Lothar Brendel wrote: >Timares, Brian (Patriot) wrote: >> The X window showed up, but it blew up real good (the windows >> disappeared, then the X icon. After a reboot....it >> didn't launch at all. I ran startxwin.sh from the Cygwin Bash >> Shell, and it started. > >At least we're getting *somewhere* :-) > >Ok, what happens when entering the two vital commands by hand in the the >Cygwin Bash Shell (waiting with the second until the X-icon has appeared)? > >XWin -multiwin & >xterm -display :0 > >Reproducible success?
I'll try again from home (I went into the office to simplify things). Here is what I got (sorry for the word-wrap): vhaisbtim...@isb-timaresbrian-lt ~ $ XWin -multiwindow & [1] 5004 vhaisbtim...@isb-timaresbrian-lt ~ $ Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 1.7.1.0 (10701000) Build Date: 2009-11-11 Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com XWin was started with the following command line: XWin -multiwindow _XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6 _XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/isb-timaresbrian-lt:0 _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6 winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1 (II) xorg.conf is not supported (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information winPrefsLoadPreferences: /etc/X11/system.XWinrc LoadPreferences: Done parsing the configuration file... winGetDisplay: DISPLAY=:0.0 winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 00000007 winSetEngine - Multi Window or Rootless => ShadowGDI winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 3200 height: 1200 depth: 32 winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32 null screen fn ReparentWindow null screen fn RestackWindow InitQueue - Calling pthread_mutex_init InitQueue - pthread_mutex_init returned InitQueue - Calling pthread_cond_init InitQueue - pthread_cond_init returned winInitMultiWindowWM - Hello Screen 0 added at XINERAMA coordinate (0,0). winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Hello winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shar ed memory support in the kernel (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0 winPointerWarpCursor - Discarding first warp: 1600 600 (--) 3 mouse buttons found (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31 (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000409" (00000409) (--) Using preset keyboard for "English (USA)" (409), type "4" Rules = "base" Model = "pc105" Layout = "us" Variant = "none" Options = "none" winInitMultiWindowWM - pthread_mutex_lock () returned. winInitMultiWindowWM - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned. winMultiWindowXMsgProc - pthread_mutex_lock () returned. winGetDisplay: DISPLAY=:0.0 winMultiWindowXMsgProc - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned. winInitMultiWindowWM - DISPLAY=:0.0 winGetDisplay: DISPLAY=:0.0 winMultiWindowXMsgProc - DISPLAY=:0.0 winProcEstablishConnection - Hello winInitClipboard () winProcEstablishConnection - winInitClipboard returned. winClipboardProc - Hello DetectUnicodeSupport - Windows NT/2000/XP winGetDisplay: DISPLAY=:0.0 winClipboardProc - DISPLAY=:0.0 winInitMultiWindowWM - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the disp lay. winMultiWindowXMsgProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the di splay. winClipboardProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the display. From the xterm, which has stayed open: vhaisbtim...@isb-timaresbrian-lt ~ $ ps PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMAND 5516 1 5516 5516 0 180490 16:51:58 /usr/bin/bash 3868 1 3868 3868 ? 180490 16:52:02 /usr/bin/ssh-agent 5004 5516 5004 4612 0 180490 16:54:07 /usr/bin/XWin 4064 5516 4064 924 0 180490 16:56:09 /usr/bin/xterm 6012 4064 6012 5144 1 180490 16:56:10 /usr/bin/bash 2184 6012 2184 4240 1 180490 16:56:21 /usr/bin/ps Brian Timares -- 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/