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[Larry Hall (Cygwin X)]

samuel wrote:
> Hi. I have just installed xinit on my vista laptop. When I typed in 'xinit' in
> the cygwin console, I got a BIG BIG annoying X window which occupied all the
> space of my desktop and cannot be resized. When I started other programs in
> xterm, the new program just covered up the space where xterm used to be and I
> couldn't switch back to the xterm windows.
> How can I get a clean and separate xterm window? Thank you.

Use "startxwin.[bat|sh]", depending on your shell.  If you're not familiar
with how Cygwin-X works, you could benefit by taking a look at the
documentation.  There's a good walk-through of the install and basics
for getting started.

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