Re: startx failure, on fresh install

[Greg Smith <gsmith at alumni dot uwaterloo dot ca>]

> You may want to use startxwin.sh or startxwin.bat, since there seems to
> be no evidence of anybody trying those methods yet.  My experience is
> that I have tried startx and startxwin.sh, and they both don't work; the
> startxwin.bat file is the only one that worked for me.  Try it out, and
> see what happens.

Thank you for the response. startxwin.sh result seems identical to startx.
startxwin.bat actually starts the server, but it's not viable:

(1) run startxwin.bat in win command shell. X appears in sys tray.
(2) "env DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 xclock & " in a cygwin shell: no window opens.
(3) "env DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 xlogo &" in a cygwin shell: X window opens,
but if you breathe on it, an error occurs (if you hit 'return' in the cygwin
shell, or if you just alt-tab to the X window and back). Error message is

Xlib: sequence lost (0x10000 > 0x32) in reply type 0x0!
X Error of failed request:  0
 Major opcode of failed request:  0 ()
 Serial number of failed request:  0
 Current serial number in output stream:  50


I can also run 'XWin -multiwindow' in a cygwin shell, and get a similarly flaky X session.


> And the next time you report a problem, you might want to read:
> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Well I did, actually; the full error dump is in the previous report that I linked to,
and there's even more info (from another user with an identical problem) in a report
linked to from there. I didn't think it was useful to replicate the full dump, I had 
no new information.

And, re putting my full address in: no sweat, I get so much spam already at this
address it's doubtful it will make any difference.




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