From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Cc: David DLC <drvrddc@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Window Maker issues, launching from cygwin
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 20:31:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <922bb400-1f15-e5ab-5906-6766f7749f1c@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ9=ABrvn8gGsca5UUJ00_j9vmnngxz8-vX2rGM6EJ4-KXiZvQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 27/06/2017 21:05, David DLC wrote:
> I have been trying to use WindowMaker with Cygwin, but I'm receiving
> some errors. When starting WindowMaker from Windows directly, it will
> open for a second, shutting down immediately after that.
>
> If I run startx, the window opens, but I can't click on anything. I
> get this output when running startx. There is some kind of error near
> the bottom, but I have the .Xresources file in my home directory, so
> I'm not sure what's wrong. Any help would be much appreciated!
>
>
> $ startx
[...]
> /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common: line 20: [: too many arguments
> Excessive file argument "Cruz/.Xresources"
I'm guessing this is failing because the pathname of your home directory
has spaces in it.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-27 20:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-27 20:05 David DLC
2017-06-27 20:25 ` Nellis, Kenneth
2017-06-27 20:31 ` Jon Turney [this message]
2017-06-27 21:42 ` Brian Inglis
2017-06-27 20:59 David DLC
2017-06-28 17:14 David DLC
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