Re: Can't start xterm from Cygwin/X icon in system tray
After re-installing Cygwin from scratch, I have determined that this environment variable is/was causing the problem: CYGWIN=tty Once I removed it, I was able to create an X term from the icon in the system tray. - Jim On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:07 AM, I wrote: I have a very strange situation. At work, I am running Win XP SP3. I installed all the latest Cygwin (1.7.1) + Xorg updates, including startxwin.exe. Everything works perfectly. At home, I am running Windows 7 Professional, 64-bit. I am unable to start an xterm from the Cygwin/X icon in the system tray (right-click, select xterm). Both setups have the same line in .XWinrc: xterm EXEC xterm I am starting the X server the same way: D:\Cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startxwin.exe I do not have a ~/.startxwinrc file. The xterm that is supposed to be created when the server starts doesn't start either. The symptom is that xterm.exe is shown running in the task manager, but there is no Xterm window on the desktop. As a work-around, I created a shortcut on my desktop to start an xterm: D:\Cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/xterm -display localhost:0 That works perfectly, but is not an optimum solution (I try to have as few desktop icons as possible). There is nothing in the /var/log/Xwin log that indicates why an xterm would start but not open a window. Any ideas? -- Jim Reisert AD1C, jjreis...@alum.mit.edu, http://www.ad1c.us -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Can't start xterm from Cygwin/X icon in system tray
On 01/01/2010 16:04, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: Yes, my startup folder shortcut is: D:\Cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startxwin.exe As I've said before, this works properly on my XP SP3 system at work, but not on my Windows 7 64-bit system at home. I run Win7 64bit as well and the shortcut WJFFM. One thing I just realized tonight is that if you use keychain(1) and added the command to your ~/.bash_profile (as suggested in that manpage), AND you use the shortcut to launch XWin without having started a console session first, then the login shell in which we want to launch startxwin will wait indefinitely for your SSH password (which you won't see because we use run.exe). Trying the shortcut again while this occurs should work after a ~30-sec delay. The fix for that is to test the presence of an interactive shell before running keychain (see bash.info, section 6.3.2): case $- in *i*) eval `keychain --eval ~/.ssh/id_dsa` ;; esac Since you mention it's your home computer that's having issues, I can only guess this might be it. If you're not using keychain, then we'll need to see your 'cygcheck -srv' output and your /var/log/XWin.0.log (as plain-text attachments). Yaakov Cygwin/X -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Can't start xterm from Cygwin/X icon in system tray
On 1/2/2010 10:01 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Since you mention it's your home computer that's having issues, I can only guess this might be it. If you're not using keychain, then we'll need to see your 'cygcheck -srv' output and your /var/log/XWin.0.log (as plain-text attachments). Hi Yaakov, I am not using keychain. I disabled Microsoft Security Essentials. I do not have an ~/.Xdefaults nor a ~/.startxwinrc file. I've attached the output from cygcheck, as well as the Xwin log. I got these warnings while running it: /usr/bin/cygrunsrv: warning: OpenService failed for 'DcomLaunch': Win32 error 5 Access is denied. /usr/bin/cygrunsrv: warning: OpenService failed for 'odserv': Win32 error 5 Access is denied. /usr/bin/cygrunsrv: warning: OpenService failed for 'ose': Win32 error 5 Access is denied. /usr/bin/cygrunsrv: warning: OpenService failed for 'pla': Win32 error 5 Access is denied. /usr/bin/cygrunsrv: warning: OpenService failed for 'QWAVE': Win32 error 5 Access is denied. /usr/bin/cygrunsrv: warning: OpenService failed for 'RpcEptMapper': Win32 error 5 Access is denied. /usr/bin/cygrunsrv: warning: OpenService failed for 'RpcSs': Win32 error 5 Access is denied. -- Jim Reisert AD1C, jjreis...@alum.mit.edu, http://www.ad1c.us Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Sat Jan 02 23:52:25 2010 Windows 7 Professional N Ver 6.1 Build 7600 Running under WOW64 on AMD64 Path: .