Well, that didn't fix it. But you gave me somewhere to look. I might try the old dos way of naming directories, i.e. with the ~. I'll let ya know.
Regards, Brian -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 4:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Startx on WinXP On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Brian L. Walter wrote: > Greetings, > > I've recently installd cygwin on both a win98 machine and a winxp > machine. The win98 installs works great (except for being really slow, > but that's a hardware issue.) On the XP side, I've installed it, but > getting some strange behavior. If I do a 'startx', I get the > following: > > [: and: unknown operand > [: and: unknown operand > > After doing some playing around with the startx script, I've come to > realize it's complaining about the bash conditional statements. As > though I'm not running under bash.... > > And as far as I can see, I am. The fall out of this behavior is the > inability to control which window manager gets started. I can get > around that by commenting out all of the conditionals in startx, but, > this seems at best a temporary work around. > > Am I missing something in setting up/configuring cygwin to run under > XP, something that is different than win98? > > TIA > Brian L. Walter Brian, You didn't do anything wrong. This problem is most likely due to you having either HOME or TMP set to "C:\Documents and Settings\...". The "and" in "Documents and settings" is what startx complains about (since it doesn't quote paths properly). I've posted a patch to startx a while ago that fixed this, but it looks like it hasn't been incorporated in the latest release. Since startx is just a text file, you can simply apply the patch yourself from <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-11/msg00314.html> (use "patch -p0 < startx.patch" in /usr/X11R6/bin). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.564 / Virus Database: 356 - Release Date: 1/19/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.564 / Virus Database: 356 - Release Date: 1/19/2004
