Xwin weirdnesses

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Thu, 13 May 2004 dummy@bolobot.com wrote:

> Since updating to the newest xorg distribution weird things are happening
> with starting Xwin from startxwin.bat.  I used to be able to start multiple
> windows in a 800 by 600 screen with the blackbox window manager.  Now when
> I try that using the -scrollbars -clipboard -screen 0 800 600 no window
> appears although when I kill X it thinks there are 2 clients connected?! I
> removed "run" from in front of Xwin in the batch file and that works, well,
> every other time.  I start startxwin.bat and it pops up the X window but then
> doesn't start the window manager or xterm.  If I kill X and restart, then it
> works (although it crashes at random times - it used to never crash).  Rootless
> and multiwindow work, although I like having all my X stuff in its own window
> and using rootless and multiwindow I don't have the benefits of blackbox (i.e.
> opening a new xterm session by right-clicking).  Is anyone else having these
> problems?

The startupfiles have been modified to start -multiwindow by default. Are you sure 
XWin is not started with that option? Check /tmp/XWin.log. The commandline used
to start XWin is printed there.

bye
	ago
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