Re: Startx on WinXP

["Brian L. Walterr" <bwalter at sdm1 dot com>]

Thanks!  That makes sense.  I'll apply/look at the patch and go from
there!

Regards,

On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 16:07, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Brian L. Walter wrote:
> 
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I've recently installd cygwin on both a win98 machine and a winxp machine.
> > The win98 installs works great (except for being really slow, but that's a
> > hardware issue.)  On the XP side, I've installed it, but getting some
> > strange behavior.  If I do a 'startx', I get the following:
> >
> > [: and: unknown operand
> > [: and: unknown operand
> >
> > After doing some playing around with the startx script, I've come to realize
> > it's complaining about the bash conditional statements.  As though I'm not
> > running under bash....
> >
> > And as far as I can see, I am.  The fall out of this behavior is the
> > inability to control which window manager gets started.  I can get around
> > that by commenting out all of the conditionals in startx, but, this seems at
> > best a temporary work around.
> >
> > Am I missing something in setting up/configuring cygwin to run under XP,
> > something that is different than win98?
> >
> > TIA
> > Brian L. Walter
> 
> Brian,
> 
> You didn't do anything wrong.  This problem is most likely due to you
> having either HOME or TMP set to "C:\Documents and Settings\...".  The
> "and" in "Documents and settings" is what startx complains about (since it
> doesn't quote paths properly).
> 
> I've posted a patch to startx a while ago that fixed this, but it looks
> like it hasn't been incorporated in the latest release.  Since startx is
> just a text file, you can simply apply the patch yourself from
> <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-11/msg00314.html> (use "patch -p0
> < startx.patch" in /usr/X11R6/bin).
> 	Igor
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