Trouble starting 'wmaker' on fresh 'cygwin' installation

Trouble starting 'wmaker' on fresh 'cygwin' installation

[Mills, John M.]

All -

I just (Friday-20050423) downloaded and installed a set of Cygwin files into
a freshly laundered Win2k PC. Installation went fine, but when I use 'xinit'
to start 'wmaker' from my '.xinitrc' I see:

 1) normal-looking startup of X11, except for some missing fonts,
 2) normal-looking screen with Xterm awaiting window manager to start, then
 3) log reports detection of a second window manager running and the session
is closed.

If my '.xinitrc' instead starts 'mwm' or 'fvwm2', there is no such problem.

Before calling 'xinit', neither 'ps -a' nor the Win2k task manager show any
X-related task running. Starting an X11 app from the Win2k start panel fails
due to absent server (as I would expect). If I start 'wmaker' from the
cygwin shell, it fails on a missing display (as I would expect).

Earlier that week I installed a cygwin fileset that did not show this
behavior.

Any diagnoses?

TIA.

 - John Mills


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Re: Trouble starting 'wmaker' on fresh 'cygwin' installation

[Alan Ning]

I usually use the command "startx" or "startx.sh" to start wmaker.
I have your problem when I update cygwin and the overwrite my startx file.

For the XWin line in the startx file, I need to take out the 
-multiwindow arg.
#XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error &
XWin -nodecoration -clipboard -silent-dup-error&  <- I use this

Hope this helps.

... Alan

Mills, John M. wrote:

>All -
>
>I just (Friday-20050423) downloaded and installed a set of Cygwin files into
>a freshly laundered Win2k PC. Installation went fine, but when I use 'xinit'
>to start 'wmaker' from my '.xinitrc' I see:
>
> 1) normal-looking startup of X11, except for some missing fonts,
> 2) normal-looking screen with Xterm awaiting window manager to start, then
> 3) log reports detection of a second window manager running and the session
>is closed.
>
>If my '.xinitrc' instead starts 'mwm' or 'fvwm2', there is no such problem.
>
>Before calling 'xinit', neither 'ps -a' nor the Win2k task manager show any
>X-related task running. Starting an X11 app from the Win2k start panel fails
>due to absent server (as I would expect). If I start 'wmaker' from the
>cygwin shell, it fails on a missing display (as I would expect).
>
>Earlier that week I installed a cygwin fileset that did not show this
>behavior.
>
>Any diagnoses?
>
>TIA.
>
> - John Mills
>
>
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