On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 11:32:02AM -0700, David Karr wrote: >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).
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