Installing cygwin/xfree : it works ! ( almost )

[Richard.GRENON]

Hello Suhaib and others,
 
Installing and using Cygwin was very easy and it 
works very well, but installing Xfree with XGGI is really a nightmare for a 
simple user who knows nothing about system administration. I will never say bad 
things about system administrators!
 
Here are the last (bad) news of my installation 
:
 
1. xterm warnings "locale not supported" and 
"failed to open input method" : I tried to get the last xterm client from 
Xc-4-binaries as you told me, but it gives the same thing. I read in the 
archives that you said it was not important, so maybe I can forget 
it.
 
2. French keyboard mapping : I got a french 
Xmodmap.fr file on the Web and tried xmodmap or to run XGGI with the -xkbdb 
option. No way! Xterms are always typing US keyboards! Help! What is missing to 
make xmodmap work?
 
3. Twm does not catch button events : I tried the 
last twm.exe from the Xc-4-binaries and also mwm, but it's the same problem 
although "xmodmap -pp" says that there are 5 buttons! Could it be because some 
env variables are missing (look at my very simple XGGI script in my June 26 
mail) or because the window manager cannot find the *wmrc files ? 
System *wmrc files exist for twm and mwm, but maybe at the wrong place? I 
tried also to run XGGI with the "-buttons n" option but it fails for any value 
of n between 1 and 3! Help again!
 
4. Finally I tried to exec a Unix code 
: XopenDisplay works with DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 but DISPLAY=:0.0 is not 
authorized, because I am not root ? Then the code fails on 
DefaultColormap(display,screen) call with the screen value returned by 
DefaultScreen(display). This screen value seems to be out of range (very great 
value). What is wrong?
  I had also a problem with the choice of the 
include files : gcc seems to look for the X11 include files in /usr/include/X11. 
Some X11 files are in /usr/include/X11 (from cygwin installation) but they are 
not identical to the same named files in /usr/X11R6/include/X11, so which ones 
should I use?
 
As you can see, I am completely lost among the 
include, resource or config files and the init scripts. That's really not my 
domain and I don't have the basic knowledge of system administration. I think I 
have all the latest binaries needed for simple tests but I will never succeed if 
I can't find a full installation script with XGGI or another Xserver. I guess 
that you could be tired to receive always the same questions, and I don't want 
to take too much of your time. Maybe I will do again some other tests if you 
have some suggestions, but I think I will stop soon. Do you intend to deliver in 
the future full install scripts for Xfree with some Xservers, as you did with 
the setup.exe for Cygwin ? If so, I think that it would be better for me to 
wait.
 
Thank you again for having given me a little of 
your time.
 
Best regards,
 
Richard Grenon 40 Avenue de la Division Leclerc 92320 Châtillon - 
France e-mail : Richard.GRENON@wanadoo.fr