On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Sara Gamble wrote: > Hi, > > I installed both Cygwin and Cygwin/X for the first time last week and also > updated with the new setup version 2.427 yesterday. I have Cygwin/X > release 6.7.0.0-4 and my operating system is Windows XP pro. When I start > Cygwin I get a Cygwin bash shell (with the C~ in the upper left corner) > and everything seems to work correctly. My problem is that I cannot open > Cygwin/X in the default environment where I get an X Server, terminal, and > window manager. Instead, two different things are happening to me when I > run the three different start options: > > 1. When I run startwin.bat or startx (after using whatever default > ~/.xinitrc you get when following the directions here: > http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using.html#using-starting and making no > modifications to the template) I get a small terminal with an X~ in the > upper left corner with green and yellow fonts and scroll bar. > > 2. When I run xwin.exe I get a full screen gray and black mesh with the X > Cygwin/X -0:0 words in the upper left corner and the regular Windows > minimize and close buttons in the upper right. Other than that, the > display is completely empty (ie no terminals or the ability to add them or > anything).
This is the normal behaviour. XWin is only the xserver and does not start any clients. For starting a complete session you should startxwin.bat or startx. If you do not want the variant which creates multiple windows you have to edit startxwin.bat and remove the -multiwindow switch. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723