RE: Error: too many arguments on commandline

[JOEL dot MOOTS at L-3com dot com]

Thanks! Removing the -silent-dup-error was sufficient; I feel a bit
silly now.

BTW, my cygwin is a bit *ahem* dated, so I do still need the -clipboard,
and the -screen 1 was required for it to peacefully coexist with
Netmeeting.

-joel

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon TURNEY [mailto:jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 6:33 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Cc: Moots, Joel A. @ EOS
> Subject: Re: Error: too many arguments on commandline
> 
> On 13/10/2009 21:01, JOEL.MOOTS@L-3com.com wrote:
> > I am trying to start up XWin with 3 screens, all of a specific
> size, but
> > when I run a command in a startup batch file like this (where
> %RUN% is
> > \cygwin\bin\run -p /usr/X11R6/bin):
> >
> > %RUN% XWin :3 -clipboard -silent-dup-error -engine 1 -
> nodecoration
> > -multiplemonitors -screen 0 1280 1024 -screen 1 1280 1024 -screen
> 2 1280
> > 1024
> 
> You might be able to drop -clipboard since it is on by default
> since 1.6.1.902-1
> 
> I am surprised that you need -engine 1 (ShadowGDI). It's some kind
> of bug if
> the default engine (ShadowDDNL, I guess) doesn't work properly for
> you, and it
> should be faster.
> 
> '-multimonitors' is an (undocumented) alias for '-multiplemonitors'
> 
> You don't really need -silent-dup-error unless you forget the
> server is
> already running a lot :-)
> 
> > I get a popup error message titled "Run.exe" with message "Error:
> too
> > many arguments on commandline XWin". Removing the %RUN% gets rid
> of the
> > error, but of course, doesn't really help me any. Is there any
> way to
> > specify any of those options to XWin other than on the command
> line so
> > that maybe I will not exceed whatever run.exe limit I am hitting?
> 
> There is currently no other way to specify XWin arguments but via
> the command
> line.
> 
> I don't know why this limit in run exists, but you might be able to
> squeeze
> under it with the suggestions above.
> 
> According to your cygcheck output you don't even have the X server
> installed :-)
> 
> --
> Jon TURNEY
> Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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