If you don't know how to do this, perhaps just best to leave the X background process running until you are ready to shut down, or if you don't shut down often, leave the bash shell running. Post as a guest Name. Just run the following from a Cygwin prompt:. For more configuration or troubleshooting information, refer to the Cygwin homepage: It only takes a minute to sign up. Open a command window; run: If you want to prevent that, you can put this as the last line in your. 
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The problem became somewhat more urgent as our IT department moved our systems to a newer virus scanner, that also seems to take much more resources. Whenever I start Cygwin's X server using the "XWin Server" link in my Start menu, or by running startxwin from a Cygwin shell, I automatically get an xterm window appearing, which I neither want nor need.
XWinrc file that contains some menus, like attachment hostnames have been renamed here to thumb names 4. The two top processes on the Windows Resource monitor are Xwin. For more configuration or troubleshooting information, refer to the Cygwin homepage: Click on the word "Skip" to select the inetutils and openssh packages. For an up-to-date answer, see user's answer below. The process goes something like this:.
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Unicorn Meta Zoo 9: With this information it is possible to add that entry to the list of known keyboard layouts. This is a bug in the Motif libraries from SUN. That's a bit sad. From now on, the startxwin script will call XWin.
Installing and Configuring Cygwin X Windows
If you are experiencing difficulties, contact June Akers. I have found that after the long install process, Vista tells me that the program did not install correctly and that I should run it again with their recommended settings it doesn't say what those settings are, but kindly offers to run the setup.
I've made it a habit to start Cygwin X with startxwin.

This answer is now out of date. This isn't really an answer to this question; with rewording it could be, but I think this would be better suited as a separate question xein answer as I did here about handling the error you're seeing.
You can work around this by either of:.
Post by Kees Dekker I'm running into a strange problem. Post as a guest Name. Unfortunately, since there is no. A small program which will do this is available here.

A check with process explorer learned that almost all load of svchost. Question inspired by this comment by Stijn Vanpoucke over on Stack Overflow.

My system is also equipped with a virus scanner, but even if I temporarily disable it, it makes no difference. When you are done, close your programs including xclock and exit from quantum: It is possible to run XWin.
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If no such file exists, startxwin will use the following as a default:. Obviously this will disable any client rc scripts, but we didn't want those in the first place.
Installing and Configuring Cygwin X Windows
Email Required, but never shown. If you already know which is the correct XKB layout code for your layout please state it in the mail. To workaround this add the command run xsetroot -cursor''name left''ptr -fg white -bg black to startxwin.
This error specifies a certain file the X server generates by default for every session. If you do not do this beforehand, you will likely be prompted by Vista to do this during or after the install.

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