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Re: Duplication error upon startx with XWin :0; No terminal withXWin :1
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 18:14:38 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: Duplication error upon startx with XWin :0; No terminal withXWin :1
- References: <42CD4F1D.6060707@student.uq.edu.au>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Angus Veitch wrote:
> If I run startxwin.bat with the line "XWin :0 -multiwindow -clipboard
> -silent-dup-error", I successfully load a terminal, but attempting to
> run startx invokes: "Fatal server error: InitOutput - Duplicate
> invocation on display number: 0." The full XWin.log follows:
Maybe because you've already started the xserver with startxwin.bat?
startxwin.bat and startxwin.sh and startx all do the same.
>
> . . . and when I execute "startx" from the terminal . . .
Why do you want this. With startxwin.bat, the xserver is already started
> So, my question is: Why is the terminal missing when I run startwinx.bat
> with display number :1 rather than :0?
because at the start of startxwin.bat there is line
SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
^^
which must match the display number used with XWin
bye
ago
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