XWin with rootless option crashes on Vista

[rincewind]

Hello All,

I had been using Cygwin with ICEWM on my XP box for sometime. I moved to
(asked to move to) Vista recently and I installed Cygwin and compiled
ICEWM on my box. My problem is that, I am able to run startxwin.bat with the
multiwindow option, but not with the rootless or fullscreen option
since XWin just crashes. I understand that files have been modified in the
new Cygwin, so I stuck to making changes in the .bat file only. I tried
running startx too, but not with much avail.

In short, running startxwin.bat with XWin-multiwindow starts the X Server
and I am able to launch newer xterms. If I remove the multiwindow option
altogether or change it with rootless (ideal for me since I want to run a
different window manager) or fullscreen, XWin crashes.

I understand that there are a few applications that cause strange issues
with cygwin and I seem to have one such on my box (Logitech's webcam
package). I would be glad with any advice on this issue. I looked through
the forums, but I haven't been able to find a thread that matches my
problem.

Thanks for your time.

Regards,
Rincewind


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Re: XWin with rootless option crashes on Vista

[Yaakov (Cygwin/X)]

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rincewind wrote:
 I had been using Cygwin with ICEWM on my XP box for sometime. I moved to
 (asked to move to) Vista recently and I installed Cygwin and compiled
 ICEWM on my box. My problem is that, I am able to run startxwin.bat with the
 multiwindow option, but not with the rootless or fullscreen option
 since XWin just crashes. I understand that files have been modified in the
 new Cygwin, so I stuck to making changes in the .bat file only. I tried
 running startx too, but not with much avail.
 
 In short, running startxwin.bat with XWin-multiwindow starts the X Server
 and I am able to launch newer xterms. If I remove the multiwindow option
 altogether or change it with rootless (ideal for me since I want to run a
 different window manager) or fullscreen, XWin crashes.
 
 I understand that there are a few applications that cause strange issues
 with cygwin and I seem to have one such on my box (Logitech's webcam
 package). I would be glad with any advice on this issue. I looked through
 the forums, but I haven't been able to find a thread that matches my
 problem.

http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda

Please try completely uninstalling the Logitech software, make sure
you're running the current versions of Cygwin and X11, and try again.
If that does not help:

http://cygwin.com/problems.html

In addition to *attaching* the output of cygcheck -s -r -v, please
also attach the /var/log/XWin.0.log from the failed attempt.


Yaakov
Cygwin/X
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