Hi Igor, First of all I must thank you for your prompt response. I went and stopped some of the services listed in the BLODA file, but the problem remains. However I found that if I use "xinit", X works fine as used to do before with "startx". Does this make any sense?
Best regards, Daniel >> winClipboardProc - Call to select () failed: -1. Bailing. > >This could indicate the presence of an application from the ><http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA> (see ><http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda> for a list). >HTH, > >On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Daniel Senderowicz wrote: > >> I'm resending the XWin.log because it seems that your spam >> blocker doesn't like the compressed file. > >FWIW, the compressed attachment came through. But it would be nice (TM) >to get a plain-text attachment, as that could be easily read through the >web archives while not polluting the actual message with inline text. > >> Hi, >> >> I had everything perfectly working with "startx :0" until I decided that >> I needed to emulate a 3-button mouse. Since I didn't find such option in >> the startx script, I set it up in the starxwin.bat which I never used >> before. So when I startxwin it will open whatever application I can >> invoke from the command line but it doesn't give me a separate layer >> such as the one I was getting with startx in which I could click with >> the mouse, etc. So I tried to go back to startx but now it closes off, >> so I don't know why I cannot go back to what I was doing before. I >> deleted /tmp/.X11-unix to no avail. I assume that there should be >> another persistent file that was modified when I invoked startxwin which >> is not letting startx work properly. Below you'll find >> the /tmp/XWin.log. >> >> Many thanks in advance, >> Daniel >> >> _____________________________________________________________________ >> XWin was started with the following command line: >> X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard > ^^^^^^^^^^^^ >First things first: the above causes X to use the native MS window manager >instead of a separate window manager like twm. You seem to indicate that >you liked the separate root window -- for that, remove the -multiwindow >option. > >Also, if you want to emulate a 3-button mouse, try the -emulate3buttons >option. > >FWIW, you can pass extra arguments to the X server via startx. For >example, to get the above, use "startx :0 -- -emulate3buttons -clipboard". > >> [snip] >> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root > >This might be a problem if that socket is not readable/writable by you. >Otherwise you can ignore it. > >> [snip] >> winClipboardProc - Call to select () failed: -1. Bailing. > >This could indicate the presence of an application from the ><http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA> (see ><http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda> for a list). >HTH, > Igor >-- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] >ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > >"That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole >Torah; the rest is commentary. Go and study it." -- Rabbi Hillel > -- 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/
