Re: xinitrc ignored

[bjfcom <bjfcom at yahoo dot com>]

In fact, now I don't know what's going on because the server will only run
very buggy-like now.  I can't get it to behave like it was.

hmm...something is terribly amiss in Denmark...

-bjfcom


bjfcom wrote:
> 
> Dear Jim,
> 
> Thanks for your note.  I "touch"ed a new file with the name you suggested,
> but all it did was make XWin hang and never start.  I tried to copy the
> two files 'system.XWinrc' and '.xinitrc' to the same name.  That started
> the server, but other problems cropped up.  Much of the gui in the program
> 'xmgrace' was unusable and missing, and the server would in a few minutes
> crash.
> 
> If you got any other ideas, I am all ears! :) .
> 
> Thanks,
> -bjfcom
> 
> 
> Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
>> 
>> You need to create an empty ~/.startxwinrc (I think that's the name)
>> file.  This is new with the latest Cygwin-X server.
>> 
>> - Jim
>> 
>> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 1:49 PM, bjfcom <bjfcom@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks for reading.
>>>
>>> I am going crazy. ÂWhen I run my xserver, xterm loads.
>>>
>>> So, commented out anything with xterm in both /etc/X11/xinit and
>>> /etc/X11/system.XWinrc. ÂI do not have personalized rc files in ~/ other
>>> than bash. ÂI also completely moved the files out of the directory and
>>> xterm
>>> still loads. ÂThere must be calls coming from somewhere else...
>>>
>>> Please help, right now I blocked xterm with my firewall, but that is
>>> just
>>> silly.
>>>
>>> Thanks!,
>>> -bjfcom
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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