RE: Startx on WinXP

["Brian L. Walter" <bwalter at sdm1 dot com>]

Okay, got startx to starup with out errors.  It even works great with twm.
However, if I switch to mwm, by just modifying startx, it starts the
manager, paints the windows and clock, but, does not recognize *any* input,
either keyboard or mouse.  Is this the same kind of issue?  And if so, based
on the documention I've read, which file do I look in? Everything referred
to in the documentation describes behavior, i.e. menus etc.  I don't see any
path related issues..

Sigh..
TIA
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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