startx crashes, xinit works

[Harold L Hunt II]

Luke,

luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au wrote:
> I find that after installing the latest version of Cygwin just now, X
> crashes if I try to start it via startx (not starting with -rootless or
> -multiwindow), with the error 

There is only one way to prove that: send us the top of your 
/tmp/XWin.log from such a failed session.  The top of XWin.log has a 
print out of the command-line parameters that reached the server, which 
will prove for good whether -multiwindow is reaching the server or not.

> wmaker fatal error: it seems that there is already a window manager running
> waiting for X server to shut down xterm:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset
> by peer) or KillClient on X server ":0.0"
> 
> The Xwin.log ends with:
> 
> winMultiWindowXMsgProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the display.
> winClipboardProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the display.
> winClipboardWindowProc - WM_DRAWCLIPBOARD - Initializing - Returning.
> winClipboardProc - Call to select () failed: -1.  Bailing.
> winClipboardProc - XDestroyWindow succeeded.
> ddxBeforeReset - Hello
> 
> winClipboardIOErrorHandler!

Oh yeah, -multiwindow reached the server all right... we wouldn't be 
starting multi-window mode if it didn't.

> Yet I can start it up if I run xinit.

 From 'startx':

defaultserverargs="-multiwindow -clipboard"

You see, it is startx that sets the default arugments, not xinitrc.

You can always just do "startx -- :0", which provides server args of 
":0", thus overriding the "defaultserverargs", thus preventing 
"-multiwindow" from being passed to XWin.exe.  Give that a try.  Note: 
The ":0" doesn't change anything if you were already running on display 
number 0 before (this is the default), it is just used here as a dummy 
argument so that defaultserverargs are ignored.  You could just as 
easily change this to "startx -- :1" if you were always starting on 
display number 1 instead.

Harld