From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20464 invoked by alias); 21 Jan 2004 23:14:16 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 20456 invoked from network); 21 Jan 2004 23:14:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO slinky.cs.nyu.edu) (128.122.20.14) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 21 Jan 2004 23:14:14 -0000 Received: from slinky.cs.nyu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i0LNECo8023439; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 18:14:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (pechtcha@localhost) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.2/Submit) with ESMTP id i0LNECxj023436; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 18:14:12 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 23:14:00 -0000 From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com, bwalter@sdm1.com Subject: RE: Startx on WinXP In-Reply-To: <001b01c3e069$0ad64bb0$03fea8c0@sdmpc6> Message-ID: References: <001b01c3e069$0ad64bb0$03fea8c0@sdmpc6> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg00458.txt.bz2 List-Id: 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 > (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