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From: Brian Ford <ford@vss.fsi.com>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin Openbox queries
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 18:44:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0403021241020.19531@thing1-200> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040302004922.70722.qmail@web13701.mail.yahoo.com>
On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Jophrey Lim wrote:
> I am trying to start the X server with Cygwin/X running in Rootless mode
> with the /openbox/ window manager running locally (one of the screenshots).
>
Please show us the exact command you used to do this.
> However, I have no idea on how to do it. I tried running "openbox" but I
> got this error saying Connection to X server failed. I had checked the
> online user guide and searched the internet for any guide but failed.
>
What does echo $DISPLAY say?
> Do you have any script on how to start the X server with openbox window
> manager? Any website that I can refer to?
>
/usr/X11R6/bin/Xwin.exe :0 -rootless&
/usr/X11R6/bin/openbox -display :0
WFM.
--
Brian Ford
Senior Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-02 18:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-02 0:49 Jophrey Lim
2004-03-02 4:47 ` Cygwin/xFree from 2 users Jim Scheef
2004-03-02 8:17 ` Alexander Gottwald
2004-03-04 23:28 ` Jim Scheef
2004-03-04 23:36 ` Harold L Hunt II
2004-03-05 22:52 ` Alexander Gottwald
2004-03-02 18:44 ` Brian Ford [this message]
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