problem in X

[Larry Hall (Cygwin X)]

fermin selvin wrote:
> Dear Sir/Madam,
>    I have installed cygwin in my IBM intellistation with windows xp
> professional Operating system (64 bit edition). I am experiencing some
> difficulties in using the graphical windows which can be invoked
> through cygwin terminal. Could you please clarify since i am new to
> linux environment?
>    when i typed emacs in the terminal, i got the emacs window, but
> none of the menu options worked. i was not able to close it even with
> C-x C-c. I closed the cygwin terminal instead of getting out of emacs.
>     when I type 'edit' in bash or csh, it shows 'command not found'.
>     I had given the command 'init 0' in the terminal and got the
> following message from the syatem:
>                   A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit.
>                         Please open /tmp/XWin.log for more information.
>                                 vendor: the cygwin/X project
>                                 release 6.8.99.901-4
>                   contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>       XWin was started with the following command line:
> /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent -dup -error
> 
> 
>  Kindly suggest me what to do to make my cygwin work well with emacs
> and X window.


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Other questions:

   o What is the "cygwin terminal" you're using?
   o Does your CYGWIN environment variable contain 'tty'?

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