X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:reply-to:subject:references:to:from:message-id :date:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=JovmFXxOEZ7/K/h3 X9GzM8oM9ZhPmJsFXg1HsqXhE3hTLhQ03Tba+rBYpvAdUpWIre8qnb1zQj6UcqAg s8GKVFl0JBjD+l4wQmezUlibCTWARrJyS9djg9h9XsaX8bmwuM1QwTyQec/OFz5h tOVHROYJxIiy4lv/pw18UP8Vros= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:reply-to:subject:references:to:from:message-id :date:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=UjNLe9uCcgt3fQZEI8XsCj TmBjE=; b=uYYzorU0xlplRuv7xAG0nrxUkdAEWa/66FZriAw02Dk0gjY8yI5IBs PWaD+7p1+4Tu86QZpBnjPl6iq+MeixT3TgIsHeUmY2UyOL1a52tp49LhP9euMIo8 VHU0gvngItVILY4nLfCkFEqNlr3SXZbKfr4RxwWFnGEtNvzf0TKEw= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=Ken, H*f:sk:56CA6B6, H*i:sk:56CA6B6, H*MI:sk:56CA6B6 X-HELO: csmail.cs.umass.edu Reply-To: moss AT cs DOT umass DOT edu Subject: Re: XWin won't run xterm on start References: <1456090085 DOT 415814 DOT 30486 DOT 4659 AT mail DOT rambler DOT ru> <56CA468C DOT 2010809 AT cs DOT umass DOT edu> <56CA6B68 DOT 4050400 AT cornell DOT edu> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Eliot Moss Message-ID: <56CA75E5.7020607@cs.umass.edu> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 21:43:49 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56CA6B68.4050400@cornell.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes On 2/21/2016 8:59 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > On 2/21/2016 6:21 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: >> On 2/21/2016 4:28 PM, Jaakov Jaakov wrote: >>> >>>> Why not do: >>> >>>> xterm ... & >>> >>>> /etc/X11/xinit/startxwinrc >> >> Do this in your personal .startxwinrc file ... > > Won't this lead to an infinite recursion? (See https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-02/msg00325.html) Ah, perhaps. There may be ways to catch that, but it may be easier for the OP to copy the startxwinrc file's contents. Not the best for responding to future changes ... EM -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple