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From: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
To: Jaakov Jaakov <j_k_v@ro.ru>, Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: XWin won't run xterm on start
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 18:41:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56CA04E8.6020304@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1456079088.987566.21611.60107@mail.rambler.ru>

On 21/02/2016 19:24, Jaakov Jaakov wrote:
>
> Dear Marco:
>
> So, are you saying that not starting xterm is by design?

yes

>> http://x.cygwin.com/docs/man1/startxwin.1.html
>
> The manpage above is a bit outdated; creating a .startxwinrc with
>
> xrdb -load $HOME/.Xresources
> xbiff -geometry -430+5 &
> oclock -geometry 75x75-0-0 &
> xload -geometry -80-0 &
> xterm -geometry +0+60 -ls &
> xterm -geometry +0-100 &
> xconsole -geometry -0+0 -fn 5x7 &
> exec fbpanel -profile multiwindow
>
> and running startxwin from the text console results in
>
> ---

It is an example....

try just

xterm -geometry +0+60 -ls &
xterm -geometry +0-100 &
exec  xclock

killing xclock will shutdown the X server.
You can use any other program for that.





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  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-21 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-21 18:24 Jaakov Jaakov
2016-02-21 18:41 ` Marco Atzeri [this message]
2016-02-21 19:16   ` Jaakov Jaakov
2016-02-21 21:07     ` Eliot Moss
     [not found] <1456258759.50776.ezmlm@cygwin.com>
2016-02-23 20:42 ` Jaakov
2016-02-24  0:12   ` Ken Brown
2016-03-24 22:49   ` Mark Hansen
2016-03-24 22:52     ` Mark Hansen
2016-02-24  1:19 ` Jaakov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-02-21 21:28 Jaakov Jaakov
2016-02-21 23:21 ` Eliot Moss
2016-02-22  1:59   ` Ken Brown
2016-02-22  2:43     ` Eliot Moss
2016-02-22 20:47   ` Jaakov
2016-02-22 21:51     ` Ken Brown
2016-02-22 22:19       ` Ken Brown
2016-02-22 20:55   ` Jaakov
2016-02-22 21:52     ` Ken Brown
2016-02-21 14:38 Jaakov Jaakov
2016-02-21 17:27 ` Marco Atzeri

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