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* Startx on WinXP @ 2004-01-21 20:23 Brian L. Walter 2004-01-21 21:07 ` Igor Pechtchanski 0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread From: Brian L. Walter @ 2004-01-21 20:23 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin-xfree Greetings, I've recently installd cygwin on both a win98 machine and a winxp machine. The win98 installs works great (except for being really slow, but that's a hardware issue.) On the XP side, I've installed it, but getting some strange behavior. If I do a 'startx', I get the following: [: and: unknown operand [: and: unknown operand After doing some playing around with the startx script, I've come to realize it's complaining about the bash conditional statements. As though I'm not running under bash.... And as far as I can see, I am. The fall out of this behavior is the inability to control which window manager gets started. I can get around that by commenting out all of the conditionals in startx, but, this seems at best a temporary work around. Am I missing something in setting up/configuring cygwin to run under XP, something that is different than win98? TIA Brian L. Walter Service Data Managemnet "We treat our customers like a future depends on it" www.sdm1.com --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.559 / Virus Database: 351 - Release Date: 1/7/2004 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 10+ messages in thread
* Re: Startx on WinXP 2004-01-21 20:23 Startx on WinXP Brian L. Walter @ 2004-01-21 21:07 ` Igor Pechtchanski 2004-01-21 21:34 ` Brian L. Walterr ` (2 more replies) 0 siblings, 3 replies; 10+ messages in thread From: Igor Pechtchanski @ 2004-01-21 21:07 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin-xfree, bwalter On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Brian L. Walter wrote: > Greetings, > > I've recently installd cygwin on both a win98 machine and a winxp machine. > The win98 installs works great (except for being really slow, but that's a > hardware issue.) On the XP side, I've installed it, but getting some > strange behavior. If I do a 'startx', I get the following: > > [: and: unknown operand > [: and: unknown operand > > After doing some playing around with the startx script, I've come to realize > it's complaining about the bash conditional statements. As though I'm not > running under bash.... > > And as far as I can see, I am. The fall out of this behavior is the > inability to control which window manager gets started. I can get around > that by commenting out all of the conditionals in startx, but, this seems at > best a temporary work around. > > Am I missing something in setting up/configuring cygwin to run under XP, > something that is different than win98? > > TIA > Brian L. Walter Brian, You didn't do anything wrong. This problem is most likely due to you having either HOME or TMP set to "C:\Documents and Settings\...". The "and" in "Documents and settings" is what startx complains about (since it doesn't quote paths properly). I've posted a patch to startx a while ago that fixed this, but it looks like it hasn't been incorporated in the latest release. Since startx is just a text file, you can simply apply the patch yourself from <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-11/msg00314.html> (use "patch -p0 < startx.patch" in /usr/X11R6/bin). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 10+ messages in thread
* Re: Startx on WinXP 2004-01-21 21:07 ` Igor Pechtchanski @ 2004-01-21 21:34 ` Brian L. Walterr 2004-01-21 21:52 ` Brian L. Walter 2004-01-21 22:41 ` Brian L. Walter 2 siblings, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread From: Brian L. Walterr @ 2004-01-21 21:34 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin-xfree Thanks! That makes sense. I'll apply/look at the patch and go from there! Regards, On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 16:07, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Brian L. Walter wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > I've recently installd cygwin on both a win98 machine and a winxp machine. > > The win98 installs works great (except for being really slow, but that's a > > hardware issue.) On the XP side, I've installed it, but getting some > > strange behavior. If I do a 'startx', I get the following: > > > > [: and: unknown operand > > [: and: unknown operand > > > > After doing some playing around with the startx script, I've come to realize > > it's complaining about the bash conditional statements. As though I'm not > > running under bash.... > > > > And as far as I can see, I am. The fall out of this behavior is the > > inability to control which window manager gets started. I can get around > > that by commenting out all of the conditionals in startx, but, this seems at > > best a temporary work around. > > > > Am I missing something in setting up/configuring cygwin to run under XP, > > something that is different than win98? > > > > TIA > > Brian L. Walter > > Brian, > > You didn't do anything wrong. This problem is most likely due to you > having either HOME or TMP set to "C:\Documents and Settings\...". The > "and" in "Documents and settings" is what startx complains about (since it > doesn't quote paths properly). > > I've posted a patch to startx a while ago that fixed this, but it looks > like it hasn't been incorporated in the latest release. Since startx is > just a text file, you can simply apply the patch yourself from > <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-11/msg00314.html> (use "patch -p0 > < startx.patch" in /usr/X11R6/bin). > Igor -- Brian L. Walter Service Data Management "We treat our customers like our future depends on it" www.sdm1.com ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 10+ messages in thread
