> From: Alexander Gottwald > To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com > Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:49:28 +0100 (MET) > Subject: Re: startx: Malformed file inquiry > Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Shing-Fat Fred Ma wrote: > > > > + xinit /home/Name/.xinitrc -- > > > > > > if: Malformed file inquiry. > > /home/Name/.xinitrc seems to be the problem. > > bye > ago >
I first thought so too. But I get the exact same diagnostic text even if I run startx from /usr/X11R6/bin, upto and including > > + xinit /home/Name/.xinitrc -- So ~/.xinitrc is being sourced in both cases. And .xinitrc was just a copy of /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc. I added a line at the beginning to echo the path, but the never gets executed. So I don't think the error is caused by a problem with ~/.xinitrc (aside from the fact that the same the safe file gets sourced when I successfully run startx from /usr/X11R6/bin). I think it might be the xinit executable itself, since that's the only code that runs before .xinitrc. I presume that people have tried startx from their home directory and got it working? Just looking for a few responses as a sanity check. Thanks. Fred -- Fred Ma, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Carleton University, Dept. of Electronics 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario Canada, K1S 5B6
