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Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 19:55:25 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Installation issues (newbie)
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On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 04:43:02PM -0700, David Masterson wrote:
>Step 2: Get an X server working
>
>*	"Default" doesn't install any X, so I reran setup.exe to do an "All"
>install (I have room).  This got me a "Cygwin/X" menu in the Start menu list,
>but didn't provide any obvious way of starting an X server.
>*	Suggestion: Have setup.exe add an icon for "startxwin.bat" to the
>Desktop.  I manually did that.

You should probably make this suggestion to the people who are responsible
for X, i.e., the cygwin-xfree mailing list.

cgf

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