I actually went ahead and created a new user on my computer, renaming it to something with no spaces. However, when I run it, I am encountering something a little different. The window opens, then quickly closes before anything can be done.
$ startx Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 1.19.2.0 OS: CYGWIN_NT-10.0 DESKTOP-QMBDM9N 2.8.0(0.309/5/3) 2017-04-01 20:47 x86_64 OS: Windows 10 [Windows NT 10.0 build 15063] (Win64) Package: version 1.19.2-1 built 2017-03-09 XWin was started with the following command line: /usr/bin/X :0 -auth /home/DavidDLC/.serverauth.12112 (II) xorg.conf is not supported (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information LoadPreferences: /home/DavidDLC/.XWinrc not found LoadPreferences: Loading /etc/X11/system.XWinrc LoadPreferences: Done parsing the configuration file... winDetectSupportedEngines - RemoteSession: no winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed, allowing ShadowDDNL winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 00000005 winSetEngine - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking winScreenInit - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel winWindowProc - WM_SIZE - new client area w: 1902 h: 983 winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shared memory support in the kernel (EE) AIGLX: No native OpenGL in modes with a root window (II) IGLX: enabled GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer (II) IGLX: Loaded and initialized swrast (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0 winPointerWarpCursor - Discarding first warp: 951 491 (--) 16 mouse buttons found (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31 (--) Windows keyboard layout: "00000409" (00000409) "US", type 7 (--) Found matching XKB configuration "English (USA)" (--) Model = "pc105" Layout = "us" Variant = "none" Options = "none" Rules = "base" Model = "pc105" Layout = "us" Variant = "none" Options = "none" winProcEstablishConnection - winInitClipboard returned. winClipboardThreadProc - DISPLAY=:0.0 OS maintains clipboard viewer chain: yes winClipboardProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the display. xinit: connection to X server lost winClipboardProc - winClipboardFlushWindowsMessageQueue trapped WM_QUIT message, exiting main loop. waiting for X server to shut down winClipboardProc - XDestroyWindow succeeded. winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress (II) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file. $ /usr/bin/xterm: Xt error: Can't open display: :0 -- 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
