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Re: Xwin weirdnesses
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 12:11:39 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: Xwin weirdnesses
- References: <200405130838.i4D8cb0A009390@bolobot.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 13 May 2004 dummy@bolobot.com wrote:
> Since updating to the newest xorg distribution weird things are happening
> with starting Xwin from startxwin.bat. I used to be able to start multiple
> windows in a 800 by 600 screen with the blackbox window manager. Now when
> I try that using the -scrollbars -clipboard -screen 0 800 600 no window
> appears although when I kill X it thinks there are 2 clients connected?! I
> removed "run" from in front of Xwin in the batch file and that works, well,
> every other time. I start startxwin.bat and it pops up the X window but then
> doesn't start the window manager or xterm. If I kill X and restart, then it
> works (although it crashes at random times - it used to never crash). Rootless
> and multiwindow work, although I like having all my X stuff in its own window
> and using rootless and multiwindow I don't have the benefits of blackbox (i.e.
> opening a new xterm session by right-clicking). Is anyone else having these
> problems?
The startupfiles have been modified to start -multiwindow by default. Are you sure
XWin is not started with that option? Check /tmp/XWin.log. The commandline used
to start XWin is printed there.
bye
ago
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