Re: How to open a standalone xterm

2009-10-29 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 28/10/2009 13:01, Joel Gwynn wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote: On 10/27/2009 11:02 PM, Joel Gwynn wrote: So it looks like if I first start up the multiwindow window manager like so: xwin -multiwindow, then I can run xterm, but I have to specify the

Re: How to open a standalone xterm

2009-10-28 Thread Joel Gwynn
Duh. Guess I need more sleep :) Thanks! On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin X) reply-to-list-only-l...@cygwin.com wrote: On 10/27/2009 11:02 PM, Joel Gwynn wrote: So it looks like if I first start up the multiwindow window manager like so: xwin -multiwindow, then I can run

Re: How to open a standalone xterm

2009-10-28 Thread Joel Gwynn
And now, sporadically, when I run startxwin.sh, sometimes it works, ie opens up the xterm, but sometimes some windows open, with text that I can't read quickly enough, then go away. If I close Xwin and try again, sometimes it will work, mostly not. I don't see anything amiss in

RE: How to open a standalone xterm

2009-10-28 Thread Mike Ayers
From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree- ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Joel Gwynn Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 8:27 AM And now, sporadically, when I run startxwin.sh, sometimes it works, ie opens up the xterm, but sometimes some windows open, with text that I can't

RE: How to open a standalone xterm

2009-10-28 Thread Reid Thompson
On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 11:49 -0700, Mike Ayers wrote: From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree- ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Joel Gwynn Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 8:27 AM And now, sporadically, when I run startxwin.sh, sometimes it works, ie opens up the

Re: How to open a standalone xterm

2009-10-28 Thread Joel Gwynn
Ha! That seems to do it. Although I also have to wait a bit between closing the xwin window and restarting, but that's not so bad. I guess there's some process that takes awhile to exit. Thanks, Joel On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Reid Thompson reid.thomp...@ateb.com wrote: On Wed,

Re: How to open a standalone xterm

2009-10-28 Thread Reid Thompson
Joel Gwynn wrote: Ha! That seems to do it. Although I also have to wait a bit between closing the xwin window and restarting, but that's not so bad. I guess there's some process that takes awhile to exit. possibly having to wait for the X server socket to completely free up between between

Re: How to open a standalone xterm

2009-10-27 Thread Joel Gwynn
So it looks like if I first start up the multiwindow window manager like so: xwin -multiwindow , then I can run xterm, but I have to specify the display. What's the typical way of automating this? On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Joel Gwynn joel...@gmail.com wrote: I know I've done this

Re: How to open a standalone xterm

2009-10-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 10/27/2009 11:02 PM, Joel Gwynn wrote: So it looks like if I first start up the multiwindow window manager like so: xwin -multiwindow, then I can run xterm, but I have to specify the display. What's the typical way of automating this? startxwin.bat or startxwin.sh. -- Larry Hall