Re: XWin with "rootless" option crashes on Vista

["Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

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rincewind wrote:
> I had been using Cygwin with ICEWM on my XP box for sometime. I moved to
> ("asked" to move to) Vista recently and I installed Cygwin and compiled
> ICEWM on my box. My problem is that, I am able to run startxwin.bat with the
> "multiwindow" option, but not with the "rootless" or "fullscreen" option
> since XWin just crashes. I understand that files have been modified in the
> new Cygwin, so I stuck to making changes in the .bat file only. I tried
> running startx too, but not with much avail.
> 
> In short, running startxwin.bat with XWin-multiwindow starts the X Server
> and I am able to launch newer xterms. If I remove the multiwindow option
> altogether or change it with rootless (ideal for me since I want to run a
> different window manager) or fullscreen, XWin crashes.
> 
> I understand that there are a few applications that cause strange issues
> with cygwin and I seem to have one such on my box (Logitech's webcam
> package). I would be glad with any advice on this issue. I looked through
> the forums, but I haven't been able to find a thread that matches my
> problem.

http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda

Please try completely uninstalling the Logitech software, make sure
you're running the current versions of Cygwin and X11, and try again.
If that does not help:

http://cygwin.com/problems.html

In addition to *attaching* the output of "cygcheck -s -r -v", please
also attach the /var/log/XWin.0.log from the failed attempt.


Yaakov
Cygwin/X
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