From: csoelle@sghms.ac.uk (Christian Soeller) Subject: Re: Pre-compiled X11R6.3 libraries available 21 Apr 1997 08:02:28 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <50n2qstze8.fsf.cygnus.gnu-win32@mbcsg1.sghms.ac.uk> References: <199704152150.RAA05160@woodmore.gsfc.nasa.gov> Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-CC: Arlindo da Silva In-Reply-To: Arlindo da Silva's message of Tue, 15 Apr 1997 17:50:05 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.10/Emacs 19.30 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Arlindo da Silva writes: > > > Finally, will X11 work on a laptop without a network connection ? Is the > > speed reasonable ? > > Yep, this is precisely what I do. Performance is quite good, even for > animation (of geophysical flows, that is). The only glitch I know of is > the occasional delayed handling of X events. > I tried the combination of X11R6.3 + MI Xserver under cygwin32 and it works nicely. However, trying it on my win95 laptop which doesn't have a network interface nor *any* network protocols support installed I always get 'can't open display' with all DISPLAY settings I have tried so far (localhost:0.0 , DEFAULT:0.0, 0.0, etc). I presume you need at least TCP/IP support even if you don't have an interface since the open display command probably internally tries to get a socket which will always fail when *no* network protocols are installed ? I'd appreciate if any body could confirm this diagnose or point out alternative reasons why the open display fails. Best regards, Christian - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".