Error starting X

[luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au]

On 14 Apr, Carolyn Longfoot wrote:
>  sorry to bother but my fresh Cygwin installation fails to start X, and I'm  
>  at a complete loss as to why. This is straight after a reboot, so why there  
>  would be a server already running is a complete mystery to me. How do I go  
>  about troubleshooting this? 

Sounds like you have a .xinitrc file that specifies a window manager to
run.  The default behaviour of the Cygwin X server was changed to run a
built-in window manager that integrates X windows onto the Windows
desktop better (this is the -multiwindow option, which is the default).

You could write a .bat script that instead of running Xwin runs
Xwin -- :0, to stop the -multiwindow being passed.

luke