From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 64952 invoked by alias); 22 Feb 2016 02:43:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 64938 invoked by uid 89); 22 Feb 2016 02:43:53 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=Ken, H*f:sk:56CA6B6, H*i:sk:56CA6B6, H*MI:sk:56CA6B6 X-HELO: csmail.cs.umass.edu Received: from mdc1.cs.umass.edu (HELO csmail.cs.umass.edu) (128.119.240.121) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 22 Feb 2016 02:43:52 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.19] (c-24-62-203-86.hsd1.ma.comcast.net [24.62.203.86]) by csmail.cs.umass.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7960E280001594150E; Sun, 21 Feb 2016 21:43:50 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: moss@cs.umass.edu Subject: Re: XWin won't run xterm on start References: <1456090085.415814.30486.4659@mail.rambler.ru> <56CA468C.2010809@cs.umass.edu> <56CA6B68.4050400@cornell.edu> To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Eliot Moss Message-ID: <56CA75E5.7020607@cs.umass.edu> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 02:43:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56CA6B68.4050400@cornell.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-02/txt/msg00330.txt.bz2 On 2/21/2016 8:59 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > On 2/21/2016 6:21 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: >> On 2/21/2016 4:28 PM, Jaakov Jaakov wrote: >>> >>>> Why not do: >>> >>>> xterm ... & >>> >>>> /etc/X11/xinit/startxwinrc >> >> Do this in your personal .startxwinrc file ... > > Won't this lead to an infinite recursion? (See https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-02/msg00325.html) Ah, perhaps. There may be ways to catch that, but it may be easier for the OP to copy the startxwinrc file's contents. Not the best for responding to future changes ... EM -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple