From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1712 invoked by alias); 21 Jan 2004 21:52:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 1703 invoked from network); 21 Jan 2004 21:52:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sdmpc3.sdm) (24.61.92.89) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 21 Jan 2004 21:52:14 -0000 Received: from sdmpc3.sdm (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by sdmpc3.sdm (Postfix) with SMTP id CD3F122C1D5 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 16:53:17 -0500 (EST) Received: from sdmpc6 (sdmpc6.sdm [192.168.254.3]) by sdmpc3.sdm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2077C22C1D6 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 16:53:14 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: From: "Brian L. Walter" To: , Subject: RE: Startx on WinXP Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 21:52:00 -0000 Message-ID: <001b01c3e069$0ad64bb0$03fea8c0@sdmpc6> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on sdmpc3.sdm X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.60 X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg00455.txt.bz2 List-Id: Well, that didn't fix it. But you gave me somewhere to look. I might try the old dos way of naming directories, i.e. with the ~. I'll let ya know. Regards, Brian -----Original Message----- From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 4:08 PM To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; bwalter@sdm1.com Subject: Re: Startx on WinXP On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Brian L. Walter wrote: > Greetings, > > I've recently installd cygwin on both a win98 machine and a winxp=20 > machine. The win98 installs works great (except for being really slow,=20 > but that's a hardware issue.) On the XP side, I've installed it, but=20 > getting some strange behavior. If I do a 'startx', I get the=20 > following: > > [: and: unknown operand > [: and: unknown operand > > After doing some playing around with the startx script, I've come to=20 > realize it's complaining about the bash conditional statements. As=20 > though I'm not running under bash.... > > And as far as I can see, I am. The fall out of this behavior is the=20 > inability to control which window manager gets started. I can get=20 > around that by commenting out all of the conditionals in startx, but,=20 > this seems at best a temporary work around. > > Am I missing something in setting up/configuring cygwin to run under=20 > XP, something that is different than win98? > > TIA > Brian L. Walter Brian, You didn't do anything wrong. This problem is most likely due to you having either HOME or TMP set to "C:\Documents and Settings\...". The "and" in "Documents and settings" is what startx complains about (since it doesn't quote paths properly). I've posted a patch to startx a while ago that fixed this, but it looks like it hasn't been incorporated in the latest release. Since startx is just a text file, you can simply apply the patch yourself from (use "patch -p0 < startx.patch" in /usr/X11R6/bin). Igor --=20 http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.564 / Virus Database: 356 - Release Date: 1/19/2004 =20 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.564 / Virus Database: 356 - Release Date: 1/19/2004 =20