Re: Cygwin XWin 1.17.1 crash at startup

On 3/31/2015 8:36 PM, Michel Poirier wrote:
> Dear Cygwin maintainer
>
> Since last X-Cygwin update several of my X-Win applications are not
> working properly.
>
> Googling "cygwin xorg 1.17 crash" gave many posts reporting probably
> similar issues but I couldn't find a fix for the error. I also looked at
> the Cygwin-FAQ and mailing list without real success.

can you just run startxwin from mintty and report the outcome ?

There were several changes in the default

https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2015-02/msg00000.html
https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2015-02/msg00014.html

may be you are hitting one of them.

Regards
Marco

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