\ D:\Home\bin D:\Cygwin\usr\local\emacs\bin D:\Cygwin\Bin C:\Windows\system32 C:\Windows C:\Windows\System32\Wbem C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\ C:\Program Files (x86)\QuickTime\QTSystem\ C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Acronis\SnapAPI\ D:\utility\DISKEE~1\ D:\WATCOM\BINNT D:\WATCOM\BINW Output from D:\Cygwin\bin\id.exe UID: 1001(Jim Reisert) GID: 513(None) 545(Users) 1000(HomeUsers)513(None) SysDir: C:\Windows\system32 WinDir: C:\Windows CYGWIN = 'tty' HOME = '/cygdrive/d/Home' PWD = '/cygdrive/d/Home' USER = 'Jim Reisert' LIBRARY_PATH = '/usr/lib/mingw' ALLUSERSPROFILE = 'C:\ProgramData' APPDATA = 'C:\Users\Jim Reisert\AppData\Roaming' CLASSPATH = '.;C:\Program Files (x86)\QuickTime\QTSystem\QTJava.zip' COMMONPROGRAMFILES = 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files' CommonProgramFiles(x86) = 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files' CommonProgramW6432 = 'C:\Program Files\Common Files' COMPUTERNAME = 'JJR' COMSPEC = 'C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe' CVSROOT = 'F:\CVS' CYGROOT = 'D:\Cygwin' EDPATH = 'd:\WATCOM\EDDAT' FP_NO_HOST_CHECK = 'NO' HOMEDRIVE = 'C:' HOMEPATH = '\Users\Jim Reisert' INCLUDE = 'd:\WATCOM\H;d:\WATCOM\H\NT' LANG = 'en_US.ISO-8859-1' LANG_JJR = 'C' LC_TIME_JJR = 'C' LOCALAPPDATA = 'C:\Users\Jim Reisert\AppData\Local' LOCALE_JJR = 'C.UTF-8' LOGONSERVER = '\\JJR' NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS = '4' OS = 'Windows_NT' PATHEXT = '.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC' PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE = 'x86' PROCESSOR_ARCHITEW6432 = 'AMD64' PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER = 'Intel64 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 7, GenuineIntel' PROCESSOR_LEVEL = '6' PROCESSOR_REVISION = '0f07' ProgramData = 'C:\ProgramData' PROGRAMFILES = 'C:\Program Files (x86)' ProgramFiles(x86) = 'C:\Program Files (x86)' ProgramW6432 = 'C:\Program Files' PSModulePath = 'C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\' PUBLIC = 'C:\Users\Public' QTJAVA = 'C:\Program Files (x86)\QuickTime\QTSystem\QTJava.zip' SESSIONNAME = 'Console' SYSTEMDRIVE = 'C:' SYSTEMROOT = 'C:\Windows' TEMP = '/cygdrive/c/Users/JIMREI~1/AppData/Local/Temp' TERM = 'xterm' TMP = '/cygdrive/c/Users/JIMREI~1/AppData/Local/Temp' USERDOMAIN = 'JJR' USERNAME = 'Jim Reisert' USERPROFILE = 'C:\Users\Jim Reisert' VS80COMNTOOLS = 'D:\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Tools\' WATCOM = 'd:\WATCOM' WINDIR = 'C:\Windows' WINDOWID = '10485797' DISPLAY = 'localhost:0.0' XTERM_VERSION = 'Cygwin 6.8.99.903(251)' XTERM_LOCALE = 'en_US.ISO-8859-1' LOGNAME = 'Jim Reisert' XTERM_SHELL = '/bin/tcsh' HOSTTYPE = 'i386-cygwin' VENDOR = 'intel' OSTYPE = 'cygwin' MACHTYPE = 'i386' SHLVL = '1' GROUP = 'None' HOST = 'JJR' REMOTEHOST = 'JJR' MANPATH = ':/usr/ssl/man' CVSEDITOR = 'emacs' G_SLICE = 'always-malloc' DXSPIDER_ROOT = '/cygdrive/e/spider' HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygwin HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygwin\Program Options HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygwin\setup HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygwin HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygwin\Installations (default) = '\??\D:\Cygwin' HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygwin\Program Options HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygwin\setup (default) = 'D:\cygwin' obcaseinsensitive set to 1 Cygwin installations found in the registry: System: Key: 1720b01b097bf4fc Path: D:\Cygwin a: fd FAT 1Mb 0% CPUN c: hd NTFS 32765Mb 64% CP CS UN PA FC JJR d: hd NTFS 32765Mb 25% CP CS UN PA FC Applications e: hd NTFS 32765Mb 30% CP CS
Re: Can't start xterm from Cygwin/X icon in system tray
On 12/31/2009 1:43 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: This sounds like it has nothing to do with startxwin. I can't reproduce this, but do any of the following help: 1) creating a ~/.startxwinrc containing just xterm ? Same problem. No xterm. 2) changing that .startxwinrc to run xterm? Pop-up: Couldn't find xterm anywhere. I even looked in the PATH Same when I tried run /usr/bin/xterm (couldn't find /usr/bin/xterm anywhere etc.) 3) setting LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1 ? No change. 4) installing the font-daewoo-misc, font-isas-misc, and font-jis-misc packages? Those fonts are already installed. As I said, I have a desktop icon for starting an XTERM that works. It only doesn't work when trying to start the xterm from ~/.startxwinrc, or from the system tray. - Jim -- Jim Reisert AD1C, jjreis...@alum.mit.edu, http://www.ad1c.us -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Can't start xterm from Cygwin/X icon in system tray
