Re: Can't get startwin.bat to work

[Mike McCollister <mikemccollister at yahoo dot com>]

Mark,

It works fine if I open it up using a cygwin shell.  That is not the problem. 
When I run form a Windows cmd and run startxwin.bat, it does not work.  I've
tried to do it manually with this command:

run XWin -clipboard -silent-dup-error

no xwindow comes up with the checkered background.

If I do this from within bash:

XWin -clipboard -silent-dup-error &

there are no problems.

A little more research shows that at the cmd line that if I do not use the run,
then the Xwindows screen will come up but I can't startup the xterm since this
is not returned to the prompt.  I've tried:

start /b XWin -clipboard -silent-dup-error

and this works great!!!!  It looks as if the run command is broken. 

In summary, the run command does not seem to work.  the start /b option is the
thing to use, at least with Windows 2000.

Mike


--- Mark Paulus <mark.paulus@mci.com> wrote:

> Have you tried to open up a cygwin shell, and then 
> starting up an xterm, to see if it might just be there, awaiting
> connections?  If you open in multiwindow mode (native mode
> by default), then I wouldn't expect anything to happen until
> your X Server actually has a client window to display.
> 
> open up a cygwin bash shell, make sure your DISPLAY is set, 
> or give the -display option to some xclient (xterm, xclock, etc),
> and see if it pops up on your desktop.
> 
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 04:49:47 -0800 (PST), Mike McCollister wrote:
> 
> >I have been using cygwin for years and the X client under cygwin for about a
> >year.  In order to get X to work, I have to make sure that I am running bash
> >and then run startxwin.sh to get it to work.  Well, I've been trying to get
> it
> >to work with just startxwin.bat but I am not successful.  It seems to have a
> >problem with the "run" commands.  Here are the run commands:
> 
> >run XWin -clipboard -silent-dup-error
> >run xterm -sl 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms red -fg yellow -bg black -e
> /usr/bin/bash
> >-l
> 
> >I do have cygwin installed in c:\progra~1\cygwin and I have modified
> >startxwin.bat so that
> 
> >SET CYGWIN_ROOT=c:\progra~1\cygwin
> 
> >The last time I updated anything in cygwin as last week (first week of
> >November).
> 
> >Does anyone know how to get the startxwin.bat to work?
> 
> >Just a little more background.  When I mean that it does not work, I mean
> that
> >the "X" shows up as an icon next to the clock but nothing else happens.  If
> I
> >right click on the "X", nothing happens.  I have to use the Task Manger to
> kill
> >XWin.exe.
> 
> >Thanks,
> 
> >Mike
> 
> 
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