Xorg server always starting up on DISPLAY 3.0

Xorg server always starting up on DISPLAY 3.0

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

I'm running Cygwin/X server Version 1.17.1.  For the last couple of
weeks, it's always starting on DISPLAY 3.0:

    DISPLAY=:3.0

I can't figure out how to get it back to 0.0.  There must be some
piece of state somewhere that I can't find.

Thanks - Jim

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Re: Xorg server always starting up on DISPLAY 3.0

[Jon TURNEY]

On 27/03/2015 15:48, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> I'm running Cygwin/X server Version 1.17.1.  For the last couple of
> weeks, it's always starting on DISPLAY 3.0:
>
>      DISPLAY=:3.0
>
> I can't figure out how to get it back to 0.0.  There must be some
> piece of state somewhere that I can't find.

You have stale lock files /tmp/.X0-lock etc.

Unfortunately startx(|win) is not as smart as it should be about 
detecting that the process owning the lock file is no longer running.

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Re: Xorg server always starting up on DISPLAY 3.0

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote:

> You have stale lock files /tmp/.X0-lock etc.
>
> Unfortunately startx(|win) is not as smart as it should be about detecting
> that the process owning the lock file is no longer running.

That was indeed the problem.  I didn't find them because my brain was
stuck looking for them in /var/log/...

Wouldn't it be nice if Cygwin cleaned up the /tmp directory each time
the computer is re-booted?  I don't know how that would work in real
life, however.

- Jim

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