Are you executing startxwin from a login shell? I use \path\to\cygwin\bin\run.exe /bin/bash.exe -l -c /bin/startxwin.exe and it works for me. On Fri, 1 Jan 2010, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: On 12/31/2009 1:43 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: This sounds like it has nothing to do with startxwin. I can't reproduce this, but do any of the following help: 1) creating a ~/.startxwinrc containing just xterm ? Same problem. No xterm. 2) changing that .startxwinrc to run xterm? Pop-up: Couldn't find xterm anywhere. I even looked in the PATH Same when I tried run /usr/bin/xterm (couldn't find /usr/bin/xterm anywhere etc.) 3) setting LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1 ? No change. 4) installing the font-daewoo-misc, font-isas-misc, and font-jis-misc packages? Those fonts are already installed. As I said, I have a desktop icon for starting an XTERM that works. It only doesn't work when trying to start the xterm from ~/.startxwinrc, or from the system tray. - Jim -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Can't start xterm from Cygwin/X icon in system tray
On 1/1/2010 12:41 PM, john wrote: Are you executing startxwin from a login shell? I use \path\to\cygwin\bin\run.exe /bin/bash.exe -l -c /bin/startxwin.exe and it works for me. Yes, my startup folder shortcut is: D:\Cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startxwin.exe As I've said before, this works properly on my XP SP3 system at work, but not on my Windows 7 64-bit system at home. - Jim On Fri, 1 Jan 2010, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: On 12/31/2009 1:43 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: This sounds like it has nothing to do with startxwin. I can't reproduce this, but do any of the following help: 1) creating a ~/.startxwinrc containing just xterm? Same problem. No xterm. 2) changing that .startxwinrc to run xterm? Pop-up: Couldn't find xterm anywhere. I even looked in the PATH Same when I tried run /usr/bin/xterm (couldn't find /usr/bin/xterm anywhere etc.) 3) setting LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1 ? No change. 4) installing the font-daewoo-misc, font-isas-misc, and font-jis-misc packages? Those fonts are already installed. As I said, I have a desktop icon for starting an XTERM that works. It only doesn't work when trying to start the xterm from ~/.startxwinrc, or from the system tray. - Jim -- Jim Reisert AD1C, jjreis...@alum.mit.edu, http://www.ad1c.us -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Can't start xterm from Cygwin/X icon in system tray
Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: I am unable to start an xterm from the Cygwin/X icon in the system tray (right-click, select xterm). Both setups have the same line in .XWinrc: xterm EXEC xterm As a work-around, I created a shortcut on my desktop to start an xterm: D:\Cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/xterm -display localhost:0 That works perfectly, What exact command is mapped to the xterm label in the right-click tray menu? It's configured in an init file somewhere though I can't remember the filename right now. Can you check whether the DISPLAY variable is set in the xterm process started from the tray menu? If it isn't, that would explain it. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Can%27t-start-xterm-from-Cygwin-X-icon-in-system-tray-tp26969798p26977792.html Sent from the cygwin-xfree mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Can't start xterm from Cygwin/X icon in system tray
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 6:33 AM, dahaiou wrote: Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: I am unable to start an xterm from the Cygwin/X icon in the system tray (right-click, select xterm). Both setups have the same line in .XWinrc: xterm EXEC xterm As a work-around, I created a shortcut on my desktop to start an xterm: D:\Cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/xterm -display localhost:0 That works perfectly, What exact command is mapped to the xterm label in the right-click tray menu? It's configured in an init file somewhere though I can't remember the filename right now. which points to /usr/bin/xterm Can you check whether the DISPLAY variable is set in the xterm process started from the tray menu? If it isn't, that would explain it. I tried this explicitly: xterm EXEC xterm -display localhost:0 That didn't make a difference. One other piece of data: I modifed ~/.XWinrc and then clicked Reload .xwinrc from the menu in the system tray. This KILLED the X server! - Jim -- Jim Reisert AD1C, jjreis...@alum.mit.edu, http://www.ad1c.us -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Can't start xterm from Cygwin/X icon in system tray
