Re: Help, I can't get X started!

["Archai Valkryn" <avalkryn at hotmail dot com>]

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From: Andrew Markebo <flognat@flognat.myip.org>
To: "Archai Valkryn" <avalkryn@hotmail.com>
CC: cygwin-xfree@xfree86.cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Help, I can't get X started!
| The first problem I ran into was a username with a space in it.  This
| is a single user machine, and logs me on as Archai Valkryn.  That
| space wreaked havoc with pathnames.  Eventually, I got it sorted out.

Who was wreaked havoc? bash? Cygwin? cygwin x? /etc/passwd?

/try getting *nix to recognize /home/Archai Valkryn as one path.  Several 
commands had trouble with it, among them ls, cd, and anything that tried to 
use the $PATH variable.  I changed my entries in /etc/passwd and renamed my 
home dir with windows explorer.

| ...and turned to trying to get an X session up.  It won't go.  If I
| just try to run xwin.exe directly, it gives an error about not being
| able to find cygwinx.dll.  I assume that's a bad thing.

cygwinx.dll?? Thats new, haven't seen it before.. I think?

| The install also didn't give me a startxwin.bat file--anywhere.  What 
next?

How did you install, which files did you grabb from where?

/I used the automated installer from Cygwin and installed from the internet. 
  Then I got the X files from one of the mirror sites (nas.nasa.gov, or 
something very close to that) as per the Cyg/X user's guide.  I have all of 
those files, and I have only those files.  Then I followed the directions in 
the UG for the X install.  And there is no startxwin.bat.

/There were a couple of things that made me wonder if the user's guide was 
up to date, at least for the X install.  Some things in the install script 
were automated which, according to the User's Guide, should not have been.  
Anyway.

         /Andy

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  The eye of the beholder rests on the beauty!


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