Re: Can I close the startx cygwin shell?

[Trebor Sreyb <tsreyb at yahoo dot com>]

--- "J. David Boyd" <david@adboyd.com> wrote:

> I use the startxwin.bat file in the
> c:\cgywin\usr\X11R6\bin folder.  You can
> modify to open several xterms, or whatever you want,
> and it works great.



I had tried once to customize startxwin.bat for my
needs but gave up because it won't successfully launch
my window manager (wmaker). Hence since then I have
been using startx from within a cygwin shell session.

Looks like I need to resolve the original problem
first before I can get rid of that unwanted shell
window.

So, what happens with my startxwin.bat is that wmaker
gets started, but the mouse is unusable, and the
initial icons I expect to see never get displayed.
Only an empty wmaker desktop. I can start an xterm,
but its window has no title bar, resizing button,
window borders, etc. I can use the keyboard.


I had changed startxwin.bat to run the following :

cd c:\cyghome\tsreyb
run XWin -clipboard -silent-dup-error


Also, the contents of my .xinitrc (in
c:\cyghome\tsreyb) are:

PATH="$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin"
exec wmaker





I suspected the problem was that certain X environment
variables aren't set, because, by comparing
environment variables with and without the problem, I
find these aren't set when the problem exists:

XAPPLRESDIR=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults
XAUTHORITY=/cygdrive/c/cyghome/tsreyb/.Xauthority
XCMSDB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Xcms.txt
XKEYSYMDB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB
XNLSPATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale

But, using startxwin.bat, where am I supposed to set
these?

I tried putting them in startxwin.bat, like this:

SET XAPPLRESDIR=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults
SET XAUTHORITY=/cygdrive/c/cyghome/bbyers/.Xauthority
SET XCMSDB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Xcms.txt
SET XKEYSYMDB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB
SET XNLSPATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale
run XWin -clipboard -silent-dup-error

but those variables still don't appear in an xterm
after the manager is started, and the
windowing/mousing problems persist.

I also placed them in .xinitrc, but, again, the
variables never get set and the problems persist.

I even placed them in .cshrc and .profile. Still, no improvement.

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