* RE: Startx on WinXP 2004-01-21 21:07 ` Igor Pechtchanski 2004-01-21 21:34 ` Brian L. Walterr @ 2004-01-21 21:52 ` Brian L. Walter 2004-01-21 23:14 ` Igor Pechtchanski 2004-01-21 22:41 ` Brian L. Walter 2 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread From: Brian L. Walter @ 2004-01-21 21:52 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin-xfree, cygwin-xfree Well, that didn't fix it. But you gave me somewhere to look. I might try the old dos way of naming directories, i.e. with the ~. I'll let ya know. Regards, Brian -----Original Message----- From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 4:08 PM To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; bwalter@sdm1.com Subject: Re: Startx on WinXP On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Brian L. Walter wrote: > Greetings, > > I've recently installd cygwin on both a win98 machine and a winxp > machine. The win98 installs works great (except for being really slow, > but that's a hardware issue.) On the XP side, I've installed it, but > getting some strange behavior. If I do a 'startx', I get the > following: > > [: and: unknown operand > [: and: unknown operand > > After doing some playing around with the startx script, I've come to > realize it's complaining about the bash conditional statements. As > though I'm not running under bash.... > > And as far as I can see, I am. The fall out of this behavior is the > inability to control which window manager gets started. I can get > around that by commenting out all of the conditionals in startx, but, > this seems at best a temporary work around. > > Am I missing something in setting up/configuring cygwin to run under > XP, something that is different than win98? > > TIA > Brian L. Walter Brian, You didn't do anything wrong. This problem is most likely due to you having either HOME or TMP set to "C:\Documents and Settings\...". The "and" in "Documents and settings" is what startx complains about (since it doesn't quote paths properly). I've posted a patch to startx a while ago that fixed this, but it looks like it hasn't been incorporated in the latest release. Since startx is just a text file, you can simply apply the patch yourself from <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-11/msg00314.html> (use "patch -p0 < startx.patch" in /usr/X11R6/bin). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.564 / Virus Database: 356 - Release Date: 1/19/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.564 / Virus Database: 356 - Release Date: 1/19/2004 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 10+ messages in thread
* RE: Startx on WinXP 2004-01-21 21:52 ` Brian L. Walter @ 2004-01-21 23:14 ` Igor Pechtchanski 0 siblings, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread From: Igor Pechtchanski @ 2004-01-21 23:14 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin-xfree, bwalter FWIW, if it was your HOME that contained "Documents and Settings", you can "mount 'c:/Documents and Settings' /home", and refer to "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/brian" as "/home/brian"... This is still a band-aid, but a better one than using DOS-style paths. Igor On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Brian L. Walter wrote: > Well, that didn't fix it. But you gave me somewhere to look. I might try > the old dos way of naming directories, i.e. with the ~. I'll let ya know. > > Regards, > Brian > > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com] > On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski > Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 4:08 PM > To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; bwalter@sdm1.com > Subject: Re: Startx on WinXP > > > On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Brian L. Walter wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > I've recently installd cygwin on both a win98 machine and a winxp > > machine. The win98 installs works great (except for being really slow, > > but that's a hardware issue.) On the XP side, I've installed it, but > > getting some strange behavior. If I do a 'startx', I get the > > following: > > > > [: and: unknown operand > > [: and: unknown operand > > > > After doing some playing around with the startx script, I've come to > > realize it's complaining about the bash conditional statements. As > > though I'm not running under bash.... > > > > And as far as I can see, I am. The fall out of this behavior is the > > inability to control which window manager gets started. I can get > > around that by commenting out all of the conditionals in startx, but, > > this seems at best a temporary work around. > > > > Am I missing something in setting up/configuring cygwin to run under > > XP, something that is different than win98? > > > > TIA > > Brian L. Walter > > Brian, > > You didn't do anything wrong. This problem is most likely due to you having > either HOME or TMP set to "C:\Documents and Settings\...". The "and" in > "Documents and settings" is what startx complains about (since it doesn't > quote paths properly). > > I've posted a patch to startx a while ago that fixed this, but it looks like > it hasn't been incorporated in the latest release. Since startx is just a > text file, you can simply apply the patch yourself from > <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-11/msg00314.html> (use "patch -p0 < > startx.patch" in /usr/X11R6/bin). > Igor > -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 10+ messages in thread
