Building QT3/X11 Free within Cygwin Bash Shell

[Steven Boothe]

Steven Boothe wrote:
> Steven Boothe wrote:
> 
>>
>> However, when attempting to do that following the previous 
>> instructions on the page for QT3/X11 I get the following errors:
>>
>> cboothe at IT-staff ~/src/qt-3
>> $ designer
>> designer: cannot connect to X server 127.0.0.1:0
>>
>> cboothe at IT-staff ~/src/qt-3
>> $
> 
> 
> Hello! I found a nice answer to this question in the FAQ for starting 
> KDE apps in stand-alone mode:
> 
> ipc-daemon2 &
> Xwin -multiwindow &
> kdeeinit --no-kded --nofork &

Wow this is very nice! However one correction to my last message: You 
don't have to run that last line to initialize KDE for running the QT 
apps! So all you need is:

 > ipc-daemon2 &
 > Xwin -multiwindow &

and then you can run designer just like this:

$ designer

Wow the apps start fast too!