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RE: chere Bash Prompt Here window closes immediately
- From: "Matt Seitz (matseitz)" <matseitz at cisco dot com>
- To: Dave Kilroy <kilroyd at googlemail dot com>, "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 17:51:40 +0000
- Subject: RE: chere Bash Prompt Here window closes immediately
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- References: <565C8BC9 dot 4080500 at gmail dot com>
>From: Dave Kilroy [mailto:kilroyd@googlemail.com]
>>On 23/10/2015 16:16, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote:
>> When I right click a folder in Windows Explorer and select "Bash
>> Prompt Here", a window opens briefly and then closes immediately.
> I suspect this may be due to the use of %DISPLAY% (which I don't recall). I see that in your environment this is set to ":1.0"
> What happens if you run the following from cmd:
Thanks for the debugging steps. Unfortunately, I already worked around the problem by cleaning up a lock file so that the Xwin server would start as ":0.0" instead of ":1.0". If I run into the problem again, I will try your debugging steps.
> Also, I presume the X server is already running?
Yes, the X server was already running.
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