Re: Bug in startxwin.bat after installing with setup.exe in win98SE

[Nicholas Wourms <nwourms at yahoo dot com>]

--- Jehan <nahor@bravobrava.com> wrote:
> Nicholas Wourms wrote:
> > --- Jehan <nahor@bravobrava.com> wrote:
> > 
> >>Nicholas Wourms wrote:
> >>
> >>>--- Jehan <nahor@bravobrava.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>If you search the archives, others have already made icons ready for
> >>
> >>you
> >>
> >>>use :).  
> >>
> >>Well, I had this one for quite a while already.
> >>
> >>
> >>>I wonder why not just can all the dos stuff by having the
> >>>batch file call bash which then calls startxwin.sh?  One file is
> >>
> >>*much*
> >>
> >>>easier to maintain then two.  Anywho, let me know your thoughts on
> >>
> >>this..
> >>
> >>That would be nice I agree. But for what I see on this mailing list, 
> >>lots of people have problems with startxwin.sh (.xinitrc and
> .Xautorithy
> >>
> >>stuff) while very few people complain about startxwin.bat. So until we
> 
> >>can have startxwin.sh to work as is for most people, I think it's
> better
> >>
> >>to stick with the batch file for now.
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > You are mistaking "startx" for "startxwin.sh".  startxwin.sh is
> basically
> > the same thing as startxwin.bat, but without all the nasty path
> > conversions and soforth.  Look again, it has nothing to do with
> .xinitrc
> > and .Xauthority.
> 
> One would think so but no. I have an old .Xauthority from a linux 
> account. If I use this one and run X with startxwin.sh, I get a bunch of
> 
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
> xsetroot:  unable to open display ':0.0'
> 
> for each application I try to run.
> If I use an empty .Xauthority, then everything works fine. Well, not 
> everything actually but at least I have xterm starting. I don't know 
> what differs between the shell and the batch version of startxwin, but 
> there is definitely something.
> 
> 	Jehan

Well this is obviously a bug in X and needs to be fixed.  I dunno, maybe
I'm wrong, but it just seems a bit silly to have two identical scripts for
two different situations.  I'm of the camp that loves reusable code...

Cheers,
Nicholas

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