On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Samuel Wang wrote:
> Please help with this error message;
>
> $ startx
> [snip]
> cat: /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/swang/.Xauthority: No such file or
> directory
This is spurious.
> [: and: unknown operand
> [: and: unknown operand
These are due to spaces in your $HOME. As a workaround, use $HOME with no
spaces in it (see the FAQ), but the startx script *should* be fixed.
FWIW, I submitted fixes for it a while ago -- I wonder if they made it
into the current version, or if this was a problem I didn't cover...
Igor
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