Paul Mallas wrote: > A recent upgrade seems have broken xemacs on my Cygwin system. > > I was running xemacs version 21.4.19-1 with no problem. Every version > since that release (21.4.19-2, 21.4.19-3, and 21.4.20-2) tells me "X > server not responding" when I try to start xemacs. I usually just > reinstall 21.4.19-1 and things work fine again. However, now I cannot > go back to 21.4.19-1, at least not through the standard setup.exe since > I can't reinstall a version several releases ago. > > So, I have decided to face the "X server not responding" error and I > have come up empty handed thus far. Any ideas?
The problem is that you have the variable DISPLAY set, so Xemacs assumes X is running. There are 2 solutions: 1) If you start Xemacs from a terminal, the just run `unset DISPLAY` before starting xemacs, or find where the variable is set and avoid that. 2) Start Xemacs from a shortcut. In the shortcut's properties use "C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe xemacs" (adjust the path if necessary), you can also change the icon with the one inside the xemacs executable (the one with the version in the name). -- René Berber -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
