Hi, I installed both Cygwin and Cygwin/X for the first time last week and also updated with the new setup version 2.427 yesterday. I have Cygwin/X release 6.7.0.0-4 and my operating system is Windows XP pro. When I start Cygwin I get a Cygwin bash shell (with the C~ in the upper left corner) and everything seems to work correctly. My problem is that I cannot open Cygwin/X in the default environment where I get an X Server, terminal, and window manager. Instead, two different things are happening to me when I run the three different start options:
1. When I run startwin.bat or startx (after using whatever default ~/.xinitrc you get when following the directions here: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using.html#using-starting and making no modifications to the template) I get a small terminal with an X~ in the upper left corner with green and yellow fonts and scroll bar. 2. When I run xwin.exe I get a full screen gray and black mesh with the X Cygwin/X -0:0 words in the upper left corner and the regular Windows minimize and close buttons in the upper right. Other than that, the display is completely empty (ie no terminals or the ability to add them or anything). I think the problem has somthing to do with display assignments, and thus I am always sure to have every previous Xterm closed out to free the display address before I open a new one. This hasn't fixed the problem. Here is what is displayed in the Cygwin bash shell when I type startx: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ startx Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 6.7.0.0-4 Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] XWin was started with the following command line: X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard OsVendorInit - Creating bogus screen 0 _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1 winValidateArgs - Returning. (II) XF86Config is not supported (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 00000007 winScreenInit - dwWidth: 1400 dwHeight: 1050 winSetEngine - Multi Window or Rootless => ShadowGDI winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - User w: 1400 h: 1050 winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - Current w: 1400 h: 1050 winAdjustForAutoHide - Original WorkArea: 0 0 1016 1400 winAdjustForAutoHide - Adjusted WorkArea: 0 0 1016 1400 winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - WindowClient w 1400 h 1016 r 1400 l 0 b 1016 t 0 winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - Returning winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1400 height: 1016 depth: 32 winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Dibsection width: 1400 height: 1016 depth: 32 size image: 5689600 winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Created shadow stride: 1400 winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32 winRandRInit () winCreateDefColormap - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap () null screen fn ReparentWindow null screen fn RestackWindow winFinishScreenInitFB - Calling winInitWM. InitQueue - Calling pthread_mutex_init InitQueue - pthread_mutex_init returned InitQueue - Calling pthread_cond_init InitQueue - pthread_cond_init returned winInitWM - Returning. winInitMultiWindowWM - Hello winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Hello winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () winFinishScreenInitFB - returning winScreenInit - returning InitOutput - Returning. MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shared memory support in the kernel (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31 (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000409" (00000409) (EE) Keyboardlayout "US" (00000409) is unknown Rules = "xorg" Model = "pc101" Layout = "us" Variant = "(null)" Options = "(null)" Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list! winPointerWarpCursor - Discarding first warp: 700 508 winBlockHandler - Releasing pmServerStarted winInitMultiWindowWM - pthread_mutex_lock () returned. winBlockHandler - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned winProcEstablishConnection - Hello winMultiWindowXMsgProc - pthread_mutex_lock () returned. winMultiWindowXMsgProc - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned. winMultiWindowXMsgProc - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 winInitMultiWindowWM - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned. winInitMultiWindowWM - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 cat: /home/Owner/.Xauthority: No such file or directory winInitClipboard () winProcEstablishConnection - winInitClipboard returned. winClipboardProc - Hello DetectUnicodeSupport - Windows NT/2000/XP winClipboardProc - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 winMultiWindowXMsgProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the display. winInitMultiWindowWM - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the display. winClipboardProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the display. winClipboardWindowProc - WM_DRAWCLIPBOARD - Initializing - Returning. winProcSetSelectionOwner - Clipboard not yet started, aborting. winProcSetSelectionOwner - Clipboard not yet started, aborting. At this point the green/yellow/black single terminal appears. When I type xwin.exe (I'm running it with no options) I get this back: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ xwin.exe Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 6.7.0.0-4 Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OsVendorInit - Creating bogus screen 0 winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1400 h 1050 winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root XWin was started with the following command line: xwin winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1 winValidateArgs - Returning. (II) XF86Config is not supported (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 00000007 winScreenInit - dwWidth: 1400 dwHeight: 1050 winSetEngine - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - User w: 1400 h: 1050 winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - Current w: 1400 h: 1050 winAdjustForAutoHide - Original WorkArea: 0 0 1016 1400 winAdjustForAutoHide - Adjusted WorkArea: 0 0 1016 1400 winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - WindowClient w 1394 h 984 r 1394 l 0 b 984 t 0 winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - Returning winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Creating primary surface winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Created primary surface winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Attached clipper to primary surface winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - lPitch: 5576 winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - Created shadow pitch: 5576 winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - Created shadow stride: 1394 winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff winInitVisualsShadowDDNL - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32 winRandRInit () winCreateDefColormap - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap () winFinishScreenInitFB - returning winScreenInit - returning InitOutput - Returning. MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shared memory support in the kernel (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31 (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000409" (00000409) (EE) Keyboardlayout "US" (00000409) is unknown Rules = "xorg" Model = "pc101" Layout = "us" Variant = "(null)" Options = "(null)" Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list! winPointerWarpCursor - Discarding first warp: 697 492 winBlockHandler - Releasing pmServerStarted winBlockHandler - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned At this point the gray and black mesh screen appears. Startwin.bat just opens the green and yellow terminal and I don't get any explicit error messages. Does any one have any idea why I can't display the default environment? Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I've already tried completely uninstalling and reinstalling, and then uninstalling and re-downloading and installing from a different mirror site. In desperation, I also tried the font fix here: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html (error and warning message 8.4) to no avail. I'm definitely willing to try anything. Thank you so much, Sara
