cygwin 1.7 startxwin failing due to "winMultiWindowXMsgProc - another window manager is running. Exiting."

jwzumwalt jwzumwalt@neatinfo.com
Thu Dec 16 17:25:00 GMT 2010


I had this happening too. For some reason teh xwindows manager does not
completely shut down and an attempt to restart xwindows gives this errror.

1) from bash shell do a ps and "kill -9 xxxx" any orphaned job.
2) From Windows task manager do the same. 
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