Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 19:42:47 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin-xfree AT cygwin DOT com To: john_staroba AT agilent DOT com cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, Subject: Re: Environment windows not opening In-Reply-To: <08E9E30FCA2CD5119BEA0090274066DF046E4773@axcs16.cos.agilent.com> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-ID: On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 john_staroba AT agilent DOT com wrote: > I just installed cygwin without any trouble. The command prompt window > appears to be working fine, as does the vi editor. When attempting to > launch an xwindow, only the main window will open and the system > apparently hangs. Prompt window displays > .. > .. > .. > .. > until you close the main xwindow, and then displays: > > giving up. > xinit: No such file or directory : unable to connect to X server > xinit: No such process : Server error. > > I'm running win NT. Any ideas on what to do? Yes. Run an X server. For details, see http://xfree86.cygwin.com/ If you have problems, please direct any queries to the cygwin-xfree list (I set the Reply-To: field to it, and also Cc'd this message there). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Water molecules expand as they grow warmer" (C) Popular Science, Oct'02, p.51 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/