xterm does not start properly

[Thomas Leineweber]

Hello Alexander!

Thank you for response. The link you included in your email did solve the
problem although ist was NOT a firewall problem. It was the other hint with
the -multiwindow switch that helped.

Best regards, Thomas


> On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 ThoLei@gmx.net wrote:
> 
> > I installed cygwin-xfree 1.5.15-1today on Windows2000 but i have a
> problem
> > with starting it. I use the startxwin.bat and it echos "startxwin.bat -
> > Starting on Windows NT/2000/XP/2003" but then nothing seems to happen
> and
> > the DOS Box is closed immediatly. However the "X"-Icon appears in my
> > Windows-Tray but clicking it reveals no option menu. When I look in the
> > taskmanager there is an xterm listed as process but I cannot do anything
> > with it but kill it. A year ago I installed cygwin-xfree 1.5.9-1 on a
> > similar machine and it worked (bash shell opened).
> 
> Sounds like a personal firewall problem.
> 
> http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#freeze-at-startup
> 
> bye
> 	ago 
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