Vista, new install, x server does not start, startxwin.bat missing

[Scott Fordin]

FWIW, I've found that, under Vista, I have to run the Cygwin X server,
bash shell, and xterm as Administrator for everything to work.

Scott

Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> On 17/02/2010 08:42, Jim Olson wrote:
>> I found that using the (1 year old) startxwin.bat is
>> easier than trying to figure out how to get startwin.exe
>> with a $HOME/.startxwinrc file after
>> trying to do the latter, because I would get
>>
>> "wmaker warning: wrong option value for key "NewStyle".
>> Should be one of new, old, next
>> wmaker warning: wrong option value for key "NewStyle".
>> Should be one of new, old, next
>> wmaker fatal error: it seems that there is already a window manager
>> running"
> 
> That's because startxwin with ~/.startxwinrc is for starting the X 
> server in *multiwindow* mode.  If you want to start an X desktop, you 
> need to be using startx with ~/.xinitrc.
> 
>> when trying to use a $HOME/.startxwinrc equivalent to
>> the old startxwin.bat:
> 
> The old startxwin.bat served the same purpose and obviously did not 
> start another window manager.  You may have customized your copy at some 
> point, but it was never shipped that way.
> 
> 
> Yaakov
> Cygwin/X
> 
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