On 12/18/2014 11:51 AM, Jean-Marc Colagrossi wrote:
Hi all,
I need you help to understand what's wrong with X server or my .startxwinrc
file.
I work with X server -> Xterm and vim since month now. Every thing was
always working perfectly.
Yesterday I upgraded all cygwin packages and just after that I was unable to
start X server again.
I made a new fresh installation and X server works correctly. Then I made a
copy of my olds files like .startwinrc, .bashrc .vimrc and all my shortcuts.
When I tried to start the X server I had the same problems. X server crashed.
I removed one by one all the files I copied up to I deleted .startxwinrc.
Then the X server start correctly. my .startxwinrc had only 3 lines with :
xterm -bg Black -fg White&
I deleted all the lines just to have a blank .startxwinrc. But X server
still crashes.
Here is the log when I run startxwin from terminal with an empty
.startxwinrc file
I don't understand what I did wrong as it was working fine before.
xinit behavior is changed, see relative announcement
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2014-11/msg00004.html
It will execute all command of .startxwinrc or startxwinrc
and then the X server will shutdown.
you can
1) remove .startxwinrc, so that the default will prevail.
see for an example /etc/defaults/etc/X11/xinit/startxwinrc
2) you put in .startxwinrc any command without "&"
and the xserver will close when that command will end.
as examples:
xterm -bg Black -fg White
sleep inf
You are not the first one, that was caught by surprise.
Re-reading the announcement helped me on understanding the matter.
Thank you
Regards,
Colagrossi Jean-Marc
Regards
Marco
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