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Re: new x.org server - startx and xinit fail?
- From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:38:48 -0500
- Subject: Re: new x.org server - startx and xinit fail?
- References: <67139EE8-B65D-4995-8B7E-39E49039BD56@surrey.ac.uk>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Lloyd Wood wrote:
I've just updated my Cygwin installation (1.5.25), and got the new x.org
xserver.
startx has stopped working.
After xauth creates a new authority file, it throws up a dialog saying
it's put help text
in /var/log/XWin.0.log
Perusing /var/log/XWin.0.log shows:
XWin was started with the following command line:
/usr/bin/X :0 -auth /cygdrive/c/Documents and
Settings/lwood/.serverauth.32660
[..]
unrecognized option: and
suggesting that missing quotes somewhere in startx borked the command.
Adding quotes in throughout startx (xinit command, whenever I saw $HOME)
didn't change this; whatever can't handle spaces is a little hidden.
xinit run alone dies because it can't find supported fonts.
How to get cygwin's x-window-in-Windows-window support running again and
get to an xterm?
X questions and issues should go to the cygwin-xfree list.
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