On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 05:11:12PM +0200, Holger Krull wrote:
> Nick Douma schrieb:
> > No one who has any suggestions... ?
> 
> Not for your main problem. Just the general idea that sometimes deleting and 
> reinstalling helps to solve strange problems. 
I'll try that tomorrow

>  
> > On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 11:38:33AM +0200, Nick Douma wrote:
> >> I'm using the latest version of Cygwin, and Xwin 6.8.99.901-4. Whenever I 
> >> try to run X with `startx` or startx 
> >> scripts, it fails. If I run it directly with `X :0` it works fine (so it 
> >> appears), but when I run it with `X :0 
> >> -multiwindow` it fails with the following log:
> >>
> >> Also, when I run it with the `X :0` command, the DISPLAY var is not set, 
> >> and xterm does not start up 
> >> automatically.
> 
> That is no surprise, the DISPLAY variable doesn't set itself, you need a 
> script to do that. The same with the starting of xterm, if you just start the 
> X11 server, it will not start an xterm.
Sounds logical, I guess that is one of the uses for the startx scripts

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