Help Me Please

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Nick wrote:

> :
>
> X :0
>
> ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens
> winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1024 h 768
> winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1
> winCheckDisplayNumber - Cygwin/X is already running on display 0
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Umm, this is not helpful enough?

> Fatal server error:
> InitOutput - Duplicate invocation on display number: 0.  Exiting.
>
> winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress

You already have X running.  You don't need to start X again.  Just run
the X app you want (probably xterm) with the right DISPLAY setting, e.g.,

$ xterm -display :0

HTH,
	Igor
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