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Subject: Re: Help troubleshooting X
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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 21:46:59 +0200
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From: Marco Atzeri via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
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On 16.06.2020 21:31, Randy Dawson via Cygwin wrote:
> Briefly:
> 
> X starts a window, (does not matter fluxbox, gnome, or whatever startup).
> 
> The mouse pointer does not show up.
> 
> This all worked OK with this install at one time.   And yes, I have removed and reinstalled several times, seems to work OK after a clean reinstall, but later quits working.
> I did not change anything.
> Is windows messing up with things, like the HOME directory, that cygwin X depends on?
> What tools or trace debug log files, (and where are they) to track this problem down?
> 
> Randy
> 

how are you starting X ?
what is the setting visible from

$ grep "^/usr/bin/XWin" /var/log/xwin/XWin.0.log
/usr/bin/XWin :0 -multiwindow -auth


any specific failure on the same /var/log/xwin/XWin.0.log ?
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