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From: "Ronald Fischer" <ynnor@mm.st>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc: massimobalestra@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin/X does not seem to work on Windows 10
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2019 13:28:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ba184cf6-7373-46f0-8459-bfc74884b880@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DM6PR11MB37867DBD2A9F7B8B715EB8C3B6150@DM6PR11MB3786.namprd11.prod.outlook.com>

On Tue, Jun 4, 2019, at 15:18, Massimo Balestra wrote:
> 
> > - Installed all the packages, as described in https://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/setup.html
> > - Started XLaunch
> > - Selected "Multiple Window" and "Start no client", to start the X Server
> 
> I don't know XLaunch but for the Xwindows I prepared a shorcut that run:
> 
> D:\cygwin64\bin\XWin.exe -multiwindow -listen tcp

This is interesting, because the way to use XLaunch is the one which is described on the Cygwin/X website.

Anyway, I did I started it from the Windows command prompt, as you suggested (without the -listen option because I don't plan to use ssh), and when I then start my 

    DISPLAY=:0.0 xterm &

I get the error message 

    xterm: cannot load font "-Misc-Fixed-bold-R-*-*-13-120-75-75-C-120-ISO10646-1"

which means that at least the DISPLAY is not a problem anymore. Don't know why it can't find a suitable font, since I have installed plenty of fonts from the Cygwin X11 category. What still does not work is the "X-icon" in the notification area.

As a further test, I started

      DISPLAY=:0.0 xeyes &

because this for sure doesn't need any font. This worked too.

Ronald

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-04 13:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-04 11:52 Ronald Fischer
2019-06-04 13:18 ` Massimo Balestra
2019-06-04 13:28   ` Ronald Fischer [this message]
2019-06-04 13:26 ` Brian Inglis
2019-06-04 13:34   ` Ronald Fischer

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