beinnner frustration ...

[Harold L Hunt II]

Kenn,

You have not installed Cygwin/XFree86.  You need to run Cygwin's 
setup.exe again (you do not need to uninstall Cygwin, setup is smart 
enough to download only the new packages), and you need to be sure to 
expand the XFree86 category and select the XFree86-base package.  You 
can then start Cygwin/XFree86 by double-clicking the startxwin.bat file 
that should reside in c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\startxwin.bat.  

After you have that working, you can make a copy of startxwin.bat, being 
sure to leave it in c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin, REM out the lines that 
start xterm, twm, and xsetroot, then change add the -query parameter to 
the line that starts XWin.exe, as described in the user's guide.

Harold


Kenn Murrah wrote:

>no, i found that section, but was confused by it (sorry!) ...
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>it looked like a linux-style syntax, so i tried entering it at the $ prompt
>in cygwin ... but it could not find the program ...
>
>so i tried to find that program as a windows command (such as the .exe
>extension would indicate) and i couldn't find that, either ...
>
>a search of the windows box turned up no programs named xwin.exe ... so
>there's no telling what i've done (or failed to do) ....
>
>any ideas?
>
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Harold L Hunt II" <huntharo@msu.edu>
>To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
>Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 3:26 PM
>Subject: Re: beinnner frustration ...
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>>Kenn,
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>>You must have missed the most relevant section of the Cygwin/XFree86
>>User's Guide:
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>>http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-remote-session.html
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>>Harold
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>>Kenn Murrah wrote:
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>>>okay, i've read the user manual and the FAQ and still can't figure out
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>how
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>>>to get started ... please feel free to tell me to RTFM, but please oh
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>please
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>>>help me figure out WHAT and WHERE to read :-)
>>>
>>>anyway, i installed xfree86/cygwin and i have an icon on my windows
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>desktop
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>>>to prove it ... how the heck do i connect to the linux box on my network,
>>>and login with one of my linux usernames, and run X on my windows box?
>>>
>>>i hate to feel stupid ... someone PLEASE point me in the direction of a
>>>document i can understand.
>>>
>>>thanks,
>>>
>>>kenn
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