"Cannot open display" or XDMCP problem ?

Tam Patrick-S.P.-w12297 P.Tam@motorola.com
Wed Apr 11 17:53:00 GMT 2001


The -query and -indirect option seems is not functioning in the XWIN.exe of the xwin32.  Either passing hostname or IP address will return host not found error.

Patrick

-----Original Message-----
From: Suhaib Siddiqi [ mailto:ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com ]
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 5:06 AM
To: 'Robert, Francois'; cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Cc: 'win32-x11@sources.redhat.com'
Subject: RE: "Cannot open display" or XDMCP problem ?




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert, Francois [ mailto:francois.robert@it.unisys.com ]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 4:29 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: "Cannot open display" or XDMCP problem ?
> 
> 
> As suggested in 
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2001-q2/msg00330.html
> I just downloaded/unbzipped/untar xwin32
> but...
> 
> Could not get it to run. Get a bunch of dialog boxes 
> complaining that it
> cannot find RGB_DB, fixed font, and all kind of other stuff.... :]
> 

installation problems should go to win32-x11 list.

anyway, you should unzip and untar in <drive_leter>:\xwin32
and edit xwin32\bin\startx.bat per your install path.  remove xterma nd xfce
whatever else you
do not have.

The only dialogue box you should see at startup PEX5 font is not installed
which is a warning and you can ignore it bu clicking on OK button.
Anything other errors are due to the factyou insatlled it in some directory
other then \xwin32 and rgb etc files cannot be located 

Suhaib



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