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Date:	Mon, 30 Mar 2015 15:17:27 +0100
From:	Jon TURNEY <jon DOT turney AT dronecode DOT org DOT uk>
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To:	Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert AT alum DOT mit DOT edu>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: Xorg server always starting up on DISPLAY 3.0
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On 27/03/2015 15:48, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> I'm running Cygwin/X server Version 1.17.1.  For the last couple of
> weeks, it's always starting on DISPLAY 3.0:
>
>      DISPLAY=:3.0
>
> I can't figure out how to get it back to 0.0.  There must be some
> piece of state somewhere that I can't find.

You have stale lock files /tmp/.X0-lock etc.

Unfortunately startx(|win) is not as smart as it should be about 
detecting that the process owning the lock file is no longer running.

-- 
Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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