Re: problem with startxwin.exe and a possible solution

[Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert at alum dot mit dot edu>]

I posted a related problem a month ago (CYGWIN=tty).  In my case, when
starting the server, I could not start an Xterm, nor could I start one
from the system tray icon. I could start one from a shortcut icon on
my desktop, however.

This is the first time that anyone else on this list has confirmed it.

- Jim

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> wrote:

> On 21/01/2010 23:13, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> after the transition from startxwin.bat to startxwin.exe,
>> I had the "Xwin Server" menu pratically unusable.
>> The server start but the xterm usually don't show up while
>> ps reports it running. Running a second xterm could appear
>> but most of the time as if the window manager is absent:
>> no border, no possibility to move the program and similar.
>> The Xserver is also unstable, the icon on the toolbar
>> usually disappear and to terminate the server I really need
>> to kill it with Process Explorer.
>
> I can reproduce this if I have CYGWIN=tty (which I note in your
> cygcheck.out) in my Windows environment. ?Without that it seems to work
> fine.
>
> I'm not sure that I believe that this is the underlying cause of the
> problem, and if it is, I have no idea how it could make difference or why it
> wasn't a problem previously.
>
> --
> Jon TURNEY
> Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer


-- 
Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us

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