From: Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg>
To: John Emmas <johne53@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Run a Cygwin (X) app from a DOS command line
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:08:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1231214221.1753.4.camel@P2120.somewherefaraway.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002601c96b6f$04256030$4001a8c0@mycomputer>
Hi,
it seems to me that the application misses a running X server.
It is the same under Unix if you start an X application directly on a
console without having X running.
Erich
On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 17:41 +0000, John Emmas wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)"
> Subject: Re: Run a Cygwin (X) app from a DOS command line
> >
> > You also need Cygwin's installation path in your Windows PATH variable.
> >
> Thanks Larry. I already had that set up (C:\cygwin\bin) as well as
> C:\cygwin\lib but I can still only launch console apps. When this happened
> for the very first time I seem to remember that "rebaseall" sorted it out.
> Unfortunately, but that doesn't seem to fix the problem any more.
>
> The required program is clearly getting launched because I can see it in
> Task Manager - but it doesn't seem to get as far as putting anything on the
> screen.
>
> cygcheck -c reports a few packages as being incomplete (including libX11
> and xorg-X11-bin). I might try reinstalling them and see if that improves
> things.
>
> John
>
>
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-31 12:14 John Emmas
2008-12-31 14:13 ` Thorsten Kampe
2008-12-31 15:40 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2008-12-31 17:42 ` John Emmas
2009-01-06 4:08 ` Erich Dollansky [this message]
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