From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 128458 invoked by alias); 27 Jun 2017 20:31:39 -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 128447 invoked by uid 89); 27 Jun 2017 20:31:38 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=H*RU:sk:mail.me, Hx-spam-relays-external:sk:mail.me, H*r:sk:mail.me, UD:messagingengine.com X-HELO: out2-smtp.messagingengine.com Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out2-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.26) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 27 Jun 2017 20:31:37 +0000 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 005D521448; Tue, 27 Jun 2017 16:31:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 27 Jun 2017 16:31:34 -0400 X-ME-Sender: Received: from [192.168.1.102] (host86-151-121-222.range86-151.btcentralplus.com [86.151.121.222]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 8919A7E760; Tue, 27 Jun 2017 16:31:34 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Window Maker issues, launching from cygwin To: The Cygwin Mailing List References: Cc: David DLC From: Jon Turney Message-ID: <922bb400-1f15-e5ab-5906-6766f7749f1c@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 20:31:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2017-06/txt/msg00369.txt.bz2 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. -- 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