On 12/31/2009 10:53 AM, john at asyn dot org wrote: On Thu, 31 Dec 2009, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: I am unable to start an xterm from the Cygwin/X icon in the system tray (right-click, select xterm). Both setups have the same line in .XWinrc: xterm EXEC xterm As a work-around, I created a shortcut on my desktop to start an xterm: D:\Cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/xterm -display localhost:0 That works perfectly, [...] I tried this explicitly: xterm EXEC xterm -display localhost:0 That didn't make a difference. One other piece of data: I modifed ~/.XWinrc and then clicked Reload .xwinrc from the menu in the system tray. This KILLED the X server! I had this problem. It was happening because PATH was not being set. The problem went away when I used /startxwin.bat instead of /bin/startxwin.exe. If PATH is not being set, then you're probably not running startxwin.exe from a login shell. See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2009-12/msg00117.html Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Can't start xterm from Cygwin/X icon in system tray
On 30/12/2009 11:07, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: I do not have a ~/.startxwinrc file. The xterm that is supposed to be created when the server starts doesn't start either. The symptom is that xterm.exe is shown running in the task manager, but there is no Xterm window on the desktop. This sounds like it has nothing to do with startxwin. I can't reproduce this, but do any of the following help: 1) creating a ~/.startxwinrc containing just xterm ? 2) changing that .startxwinrc to run xterm? 3) setting LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1 ? 4) installing the font-daewoo-misc, font-isas-misc, and font-jis-misc packages? Yaakov Cygwin/X -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Can't start xterm from Cygwin/X icon in system tray
I have a very strange situation. At work, I am running Win XP SP3. I installed all the latest Cygwin (1.7.1) + Xorg updates, including startxwin.exe. Everything works perfectly. At home, I am running Windows 7 Professional, 64-bit. I am unable to start an xterm from the Cygwin/X icon in the system tray (right-click, select xterm). Both setups have the same line in .XWinrc: xterm EXEC xterm I am starting the X server the same way: D:\Cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startxwin.exe I do not have a ~/.startxwinrc file. The xterm that is supposed to be created when the server starts doesn't start either. The symptom is that xterm.exe is shown running in the task manager, but there is no Xterm window on the desktop. As a work-around, I created a shortcut on my desktop to start an xterm: D:\Cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/xterm -display localhost:0 That works perfectly, but is not an optimum solution (I try to have as few desktop icons as possible). There is nothing in the /var/log/Xwin log that indicates why an xterm would start but not open a window. Any ideas? -- Jim Reisert AD1C, jjreis...@alum.mit.edu, http://www.ad1c.us -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: can't start xterm
On Feb 5, 2009, at 2:30 PM, Ryan Stewart rds6...@gmail.com wrote: I had been using the startxwin.bat to start X in multiwindow mode, and I have a couple of lines in there to auto-start some xterm windows. That doesn't work anymore. The X server starts, but no xterms appear. When I right click the tray icon and go to Applications-xterm, nothing happens either Problem solved by using the startxwin.bat in /usr/X11R6/bin. I guess the one at /usr/bin wasn't updated because I'd modified it? The only change I noticed was from: SET RUN=%CYGWIN_ROOT%\bin\run -p /usr/bin to: SET RUN=%CYGWIN_ROOT%\bin\run -p /usr/X11R6/bin This strikes me as odd, since the upgrade instructions seem to indicate that /usr/X11R6/bin was going away in favor of /usr/bin: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2008-11/msg0.html So what's the deal here? Where is startxwin.bat supposed to live now? And how do I overcome the apparent problem of customizing it and getting killed by updates? A separate question: where can I find some documentation on \cygwin\bin\run.exe? I only have a vague idea what it does and no idea what options are available with it. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: can't start xterm
I did one thing to my startxwin.bat file to make it work. I commented out the set commands thus: rem SET XAPPLRESDIR= rem SET XCMSDB= rem SET XKEYSYMDB= rem SET XNLSPATH= I am not sure if this is what really made it work because it didn't work with the startxwin.sh command, either. However, it might be related to a residual of these being defined Jeff Note: These view are my own and not the views of the companies I work for. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: can't start xterm
