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Re: X is not starting
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Cc: daniel at bicho dot synchrodesign dot com
- Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 10:02:56 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: X is not starting
- References: <200804071821.m37IL1YW024634@bicho.synchrodesign.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Daniel Senderowicz wrote:
> I'm resending the XWin.log because it seems that your spam
> blocker doesn't like the compressed file.
FWIW, the compressed attachment came through. But it would be nice (TM)
to get a plain-text attachment, as that could be easily read through the
web archives while not polluting the actual message with inline text.
> Hi,
>
> I had everything perfectly working with "startx :0" until I decided that
> I needed to emulate a 3-button mouse. Since I didn't find such option in
> the startx script, I set it up in the starxwin.bat which I never used
> before. So when I startxwin it will open whatever application I can
> invoke from the command line but it doesn't give me a separate layer
> such as the one I was getting with startx in which I could click with
> the mouse, etc. So I tried to go back to startx but now it closes off,
> so I don't know why I cannot go back to what I was doing before. I
> deleted /tmp/.X11-unix to no avail. I assume that there should be
> another persistent file that was modified when I invoked startxwin which
> is not letting startx work properly. Below you'll find
> the /tmp/XWin.log.
>
> Many thanks in advance,
> Daniel
>
> _____________________________________________________________________
> XWin was started with the following command line:
> X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard
^^^^^^^^^^^^
First things first: the above causes X to use the native MS window manager
instead of a separate window manager like twm. You seem to indicate that
you liked the separate root window -- for that, remove the -multiwindow
option.
Also, if you want to emulate a 3-button mouse, try the -emulate3buttons
option.
FWIW, you can pass extra arguments to the X server via startx. For
example, to get the above, use "startx :0 -- -emulate3buttons -clipboard".
> [snip]
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
This might be a problem if that socket is not readable/writable by you.
Otherwise you can ignore it.
> [snip]
> winClipboardProc - Call to select () failed: -1. Bailing.
This could indicate the presence of an application from the
<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA> (see
<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda> for a list).
HTH,
Igor
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