X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 13:59:48 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Installed Cygwin 1.7 - no X? Message-ID: <20090707175948.GD4609@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4A5379C8.5040200@cygwin.com> <8540148a0907071051k99d8d76tf46cb422f7209474@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8540148a0907071051k99d8d76tf46cb422f7209474@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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) 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) -- 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