XWin error

Kleven Bingham nospam@nospam.net
Sat May 1 13:15:00 GMT 2004


JaaMaaN wrote:

>I can't start XWin. Why?
>
>Created error log.
>================================================================
>Welcome to the XWin X Server
>Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
>Release: 6.7.0.0-7
>
>Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>
>XWin was started with the following command line:
>
>X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard 
>
>ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens
>winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1280 h 1024
>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
>
>Fatal server error:
>InitOutput - Duplicate invocation on display number: 0.  Exiting.
>
>winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress
>
>  
>
You already have an instance of XWin.exe running, serving display :0.  
If you don't think you do, check your task manager to be certain.  You 
need to either kill the existing instance or start XWin.exe with a 
display other than :0, i.e. XWin :1 -multiwindow -clipboard

Kleven



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