* RE: Startx on WinXP 2004-01-21 21:07 ` Igor Pechtchanski 2004-01-21 21:34 ` Brian L. Walterr 2004-01-21 21:52 ` Brian L. Walter @ 2004-01-21 22:41 ` Brian L. Walter 2004-01-21 23:09 ` Igor Pechtchanski 2 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread From: Brian L. Walter @ 2004-01-21 22:41 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin-xfree, cygwin-xfree Okay, got startx to starup with out errors. It even works great with twm. However, if I switch to mwm, by just modifying startx, it starts the manager, paints the windows and clock, but, does not recognize *any* input, either keyboard or mouse. Is this the same kind of issue? And if so, based on the documention I've read, which file do I look in? Everything referred to in the documentation describes behavior, i.e. menus etc. I don't see any path related issues.. Sigh.. TIA Brian -----Original Message----- From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 4:08 PM To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; bwalter@sdm1.com Subject: Re: Startx on WinXP On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Brian L. Walter wrote: > Greetings, > > I've recently installd cygwin on both a win98 machine and a winxp > machine. The win98 installs works great (except for being really slow, > but that's a hardware issue.) On the XP side, I've installed it, but > getting some strange behavior. If I do a 'startx', I get the > following: > > [: and: unknown operand > [: and: unknown operand > > After doing some playing around with the startx script, I've come to > realize it's complaining about the bash conditional statements. As > though I'm not running under bash.... > > And as far as I can see, I am. The fall out of this behavior is the > inability to control which window manager gets started. I can get > around that by commenting out all of the conditionals in startx, but, > this seems at best a temporary work around. > > Am I missing something in setting up/configuring cygwin to run under > XP, something that is different than win98? > > TIA > Brian L. Walter Brian, You didn't do anything wrong. This problem is most likely due to you having either HOME or TMP set to "C:\Documents and Settings\...". The "and" in "Documents and settings" is what startx complains about (since it doesn't quote paths properly). I've posted a patch to startx a while ago that fixed this, but it looks like it hasn't been incorporated in the latest release. Since startx is just a text file, you can simply apply the patch yourself from <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-11/msg00314.html> (use "patch -p0 < startx.patch" in /usr/X11R6/bin). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.564 / Virus Database: 356 - Release Date: 1/19/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.564 / Virus Database: 356 - Release Date: 1/19/2004 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 10+ messages in thread
* RE: Startx on WinXP 2004-01-21 22:41 ` Brian L. Walter @ 2004-01-21 23:09 ` Igor Pechtchanski 2004-01-22 0:46 ` Brian L. Walter 0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread From: Igor Pechtchanski @ 2004-01-21 23:09 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin-xfree, bwalter What was the problem? What was missing in the original patch? Please share your fixes with the community - that way we all benefit. AFAIK, mwm doesn't paint the contents of the windows - it only controls the border, cursors, and other decorations. I doubt your problem is related to the paths. What version of lesstif do you have installed ("cygcheck -c lesstif")? Igor On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Brian L. Walter wrote: > Okay, got startx to starup with out errors. It even works great with twm. > However, if I switch to mwm, by just modifying startx, it starts the > manager, paints the windows and clock, but, does not recognize *any* input, > either keyboard or mouse. Is this the same kind of issue? And if so, based > on the documention I've read, which file do I look in? Everything referred > to in the documentation describes behavior, i.e. menus etc. I don't see any > path related issues.. > > Sigh.. > TIA > Brian > > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com] > On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski > Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 4:08 PM > To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; bwalter@sdm1.com > Subject: Re: Startx on WinXP > > > On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Brian L. Walter wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > I've recently installd cygwin on both a win98 machine and a winxp > > machine. The win98 installs works great (except for being really slow, > > but that's a hardware issue.) On the XP side, I've installed it, but > > getting some strange behavior. If I do a 'startx', I get the > > following: > > > > [: and: unknown operand > > [: and: unknown operand > > > > After doing some playing around with the startx script, I've come to > > realize it's complaining about the bash conditional statements. As > > though I'm not running under bash.... > > > > And as far as I can see, I am. The fall out of this behavior is the > > inability to control which window manager gets started. I can get > > around that by commenting out all of the conditionals in startx, but, > > this seems at best a temporary work around. > > > > Am I missing something in setting up/configuring cygwin to run under > > XP, something that is different than win98? > > > > TIA > > Brian L. Walter > > Brian, > > You didn't do anything wrong. This problem is most likely due to you having > either HOME or TMP set to "C:\Documents and Settings\...". The "and" in > "Documents and settings" is what startx complains about (since it doesn't > quote paths properly). > > I've posted a patch to startx a while ago that fixed this, but it looks like > it hasn't been incorporated in the latest release. Since startx is just a > text file, you can simply apply the patch yourself from > <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-11/msg00314.html> (use "patch -p0 < > startx.patch" in /usr/X11R6/bin). > Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 10+ messages in thread
