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Re: Checked on FAQ but..
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 13:18:00 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Checked on FAQ but..
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On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Samuel Wang wrote:
> Please help with this error message;
>
> $ startx
> [snip]
> cat: /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/swang/.Xauthority: No such file or directory
This is spurious.
> [: and: unknown operand
> [: and: unknown operand
These are due to spaces in your $HOME. As a workaround, use $HOME with no
spaces in it (see the FAQ), but the startx script *should* be fixed.
FWIW, I submitted fixes for it a while ago -- I wonder if they made it
into the current version, or if this was a problem I didn't cover...
Igor
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