X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Michael Kairys" Subject: Re: Wish Setup would accept my Perl Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 08:33:54 -0500 Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <183c528b0711060821u278c0775of56ba7e004aaf180@mail.gmail.com> <001501c82094$434e4230$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <31b7d2790711060907rf21e581j742ff91897a65cc2@mail.gmail.com> <183c528b0711070758n766febe4g7c6efe735501da8e@mail.gmail.com> <6910a60712111544s13e738e7tf85fc07bb69da0c6@mail.gmail.com> <475F638D.8070204@computer.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <475F638D.8070204@computer.org> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com "Tim Prince" wrote in message news:475F638D.8070204@computer.org... > >> Is it correct that Cygwin Perl/Tk requires a running X server? > > That is one of the stranger assertions to pass by here in a while. More > so than the (OT, as there is that other list) complaint that installing > X from cygwin setup is a pain. Are you saying that the following is not correct: "Andrew DeFaria" wrote in message news:fjd50u$sud$1@ger.gmane.org... > > Not sure about that but you do realize that Perl::Tk will only run with > a running X server... > . . . > As I said I don't know exactly why your Tk isn't working. I do know that > Tk under Cygwin assumes a running X server. I rarely run an X server - I > simply use rxvt instead - so I don't like that requirement. I also work > with IBM/Rational products and often need to run ccperl or cqperl - both > of which are AS based. And they have Tk in there that works straight on > Windows (like rxvt does if it senses there is no X server running - I > wish Cygwin's Perl::Tk would do that!). -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/