From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21838 invoked by alias); 16 Dec 2014 03:35:43 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 21825 invoked by uid 89); 16 Dec 2014 03:35:42 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: vms173025pub.verizon.net Received: from vms173025pub.verizon.net (HELO vms173025pub.verizon.net) (206.46.173.25) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 16 Dec 2014 03:35:40 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.231] ([100.0.38.27]) by vms173025.mailsrvcs.net (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7.0.5.32.0 64bit (built Jul 16 2014)) with ESMTPA id <0NGN002DLON548G0@vms173025.mailsrvcs.net> for cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; Mon, 15 Dec 2014 21:35:34 -0600 (CST) X-CMAE-Score: 0 X-CMAE-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=D9vw8UVm c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=toTMxtHQF+05ooui8kuJQw==:117 a=vP6ySPhpAh4A:10 a=N659UExz7-8A:10 a=w_pzkKWiAAAA:8 a=oR5dmqMzAAAA:8 a=-9mUelKeXuEA:10 a=A92cGCtB03wA:10 a=9-_mRpjEAlvK0qsG9XUA:9 a=V_Gwc_LqrG4aHLcO:21 a=F9KqsLf_xRZIcebL:21 a=pILNOxqGKmIA:10 a=K1M5y8IxhfAA:10 Message-id: <548FA881.1080500@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 03:35:00 -0000 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin-X)" Reply-to: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: startxwin.exe no longer exists? References: <548C82A3.9080604@gmail.com> <548F9F4B.6050002@cygwin.com> In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2014-12/txt/msg00035.txt.bz2 On 12/15/2014 10:30 PM, Will Parsons wrote: > Larry Hall (Cygwin-X) wrote: >> On 12/15/2014 09:49 PM, Will Parsons wrote: >>> Marco Atzeri wrote: >>>> >>>> On 12/12/2014 7:07 PM, Will Parsons wrote: >>>>> For several years now I have been starting X windows by clicking on an >>>>> icon on my desktop that is a link to C:\cygwin\bin\startxwin.exe. It >>>>> has recently ceased to work because apparently startxwin.exe no longer >>>>> exists. Somehow I missed where this was removed, so what is the >>>>> recommended way of starting X from a desktop icon now? >>>>> >>>>> I seem to recall that startxwin.exe was introduced some time ago >>>>> because using a script to start X was inadequate somehow, but I don't >>>>> remember the details, so what changed? >>>>> >>>> https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2014-11/msg00004.html >>> >>> OK - so what I get from that is that whatever problems were associated >>> with the original shell script have been solved and startxwin is now a >>> shell script again. But, my basic question is unanswered - how do I >>> start an X session from an icon? Obviously, simply replacing the link >>> to startxwin.exe to startxwin will not work, so I copied the shortcut >>> from the start menu to the desktop and tried it (after renaming my >>> .xinitrc and .startxwinrc files to avoid any problems with the change >>> of model). >>> >>> If I click on the icon, I *do* get an X session (along with an xterm >>> that I don't need), but if try (e.g.) to start emacs under mintty, I >>> get a non-X emacs, with an error message: >>> >>> Display :0 unavailable, simulating -nw >>> >>> Sure, display :0 is unavailable; checking DISPLAY in the (unwanted) >>> xterm shows DISPLAY is set to :5. Why's that I wonder? >>> >>> Further investigation shows ls -ltr /tmp: >>> >>> -r--r--r-- 1 william None 11 Nov 28 17:43 /tmp/.X0-lock >>> -r--r--r-- 1 william None 11 Dec 13 17:43 /tmp/.X1-lock >>> -r--r--r-- 1 william None 11 Dec 13 17:55 /tmp/.X2-lock >>> -r--r--r-- 1 william None 11 Dec 13 19:22 /tmp/.X3-lock >>> -r--r--r-- 1 william None 11 Dec 15 16:53 /tmp/.X4-lock >>> -r--r--r-- 1 william None 11 Dec 15 17:00 /tmp/.X5-lock >>> >>> Interesting. It looks like every time I start an X session a lock >>> file is created and doesn't get deleted, so the display number keeps >>> changing. This doesn't look right, so how do I avoid it? >> >> You will get one lock file for every instance of the server you are running. >> To remove the lock files, kill all instances of the server and remove any >> remaining lock files. Then you can start a single session. > > well, I *had* killed them. Are you saying I need to manually remove > these old lock files? I suppose I can come up with a way of > semi-automating this, but it doesn't seem like it should be necessary. > Is this a matter of X sessions not properly exiting? Yes, that is correct. In general, you shouldn't see this. -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/