RE: Cygwin 1.7 hangs with my .xinitrc

["Mike Ayers" <mike_ayers at tvworks dot com>]

> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com 
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Jon TURNEY
> Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 8:16 AM

> I can reproduce the problem using it.  I seem to end up with 
> a few of the 
> xterms spinning somewhere and trying to use 100% CPU, and 
> outputting the 
> following:
> 
> No protocol specified
> xterm Xt error: Can't open display: :0
> 
> After inserting 'sleep 1' into the .xinitrc before each xterm 
> seems to start 
> up without trouble, so I guess there's some sort of timing condition 
> somewhere, although I've no idea where...

	I have had `sleep 1` statements after each xterm launch in my .xinitrc for years, having encountered a similar problem.  At least I'm pretty sure it was a similar problem... yes, I should have reported it then.


	HTH,

Mike

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