On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 11:49 -0700, Mike Ayers wrote: > > From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree- > > ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Joel Gwynn > > Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 8:27 AM > > > > And now, sporadically, when I run startxwin.sh, sometimes it works, ie > > opens up the xterm, but sometimes some windows open, with text that I > > can't read quickly enough, then go away. If I close Xwin and try > > again, sometimes it will work, mostly not. > > You're not running startxwin twice, right? That won't work - you must > run the xterm command from an existing xterm, a cygwin window, or the xterm > icon in the start menu (which can be copied to the quicklaunch bar). > > Also, try running bash in an existing xterm to see if the problem is in > your .bashrc, i.e. not with xterm or X. > > > HTH, > > Mike >
test this.. in startxwin.sh or startxwin.bat ( whichever one you're calling to start X ), between the call to start Xwin and the call to start the xterm, add sleep 5 if that gets you an xterm every time, then decrement 5 until failure, leave the call in with failure + 1 -- 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/