Can't use 'startx' after upgrade.

[Henrik Edberg]

Thanks alot for helping me out! :)

What you suggested worked. Also, after installing the XFree-lib-compat 
package with Cygwin/X 4.2.0 libraries, I got windowMaker to work.

What does the line do anyway, and why did it make my XWin crazy?

/ Henrik


Alexander Gottwald wrote:

>On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Henrik Edberg wrote:
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>>Hello.
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>>I upgraded my cygwin installation today, just to make it up-to-date, and 
>>now I can't start XWindows the way I'm used to, actually not get it 
>>working with a window manager at all.
>>
>>Usually I just type 'startx' and a line in .xinitrc does 'exec wmaker' 
>>for me and everything works like a charm. Now when I try to start X that 
>>way, I get an error message saying that 'another window manager is 
>>already running on sceen 0?'. Then I tried to remove wmaker and just 
>>starting X by typing 'startx' then instead the only thing that happens 
>>is that I get a message saying "waiting for X server to shut down". I 
>>can start XWin by just typing X, but then I don't get a window manager, 
>>if try to start wmaker with 'wmaker -display 0.0' wmaker exits saying 
>>'unable to open on display 0.0'.
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>it must read :0.0
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>But the main reson is that XWin has an internal windowmanager which is 
>required for multiwindow mode. With the new packages, multiwindowmode
>seems to be default now. 
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>Either don't use wmaker or remove or remove -multiwindow from this line 
>in /usr/X11R6/bin/startx
>defaultserverargs="-multiwindow -clipboard"
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>bye
>	ago
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