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new x.org server - startx and xinit fail?
- From: Lloyd Wood <l dot wood at surrey dot ac dot uk>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: Lloyd Wood <l dot wood at surrey dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:20:58 +0000
- Subject: new x.org server - startx and xinit fail?
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?
thanks,
L.
<http://info.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/><L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk>
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