On 14 Apr, Carolyn Longfoot wrote: > sorry to bother but my fresh Cygwin installation fails to start X, and I'm > at a complete loss as to why. This is straight after a reboot, so why there > would be a server already running is a complete mystery to me. How do I go > about troubleshooting this?
Sounds like you have a .xinitrc file that specifies a window manager to run. The default behaviour of the Cygwin X server was changed to run a built-in window manager that integrates X windows onto the Windows desktop better (this is the -multiwindow option, which is the default). You could write a .bat script that instead of running Xwin runs Xwin -- :0, to stop the -multiwindow being passed. luke
