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RE: Startx on WinXP
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com, bwalter at sdm1 dot com
- Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 18:09:10 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: RE: Startx on WinXP
- References: <005f01c3e06f$df6a8e80$03fea8c0@sdmpc6>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
What was the problem? What was missing in the original patch? Please
share your fixes with the community - that way we all benefit.
AFAIK, mwm doesn't paint the contents of the windows - it only controls
the border, cursors, and other decorations. I doubt your problem is
related to the paths. What version of lesstif do you have installed
("cygcheck -c lesstif")?
Igor
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Brian L. Walter wrote:
> Okay, got startx to starup with out errors. It even works great with twm.
> However, if I switch to mwm, by just modifying startx, it starts the
> manager, paints the windows and clock, but, does not recognize *any* input,
> either keyboard or mouse. Is this the same kind of issue? And if so, based
> on the documention I've read, which file do I look in? Everything referred
> to in the documentation describes behavior, i.e. menus etc. I don't see any
> path related issues..
>
> Sigh..
> TIA
> Brian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]
> On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski
> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 4:08 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; bwalter@sdm1.com
> Subject: Re: Startx on WinXP
>
>
> 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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