Jeffrey A Delinck wrote: I did one thing to my startxwin.bat file to make it work. I commented out the set commands thus: rem SET XAPPLRESDIR= rem SET XCMSDB= rem SET XKEYSYMDB= rem SET XNLSPATH= I am not sure if this is what really made it work because it didn't work with the startxwin.sh command, either. However, it might be related to a residual of these being defined Known issue. See the FAQ entry: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-i-cant-type-anything -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 429-6305 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: can't start xterm
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Dan Moulding dmoulding at gmail dot com wrote: On Feb 5, 2009, at 2:30 PM, Ryan Stewart rds6...@gmail.com wrote: I had been using the startxwin.bat to start X in multiwindow mode, and I have a couple of lines in there to auto-start some xterm windows. That doesn't work anymore. The X server starts, but no xterms appear. When I right click the tray icon and go to Applications-xterm, nothing happens either What happens if you run xterm from a bash shell started from Cygwin.bat? I'm thinking it might give you an error message that may hint at the cause of the problem. Interesting. Restarting the computer seems to have made some difference. I can now start xterm normally in every case except when I start X using startxwin.bat. When I start it that way, I *can* start xterm from a separate bash shell, as you suggested--and there are no errors--but I still can't start it using the tray icon, and the xterms I've set up to start in startxwin.bat don't start, either. Those xterms in the batch file are my main concern. The batch file starts X like this: %RUN% XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error where RUN=\cygwin\bin\run -p /usr/bin Then I have lines like this: %RUN% xterm %RUN% xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l Neither of them work, but starting a cygwin shell and running the corresponding command from there, i.e. without the %RUN% in front, does work. These commands worked before I got an unrequested update yesterday. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
can't start xterm
Yet again, I seem to have inadvertently gotten an update to cygwin X, and now I'm having trouble getting xterm to start. I had been using the startxwin.bat to start X in multiwindow mode, and I have a couple of lines in there to auto-start some xterm windows. That doesn't work anymore. The X server starts, but no xterms appear. When I right click the tray icon and go to Applications-xterm, nothing happens either. Same deal if I run XWin.exe or XWin -multiwindow manually. If I run Cygwin.bat to get the cygwin shell, then run startx, I get the Cygwin/X:0.0 blue root window with a login xterm and various, square icon things in three of the corners. I'm not sure exactly what this is, but it's the only place that I can currently get new xterm windows to open, either by using Applications-xterm from the tray icon or by running xterm from the existing terminal. How can I get back to running X in multiwindow mode so I can have several xterm windows? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: can't start xterm
On Feb 5, 2009, at 2:30 PM, Ryan Stewart rds6...@gmail.com wrote: I had been using the startxwin.bat to start X in multiwindow mode, and I have a couple of lines in there to auto-start some xterm windows. That doesn't work anymore. The X server starts, but no xterms appear. When I right click the tray icon and go to Applications-xterm, nothing happens either What happens if you run xterm from a bash shell started from Cygwin.bat? I'm thinking it might give you an error message that may hint at the cause of the problem. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
can't start xterm
My xterm (and some other applications) won't start. Windows just hang and i must end xterm task. Twm and Xclock seems working OK. I have Win98 with 1.1.8 cygwin and latest XFree86. --jari __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/
RE: can't start xterm
update you Cygwin, please. Suhaib -Original Message- From: jari timonen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 10:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: can't start xterm My xterm (and some other applications) won't start. Windows just hang and i must end xterm task. Twm and Xclock seems working OK. I have Win98 with 1.1.8 cygwin and latest XFree86. --jari __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/
