Cygwin/X does not seem to work on Windows 10

Cygwin/X does not seem to work on Windows 10

[Ronald Fischer]

What I did:

- 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
- Clicked on "Fertig stellen" (= finish).
- Using mintty, I started a cygwin shell (zsh).
- Inside this shell, I tried a 

    xterm &

which, not surprisingly, resulted into:

   xterm: Xt error: Can't open display:
   xterm: DISPLAY is not set

and then a 

    DISPLAY=:0.0 xterm &

which also produced an error message:

   xterm: Xt error: Can't open display: :0.0

Interestingly, there is an X-Icon in the notification area, and when I hover over it, the tooltip says "Cygwin/X Servre: 0.0", but when I right-click on this icon, no context menu appears.

When I do a double-LEFT-click on this icon, the icon disappears completely.

I then opened the Task Manager, but could not find any process where the name hinted that an X server would be running.


Ronald

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Re: Cygwin/X does not seem to work on Windows 10

[Massimo Balestra]

> - 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

I need the -listen tcp because I use XWin mainly through a tunnel ssh

And it works perfectly in windows 10 (1809)

Have fun

Massimo



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Re: Cygwin/X does not seem to work on Windows 10

[Ronald Fischer]

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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Re: Cygwin/X does not seem to work on Windows 10

[Brian Inglis]

On 2019-06-04 05:52, Ronald Fischer wrote:
> What I did:
> - 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
> - Clicked on "Fertig stellen" (= finish).
> - Using mintty, I started a cygwin shell (zsh).
> - Inside this shell, I tried a 
>     xterm &
> which, not surprisingly, resulted into:
>    xterm: Xt error: Can't open display:
>    xterm: DISPLAY is not set
> and then a 
>     DISPLAY=:0.0 xterm &
> which also produced an error message:
>    xterm: Xt error: Can't open display: :0.0
> Interestingly, there is an X-Icon in the notification area, and when I hover
> over it, the tooltip says "Cygwin/X Servre: 0.0", but when I right-click on this
> icon, no context menu appears.
> When I do a double-LEFT-click on this icon, the icon disappears completely.
> I then opened the Task Manager, but could not find any process where the
> name hinted that an X server would be running.

I pinned the Cygwin/X "XWin Server" Start Menu item to the taskbar.
When I click that, I get "Cygwin/X Server 0:0" and "X applications menu on :0"
icons in the systray.
I set up to have a mintty window launched, near the end of ~/.startxwinrc,
copied from /etc/X11/xinit/startxwinrc, which now ends:

    if [ -x /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator ] ; then
        /usr/bin/mintty - &
    fi

    exec /usr/bin/xwin-xdg-menu
fi

So that control still ends up in the XDG menu.
As mintty does not take normal XTerm options, it is run explicitly.

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Re: Cygwin/X does not seem to work on Windows 10

[Ronald Fischer]

> I pinned the Cygwin/X "XWin Server" Start Menu item to the taskbar.
> When I click that, I get "Cygwin/X Server 0:0" and "X applications menu on :0"
> icons in the systray.

When I start it via the "XWin Server" entry in the Start Menu - which I have discovered just now, since you mentioned it, I do not get anything in the systray.

However, when I use the FVWM entry in the Start Menu, I get a maximized window inside which fvwm is running, and inside this, I can - from the context menu - start among others xterm etc. 

Ronald

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