startx does not work

[René Berber]

Al Kelley wrote:

> startx does not work, am i doing something wrong?

Why do you think it is not working?

> it comes up with the following message and then exits:
> 
>   Welcome to the XWin X Server
>   Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
>   Release: 6.8.2.0-4
> 
>   Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> 
>   XWin was started with the following command line:
> 
>   X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard
> 
>   _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.

Isn't this clear?

>   winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress

It looks like you expect something to happen, since it did not you tried to
start XWin again, which is what you are showing.

Do you have a .xinitrc executable script on your home directory?  Do you have it
in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc?; one or the other should be executed and the one in
/etc does open an xterm at the end.
-- 
René Berber


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