Re: startx wont start xterm window

["Paminu" <fedevaps at yahoo dot dk>]

"MikeSo" <mso2@uiuc.edu> skrev i en meddelelse 
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>i installed cygwin with no problems at all but when i
> type "startx" after opening cygwin, nothing happens. i get
> some text but no xterm window will pop up. ive googled and
> searched the archives but have had trouble finding anything
> similar to my problem. below is the log. thanks in advance
> for any help
>
>
> mso2@USERERROR1 ~
> $ startx
>
> Welcome to the XWin X Server
> Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
> Release: 6.8.2.0-4
>
> Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>
> XWin was started with the following command line:
>
> X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard
>
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to
> root
> winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1
> (II) XF86Config is not supported
> (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for
> more information
> (==) FontPath set
> to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/T
> T
> F/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/C
> ID/,/usr/X11R6/lib/
> X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
> winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP
> winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines
> 00000007
> winSetEngine - Multi Window or Rootless => ShadowGDI
> winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of
> 32 bits per pixel
> winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1440
> height: 900 depth: 32
> winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff
> winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff
> BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32
> null screen fn ReparentWindow
> null screen fn RestackWindow
> InitQueue - Calling pthread_mutex_init
> InitQueue - pthread_mutex_init returned
> InitQueue - Calling pthread_cond_init
> InitQueue - pthread_cond_init returned
> winInitMultiWindowWM - Hello
> winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock ()
> winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Hello
> winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock ()
> MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support
> XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled
> due to lack of shar
> ed memory support in the kernel
> (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=250, rate=31
> (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "00000409" (00000409)
> (--) Using preset keyboard for "English (USA)" (409),
> type "4"
> Rules = "xorg" Model = "pc105" Layout = "us" Variant
> = "(null)" Options = "(null
> )"





Either don't use wmaker or remove or remove -multiwindow from this line
in /usr/X11R6/bin/startx
defaultserverargs="-multiwindow -clipboard" 




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