samuel <samuelan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. I have just installed xinit on my vista laptop. When I typed in 'xinit' in > the cygwin console, I got a BIG BIG annoying X window which occupied all the > space of my desktop and cannot be resized. When I started other programs in > xterm, the new program just covered up the space where xterm used to be and I > couldn't switch back to the xterm windows. > How can I get a clean and separate xterm window? Thank you. Samuel, some say this is off topic, but I find that xterm, emacs built for x11, and et al depend on X11. I am not an expert, so can only tell you of a kludge I found that fixes the problem. There must be an X or x something rc file that can be modified to give arguments, but there is a maze of them and the formats vary. I found no direct answer on the Cygwin/X faq, but I'll cc this to the list, though I'm not a member.
Here is a simple work around I found that fixed the problem for me. I changed line #28 in /bin/startx to include two arguments, one for the clipboard and one for multiple windows (which is what you want). You probably also want the clipboard to work. line 28 in "/bin/startx" changed to the below: defaultserverargs="-clipboard -multiwindow" Regards, Wynfield -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
