Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 22:17:49 -0500 To: Matthew Persico Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Getting X11 to run Message-ID: <20000209221749.A6625@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com References: <38A22D38.5990C30E@netzero.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.3i In-Reply-To: <38A22D38.5990C30E@netzero.net>; from MatthewPersico@netzero.net on Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 10:15:04PM -0500 There is a mailing list devoted to discussing the cygwin-xfree project. Check out the project web page at: http;//sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/xfree/ This is off-topic for this mailing list. cgf On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 10:15:04PM -0500, Matthew Persico wrote: >I downloaded > >cygwin-xfree-4.0-cygwin-v-1.tar.bz2 >cygwin-xfree-x11r6.4-cygwin-B20.1.tar.bz2 >extra-cygwin-xfree.tar.bz2 > >I expanded them all and was left with directories: >X11R6 >X11R6.4 >extra > >Since X11R6 came from the v-1 archive and I am running the CD (1.0) >version of Cygwin, I moved X11r6 to under contrib. I also moved the >contents of extra/etc to /etc (but no the passwd and termcap files, I >already had those) >I then went to the bin of the X11R6 directory and tried startx with >these results: > >xinit not found > >xinit lives in /contrib/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit > >Now, I'm very rust on X11 setup - the last time I ever did it was under >Linux a year ago. What else do I have to do to get X11 fired up under >Cygwin? Do I need LessTiff? What obvious piece am I missing? -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com