Window Maker issues, launching from cygwin
Jon Turney
jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Tue Jun 27 20:31:00 GMT 2017
On 27/06/2017 21:05, David DLC wrote:
> I have been trying to use WindowMaker with Cygwin, but I'm receiving
> some errors. When starting WindowMaker from Windows directly, it will
> open for a second, shutting down immediately after that.
>
> If I run startx, the window opens, but I can't click on anything. I
> get this output when running startx. There is some kind of error near
> the bottom, but I have the .Xresources file in my home directory, so
> I'm not sure what's wrong. Any help would be much appreciated!
>
>
> $ startx
[...]
> /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common: line 20: [: too many arguments
> Excessive file argument "Cruz/.Xresources"
I'm guessing this is failing because the pathname of your home directory
has spaces in it.
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