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

[Henrik Edberg <henrik dot edberg at bahnhof dot se>]

Thanks alot for helping me out! :)

What you suggested worked. Also, after installing the XFree-lib-compat 
package with Cygwin/X 4.2.0 libraries, I got windowMaker to work.

What does the line do anyway, and why did it make my XWin crazy?

/ Henrik


Alexander Gottwald wrote:

> 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
>