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Re: Multiwindows launches but nothing happens
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Cc: savage at rdrop dot com
- Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 09:45:02 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Multiwindows launches but nothing happens
- References: <BAY4-F17Y7PeGbPn6U90004267a@hotmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
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On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, ROBERT T JOAN V SAVAGE wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have installed cygwin and am having troubles running xwin or xwin
> -multiwindows.
>
> Running xwin pops open window, but has not drop down menus to start, for
> instance and xterm.
>
> If I run xwin -multiwindow nothing seems to happen. The log file is as
> follows:
>
> Welcome to the XWin X Server
> Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
> Release: 6.8.1.0-5
> [snip]
> XWin was started with the following command line:
> X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard
> [snip]
> winClipboardProc - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
> winInitMultiWindowWM - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the display.
> [snip]
What exactly did you expect would happen? The log shows the X server as
started and waiting for connections. Now you need to open an X
application (e.g., xterm) -- it won't be opened automatically when you
start the X server directly the way you did (by running XWin.exe).
You have a few choices:
- Install the X-startup-scripts, and use either "startxwin.sh" or "startx"
to start the X server (both will, IIRC, open at least an xterm for you).
- Install the X-start-menu-icons package and use the Start menu to open
whatever applications you need.
- Use the old-fashioned way and open a regular Cygwin console (via the
Cygwin icon on your desktop), and from the prompt run
DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 xterm &
- Do the above, but run a window manager instead (provided you're in
non-multiwindow mode, which in itself is a window manager). Most X window
managers (e.g., twm, fvwm, WindowMaker, openbox) will have a desktop menu
that allows to start X applications. Note that only twm comes with X by
default, others have to be installed separately.
- Starting the X server should have created an icon in your system tray.
ISTR there was some work on adding a menu to that icon that would let you
start applications and control the X server. Don't know if that was ever
completed, though, or if it's been included in the default XWin package...
There are other ways, but they are more arcane... :-)
Igor
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