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Why doesn't "run XWin" show a window?


The subject line says most of it really. When I "run XWin" no window appears even though the X appears in the tray. I've seen this on every machine I've tried it on.

"XWin" alone will show the window as well as the console that opens with it. Passing a parameter like "run XWin -nodecoration" does have the expected effect of showing the XWin window but hiding the console. But why isn't the main window displayed if the parameter is missing when the command is used with run ?

cygcheck output below.

Thanks,

Paul

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Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Sun Aug 08 19:06:15 2004

Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1

Path:	C:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools\
	C:\Perl\bin\
	C:\WINDOWS\system32
	C:\WINDOWS
	C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem
	C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adaptec Shared\System
	C:\Program Files\Resource Kit
	C:\Program Files\Support Tools\
	C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\80\Tools\Binn\
	C:\Program Files\Subversion\bin
	c:\Program Files\vim\vim62\
	c:\Program Files\vim\vim62
	c:\cygwin\bin
	c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin
	c:\bin

Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (nontsec)
UID: 1007(pr) GID: 513(None)
513(None)

Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (ntsec)
UID: 1007(pr) GID: 513(None)
513(None)                  547(Power Users)
555(Remote Desktop Users)  545(Users)
1004(Debugger Users)

SysDir: C:\WINDOWS\System32
WinDir: C:\WINDOWS

Path = `C:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools\;C:\Perl\bin\;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adaptec Shared\System;C:\Program Files\Resource Kit;C:\Program Files\Support Tools\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\80\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files\Subversion\bin;c:\Program Files\vim\vim62\;c:\Program Files\vim\vim62;c:\cygwin\bin;c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin;c:\bin'

Use `-r' to scan registry

a:  fd           N/A    N/A
c:  hd  NTFS   38107Mb  55% CP CS UN PA FC
d:  cd           N/A    N/A
e:  cd  CDFS       0Mb -2147483548%    CS              Audio CD
f:  hd  NTFS   39997Mb  22% CP CS UN PA FC     F
g:  hd  NTFS   37997Mb  46% CP CS UN PA FC     G
h:  hd  NTFS   36475Mb  56% CP CS UN PA FC     H
m:  cd           N/A    N/A
n:  cd           N/A    N/A

C:\cygwin / system binmode
c: /c system binmode
C:\cygwin/bin /usr/bin system binmode
C:\cygwin/lib /usr/lib system binmode
C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts system binmode
. /cygdrive system binmode,cygdrive


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Found: c:\cygwin\bin\sed.exe
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        DLL epoch: 19
        DLL bad signal mask: 19005
        DLL old termios: 5
        DLL malloc env: 28
        API major: 0
        API minor: 116
        Shared data: 4
        DLL identifier: cygwin1
        Mount registry: 2
        Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
        Cygwin registry name: Cygwin
        Program options name: Program Options
        Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
        Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
        Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix
        Cygdrive default prefix:
        Build date: Tue May 25 22:07:00 EDT 2004
        CVS tag: cr-0x5e6
        Shared id: cygwin1S4

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