Re: X is not starting
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Daniel Senderowicz wrote: I'm resending the XWin.log because it seems that your spam blocker doesn't like the compressed file. FWIW, the compressed attachment came through. But it would be nice (TM) to get a plain-text attachment, as that could be easily read through the web archives while not polluting the actual message with inline text. Hi, I had everything perfectly working with startx :0 until I decided that I needed to emulate a 3-button mouse. Since I didn't find such option in the startx script, I set it up in the starxwin.bat which I never used before. So when I startxwin it will open whatever application I can invoke from the command line but it doesn't give me a separate layer such as the one I was getting with startx in which I could click with the mouse, etc. So I tried to go back to startx but now it closes off, so I don't know why I cannot go back to what I was doing before. I deleted /tmp/.X11-unix to no avail. I assume that there should be another persistent file that was modified when I invoked startxwin which is not letting startx work properly. Below you'll find the /tmp/XWin.log. Many thanks in advance, Daniel _ XWin was started with the following command line: X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard First things first: the above causes X to use the native MS window manager instead of a separate window manager like twm. You seem to indicate that you liked the separate root window -- for that, remove the -multiwindow option. Also, if you want to emulate a 3-button mouse, try the -emulate3buttons option. FWIW, you can pass extra arguments to the X server via startx. For example, to get the above, use startx :0 -- -emulate3buttons -clipboard. [snip] _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root This might be a problem if that socket is not readable/writable by you. Otherwise you can ignore it. [snip] winClipboardProc - Call to select () failed: -1. Bailing. This could indicate the presence of an application from the http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA (see http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda for a list). HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah; the rest is commentary. Go and study it. -- Rabbi Hillel -- 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/
RE: FW: How to get scroll bars on initial xterm instance?
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 12:23 -0700, Siegfried Heintze (Aditi) wrote: When I run startx it creates an xterm for me. But this xterm does not have a scroll bar. I like to create xterms with -sl 3000 -sb so I get lots of history. How can I make startx create an xterm with these options? edit startxwin.sh/startxwin.bat OK, in c:/cygwin/usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh Line 106 I have: xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l -sb -sl 3000 And in c:/cygwin/usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.bat Line 151 I now have: %RUN% xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l -sb -sl 6000 Adding -sb -sl 6000 did not seem to help. I also created the file c:\Documents and Settings\a-siehei\.Xresources with these contents on a different computer Xterm.*.saveLines: 3000 Xterm.*.scrollbar: true This seems to have no effect (affect?) either. Can someone advise me as to what I am doing wrong? Thanks, Siegfried
RE: FW: How to get scroll bars on initial xterm instance?
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Siegfried Heintze (Aditi) wrote: On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 12:23 -0700, Siegfried Heintze (Aditi) wrote: When I run startx it creates an xterm for me. But this xterm does not have a scroll bar. I like to create xterms with -sl 3000 -sb so I get lots of history. How can I make startx create an xterm with these options? edit startxwin.sh/startxwin.bat OK, in c:/cygwin/usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh Line 106 I have: xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l -sb -sl 3000 And in c:/cygwin/usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.bat Line 151 I now have: %RUN% xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l -sb -sl 6000 %RUN% xterm -sb -sl 6000 -e /usr/bin/bash -l (xterm stops processing options on the -e) Adding -sb -sl 6000 did not seem to help. I also created the file c:\Documents and Settings\a-siehei\.Xresources with these contents on a different computer Xterm.*.saveLines: 3000 Xterm.*.scrollbar: true I already pointed out one problem with this. However, .Xresources depends on how X is started - perhaps cygwin uses it... (The .Xdefaults file tends to get more use). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- 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/
Re: FW: How to create an icon to startx with no extra CMD.EXE window
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Siegfried Heintze (Aditi) wrote: Thank you for the responses regarding -sb -sl 6000. I had a quick launch icon that would execute startx in bash but that does not seem to use the startxwin.sh or startxwin.bat files. So I change my icon in my quick launch bar to this: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe /usr/bin/X11/startxwin.sh So this starts the xterm with scroll bars and (I assume) 6000 lines of history. Hurray! Thanks! But I have this ugly console hanging around. When I kill it, it kills X as well. Is there a way to have an icon that does not create a superfluous console window? You could start an application (including xterm) which is initially iconified. That would move it out of sight. This should work: xterm -iconic The startxwin.sh script needs _something_ that is holding onto the shell script, to prevent it from exiting. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- 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/
RE: FW: How to create an icon to startx with no extra CMD.EXE window
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Siegfried Heintze (Aditi) wrote: But I have this ugly console hanging around. When I kill it, it kills X as well. Is there a way to have an icon that does not create a superfluous console window? You could start an application (including xterm) which is initially iconified. That would move it out of sight. This should work: xterm -iconic The startxwin.sh script needs _something_ that is holding onto the shell script, to prevent it from exiting. I don't think I made myself clear! When I said ugly console I meant the cmd.exe console (possibly running bash). I think you are talking about the initial xterm. The initial xterm is not a problem. How can I start X without running cmd.exe? hmm (I'm not where I can check). However - I recall setting up some commands which use the Windows start command with a /min option. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- 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/
