XWin.exe not running any more.

Ken Jackson cygwin@jackson.io
Sun Oct 25 07:50:00 GMT 2015


On 09/05/2015 08:14 AM, Thomas Schweikle wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Since yesterday starting "XWin.exe -multiwindow -clipboard" starts,
> but stops after short. It doesn't keep running and X11 is not usable.
>
I had a similar problem.  Mine turned out to be that a lock file wasn't 
deleted.

I can't remember the name, (and I don't have a Windows computer nearby
to check) but it's something like /tmp/x0.lock.  Try "ls /tmp/*lock*" 
and delete
what you find.

-Ken Jackson

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