Re: Can't start X on MS Windows 7

2013-04-12 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 11/04/2013 18:00, Harvey Stein (BLOOMBERG/ 731 LEXIN) wrote: $ startxwin [...] (--) 3 mouse buttons found There should be a few more lines after this in a normal X server startup. This looks like perhaps the X server is somehow getting stuck trying to run xkbcomp during it's startup. You

Re: Can't start X on MS Windows 7

2013-04-12 Thread Harvey Stein (BLOOMBERG/ 731 LEXIN)
Thanks for the references. As for the cygwin-x-faq.html reference, I don't see the output symptomatic of Zone Alarm 5 causing trouble, so I gues that's not it, and all my mounts are binary, so it's not the /tmp issue. As for the long list of software in the cygwin FAQ that is known to

Can't start X on MS Windows 7

2013-04-11 Thread Harvey Stein (BLOOMBERG/ 731 LEXIN)
I'm trying to run X under MS Windows 7 within Cygwin. I bring up a bash window, run startxwin I get: waiting for X server to begin accepting connections . .. .. .. .. and it never starts up. An X icon appears on the toolbar then disappears. XWin.exe shows up in the task manager doesn't