Re: How to open a standalone xterm

[Joel Gwynn <joelman at gmail dot com>]

Ha!  That seems to do it.  Although I also have to wait a bit between
closing the xwin window and restarting, but that's not so bad.  I
guess there's some process that takes awhile to exit.

Thanks,
Joel

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Reid Thompson <reid.thompson@ateb.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 11:49 -0700, Mike Ayers wrote:
>> > From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-
>> > owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Joel Gwynn
>> > Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 8:27 AM
>>
>>
>> > And now, sporadically, when I run startxwin.sh, sometimes it works, ie
>> > opens up the xterm, but sometimes some windows open, with text that I
>> > can't read quickly enough, then go away. ?If I close Xwin and try
>> > again, sometimes it will work, mostly not.
>>
>> ? ? ? You're not running startxwin twice, right? ?That won't work - you must run the xterm command from an existing xterm, a cygwin window, or the xterm icon in the start menu (which can be copied to the quicklaunch bar).
>>
>> ? ? ? Also, try running bash in an existing xterm to see if the problem is in your .bashrc, i.e. not with xterm or X.
>>
>>
>> ? ? ? HTH,
>>
>> Mike
>>
>
> test this..
>
> in startxwin.sh or startxwin.bat ( whichever one you're calling to start
> X ), between the call to start Xwin and the call to start the xterm, add
>
>
> sleep 5
>
> if that gets you an xterm every time, then decrement 5 until failure,
> leave the call in with failure + 1
>
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