* RE: Startx on WinXP 2004-01-21 23:09 ` Igor Pechtchanski @ 2004-01-22 0:46 ` Brian L. Walter 2004-01-22 3:15 ` Igor Pechtchanski 2004-01-22 16:55 ` Brian Ford 0 siblings, 2 replies; 10+ messages in thread From: Brian L. Walter @ 2004-01-22 0:46 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin-xfree, cygwin-xfree the *solution* was a cheat. I commented out the references in startx to $HOME. Since I don't have specific configurations, this is an acceptable white lie. The version of lesstif is 0.93.91-6. Interestingly enough, it's -2 on the win98 machine, on which mwm *does* work. I might try downgrading to -2 (from the install packages on the win98 machine). Thanks for you patience! Regards, Brian -----Original Message----- From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 6:09 PM To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; bwalter@sdm1.com Subject: RE: Startx on WinXP What was the problem? What was missing in the original patch? Please share your fixes with the community - that way we all benefit. AFAIK, mwm doesn't paint the contents of the windows - it only controls the border, cursors, and other decorations. I doubt your problem is related to the paths. What version of lesstif do you have installed ("cygcheck -c lesstif")? Igor On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Brian L. Walter wrote: > Okay, got startx to starup with out errors. It even works great with twm. > However, if I switch to mwm, by just modifying startx, it starts the > manager, paints the windows and clock, but, does not recognize *any* input, > either keyboard or mouse. Is this the same kind of issue? And if so, based > on the documention I've read, which file do I look in? Everything referred > to in the documentation describes behavior, i.e. menus etc. I don't see any > path related issues.. > > Sigh.. > TIA > Brian > > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com] > On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski > Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 4:08 PM > To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; bwalter@sdm1.com > Subject: Re: Startx on WinXP > > > On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Brian L. Walter wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > I've recently installd cygwin on both a win98 machine and a winxp > > machine. The win98 installs works great (except for being really slow, > > but that's a hardware issue.) On the XP side, I've installed it, but > > getting some strange behavior. If I do a 'startx', I get the > > following: > > > > [: and: unknown operand > > [: and: unknown operand > > > > After doing some playing around with the startx script, I've come to > > realize it's complaining about the bash conditional statements. As > > though I'm not running under bash.... > > > > And as far as I can see, I am. The fall out of this behavior is the > > inability to control which window manager gets started. I can get > > around that by commenting out all of the conditionals in startx, but, > > this seems at best a temporary work around. > > > > Am I missing something in setting up/configuring cygwin to run under > > XP, something that is different than win98? > > > > TIA > > Brian L. Walter > > Brian, > > You didn't do anything wrong. This problem is most likely due to you having > either HOME or TMP set to "C:\Documents and Settings\...". The "and" in > "Documents and settings" is what startx complains about (since it doesn't > quote paths properly). > > I've posted a patch to startx a while ago that fixed this, but it looks like > it hasn't been incorporated in the latest release. Since startx is just a > text file, you can simply apply the patch yourself from > <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-11/msg00314.html> (use "patch -p0 < > startx.patch" in /usr/X11R6/bin). > Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 10+ messages in thread
* RE: Startx on WinXP 2004-01-22 0:46 ` Brian L. Walter @ 2004-01-22 3:15 ` Igor Pechtchanski 2004-01-22 16:55 ` Brian Ford 1 sibling, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread From: Igor Pechtchanski @ 2004-01-22 3:15 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin-xfree Hmm, the changes to startx in that patch were supposed to take care of the unquoted $HOME... Did the patch apply cleanly, or were some chunks rejected? That particular patch was against XFree86-bin-4.3.0-7, so it's possible that startx changed between that and -8... Another solution is to use 'mount', as I described in another reply. Much better than commenting out arbitrary stuff in 'startx'. Hmm, I'm on 0.93.91-4, and that seems to work ok for me... Did you try searching the list archives for reported lesstif problems? I seem to recall that there were some (related to the VendorShell extension), and that they were fixed in some version or other. Igor P.S. Oh, and please try to configure your mailer not to quote raw e-mail addresses in your replies? They serve as food for spam harvesters. On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Brian L. Walter wrote: > the *solution* was a cheat. I commented