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Re: problem starting xterm
- From: "Yadin Y. Goldschmidt" <yadin at pitt dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 13:55:55 -0400
- Subject: Re: problem starting xterm
- References: <cellcp$csd$1@sea.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Rebaseall helped with the rxvt problem but not with the xterm problem.
"Yadin Y. Goldschmidt" <yadin@pitt.edu> wrote in message
cellcp$csd$1@sea.gmane.org">news:cellcp$csd$1@sea.gmane.org...
> I use the startxwin.bat to start x on an xp machine at work. At home it
> works fine. At work the X icon appears in the
> tray but the xterm does not open. If I type xterm& in a cygwin window it
> starts. but if I type the full command
> as in xstartxwin.bat i.e.
> xterm -sl 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms red -fg yellow -bg black -e
> /usr/local/bin/bash -l &
> I get an error:
> $ Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x5e)!
> X Error of failed request: BadLength (poly request too large or internal
> Xlib l
> ength error)
> Major opcode of failed request: 41 (X_WarpPointer)
> Serial number of failed request: 95
> Current serial number in output stream: 94
> This happens even if I omit the last part namely -e /usr/bin/bash -l
> Any clue to what is wrong?
> I attach the output of cygcheck -rs.
> Thank you for any help.
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