It worked with /usr/bin/XWin :1 The "X" icon appeared and the "xterm" application worked as expected.
"netstat -p" showed nothing before or after XWin started. It also showed nothing with a live SSH connection started from my Cygwin bash shell. After starting XWin with "XWin :1" the process appeared as expected in the Windows task manager. Jon TURNEY wrote: > > > You're not running a different X server as well, are you? > > Check the output of "netstat -p" for lines of the form "TCP > <yourcomputername>:6000" ? > > Does "/usr/bin/XWin :1 -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error" fail in > the > same way? > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/X-server-fails-to-start-on-Vista-tp23433335p23546159.html Sent from the cygwin-xfree mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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/