On Sat, 2011-09-10 at 00:34 -0400, nyc4bos wrote:
> I reinstalled xinit and xorg-server because it wont start.
> 
> The window comes up blank and then closed (exits).
> 
> How does one debug this?

It looks like you're running startx with an empty or improperly
formatted ~/.xinitrc.  Run "man startx" for details.

I mention the following points only for your information, they are not
the cause of your issue:

> XWin was started with the following command line:
> 
> /usr/bin/X :0 -clipboard -nolock -auth 
>  /home/Owner/.serverauth.500 

The -clipboard argument is on by default for some time now.

> [ 33155.531] MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support
> [ 33155.546] XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due 
> to lack of shared memory support in the kernel

You'll want to install the cygserver service to get these extensions.

> [ 33155.968] [dix] Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/TTF/, 
> removing from list!

You'll probably want some TTF fonts as well (packaged as font-*-ttf).


Yaakov
Cygwin Ports



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