From: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: startx doesn't seem to work
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 06:22:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5652B09D.5050009@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151122031805.GA7230@sfu.ca>
On 22/11/2015 04:18, Peter Van Epp wrote:
> On my Win7 machine with a newly installed cygwin-64 installed via
> setup-x86_64.exe with everything default except xinit and xorg-server
> selected running startx from a terminal window opens a full screen window
> and then dies. A search of startx fails in the mail archives didn't turn up
> any thing much. Can someone suggest what I'm doing wrong please?
>
> This is what appears in the cygwin terminal window when it dies.
>
> Peter Van Epp
>
> $ startx
> xauth: file /home/Owner/.Xauthority does not exist
> xauth: file /home/Owner/.Xauthority does not exist
>
try startxwin
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-23 6:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-22 3:21 Peter Van Epp
2015-11-23 6:22 ` Marco Atzeri [this message]
2015-11-23 21:23 ` Peter Van Epp
2015-11-29 12:59 ` startx doesn't seem to work (solved sort of) Peter Van Epp
2015-12-20 5:46 ` Frédéric Bron
2015-12-20 7:13 ` Marco Atzeri
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