From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28668 invoked by alias); 2 Feb 2015 15:49:59 -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 28634 invoked by uid 89); 2 Feb 2015 15:49:58 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_EXEURI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: out3-smtp.messagingengine.com Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out3-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.27) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Mon, 02 Feb 2015 15:49:56 +0000 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id E945820724 for ; Mon, 2 Feb 2015 10:49:54 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 02 Feb 2015 10:49:54 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.102] (unknown [86.141.128.111]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 3AFBD68012A; Mon, 2 Feb 2015 10:49:54 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <54CF9C98.1010703@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 15:49:00 -0000 From: Jon TURNEY Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com CC: l.wood@surrey.ac.uk Subject: Re: 64-bit xfree86 failing? References: <10998D1D-BE1A-4338-8B24-DCE631210F68@surrey.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2015-02/txt/msg00002.txt.bz2 On 04/12/2014 02:53, l.wood@surrey.ac.uk wrote: > working again. > > my mistake was in years of using > > startx -- -multiwindow -clipboard & > > because /usr/bin/startx no longer starts x I'm kind of surprised this used to work at all, since this is requesting both the internal multiwindow mode window manager, and whatever default window manager xinitrc decides to run. Sorry about breaking that. If you want a multiwindow mode session, the documented way to start it would be using startxwin, or the Start Menu link we provide to run that (See [1]) -clipboard has been the default for a number of years now, you don't need to explicitly provide it. > Once I switched to > > xinit -- -multiwindow -clipboard & > > I was fine. > > Remember that startx doesn't startx, on either 32- or 64-bit cygwin > (I did a fresh 32-bit install and checked) and you're good to go. I think that you will find that running 'startx' without options does work. While I'm sure sarcasm is very relieving for you, please don't use it here. [1] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using.html#using-starting-exe -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- 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/