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On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 10:51:26AM -0700, William Deegan wrote:
>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.

...and if you were reading the cygwin-xfree mailing list you might have
caught the recent discussion about this.

cgf

(who wonders if he should make good on this threat to merge the
cygwin-xfree and cygwin mailing lists)

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