Re: Startx claimed there was antoher WM running and refused to start

[Mark Paulus <mark dot paulus at mci dot com>]

Ahhh, but you do have a WM running.
Cygwin/X uses the  MS Windows Manager when the -multiwindow option
is given, which is WM 1.

Do you, by chance, have a .xinitrc file in your home directory?
This might be trying to start an additional Window Manager.

Which Window Manager are you trying to run?

If you want to run X in it's own window, and use a different WM, then you 
could create a file:  $(HOME)/.xserverrc, which looks like this:
$ cat .xserverrc
exec X :0 -clipboard

and then .xinitrc, which starts up your WM and any other processes:
$ cat .xinitrc
#exec fvwm2 -f /usr/X11R6/share/fvwm/system.fvwm2rc-sample-95
#exec fvwm2
exec wmaker
#exec openbox
#ssh-agent wmaker > ~/.ssh-agent
#export DISPLAY=localhost:0
#xhost +

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 09:18:41 -0700, wangxin@onid.orst.edu wrote:

>I am running cygwin on WindowsXP. StartX failed to start and claimed there
>is another wm running, which is not correct. :-)

>Can anyone help me figure out what is wrong here?

>Here is the log. :-)

>Thanks!
>------------------------------------

>Welcome to the XWin X Server
>Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
>Release: 6.8.2.0-2

>Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com

>XWin was started with the following command line:

>X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard

>_XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
>winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1
>(II) XF86Config is not supported
>(II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information
>(==) FontPath set to
>"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
>winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP
>winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed
>winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed
>winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 00000007
>winSetEngine - Multi Window or Rootless => ShadowGDI
>winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel
>winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1600 height: 1200 depth: 32
>winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff
>winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32
>null screen fn ReparentWindow
>null screen fn RestackWindow
>InitQueue - Calling pthread_mutex_init
>InitQueue - pthread_mutex_init returned
>InitQueue - Calling pthread_cond_init
>InitQueue - pthread_cond_init returned
>winInitMultiWindowWM - Hello
>winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock ()
>winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Hello
>winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock ()
>MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support
>XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of
>shared memory support in the kernel
>(--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31
>(--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000409" (00000409)
>(--) Using preset keyboard for "English (USA)" (409), type "4"
>Rules = "xorg" Model = "pc105" Layout = "us" Variant = "(null)" Options =
>"(null)"
>(--) 5 mouse buttons found
>Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from
>list!
>winPointerWarpCursor - Discarding first warp: 800 600
>winInitMultiWindowWM - pthread_mutex_lock () returned.
>winProcEstablishConnection - Hello
>winInitMultiWindowWM - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned.
>cat: /c/xinwang/.XauthoritywinMultiWindowXMsgProc - pthread_mutex_lock ()
>returned.
>: No such file or directory
>winInitMultiWindowWM - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
>winMultiWindowXMsgProc - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned.
>winMultiWindowXMsgProc - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
>winInitClipboard ()
>winProcEstablishConnection - winInitClipboard returned.
>winClipboardProc - Hello
>DetectUnicodeSupport - Windows NT/2000/XP
>winClipboardProc - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
>winInitMultiWindowWM - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the
>display.
>winMultiWindowXMsgProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the
>display.
>winClipboardProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the display.
>[FVWM][CatchRedirectError]: <<ERROR>> another WM is running
>winClipboardProc - Call to select () failed: -1.  Bailing.
>winClipboardProc - XDestroyWindow succeeded.

>waiting for X server to shut down
>winClipboardIOErrorHandler!