Re: Can't use 'startx' after upgrade.

[Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Henrik Edberg wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> I upgraded my cygwin installation today, just to make it up-to-date, and 
> now I can't start XWindows the way I'm used to, actually not get it 
> working with a window manager at all.
> 
> Usually I just type 'startx' and a line in .xinitrc does 'exec wmaker' 
> for me and everything works like a charm. Now when I try to start X that 
> way, I get an error message saying that 'another window manager is 
> already running on sceen 0?'. Then I tried to remove wmaker and just 
> starting X by typing 'startx' then instead the only thing that happens 
> is that I get a message saying "waiting for X server to shut down". I 
> can start XWin by just typing X, but then I don't get a window manager, 
> if try to start wmaker with 'wmaker -display 0.0' wmaker exits saying 
> 'unable to open on display 0.0'.

it must read :0.0

But the main reson is that XWin has an internal windowmanager which is 
required for multiwindow mode. With the new packages, multiwindowmode
seems to be default now. 

Either don't use wmaker or remove or remove -multiwindow from this line 
in /usr/X11R6/bin/startx
defaultserverargs="-multiwindow -clipboard"

bye
	ago
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