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From: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Xorg server always starting up on DISPLAY 3.0
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 14:35:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55195AF7.9070706@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK-n8j4hFdtuQnNSTDT_8tuQnwu=ot2QtduGvCCx_2GQPU2qRg@mail.gmail.com>

On 27/03/2015 15:48, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> I'm running Cygwin/X server Version 1.17.1.  For the last couple of
> weeks, it's always starting on DISPLAY 3.0:
>
>      DISPLAY=:3.0
>
> I can't figure out how to get it back to 0.0.  There must be some
> piece of state somewhere that I can't find.

You have stale lock files /tmp/.X0-lock etc.

Unfortunately startx(|win) is not as smart as it should be about 
detecting that the process owning the lock file is no longer running.

-- 
Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-30 14:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-27 17:25 Jim Reisert AD1C
2015-03-30 14:35 ` Jon TURNEY [this message]
2015-04-04 20:23   ` Jim Reisert AD1C

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