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RE: XWin Won't Run Without -screen Option
- To: "'Harold Hunt'" <huntharo at msu dot edu>, "'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: XWin Won't Run Without -screen Option
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 09:24:41 -0400
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold Hunt [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu]
> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 9:00 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: XWin Won't Run Without -screen Option
>
>
> Oops.
>
> > > If I tried running XWin without parameter on both cmd.exe
> and bash,
> > > it complained with the same "no screen found" error
>
> > of course no Xserver will run if you do not specifiy the screen you
> > must use -screen 0r :0 option. Plese read more about X first
>
> Test39 added support for starting XWin.exe without a -screen
> parameter. I removed the -screen parameter from XWin.exe in
> the startxwin.bat file, as that causes the largest window
> possible to be opened. However, the current binary on the
> Cygwin mirror network is previous to Test39.
>
> Suhaib, could you update the XWin.exe binary on the mirror
> network to the latest from CVS?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Harold
>
Sure, I will update them, give me a couple of days.
Suhaib