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Re: KDE Init X client not Communicating with Cygwin X server
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:25:57 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: KDE Init X client not Communicating with Cygwin X server
- References: <loom.20050714T193221-537@post.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Ross MacGillivray wrote:
> As can be seen in the listing above the Cygwin Xserver is opening
> correctly. The Xserver is visable in the windows XP system tray, but
> there are no KDE windows visable in the Xserver only the grey root
> display.
kde usually starts with startkde. But I don't know how kde works on
cygwin.
> How do I configure my choice of window manager with KDE on Cygwin
> and could that be the problem here?
First you have to start Cygwin/X in windowed mode (remove -multiwindow
from the XWin commandline). Then use the method kde provides.
> Is there a method to get more detailed diagnosic messages from
> the Cygwin Xserver?
Compile it with enabled debug messages.
bye
ago
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