Re: issues with startxwin not loading x windows

2016-10-26 Thread Keith Christian
Michael, To limit information leakage, I do this for several pieces of software on my corporate PC. The sed script that you'll create is useful in many other "cleaning" operations as well. 1. Create a text file dump using cygcheck or by whatever method named "original_text_file" 2. Look for str

Re: issues with startxwin not loading x windows

2016-08-19 Thread Eliot Moss
Maybe I am way off base, but this seems similar to what will happen if a .startxwinrc file's commands don't have something that waits. My .startxwinrc looks like this: #!/bin/bash xrdb -merge ${HOME}/.Xdefaults xmodmap ${HOME}/.Xmodmap UC="${USER} console" xterm +tb -geometry 110x62+4+0 -T "$

Re: issues with startxwin not loading x windows

2016-08-19 Thread michael messina
ntly farther but dies on startup as you can see.  Thoughts? From: michael messina Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2016 2:37 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: issues with startxwin not loading x windows   I recently switched from a windows 7 laptop to windows 10 at work here; I had cygwin 64 w

Re: issues with startxwin not loading x windows

2016-08-18 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 18/08/2016 20:37, michael messina wrote: I recently switched from a windows 7 laptop to windows 10 at work here; I had cygwin 64 working with metacity as my preferred frontend for x windows with no problems. Inexplicably on the 16th it ceased functioning. I attempted a reinstall and inst