From: Jason A. P. <pat...@pc...> - 2004-02-16 22:02:40
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It seems that no matter what I do, I can't get "heavy" apps to work properly. I've tried under both Cygwin's X server running in -multiwindow and not, along with vncserver with the TightVNC viewer on Win2K to view the desktop. Examples of "heavy" apps are kmail (running the Kroupware extensions) and xchat. These are the only two I've tested so far that I really need working. When connecting to cygwin X, the apps end up just crashing the X server and XWin.exe dumps core and reports an Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION error message. I did some Google'ing but didn't find a solution. I was pointed to running the startxwin.bat script instead of just launching XWin.exe, but that didn't work either. When using the VNC server/client to access the apps, I couldn't get a full instance of KDE desktop up and running in order to launch kmail. It would stop at different times, but usually leaving the splash screen up and not getting to the full desktop (although it made it there once, but then kandalf's tips were hung on the screen and I couldn't close the app). I switched to using icewm, and that came up completely and was going to let me launch apps. So, I attempted to start konsole, which got all the way to bringing up the window and the menus but not a prompt. The block cursor just stayed in the top left of the window, but no prompt showed up. I couldn't even close the window or interact with it after that. Even killing it from the console didn't remove it from the screen. The disconcerting thing, though, is that the VNC viewer will just lock up and stop responding. I click the 'X' to close it and a dialog pops up from Windows telling me that this program is not responding, do you want to end it now. I've noticed some of these kinds of issues before with exporting X apps from other Linux servers on the network to cygwin's X server under Windows. However, the cygwin compiled versions of KDE apps/desktop seem to work fine (albeit, very slowly). Don't know where to go from here. My goal was to get the Kolab groupware server installed and running (which I was successful at doing and that seems to be working) and also the KDE PIM apps that have the modifications to work with the Kolab server. It seems the KDE PIM apps may have problems interfacing with X/VNC or something. But then, why would xchat crash cygwin X, too? Thanks for any help (and for the previous help; I was able to get back into the filesystem after the updates that fixed the bootparams bug). -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. |