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1. After running startxwin.sh, my cmd prompt showed these last lines: << ... (--) Using preset keyboard for "English (United Kingdom)" (809), type "4" Rules = "xorg" Model = "pc105" Layout = "gb" Variant = "(null)" Options = "(null )" >> 2. I was not put back to the $ prompt, but I could interact with something. However, this resulted in error messages. After about 3 attempts, I was back at the $ prompt. XWin etc still running though. No xterm window opened (assuming one was supposed to) << [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/X11R6/bin $ ps -ef UID PID PPID TTY STIME COMMAND JOrmerod 3412 1 con 07:53:17 /usr/bin/bash JOrmerod 4740 1 con 08:06:31 /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin JOrmerod 4368 1 con 08:06:31 /usr/bin/xterm JOrmerod 1804 4740 con 08:06:36 /etc/X11/xkb/xkbcomp JOrmerod 5400 3412 con 08:37:16 /usr/bin/ps >> 3. More tests. These may be a bit hard to follow, given no ability to format. Will do my best. 3.1 ==>I entered a: ? (well, why not!) ==> the log and cmd window displayed: << Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 6.8.2.0-4 Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root XWin was started with the following command line: X winCheckDisplayNumber - Cygwin/X is already running on display 0 Fatal server error: InitOutput - Duplicate invocation on display number: 0. Exiting. >> ==> This also resulted in a GUI error prompt saying much the same thing. 3.2 ==> Entered another ? and a CR. Similar or same entries in the log (it gets overwritten each time) ==> My final CR produced the following in the cmd window, which then exited whatever it was'in', and put me back to $ prompt (the log did not contain the same contents) << [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/X11R6/bin $ ?Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 6.8.2.0-4 Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com XWin was started with the following command line: XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error _XSERVTransmkdir: Cannot create /tmp/.X11-unix with root ownership winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1 winCheckDisplayNumber - Cygwin/X is already running on display 0 Fatal server error: InitOutput - Duplicate invocation on display number: 0. Exiting. winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress X connection to 127.0.0.1:0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). >> The ps -ef at start of this append, show the three processes still running. The X icon is in the system tray, but does not respond to mouse clicks. 4. I exited the shell and then reran cygwin.bat. BTW, it does indeed take 60 secs to start. The same 3 processes we still running. I could kill xterm. But xkbcomp responded with: bash: kill: (1804) - Resource temporarily unavailable And Xwin did nothing. 5. Using Windows' Task Mgr to stop processes: Ending xkbcomp resulted in Xwin going as well!? The cmd window displayed: << [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ (EE) Couldn't open compiled keymap file /tmp/server-0.xkm (EE) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap (--) 3 mouse buttons found Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from li st! winPointerWarpCursor - Discarding first warp: 512 384 winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress >> I'll stop now. John ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- John Ormerod erebor limited -- 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/