Thanks! Removing the -silent-dup-error was sufficient; I feel a bit silly now.
BTW, my cygwin is a bit *ahem* dated, so I do still need the -clipboard, and the -screen 1 was required for it to peacefully coexist with Netmeeting. -joel > -----Original Message----- > From: Jon TURNEY [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 6:33 AM > To: [email protected] > Cc: Moots, Joel A. @ EOS > Subject: Re: Error: too many arguments on commandline > > On 13/10/2009 21:01, [email protected] wrote: > > I am trying to start up XWin with 3 screens, all of a specific > size, but > > when I run a command in a startup batch file like this (where > %RUN% is > > \cygwin\bin\run -p /usr/X11R6/bin): > > > > %RUN% XWin :3 -clipboard -silent-dup-error -engine 1 - > nodecoration > > -multiplemonitors -screen 0 1280 1024 -screen 1 1280 1024 -screen > 2 1280 > > 1024 > > You might be able to drop -clipboard since it is on by default > since 1.6.1.902-1 > > I am surprised that you need -engine 1 (ShadowGDI). It's some kind > of bug if > the default engine (ShadowDDNL, I guess) doesn't work properly for > you, and it > should be faster. > > '-multimonitors' is an (undocumented) alias for '-multiplemonitors' > > You don't really need -silent-dup-error unless you forget the > server is > already running a lot :-) > > > I get a popup error message titled "Run.exe" with message "Error: > too > > many arguments on commandline XWin". Removing the %RUN% gets rid > of the > > error, but of course, doesn't really help me any. Is there any > way to > > specify any of those options to XWin other than on the command > line so > > that maybe I will not exceed whatever run.exe limit I am hitting? > > There is currently no other way to specify XWin arguments but via > the command > line. > > I don't know why this limit in run exists, but you might be able to > squeeze > under it with the suggestions above. > > According to your cygcheck output you don't even have the X server > installed :-) > > -- > Jon TURNEY > Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- 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/
