startx timing out

[Thomas Chadwick]

A few suggestions:

1) If you have a file in your home directory called .Xauthority, delete it 
(or at least rename it if you want to use it again later).

2) If you don't have a file in your home directory called .xinitrc, create 
one containing something like the following (the following does the same 
stuff as the stock startxwin.sh and startxwin.bat):

  xsetroot -solid aquamarine4
  xterm -sl 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms red -fg yellow -bg black \
        -e /usr/bin/bash &
  twm

>From: "J. W. Ballantine" <jwb@homer.att.com>
>To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>Subject: startx timing out
>Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 16:17:26 -0400
>
>
>I've installed cygwin-xfree and I seem to have something mis-configured.
>
>If I run from startxwin.sh, everything runs fine, but if I try to use
>startx, the x window, white, opens up, changes to a cross-hatch pattern
>and eventually closes down.  In the sh window I get the message:
>   waiting for X server to begin accepting connections
>   ..
>   ..
>until it finally times out.  For the record the same thing happens if I
>try and run just xinit
>
>my /tmp/XWin.log is:
>
>ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens
>winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1024 h 768
>winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning
>_XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
>winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP
>winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed
>winDetectSupportedEngines - Allowing PrimaryDD
>winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed
>winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 0000001f
>winSetEngine - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking
>winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per 
>pixel
>winAdjustForAutoHide - Original WorkArea: 0 0 768 1024
>winAdjustForAutoHide - Taskbar is auto hide
>winAdjustForAutoHide - Found LEFT auto-hide taskbar
>winAdjustForAutoHide - Adjusted WorkArea: 0 1 768 1024
>winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - WindowClient w 1017 h 745 r 1017 l 0 b 
>745 t
>0
>winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed -  Returning
>winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - lPitch: 4068
>winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff
>winInitVisualsShadowDDNL - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 winWindowProc - 
>WM_*KEYDOWN
>- Closekey hit, quitting
>eferring to fbCreateDefColormap ()
>winScreenInit - returning
>
>I couldn't find anything about this in the mail-list archive.
>
>Does someone see anything I don't.
>
>Thanks
>
>Jim Ballantine
>
>




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