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From: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: X refuses to start
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 23:06:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54ECF219.8030508@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <slrnmeppi7.224.varro@anukis.local>

On 24/02/2015 20:59, Will Parsons wrote:
> I'm accustomed to start X via a shortcut which runs the command:
>
> C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe --quote /usr/bin/bash.exe -l \
> -c "cd; /usr/bin/startxwin -- -listen"
[...]
> I can't make sense out of what this is telling me about why X failed
> to start.

Since xorg-server-1.17.0-1 and xinit-1.3.4-1, the syntax has changed and 
you should now use '-listen tcp'.

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Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-02-24 21:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-24 21:40 Will Parsons
2015-02-24 23:06 ` Fj
2015-02-24 23:06 ` Jon TURNEY [this message]
2015-02-25  4:35   ` Will Parsons

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