question on running kde under cygwin/xfree86

[Chris Plonski]

> I tried getting the kde binaries to run under cygwin/xfree86 and I had limited success on my home pc (works, but with several errors), and no success on my work pc.  At work, I get the following after issuing a startx & at the cygwin prompt:
> 
> The X server fires up, but KDE never initializes.  back at the cygwin prompt I get this:
> 
> waiting for X server to begin accepting connections .
> ..
> ..
> ..
> 
> after I manually close the X server I see:
> 
> giving up.
> xinit:  Permission denied (errno 13):  unable to connect to X server
> xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  unexpected signal 2.
> 
> Ideas anyone?