How to open a standalone xterm

[Jon TURNEY]

On 28/10/2009 13:01, Joel Gwynn wrote:
 > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote:
 >> On 10/27/2009 11:02 PM, Joel Gwynn wrote:
 >>>
 >>> So it looks like if I first start up the multiwindow window manager
 >>> like so: "xwin -multiwindow&", then I can run xterm, but I have to
 >>> specify the display.  What's the typical way of automating this?
 >>
 >> startxwin.bat or startxwin.sh.
 >
 > Duh.  Guess I need more sleep :)

We even put an item on the start menu that runs that for you :-)

On 28/10/2009 18:49, Mike Ayers wrote:
>> On Behalf Of Joel Gwynn
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 8:27 AM
>
>> And now, sporadically, when I run startxwin.sh, sometimes it works, ie
>> opens up the xterm, but sometimes some windows open, with text that I
>> can't read quickly enough, then go away.  If I close Xwin and try
>> again, sometimes it will work, mostly not.
>
> 	You're not running startxwin twice, right?  That won't work - you must run the xterm command from an existing xterm, a cygwin window, or the xterm icon in the start menu (which can be copied to the quicklaunch bar).

Hmm... startxwin.bat invokes Xwin with -silent-dup-error, so it should have 
the effect of just starting another Xterm if the X server is already running.

This might be construed as a feature :-)


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