From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22806 invoked by alias); 16 Dec 2010 17:25:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 22790 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Dec 2010 17:25:44 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,FREEMAIL_FROM,TW_TX,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from sam.nabble.com (HELO sam.nabble.com) (216.139.236.26) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:25:27 +0000 Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156]) by sam.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PTHa1-0001Rf-Ls for cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 09:25:25 -0800 Message-ID: <30474646.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:25:00 -0000 From: jwzumwalt To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin 1.7 startxwin failing due to "winMultiWindowXMsgProc - another window manager is running. Exiting." In-Reply-To: <4CF33DB3.2020805@hotmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <4CF33DB3.2020805@hotmail.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2010-12/txt/msg00017.txt.bz2 I had this happening too. For some reason teh xwindows manager does not completely shut down and an attempt to restart xwindows gives this errror. 1) from bash shell do a ps and "kill -9 xxxx" any orphaned job. 2) From Windows task manager do the same. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/cygwin-1.7-startxwin-failing-due-to-%22winMultiWindowXMsgProc---another-window-manager-is-running.--Exiting.%22-tp30327883p30474646.html Sent from the cygwin-xfree mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/