNC X server for Cygwin.
> > Unfortinatly, I'm having trouble with getting it
> running.  I installed
> > your binary package today.  No matter what I do, I keep
> getting the
> > error "Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/lib/X11/rgb'"
> followed by a "Fatal
> > Server error", "Couldn't add screen".
> >
> > rgb.txt is in /usr/lib/X11/ (and I've tried it in numerous other
> > places with the -co flag to Xvnc).  The rgb.txt is
> identical to the
> > one on my Linux machine, so it's valid.
> >
> > Was wondering if anyone else had this problem.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >         -Braddock Gaskill
> >
> > JHU ECE Dept System & Network Administrator
> > braddock@braddock.com - admin@ece.jhu.edu - (410) 340-7672
> > http://gnowledge.sourceforge.net - Building a Free
> Algorithmic Infrastructure