default X wm + .LIBX11.DLL missing

[David Selby]

Many thanks

I will give it a go ...

Dave


Harold L Hunt II wrote:

> David,
>
> You need to run Cygiwn's setup again and select the XFree86-lib-compat 
> package.
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> Harold
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> Larry Hall wrote:
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>> David Selby wrote:
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>>> Hello
>>>
>>> Last query for a while, don't want to wear you guys out ... 
>>> Everything is OK, got bash, vim, rxvt working as I want them but I 
>>> have one last problem ...
>>>
>>> I have installed X.
>>>
>>> When I executed "startx" It paused, then booted X, and booted into a 
>>> window manager. All OK
>>>
>>> Problem 1... I decided to change the window manager to openbox 
>>> (apparently related to blackbox?) so I found
>>> /etc/x11/xinit/xinitrc, deleted the window manager & typed in 
>>> openbox. Stupid in the extreme, I should have #d it out.... what is 
>>> the default window manager for startx ?
>>>
>>> Problem 2... openbox does not want to work. X starts & I get a popup 
>>> "A required .DLL file LIBX11.DLL was not found" ... mmm .... I went 
>>> to windows update, updated my adged 98SE & tried again. Same 
>>> message. I tried starting openbox without startx, assumed it would 
>>> call startx & maybe be happier, zip, just same message again.
>>>
>>> At a guess cygwin is fine, and 98SE is lacking a "DLL?" If this is 
>>> the case Its a windows problem and OT. I will go contact some 
>>> windows gurus ! Before I do that can anyone confirm this is a 
>>> windows problem ?
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>>
>> No libX11 is an X DLL so that would be Cygwin. See
>> <http://cygwin.com/packages/> to find which package this is in and
>> install it.
>>
>> BTW, this is really a question about X on Cygwin so it should go to
>> cygwin-xfree. I've redirected the conversation there and reset the
>> reply-to appropriately. Please use that list to follow-up if necessary.
>>
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