startx: Malformed file inquiry

[Thomas Chadwick]

What happens if you run xinit directly (instead of via startx)?  For quite 
some time now I have been launching Cygwin/XFree86 via xinit without a hitch 
(no need to use startx IMHO).  More info in the ML archives...

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-10/msg00091.html

>From: Shing-Fat Fred Ma <fma@doe.carleton.ca>
>Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>Subject: Re: startx: Malformed file inquiry
>Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 13:41:54 -0500
>
> > From: Alexander Gottwald
> > To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
> > Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:49:28 +0100 (MET)
> > Subject: Re: startx: Malformed file inquiry
> > Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
> >
> > 
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Shing-Fat Fred Ma wrote:
> >
> > > > + xinit /home/Name/.xinitrc --
> > > >
> > > > if: Malformed file inquiry.
> >
> > /home/Name/.xinitrc seems to be the problem.
> >
> > bye
> >  ago
> >
>
>I first thought so too.  But I get the exact same diagnostic
>text even if I run startx from  /usr/X11R6/bin, upto and
>including
>
> > > + xinit /home/Name/.xinitrc --
>
>
>So ~/.xinitrc is being sourced in both cases.  And
>.xinitrc was just a copy of /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.
>I added a line at the beginning to echo the path,
>but the never gets executed.  So I don't think the
>error is caused by a problem with ~/.xinitrc (aside
>from the fact that the same the safe file gets
>sourced when I successfully run startx from
>/usr/X11R6/bin).  I think it might be the xinit executable
>itself, since that's the only code that runs before
>.xinitrc.
>
>I presume that people have tried startx from their
>home directory and got it working?  Just looking for
>a few responses as a sanity check.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Fred
>
>--
>Fred Ma, fma@doe.carleton.ca
>Carleton University, Dept. of Electronics
>1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario
>Canada, K1S 5B6


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