Adding C:/cygtexmacs/bin; to the Start->Control Panel->System->Advanced->Environmental Variables user path allows the  C:/cygtexmacs/cygwin dos batch job to start now. In the time it is starting I get this little pop-up which says:

 

 A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit. Please open /tmp/XWin.log for more information. Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project, Release:6.8.99.901-4, Contact: address@hidden, Xwin was started with the following command-line: /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error".

 

The log files says:

_XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running

 

Fatal server error:
Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already running

After a rather long time the texmacs application does open.

 

So, I am looking at it now. Right away I notice the pop-up menus tend to open and float freely on top of every other window. So, for instance if I am trying to read about how to use texmacs in a Foxfire window while trying things in texmacs, if the Foxfire window is brought up, it comes up on top of the texmacs window but underneath the open tool menu lists.

----- Original Message -----

From: Robert Lopez

To: address@hidden

Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 2:34 PM

Subject: [TeXmacs] Fw: installation

Hi Robert,

Please resend your message to the mailing list, because it may interest others.
We'll try to reply to it shortly.

Best wishes, Joris

On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 02:22:50PM -0700, Robert Lopez wrote:
> Hello.
>
> First thank you to everyone for giving your time to free software.
>
> My Windows XP system already had cygwin (several years old), xemacs, aspell, maxima, LaTeX et al (from TeX users group CD), and strawberry perl. All the cygwin stuff was rooted at C:\cygwin.
>
> I tried just the texmacs install and I then had problems with two cygwin1.dll files (one in cygwin and one in the new cygtexmacs). I took a deep breath and decided to completely replace the old cygwin. (Replacing older perl with strawberry perl was such a good move I was encouraged to upgrade.) So, I removed it and the new cygtexmacs dir trees. I then downloaded and installed a complete cygwin tree. I was surprised to find it did not have any texmacs editor. Looking around I found a lot of empty dirs in the new tree and a log file which indicated a lot of files were not found (some unidentified place). So I tried to install just the editor package on top of the new cygtexmacs tree created by the install of cygwin.
>
> Now I can not get the cygwin batch job  to work. It flashes open and faster than I can read, it closes. Other things that depended upon the old tree are working (ex Gimp, ghostscript) with the new environmental vars.
>
> It seems from the files I read that the editor should have been a part of the complete cygwin install. I was searching for "cygtexmax" and "texmacs" and could not find it. Now it does fire up (after quite some time) but most of my other stuff is broken. 
>
> While I look for problems, was it a terrible error to dump the editor tree out on top of the cygwin tree?
>
> PS. I tried to subscribe to user mail list, but I have not received any response yet.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Robert Lopez