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Re: Can't start X on MS Windows 7
- From: Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com, hjstein at bloomberg dot net
- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:37:39 +0100
- Subject: Re: Can't start X on MS Windows 7
- References: <5166EC13017B010200390027_0_48927 at p057>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
On 11/04/2013 18:00, Harvey Stein (BLOOMBERG/ 731 LEXIN) wrote:
> $ startxwin
[...]
> (--) 3 mouse buttons found
There should be a few more lines after this in a normal X server startup.
This looks like perhaps the X server is somehow getting stuck trying to run
xkbcomp during it's startup. You might want to take a look at FAQ entries
[1],[2] which discuss software which has been known to interfere with the
operation of Cygwin.
[1] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#freeze-at-startup
[2] http://cygwin.com/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.bloda
> waiting for X server to begin accepting connections .
> ..
> ..
> ..
> ..
> ..
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Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer
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