XWin too slow to start

[Larry Hall (Cygwin X)]

Stephen More wrote:
> For years I have been using fvwm2 and cygwin, but today it stopped working.
> 
> The only way I could get it to work again was to insert a 'sleep 15' between:
> 
> XWin -clipboard -rootless -silent-dup-error &
> 
> sleep 15
> 
> fvwm2 &
> 
> 
> 
> Without the sleep, fvwm2 actually executes first but has no X server
> to connect to.
> What is causing XWin to startup so slow ?


Good question.  What did you change recently?  Certainly nothing in the
X packages has changed for years, so you've either updated another Cygwin
package which is causing you trouble or you've introduced an external
change.  But of course you realize that you're providing no mechanism
that synchronizes X and fvwm, right?  Regardless of how slow or fast
the X server startup is, you've still got a potential problem there.

That said, submitting a problem report may shed some light on your problem:

> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

My WAG is that you've changed some network/firewall settings that are
slowing down the X server startup.

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