RE: Startx on WinXP

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

FWIW, if it was your HOME that contained "Documents and Settings", you can
"mount 'c:/Documents and Settings' /home", and refer to
"/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/brian" as "/home/brian"...  This is
still a band-aid, but a better one than using DOS-style paths.
	Igor

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Brian L. Walter wrote:

> Well, that didn't fix it.  But you gave me somewhere to look.  I might try
> the old dos way of naming directories, i.e. with the ~.  I'll let ya know.
>
> Regards,
> Brian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]
> On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski
> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 4:08 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; bwalter@sdm1.com
> Subject: Re: Startx on WinXP
>
>
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Brian L. Walter wrote:
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I've recently installd cygwin on both a win98 machine and a winxp
> > machine. The win98 installs works great (except for being really slow,
> > but that's a hardware issue.)  On the XP side, I've installed it, but
> > getting some strange behavior.  If I do a 'startx', I get the
> > following:
> >
> > [: and: unknown operand
> > [: and: unknown operand
> >
> > After doing some playing around with the startx script, I've come to
> > realize it's complaining about the bash conditional statements.  As
> > though I'm not running under bash....
> >
> > And as far as I can see, I am.  The fall out of this behavior is the
> > inability to control which window manager gets started.  I can get
> > around that by commenting out all of the conditionals in startx, but,
> > this seems at best a temporary work around.
> >
> > Am I missing something in setting up/configuring cygwin to run under
> > XP, something that is different than win98?
> >
> > TIA
> > Brian L. Walter
>
> Brian,
>
> You didn't do anything wrong.  This problem is most likely due to you having
> either HOME or TMP set to "C:\Documents and Settings\...".  The "and" in
> "Documents and settings" is what startx complains about (since it doesn't
> quote paths properly).
>
> I've posted a patch to startx a while ago that fixed this, but it looks like
> it hasn't been incorporated in the latest release.  Since startx is just a
> text file, you can simply apply the patch yourself from
> <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-11/msg00314.html> (use "patch -p0 <
> startx.patch" in /usr/X11R6/bin).
>         Igor
>

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