X11 not working on Cygwin

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I am fed up with the default Windows interface so I decided to install Cygwin and run a gnome shell on startup.

When the installation was done, I went into Cygwin and started X with this command xinit gnome-session and I got this error and the shell closed shortly thereafter.

Screenshot of gnome error

and this is the output log

Screenshot of output log

I think it has something to do with display drivers but I really don't know when I was installing Cygwin it came up with an error but stupidly I pressed OK without reading it, so help.

Fish4203

Posted 2017-06-12T09:45:53.950

Reputation: 1

3For textual output, copying the text is far more beneficial for us than screenshots. – choroba – 2017-06-12T09:50:12.553

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/303812/995714 – phuclv – 2017-06-12T11:15:31.903

$ xinit gnome-session

Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 1.19.2.0 OS: CYGWIN_NT-10.0 2016-MP06NE55 2.8.0(0.309/5/3) 2017-04-01 20:47 x86_64 OS: Windows 10 [Windows NT 10.0 build 14393] (Win64) Package: version 1.19.2-1 built 2017-03-09

XWin was started with the following command line:

X :0

(II) xorg.conf is not supported (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information LoadPreferences: /home/RYC0001/.XWinrc not found

– Fish4203 – 2017-06-12T20:18:18.330

LoadPreferences: Loading /etc/X11/system.XWinrc LoadPreferences: Done parsing the configuration file... winDetectSupportedEngines - RemoteSession: no winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed, allowing ShadowDDNL – Fish4203 – 2017-06-12T20:18:44.777

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 – Fish4203 – 2017-06-12T20:19:11.447

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 (--) 5 mouse buttons found (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31 (--) Windows keyboard layout: "00000409" (00000409) "US", type 4 (--) Found matching XKB configuration "English (USA)" – Fish4203 – 2017-06-12T20:19:38.233

(--) 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. – Fish4203 – 2017-06-12T20:19:53.260

winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress (II) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file. – Fish4203 – 2017-06-12T20:19:57.590

@Fish4203 edit the question and add the necessary information. Comments are not for them. And put code inside backticks \like this`` to make it readable – phuclv – 2017-06-13T14:48:41.907

Answers

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Message

libGL error: Screen is not Windows-DRI capable

indicates that we wanted to use direct, hardware-accelerated OpenGL ('Windows-DRI'), but that the server didn't allow it.

This could be due to:

  • server option -nowgl
  • windowing mode doesn't permit wgl (i.e. not -multiwindow)
  • display driver does not support WGL (i.e. the default VGA driver)

etc.

More info.

Try run with -multiwindow:

xinit gnome-session -- -multiwindow

Tomasz Jakub Rup

Posted 2017-06-12T09:45:53.950

Reputation: 598

it just does the same thing except in a smaller window – Fish4203 – 2017-06-12T20:25:43.227

Try with -nowgl: xinit gnome-session -- -multiwindow -nowgl – Tomasz Jakub Rup – 2017-06-12T20:27:17.423

still, doesn't work I can boot into Xorg – Fish4203 – 2017-06-13T00:40:31.950

this is the error i get when i run gnome-session from within x $ gnome-session gnome-session-binary: PID 11044: WARNING: Using null backend for session tracking Unable to init server: Could not connect to 127.0.0.1: Connection refused – Fish4203 – 2017-06-13T00:47:35.020

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To run the the Xserver with the window manager in cygwin use:

startxwin

and if you need to disable the WGL accelerator

startxwin -- -nowgl

See https://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using.html#using-starting for details.

matzeri

Posted 2017-06-12T09:45:53.950

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