Thomas Chadwick wrote:
> What happens if you run xinit directly (instead of via startx)? For quite
> some time now I have been launching Cygwin/XFree86 via xinit without a hitch
> (no need to use startx IMHO). More info in the ML archives...
>
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-10/msg0
Fred Ma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: startx: Malformed file inquiry
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 13:41:54 -0500
> From: Alexander Gottwald
> To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:49:28 +0100 (MET)
> Subject: Re:
> From: Alexander Gottwald
> To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:49:28 +0100 (MET)
> Subject: Re: startx: Malformed file inquiry
> Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
>
> --
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Shing-Fat Fred Ma wrote:
> > + xinit /home/Name/.xinitrc --
> >
> > if: Malformed file inquiry.
/home/Name/.xinitrc seems to be the problem.
bye
ago
Hello,
I tried issuing "startx" from my home
directory, ~. I got the following error:
> if: Malformed file inquiry.
> giving up.
> xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server
> xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
> + [ x != x ]
>
It works if I issu
