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From: <l.wood@surrey.ac.uk>
To: <tim.kingman@gmail.com>
Cc: <l.wood@surrey.ac.uk>, <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: 64-bit xfree86 failing?
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 04:34:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <10998D1D-BE1A-4338-8B24-DCE631210F68@surrey.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ6-67PP2LhWeeH6qGyNBfPJXmckWGyx3-s131O61QoGR66UQ@mail.gmail.com>

> (Resending because qmail can't handle mime)

I don't have a ~/.startxwinrc file, because the account home directory was created without one.


Creating one, making it executable, adding commands to it makes no difference - the X server launches (--muiltiwindow or not) and then decides to shut down.


Do not update your cygwin installations, would be my advice.


Lloyd Wood
http://about.me/lloydwood
________________________________
From: Tim Kingman <tim.kingman@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, 2 December 2014 3:22 AM
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; Wood L Dr (Electronic Eng)
Subject: Re: 64-bit xfree86 failing?

I see the same issue, and it looks like this is because I have an empty (co=
mmented-out) ~/.startxwinrc

Removing this file causes X to open and start an xterm, probably because it=
broke several of the new rules in https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2014-=
11/msg00029.html:

* User-defined ~/.startxwinrc files must now be executable, the final comma=
nd therein must be run in the foreground, and that command's exiting will e=
nd the X session, just like with startx and ~/.xinitrc or ~/.Xclients.

This is then another problem for me because my .bashrc calls startxwin to m=
ake sure I always have an X server running ( per http://stackoverflow.com/a=
/9301966 ), and then I get caught in a loop of launching new X servers infi=
nitely (probably from startxwin now finding a new DISPLAY, and specifying b=
oth :0 and -silent-dup-error doesn't seem to silence the error that :0 alre=
ady exists). I'll keep playing with this to see if I can come up with a sol=
ution to duplicate my previous behavior: Any new bash shell makes sure that=
X is running, with no X apps running, and only one X is running, and new s=
hells don't cause "display already exists" errors.

Thanks,
Tim


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       reply	other threads:[~2014-12-02  4:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAGZ6-67PP2LhWeeH6qGyNBfPJXmckWGyx3-s131O61QoGR66UQ@mail.gmail.com>
2014-12-02  4:34 ` l.wood [this message]
2014-12-04  2:53   ` l.wood
2015-02-02 15:49     ` Jon TURNEY
2014-12-01  9:49 l.wood

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