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, 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 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. >> >> You're not running startxwin twice, right? That won't work - you must >> run the xterm command from an existing xterm, a cygwin window, or the xterm >> icon in the start menu (which can be copied to the quicklaunch bar). >> >> Also, try running bash in an existing xterm to see if the problem is >> in your .bashrc, i.e. not with xterm or X. >> >> >> HTH, >> >> Mike >> > > test this.. > > in startxwin.sh or startxwin.bat ( whichever one you're calling to start > X ), between the call to start Xwin and the call to start the xterm, add > > > sleep 5 > > if that gets you an xterm every time, then decrement 5 until failure, > leave the call in with failure + 1 > > -- > 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/ > > -- 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/