Sometimes X starts, sometimes it sticks

2004-07-23 Thread luke . kendall
We've been having troubles recently using Cygwin from last week, and today I checked my personal installation which is 3 or 4 weeks older than that, and found the problem is present in that, too. The symptom is that sometimes XWin.exe starts, but doesn't show an icon in the taskbar, and you can't

Does xinit do magic stuff?

2004-07-23 Thread luke . kendall
I have just found that on a very recent Cygwin, I can never ever start X using our simple shell script (just posted: cisraxwin.sh). The script does this: runs ~/.xserverrc if it exists, else it runs Xwin with $XSERVER_ARGS; waits for the X server to start; else fails if

Re: Does xinit do magic stuff?

2004-07-23 Thread luke . kendall
On 23 Jul, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ask only to try to understand. I think the correct fix is to use xinit. The new script seems to work completely reliably. I'm still interested in xinit's magic, though. :-) luke #!/bin/sh # # Start up X. Allow XSERVER_ARGS to define args to

Crash

2004-07-23 Thread Przemyslaw Sliwa
Dear All, I have installed Cygwin on WinXP and the startx command gives me an error with the log below. I want to notice that I had some problems during the istallation - after a perfect downaload the system could not find a dll file called cygwin/X or something similar. Do you know what can

start vs run

2004-07-23 Thread Armbrust, Daniel C.
At the end of my startxwin.bat script, here is how I launch my windows manger, and then connect up to a Fedora Core 2 machine: start XWin -screen 0 1280 960 -clipboard -silent-dup-error run xterm -geometry 80x24+0+0 -sb -leftbar -e ssh -Y mir04 /bin/bash --login -c gnome-session This works