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 > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ > FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
