Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/11/27/13:25:01
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moka AT hol DOT gr wrote:
> Looks like initially a path problem, plus an X-problem
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> I found out that at least one of the reasons grace and gracebat would not=
run
> from the DOS command line
Oh! You never said anything about cmd.exe. Naturally cygwin links only
work in a cygwin shell. bash, ash, zsh, tcsh, ... pick your poison.
> was that the directory for cygX11R6.dll was not in the path. I fixed tha=
t and
> also put the actual path for gracebat
Well, using cygwin.bat would have solved that for you too. (And would
have given you a nice bash prompt.)
> . c:cygwinusrsharegracebin before c:cygwinbin, so a command would look
Looks really funny, you lost your backslashes in the mail ;)
> for the actual executables
> before the symlinks.=20
> So I run
> c:mydir> c:cygwinusrsharegracebingracebat test.dat -hdevice JPEG
> -printfile gtest.jpg
> or
> c:mydir> gracebat test.dat -hdevice JPEG -printfile gtest.jpg
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> It runs instantly, but produced NO file gtest.jpg
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> (Before adding the actual executable directory to the path before the bin=
, it
> just hung there)
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>=20
> Also, if I try to run grace by clicking on its icon(not the symlink), it =
does
> nothing
> If I run
> c:mydir> grace
> it does nothing
No wonder, half of it's paths are missing. Start it from a shell ...
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> but if I do
> c:mydir> ash
>=20
> $grace
> I get back=20
> grace>1
like you did here.
> If I do=20
> c:mydir> xmgrace
> I get Can't open display
> Failed initializing GUI, exiting
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> So, it looks like an X-problem. How do I go about solving it?=C1=F1=F7=
=E9=EA=FC =EC=DE=ED=F5=EC=E1 =E1=F0=FC
The X-problem seems to be that the X-server is not running. Try using
startxwin.bat. (This one actually works if you "click" on it.) *shudder*
Volker
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