out the references in startx to > $HOME. Since I don't have specific configurations, this is an acceptable > white lie. > > The version of lesstif is 0.93.91-6. Interestingly enough, it's -2 on the > win98 machine, on which mwm *does* work. I might try downgrading to -2 > (from the install packages on the win98 machine). > > Thanks for you patience! > > Regards, > Brian > > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-xfree-owner<at>cygwin<dot>com On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski > Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 6:09 PM > To: cygwin-xfree<at>cygwin<dot>com; bwalter<at>sdm1<dot>com > Subject: RE: Startx on WinXP > > What was the problem? What was missing in the original patch? Please > share your fixes with the community - that way we all benefit. > > AFAIK, mwm doesn't paint the contents of the windows - it only controls > the border, cursors, and other decorations. I doubt your problem is > related to the paths. What version of lesstif do you have installed > ("cygcheck -c lesstif")? > Igor > > On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Brian L. Walter wrote: > > > Okay, got startx to starup with out errors. It even works great with twm. > > However, if I switch to mwm, by just modifying startx, it starts the > > manager, paints the windows and clock, but, does not recognize *any* input, > > either keyboard or mouse. Is this the same kind of issue? And if so, based > > on the documention I've read, which file do I look in? Everything referred > > to in the documentation describes behavior, i.e. menus etc. I don't see any > > path related issues.. > > > > Sigh.. > > TIA > > Brian > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: cygwin-xfree-owner<at>cygwin<dot>com > > On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski > > Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 4:08 PM > > To: cygwin-xfree<at>cygwin<dot>com; bwalter<at>sdm1<dot>com > > Subject: Re: Startx on WinXP > > > > On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Brian L. Walter wrote: > > > > > Greetings, > > > > > > I've recently installd cygwin on both a win98 machine and a winxp > > > machine. The win98 installs works great (except for being really slow, > > > but that's a hardware issue.) On the XP side, I've installed it, but > > > getting some strange behavior. If I do a 'startx', I get the > > > following: > > > > > > [: and: unknown operand > > > [: and: unknown operand > > > > > > After doing some playing around with the startx script, I've come to > > > realize it's complaining about the bash conditional statements. As > > > though I'm not running under bash.... > > > > > > And as far as I can see, I am. The fall out of this behavior is the > > > inability to control which window manager gets started. I can get > > > around that by commenting out all of the conditionals in startx, but, > > > this seems at best a temporary work around. > > > > > > Am I missing something in setting up/configuring cygwin to run under > > > XP, something that is different than win98? > > > > > > TIA > > > Brian L. Walter > > > > Brian, > > > > You didn't do anything wrong. This problem is most likely due to you having > > either HOME or TMP set to "C:\Documents and Settings\...". The "and" in > > "Documents and settings" is what startx complains about (since it doesn't > > quote paths properly). > > > > I've posted a patch to startx a while ago that fixed this, but it looks like > > it hasn't been incorporated in the latest release. Since startx is just a > > text file, you can simply apply the patch yourself from > > <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-11/msg00314.html> (use "patch -p0 > > < startx.patch" in /usr/X11R6/bin). > > Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 10+ messages in thread
* RE: Startx on WinXP 2004-01-22 0:46 ` Brian L. Walter 2004-01-22 3:15 ` Igor Pechtchanski @ 2004-01-22 16:55 ` Brian Ford 1 sibling, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread From: Brian Ford @ 2004-01-22 16:55 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin-xfree On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Brian L. Walter wrote: > the *solution* was a cheat. I commented out the references in startx to > $HOME. Since I don't have specific configurations, this is an acceptable > white lie. > Why not try startxwin.bat and the "nifty" multiwindow mode (ie. Windows is the window manager)? > The version of lesstif is 0.93.91-6. Interestingly enough, it's -2 on the > win98 machine, on which mwm *does* work. I might try downgrading to -2 > (from the install packages on the win98 machine). > WFM. -2 was a broken attempt at an Xm DLL. It just so happened that mwm was still linked to the static Xm in that package. In general, it was broken, so don't revert please. You might post strace mwm | grep Mwm 2>&1 to see if it is an app-default issue. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International Phone: 314-551-8460 Fax: 314-551-8444 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 10+ messages in thread
end of thread, other threads:[~2004-01-22 16:55 UTC | newest] Thread overview: 10+ messages (download: mbox.gz / follow: Atom feed) -- links below jump to the message on this page -- 2004-01-21 20:23 Startx on WinXP Brian L. Walter 2004-01-21 21:07 ` Igor Pechtchanski 2004-01-21 21:34 ` Brian L. Walterr 2004-01-21 21:52 ` Brian L. Walter 2004-01-21 23:14 ` Igor Pechtchanski 2004-01-21 22:41 ` Brian L. Walter 2004-01-21 23:09 ` Igor Pechtchanski 2004-01-22 0:46 ` Brian L. Walter 2004-01-22 3:15 ` Igor Pechtchanski 2004-01-22 16:55 ` Brian Ford
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