re cygwin/X for connecting to X sessions of Redhat 8

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Raman wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I recently downloaded and installed cygwin/X Setup.exe - X11 related 
> files. When i run cygwin.bat i get a bash shell prompt. I followed the 
> instructions given in the manual to run X. My installation doesnot 
> contain a XWin.exe file, but I do have a Xwinwm.exe in the bin folder. 
> When i run this file on my XP desktop, I get the following error message 
> "This application has failed to start because cygX11-6.dll was not 
> found. Re-installing the application....". In fact I reinstalled it 
> again but the error still appears. This file is not in the Cygwin directory.

make sure you have installed the xorg-x11-base and X-startup-files packages.
All other required packages will be installed too with the dependency system

bye
	ago
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