Re: default configuration not working

[Sara Gamble <sgamble at phys dot ufl dot edu>]

Hi Alexander,

Thanks for putting my mind somewhat at ease!  I tried your suggestion of
using the startx command, but I am still having display problems.  When I
run startx, it still gives me just the single window, even thought I want
the multiwindow mode that I thought came as a default setting.

I am getting error messages like:

another window manager is already running on screen 0?
unable to find any unmanaged screens

I get a similar error if I try to run openbox or wmaker..something along
the lines of wmaker fatal error: could not open display ""

All I'm aiming to get is what the screen shots at the top of
http://x.cygwin.com show the display to be.

Do you think my defaults were somehow changed in the version I installed?

Thanks,
Sara


On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Sara Gamble wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I installed both Cygwin and Cygwin/X for the first time last week and also
> > updated with the new setup version 2.427 yesterday.  I have Cygwin/X
> > release 6.7.0.0-4 and my operating system is Windows XP pro.  When I start
> > Cygwin I get a Cygwin bash shell (with the C~ in the upper left corner)
> > and everything seems to work correctly.  My problem is that I cannot open
> > Cygwin/X in the default environment where I get an X Server, terminal, and
> > window manager.  Instead, two different things are happening to me when I
> > run the three different start options:
> > 
> > 1. When I run startwin.bat or startx (after using whatever default
> > ~/.xinitrc you get when following the directions here:
> > http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using.html#using-starting and making no
> > modifications to the template) I get a small terminal with an X~ in the
> > upper left corner with green and yellow fonts and scroll bar.
> > 
> > 2. When I run xwin.exe I get a full screen gray and black mesh with the X
> > Cygwin/X -0:0 words in the upper left corner and the regular Windows
> > minimize and close buttons in the upper right.  Other than that, the
> > display is completely empty (ie no terminals or the ability to add them or
> > anything).
> 
> This is the normal behaviour. XWin is only the xserver and does not start any
> clients. For starting a complete session you should startxwin.bat or startx.
> 
> If you do not want the variant which creates multiple windows you have to edit
> startxwin.bat and remove the -multiwindow switch.
> 
> bye
> 	ago
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