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Re: Startx on WinXP
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com, bwalter at sdm1 dot com
- Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 16:07:48 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Startx on WinXP
- References: <078701c3e05c$b3bce520$03fea8c0@sdmpc6>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
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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