various X-based apps (konsole, mplayer, mencoder) fail to start

[John J. McDonough, WB8RCR]

Do ANY X applications work?  Have you ever seen a GUI screen on your XP 
laptop?

Bringing up a Cygwin terminal window is NOT the same as starting an Xterm. 
Do you have the Cygwin X displayed in the tray?

--McD

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marco Schuster" <marco@harddisk.is-a-geek.org>
To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 5:51 PM
Subject: various X-based apps (konsole, mplayer, mencoder) fail to start


> hello all,
>
> hopefully one of you can help me:
> i have a win xp home sp2 laptop here; i have cygwin up and running
> (mirrors are sunsite.dk and xmission.com). the only thing that does not
> work are any of the kde apps (e.g. konsole) or mplayer/mencoder, which
> are AFAIR compiled with X support (at least mplayer must be). even if
> ran in a (working!) xterm, they simply exit without displaying an error
> or other info or displaying some GUI.
> this also prevents the kde desktop from being started, as kstartupconfig
> suffers from the same problem.
>
> any idea what might go wrong here?
>
> thanks,
> the|m.
>
>
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