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Simple issues with X and Emacs/XEmacs
- From: "David Karr" <dkarr at real dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 11:32:02 -0700
- Subject: Simple issues with X and Emacs/XEmacs
It's been a few years since I've installed a new Cygwin installation. I
used to use XEmacs in Cygwin, and it worked reasonably well. I could get it
to start up in a regular MS Windows window, I believe without having to use
an X server.
I just installed Cygwin again on a new box, and I'm having trouble getting
either Emacs or XEmacs to do anything useful. Both Emacs and XEmacs
complain that they can't connect to the X server, although I can get rxvt to
work.
When I run "startx", it gives me a dumb window manager (no decorations). I
can at least start Emacs and XEmacs now, but the Emacs font is unusable
(just open boxes). XEmacs appears to be basically working.
I ran through the Cygwin user guide already, but these kinds problems aren't
addressed there (as far as I can tell).
I could use some help with this.
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