Re: Cygwin/X11 on Windows 10

[Thomas Schweikle <tschweikle@gmail.com>]

Tried it. Does not work. X11 is fired up and terminates immediately. I am
using:
~/.startxwinrc:
#!/bin/bash
xterm &
exec sleep infinity

changing "exec sleep infinity" to wait does not change anything.
"~/.startxwinrc" is mode 0755:
-rwxr-xr-x  1 sct-muc user     42 30. Sep 09:12 .startxwinrc

And XLaunch is started with:
C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /bin/xlaunch -p /usr/bin -run
/home/sct-muc/.config/XLaunch/config.xlaunch

config.xlaunch holds:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<XLaunch WindowMode="MultiWindow" ClientMode="NoClient" LocalClient="True"
 Display="0" RemoteProtocol="" LocalProgram="xterm" RemoteProgram="xterm"
 RemoteHost="" RemoteUser="" XDMCPHost="" XDMCPBroadcast="False"
 XDMCPIndirect="False" Clipboard="True" ExtraParams="" Wgl="True"
 DisableAC="False" XDMCPTerminate="False" SSHKeyChain="False"
 SSHTerminal="True" ExtraSSH=""/>



On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 2:30 PM Eliot Moss <moss@cs.umass.edu> wrote:

> On 9/29/2020 6:26 AM, Thomas Schweikle via Cygwin wrote:
>  > Hi!
>  >
>  > I've managed to install cygwin/X on Windows 10. Now I'm looking for
> command
>  > "startxwin" -- does not seen to exist. If following instructions from
>  > https://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/setup.html it should be installed? Or is
> an
>  > extra package selected needed beyond what is given in upper mentioned
>  > handbook online?
>  >
>  > If I start "XWin.exe -multiwindow" directly it starts and finishes
>  > immediately. The recommended idea of creating an
>  > executable "~/.startxwinrc" holding only "exec sleep infinity" does not
>  > help. Same behaviour as before. Any other suggestions?
>
> startxwin is in the xinit package.  Personally I use xlaunch, in the
> xlaunch package.  xlaunch with no arguments fires up a GUI where you
> can configure it and save an xlaunch file, e.g., ~/config.xlaunch.
> I put a link to xlaunch in my Windows task bar, with the follow
> command line it:
>
> C:\cygwin64\bin\run.exe /bin/xlaunch -p /usr/bin -run
> /home/moss/config.xlaunch
>
> You'll need to change paths for your file locations, of course.
>
> It uses startxwin.  Below is my personal .startxwinrc file for a sample.
> It
> starts a couple of xterm windows and an emacs, all iconized.  The emacs
> geometry suits my high resolution screen.  The "wait" is important -
> otherwise
> things exit immediately and the X server terminates.
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> xrdb -merge ${HOME}/.Xdefaults
> xmodmap ${HOME}/.Xmodmap
>
> UC="${USER} console"
> xterm +tb -geometry 110x62+4+0  -T "${USER}" -n "${USER}" -name "${USER}"
> -bg rgbi:.0/.2/.2    -ls
> -iconic &
> xterm +tb -geometry 110x62-10+0 -T "${UC}"   -n "${UC}"   -name "${UC}"
>  -bg rgbi:.5/.0/.1    -ls
> -iconic &
> emacs --chdir=${HOME} --no-splash --iconic --geometry=130x60+100+100 -T
> emacs &
> wait
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-- 
Thomas