Re: Multiwindows launches but nothing happens

[Robert Savage <savage at agora dot rdrop dot com>]

Thanks for the response.
I do not understand why the x-startup-scripts are not installed.
I have tried a number of sites to install from selecting
all packages. 

Are the startup scripts something that need manual installation?
If so how is this done.
Or is the a site that you recommend installing from?

Thanks

Robert
> On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, ROBERT T JOAN V SAVAGE wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have installed cygwin and am having troubles running xwin or xwin
> > -multiwindows.
> >
> > Running xwin pops open window, but has not drop down menus to start, for
> > instance and xterm.
> >
> > If I run xwin -multiwindow nothing seems to happen.  The log file is as
> > follows:
> >
> > Welcome to the XWin X Server
> > Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
> > Release: 6.8.1.0-5
> > [snip]
> > XWin was started with the following command line:
> > X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard
> > [snip]
> > winClipboardProc - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
> > winInitMultiWindowWM - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the display.
> > [snip]
> 
> What exactly did you expect would happen?  The log shows the X server as
> started and waiting for connections.  Now you need to open an X
> application (e.g., xterm) -- it won't be opened automatically when you
> start the X server directly the way you did (by running XWin.exe).
> 
> You have a few choices:
> 
> - Install the X-startup-scripts, and use either "startxwin.sh" or "startx"
> to start the X server (both will, IIRC, open at least an xterm for you).
> 
> - Install the X-start-menu-icons package and use the Start menu to open
> whatever applications you need.
> 
> - Use the old-fashioned way and open a regular Cygwin console (via the
> Cygwin icon on your desktop), and from the prompt run
> 
> 	DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 xterm &
> 
> - Do the above, but run a window manager instead (provided you're in
> non-multiwindow mode, which in itself is a window manager).  Most X window
> managers (e.g., twm, fvwm, WindowMaker, openbox) will have a desktop menu
> that allows to start X applications.  Note that only twm comes with X by
> default, others have to be installed separately.
> 
> - Starting the X server should have created an icon in your system tray.
> ISTR there was some work on adding a menu to that icon that would let you
> start applications and control the X server.  Don't know if that was ever
> completed, though, or if it's been included in the default XWin package...
> 
> There are other ways, but they are more arcane... :-)
> 	Igor
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