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From: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: X server doesn't start with a empty .startxwinrc Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 11:20:00 -0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <5492B876.30404@gmail.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <loom.20141218T112836-63@post.gmane.org> On 12/18/2014 11:51 AM, Jean-Marc Colagrossi wrote: > Hi all, > > I need you help to understand what's wrong with X server or my .startxwinrc > file. > > I work with X server -> Xterm and vim since month now. Every thing was > always working perfectly. > > Yesterday I upgraded all cygwin packages and just after that I was unable to > start X server again. > > I made a new fresh installation and X server works correctly. Then I made a > copy of my olds files like .startwinrc, .bashrc .vimrc and all my shortcuts. > When I tried to start the X server I had the same problems. X server crashed. > > I removed one by one all the files I copied up to I deleted .startxwinrc. > Then the X server start correctly. my .startxwinrc had only 3 lines with : > > xterm -bg Black -fg White& > > I deleted all the lines just to have a blank .startxwinrc. But X server > still crashes. > > Here is the log when I run startxwin from terminal with an empty > .startxwinrc file > > I don't understand what I did wrong as it was working fine before. xinit behavior is changed, see relative announcement http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2014-11/msg00004.html It will execute all command of .startxwinrc or startxwinrc and then the X server will shutdown. you can 1) remove .startxwinrc, so that the default will prevail. see for an example /etc/defaults/etc/X11/xinit/startxwinrc 2) you put in .startxwinrc any command without "&" and the xserver will close when that command will end. as examples: xterm -bg Black -fg White sleep inf You are not the first one, that was caught by surprise. Re-reading the announcement helped me on understanding the matter. > Thank you > > Regards, > > Colagrossi Jean-Marc Regards Marco -- 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/
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-18 11:20 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2014-12-18 10:55 Jean-Marc Colagrossi 2014-12-18 11:20 ` Marco Atzeri [this message]
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