Re: Fatal Error while starting XWin

[Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>]

On Wed, 19 May 2004, Herodotos Herodotou wrote:

> Hi, I have recently downloaded the cygwin/x program. The first time I run
> "startxwin.bat" the external window opened and everyhtink was fine. The
> second time I opened it I got a fatal error message saying that the Cygwin/X
> will exit. The Xwin has started with the command "/usr/X11R6/bin/Xwin
> -multiwindow -clipboard" (this is the default). I looked at the file
> "/tmp/Xwin.log" and it said: 
> 
> "Fatal server error:
> InitOutput - Duplicate invocation on display number: 0.  Exiting."
> 
> The weird part was that the external window remained open and I could even
> ssh to a remote host. Everything seems to work fine and I just don't
> understand what is the problem. I would really appreciate any advise on how
> to fix this problem, 

This means the first started X server is still running. startxwin does two things:
- start the X server
- start xterm as client

If you want to start xterm twice, install the X-start-menu-icons and start xterm 
from Start->Programs->Cygwin-X->XTerm

bye
	ago
-- 
 Alexander.Gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de 
 http://www.gotti.org           ICQ: 126018723