checkX problems

[Jon TURNEY]

On 20/11/2009 19:43, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 11/20/2009 12:14 PM, Charles Wilson wrote:
>> I've integrated Lothar's patch into run2/checkX (along with some other
>> internal changes), and published a test release. Please try run-0.3.1-1
>> and let me know if it fixes your problems with checkX.

> But the new behavior of the timeout option (my problem #1) works fine,
> with one caveat: If I start the X server with startxwin.bat, it
> immediately exits and claims that a server is already running. This was
> also reported earlier today by Jim Reisert:
>
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2009-11/msg00158.html

Not quite: It seems that report says that the internal multiwindow-mode window 
manager claims another window manager is running (although it's difficult to 
be absolutely sure as the exact error message isn't reported :-))

> Could it be that checkX is tricking XWin into thinking that a different
> X server is running? (I have no idea how XWin decides whether an X
> server is running, so this may or may not be plausible.) Strangely, the
> problem doesn't occur if I use startxwin.sh instead of startxwin.bat.

-- 
Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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