XWin
Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
reply-to-list-only-lh-x@cygwin.com
Thu Sep 28 16:07:00 GMT 2006
Alan James Caruana wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have thoroughly searched through the FAQ and could not find any
> solution to my problem. First, can XWin run directly in Windows (not
> through Cygxwin) ? If it can, obviously it would have to be compiled
> again.
That's Xming. Different project. See <http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Xming>
> Secondly, my main problem is that I have compiled XWin under Windows.
> but it is not starting due to a fonts problem. It is giving the
> problem I saw in many posts of this list i.e.
>
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
>
> Although I saw this error in many posts, none of the posts I saw said
> that someone was trying to compile it and/or run it directly from
> windows.
You mean you're not using Cygwin? If that's the case, you're off-topic
for this list. Try Xming.
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