X refuses to start

Jon TURNEY jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Tue Feb 24 23:06:00 GMT 2015


On 24/02/2015 20:59, Will Parsons wrote:
> I'm accustomed to start X via a shortcut which runs the command:
>
> C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe --quote /usr/bin/bash.exe -l \
> -c "cd; /usr/bin/startxwin -- -listen"
[...]
> I can't make sense out of what this is telling me about why X failed
> to start.

Since xorg-server-1.17.0-1 and xinit-1.3.4-1, the syntax has changed and 
you should now use '-listen tcp'.

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Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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