Re: modification of startx.bat not work

2006-07-25 Thread René Berber
René Berber wrote: [snip] > You probably can just run a Windows shortcut to XWin with all the parameters, > and use .xinitrc or .xsession to start up SC. [snip] I made a little experiment and the above sentence is not true: if I start XWindows from an icon/shortcut (using "C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe -p

Re: modification of startx.bat not work

2006-07-25 Thread René Berber
Dirk Schleicher wrote: [snip] > I try it. The only thing is that if SC is close the Xserver close too. Yes, that's the way it works. I mean, that's the way that the steps I showed work. [snip] > Again to start this I have to start a cygwin bash shell. I like to > start SC without a shell You m

Re: Problem with starting X server (alternate solution)

2006-07-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Steve Freeland wrote: Apologies for not attaching this to the correct thread; I'm not subscribed to the list and don't really know how I should go about that. But anyways. Regarding the "Could not open default font 'fixed'" message: Stephen A. Goulet mentioned that he was able to fix the prob

Re: Problem with starting X server (alternate solution)

2006-07-25 Thread Steve Freeland
Apologies for not attaching this to the correct thread; I'm not subscribed to the list and don't really know how I should go about that. But anyways. Regarding the "Could not open default font 'fixed'" message: Stephen A. Goulet mentioned that he was able to fix the problem by following the in

Re: modification of startx.bat not work

2006-07-25 Thread Dirk Schleicher
Am Tue, 25 Jul 2006 03:16:51 -0500 schrieb René Berber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [snip] > Correct, the way XWin is started using startxwin.bat does make the > whole server execution depend on the xterm, so when the xterm is > closed XWin terminates. > > That can be changed easily by using startx (inst

Re: Xwin.log error

2006-07-25 Thread andi b
hey chuck, > I'll give that a try but I am still wondering what changed. XWin.exe > used to be able to determine that another instance was running and just > quietly exit. i had the same problem as you and i totally understand why toi run the .bat file each because there are lots of conf settings

Re: modification of startx.bat not work

2006-07-25 Thread René Berber
Dirk Schleicher wrote: [snip] > let me try to explain it once more. At the moment I start cygwin by > startx.bat. Then I have a open xterm "window" where I start SC. > This means that I have two "icons" or two programs (SC and Xterm) in the > taskbar (hope taskbar is the right word) of my W2k. If I