BScreen::BScreen: an error occcurred while querying the X server

[Michel Bardiaux]

Bammon0001@aol.com wrote:

> Hello,
> Am having difficulty getting this email through.
> 
> I installed cygwin per a the web site's and a Professor's instructions.  In startx, got
> 
> BScreen::BScreen: an error occured whil querying the Xserver.
> another window manager already running on display:0.0.
> 
> Openbox: no managable screens found   aborting
> 
> ...attached is the XWin.log.
> 
> Thank you,
> Brian Ammon

The problem is not with the X server, XWin.log shows it started 
normally. But you specified -multiwindow, meaning you will be using 
MS-Windows itself as window manager. So startx should not start any WM 
of its own. What exactly is there in your startx?

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