Getting New XServers to Work

Suhaib Siddiqi ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com
Thu Jun 8 08:25:00 GMT 2000


> I have been trying to get the new DXWin server to work, but so far it is a
> no go for me.  I have read through the archives but so faw can't find
> anything.  I extract the X-servers-v-1.0.tar.bz2 in / and this puts
> everything in its proper location.  However, when I run startdx from a DOS
> prompt, I get pop up boxes with:
>
> Coundn't open RGB_DB '/usr/lib/X11/rgb'

That means there is a whole lot missing?  you should have
a lot of stuff in /usr/lib/X11.

> and
> could not open default font 'fixed'

fonts should be in /usr/lib/X11.

Check for it.

did you change in anything in batch files?

Suhaib

>
> The file /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt does exist.
>
> Does anyone have an idea what is going on? This is cygwin-1.1.1 on
> NT-4.0SP5.
>
>



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