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Re: Error starting X
- From: luke dot kendall at cisra dot canon dot com dot au
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:40:45 +1000 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Error starting X
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On 14 Apr, Carolyn Longfoot wrote:
> sorry to bother but my fresh Cygwin installation fails to start X, and I'm
> at a complete loss as to why. This is straight after a reboot, so why there
> would be a server already running is a complete mystery to me. How do I go
> about troubleshooting this?
Sounds like you have a .xinitrc file that specifies a window manager to
run. The default behaviour of the Cygwin X server was changed to run a
built-in window manager that integrates X windows onto the Windows
desktop better (this is the -multiwindow option, which is the default).
You could write a .bat script that instead of running Xwin runs
Xwin -- :0, to stop the -multiwindow being passed.
luke