starxwin.bat always "misfires" the xterm once

[Franz di Coccio <franz dot dicoccio at gmail dot com>]

Hi all,

 I have installed cygwin-x on windows XP and I'm pretty much happy about it.
There is only one little annoying thing that I am not able to fix.
I use cygwin-x to ssh into linux systems and occasionally launch
remote applications.
I do not use a x-desktop.

I've added an icon to the quick-launch windows toolbar pointing to
startxwin.bat.
Pressing that icon should launch cygwin-x and open a xterm.
It does so on my other window box, running win 2000.

However, on windows xp there seems to be some glitch. The first time I
launch the cygwin-x
icon after booting the OS, no xterm pops up. At least, not immediatly.
I've been waiting
a few minutes, but no trace of xterm all the same.
The xserver is running, though. I can launch an xterm from by right
clicking the small X icon
in the icon tray, but it opens in /usr/X11R6/bin, prompting "bash-3.2$".

If I close the xserver and launch it a second time, all goes as I expect to.
The xserver is started again, and an xterm almost immediatly pops out
as required
in startxwin.bat. The xterm correctly starts from my home directory.

Therefore I always have to launch cygwin-x, shut down the server and
launch it again.
As I mention, this "double launching" is not necessary in win 2000.
The xterm pops up the first time I launch startxwin.bat.

Is this a known problem? I've tried to search the mailing list but
came up with nothing.
Perhaps I've used the wrong search terms.

Thanks a lot for any help

F

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