Re: modification of startx.bat not work

2006-07-25 Thread Dirk Schleicher
Am Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:55:10 -0400 schrieb Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I guess I don't understand what you're trying to do then. Sorry. Hi, let me try to explain it once more. At the moment I start cygwin by startx.bat. Then I have a open xterm window where I start SC. This means

Re: Xwin.log error

2006-07-25 Thread andi b
hey chuck, I'll give that a try but I am still wondering what changed. XWin.exe used to be able to determine that another instance was running and just quietly exit. i had the same problem as you and i totally understand why toi run the .bat file each because there are lots of conf settings i

Re: modification of startx.bat not work

2006-07-25 Thread Dirk Schleicher
Am Tue, 25 Jul 2006 03:16:51 -0500 schrieb René Berber [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [snip] Correct, the way XWin is started using startxwin.bat does make the whole server execution depend on the xterm, so when the xterm is closed XWin terminates. That can be changed easily by using startx (instead of

Re: Problem with starting X server (alternate solution)

2006-07-25 Thread Steve Freeland
Apologies for not attaching this to the correct thread; I'm not subscribed to the list and don't really know how I should go about that. But anyways. Regarding the Could not open default font 'fixed' message: Stephen A. Goulet mentioned that he was able to fix the problem by following the

Re: Problem with starting X server (alternate solution)

2006-07-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Steve Freeland wrote: Apologies for not attaching this to the correct thread; I'm not subscribed to the list and don't really know how I should go about that. But anyways. Regarding the Could not open default font 'fixed' message: Stephen A. Goulet mentioned that he was able to fix the

Re: modification of startx.bat not work

2006-07-25 Thread René Berber
Dirk Schleicher wrote: [snip] I try it. The only thing is that if SC is close the Xserver close too. Yes, that's the way it works. I mean, that's the way that the steps I showed work. [snip] Again to start this I have to start a cygwin bash shell. I like to start SC without a shell You

Re: modification of startx.bat not work

2006-07-25 Thread René Berber
René Berber wrote: [snip] You probably can just run a Windows shortcut to XWin with all the parameters, and use .xinitrc or .xsession to start up SC. [snip] I made a little experiment and the above sentence is not true: if I start XWindows from an icon/shortcut (using C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe -p