More information as promised, after getting the new run and checkX (run2) packages announced this morning.
$ checkX -v run2 0.3.2 ----- QUOTE ----- 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 ----- UNQUOTE ----- Trying from home with the VPN active, again, it works; here is the ps from the xterm that showed up: vhaisbtim...@isb-timaresbrian-lt ~ $ ps PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMAND 3556 1 3556 3556 0 180490 11:11:27 /usr/bin/bash 6020 1 6020 6020 ? 180490 11:11:28 /usr/bin/ssh-agent I 2944 3556 2944 3688 0 180490 11:12:07 /usr/bin/XWin 5936 3556 5936 4060 0 180490 11:12:56 /usr/bin/xterm 4780 5936 4780 1840 1 180490 11:12:57 /usr/bin/bash 932 4780 932 4696 1 180490 11:12:59 /usr/bin/ps After quitting and destroying any processes from a DOS window, trying startxwin.bat with echo on.... First off all, nothing appeared (no X icon, no window). Here is what ps in a DOS window shows after running startxwin.bat: C:\cygwin\bin>ps PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMAND 1656 1 1656 1656 0 180490 10:57:45 /usr/bin/bash 5516 1 5516 5516 ? 180490 10:57:47 /usr/bin/ssh-agent I 4676 1656 1656 4476 0 180490 10:57:47 /usr/bin/ssh-add I 2024 1 2024 2024 1 180490 11:09:16 /usr/bin/bash 1464 1 1464 1464 2 180490 11:09:40 /usr/bin/ps Here is the output with blank lines and REM lines removed (I added the 2nd SET DISPLAY, CYGWIN is set to tty elsewhere as well as here, I don't know what that is at the end of the PATH): C:\cygwin\bin>startxwin.bat C:\cygwin\bin>SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 C:\cygwin\bin>SET CYGWIN=tty tty tty C:\cygwin\bin>if defined CYGWIN_ROOT goto :OK C:\cygwin\bin>SET RUN=C:\cygwin\bin\\..\bin\run -p /usr/bin C:\cygwin\bin>SET PATH=C:\cygwin\bin\\..\bin;C:\cygwin\bin\\..\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\ WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\IBM\Personal Communications\;C:\Program Files\IBM\Trace Facility\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\InterSystems\Cache;C:\Program Files\Windows Imaging\;C:\Program Files\ActivIdentity\ActivClient\;P C:\cygwin\bin>SET XAPPLRESDIR= C:\cygwin\bin>SET XCMSDB= C:\cygwin\bin>SET XKEYSYMDB= C:\cygwin\bin>SET XNLSPATH= C:\cygwin\bin>if not exist C:\cygwin\bin\\..\tmp\.X11-unix\X0 goto CLEANUP-FINISH C:\cygwin\bin>attrib -s C:\cygwin\bin\\..\tmp\.X11-unix\X0 C:\cygwin\bin>del C:\cygwin\bin\\..\tmp\.X11-unix\X0 C:\cygwin\bin>if exist C:\cygwin\bin\\..\tmp\.X11-unix rmdir C:\cygwin\bin\\..\tmp\.X11-unix C:\cygwin\bin>SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 C:\cygwin\bin>C:\cygwin\bin\\..\bin\run -p /usr/bin bash -l -c "XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error -winkill -emulate3buttons 100" C:\cygwin\bin>C:\cygwin\bin\\..\bin\run -p /usr/bin checkX -wait -d 127.0.0.1:0.0 -t 12 C:\cygwin\bin>C:\cygwin\bin\\..\bin\run -p /usr/bin xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l C:\cygwin\bin> At this point I run "Cygwin Bash Shell" and from that window I run startxwin.bat and it works fine, even after closing the Cygwin Bash Shell. 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/