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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 10:51:26 -0700
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Subject: Re: Installed Cygwin 1.7 - no X?
From: William Deegan <bdbaddog AT gmail DOT com>
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Larry,

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Larry Hall
(Cygwin)<reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
> Lloyd Wood wrote:
>>
>> Installed Cygwin 1.7 beta on a new clean machine - figured I may as well
>> get with the 1.7 program. Let it install all defaults plus a few packages
>> I knew I'd need. Added to default list, didn't remove anything.
>> Installed on C:\cygwin under Windows XP SP2.
>>
>> How to start X? No XWin Server icon in menu. Just the cygwin shell
>> server on desktop. No /usr/bin/startxwin.bat script. No /usr/bin/Xwin.exe.
>> And no xinit, which I thought was how X 7.4 got started.
>
> My installation has a "XWin Server" menu item under "Cygwin-X" in the
> "Programs" menu.

I had a similar issue. If you do a from scratch install recently, you
do not get the "XWin Server" under "Cygwin-X".
For my install I did install the x windows, and can start from startx
in the shell or the startxwin.bat, just no menu item.

-Bill

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