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Re: XWin Multiwindow fails to start
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 05:11:12PM +0200, Holger Krull wrote:
> Nick Douma schrieb:
> > No one who has any suggestions... ?
>
> Not for your main problem. Just the general idea that sometimes deleting and reinstalling helps to solve strange problems.
I'll try that tomorrow
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> > On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 11:38:33AM +0200, Nick Douma wrote:
> >> I'm using the latest version of Cygwin, and Xwin 6.8.99.901-4. Whenever I try to run X with `startx` or startx
> >> scripts, it fails. If I run it directly with `X :0` it works fine (so it appears), but when I run it with `X :0
> >> -multiwindow` it fails with the following log:
> >>
> >> Also, when I run it with the `X :0` command, the DISPLAY var is not set, and xterm does not start up
> >> automatically.
>
> That is no surprise, the DISPLAY variable doesn't set itself, you need a script to do that. The same with the starting of xterm, if you just start the X11 server, it will not start an xterm.
Sounds logical, I guess that is one of the uses for the startx scripts
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