Re: 64-bit xfree86 failing?

2015-02-02 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 04/12/2014 02:53, l.w...@surrey.ac.uk wrote: working again. my mistake was in years of using startx -- -multiwindow -clipboard because /usr/bin/startx no longer starts x I'm kind of surprised this used to work at all, since this is requesting both the internal multiwindow mode window

Re: 64-bit xfree86 failing?

2014-12-03 Thread l.wood
cygwin installations, would be my advice. Lloyd Wood http://about.me/lloydwood From: Tim Kingman tim.king...@gmail.com Sent: Tuesday, 2 December 2014 3:22 AM To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; Wood L Dr (Electronic Eng) Subject: Re: 64-bit xfree86 failing? I

64-bit xfree86 failing?

2014-12-01 Thread l.wood
Just updated a fairly recent was-working two-months-old 64-bit cygwin install. (Asus X102BA, Win 8.1 - just a little AMD netbook.) XFree86 now failing with the below. Ideas? thanks. (--) Windows reports only 2 mouse buttons, defaulting to -emulate3buttons (II) xorg.conf is not supported (II)

Re: 64-bit xfree86 failing

2014-12-01 Thread Tim Kingman
I see the same issue, and it looks like this is because I have an empty (commented-out) ~/.startxwinrc Removing this file causes X to open and start an xterm, probably because it broke several of the new rules in https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2014-11/msg00029.html : * User-defined

Re: 64-bit xfree86 failing

2014-12-01 Thread Mark Hansen
On 12/1/2014 8:35 AM, Tim Kingman wrote: I see the same issue, and it looks like this is because I have an empty (commented-out) ~/.startxwinrc Removing this file causes X to open and start an xterm, probably because it broke several of the new rules in

Re: 64-bit xfree86 failing

2014-12-01 Thread Tim Kingman
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Mark Hansen m...@winfirst.com wrote: On 12/1/2014 8:35 AM, Tim Kingman wrote: *snip* my .bashrc calls startxwin to make sure I always have an X server running ( per http://stackoverflow.com/a/9301966 ) *snip* I'll keep playing with this to see if I can come

Re: 64-bit xfree86 failing?

2014-12-01 Thread l.wood
down. Do not update your cygwin installations, would be my advice. Lloyd Wood http://about.me/lloydwood From: Tim Kingman tim.king...@gmail.com Sent: Tuesday, 2 December 2014 3:22 AM To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; Wood L Dr (Electronic Eng) Subject: Re: 64-bit