Re: startx timing out

["Thomas Chadwick" <j_tetazoo at hotmail dot com>]

A few suggestions:

1) If you have a file in your home directory called .Xauthority, delete it 
(or at least rename it if you want to use it again later).

2) If you don't have a file in your home directory called .xinitrc, create 
one containing something like the following (the following does the same 
stuff as the stock startxwin.sh and startxwin.bat):

 xsetroot -solid aquamarine4
 xterm -sl 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms red -fg yellow -bg black \
       -e /usr/bin/bash &
 twm

> From: "J. W. Ballantine" <jwb@homer.att.com>
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: startx timing out
> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 16:17:26 -0400
>
>
> I've installed cygwin-xfree and I seem to have something mis-configured.
>
> If I run from startxwin.sh, everything runs fine, but if I try to use
> startx, the x window, white, opens up, changes to a cross-hatch pattern
> and eventually closes down.  In the sh window I get the message:
>   waiting for X server to begin accepting connections
>   ..
>   ..
> until it finally times out.  For the record the same thing happens if I
> try and run just xinit
>
> my /tmp/XWin.log is:
>
> ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens
> winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1024 h 768
> winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP
> winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines - Allowing PrimaryDD
> winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 0000001f
> winSetEngine - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking
> winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per 
> pixel
> winAdjustForAutoHide - Original WorkArea: 0 0 768 1024
> winAdjustForAutoHide - Taskbar is auto hide
> winAdjustForAutoHide - Found LEFT auto-hide taskbar
> winAdjustForAutoHide - Adjusted WorkArea: 0 1 768 1024
> winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - WindowClient w 1017 h 745 r 1017 l 0 b 
> 745 t
> 0
> winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed -  Returning
> winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - lPitch: 4068
> winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff
> winInitVisualsShadowDDNL - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 winWindowProc - 
> WM_*KEYDOWN
> - Closekey hit, quitting
> eferring to fbCreateDefColormap ()
> winScreenInit - returning
>
> I couldn't find anything about this in the mail-list archive.
>
> Does someone see anything I don't.
>
> Thanks
>
> Jim Ballantine



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