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Subject: Re: startx doesn't seem to work
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From: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 07:22:21 +0100
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On 22/11/2015 04:18, Peter Van Epp wrote:
> 	On my Win7 machine with a newly installed cygwin-64 installed via
> setup-x86_64.exe with everything default except xinit and xorg-server
> selected running startx from a terminal window opens a full screen window
> and then dies. A search of startx fails in the mail archives didn't turn up
> any thing much. Can someone suggest what I'm doing wrong please?
>
> This is what appears in the cygwin terminal window when it dies.
>
> Peter Van Epp
>
> $ startx
> xauth:  file /home/Owner/.Xauthority does not exist
> xauth:  file /home/Owner/.Xauthority does not exist
>

try startxwin

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