(I of course meant "-engine 1 was required", not "-screen 1".)
-joel > -----Original Message----- > From: Moots, Joel A. @ EOS > Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 6:54 AM > To: '[email protected]' > Subject: RE: Error: too many arguments on commandline > > 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/
