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Subject: | Re: Run a Cygwin (X) app from a DOS command line |
From: | Erich Dollansky <oceanare AT pacific DOT net DOT sg> |
To: | John Emmas <johne53 AT tiscali DOT co DOT uk> |
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Date: | Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:57:01 +0800 |
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Hi, it seems to me that the application misses a running X server. It is the same under Unix if you start an X application directly on a console without having X running. Erich On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 17:41 +0000, John Emmas wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" > Subject: Re: Run a Cygwin (X) app from a DOS command line > > > > You also need Cygwin's installation path in your Windows PATH variable. > > > Thanks Larry. I already had that set up (C:\cygwin\bin) as well as > C:\cygwin\lib but I can still only launch console apps. When this happened > for the very first time I seem to remember that "rebaseall" sorted it out. > Unfortunately, but that doesn't seem to fix the problem any more. > > The required program is clearly getting launched because I can see it in > Task Manager - but it doesn't seem to get as far as putting anything on the > screen. > > cygcheck -c reports a few packages as being incomplete (including libX11 > and xorg-X11-bin). I might try reinstalling them and see if that improves > things. > > John > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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