Re: X windows problems

2012-12-21 Thread George Barrick
Re: X windows problems 2012.12.21.17:22:36 UT Hi Ryan, The UAC basically just irritates the snot out of me. When I run a cmd-line line program, I just hate having to go through a three-click process to confirm that I _am_ the authorized user of the computer. I

Re: X windows problems

2012-12-20 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 20/12/2012 10:46 AM, George Barrick wrote: Re: X windows problems 2012.12.20.17:45:35 UT Hi Art, I installed Cygwin earlier this year on the laptop computer of one of my students. I typically use a rather barebones configuration where I have XWin running in

Re: X windows problems

2012-12-20 Thread George Barrick
Re: X windows problems 2012.12.20.17:45:35 UT Hi Art, I installed Cygwin earlier this year on the laptop computer of one of my students. I typically use a rather barebones configuration where I have XWin running in the multiwindow mode. I use Cygwin in order to get

Re: X windows problems

2012-12-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 03:17:09PM -0600, Art Vandelay wrote: >Well, I tried just downloading the X11 package, from 4 different >mirrors. The first 3 gave me the "download incomplete" but the 4th >did not. It only gave me the following: >Package: Unknown package > rxvt.sh exit code 3 >

Re: X windows problems

2012-12-19 Thread Art Vandelay
Well, I tried just downloading the X11 package, from 4 different mirrors. The first 3 gave me the "download incomplete" but the 4th did not. It only gave me the following: Package: Unknown package rxvt.sh exit code 3 xinit.sh exit code 3 The good news is I was able to fire up st

X windows problems

2012-12-19 Thread Art Vandelay
Hi, I have happily used Cygwin on my laptops for years (Windows XP). This past week I upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7 (64 bit). I have made perhaps 10 different attempts at installing Cygwin and it seems each time I get different errors. Some of the mirror sites are terribly slow, so after