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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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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