Joe Buehler wrote: > David Masterson wrote: > >> What versions of Emacs, XWin, and Cygwin are you talking about? >> When I install all of Cygwin 1.5.18 (including the X stuff), Emacs >> (under X) crashes on startup (a window comes up and then crashes >> when I wiggle the mouse) and XEmacs (under X) crashes on exit. >> This is on MS-Windows XP (SP2). > > The GNU emacs binary uses a number of dll's. Do you have any way > to try earlier versions of the dll's? One of them will be the cygwin > dll. There will also be some X11 dll's and some misc dll's that > handle jpeg images etc. I can try the Cygwin time machine if you can suggest a version to try. Are you saying, though, that the version of (X)Emacs that Cygwin installs is incompatible with the version of X that is installed? ---- David Masterson VMware, Inc. Palo Alto, CA