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Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:55:43 -0400
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On 7/20/2010 6:34 PM, bradbell AT seanet DOT com wrote:
> This question seems to be related to the cygwin list entry entitled
>      Cygwin 1.7.1 missing startxwin.sh
> see
>     http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2010-02/msg00652.html
>
> Today, I tried following the instructions on
>     http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/setup-cygwin-x-installing.html
> with the exception that I chose install for all the choices of the form
> xorg-*
>
> Looking at the documentation
>    http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using.html#using-starting
> It appears that the program startxwin should have been installed.
>
> When I execute the command
>      $ startxwin
> I get the response
>      bash: startxwin: command not found
>
> When I execute the command
>      $ find /usr -name 'startxwin*'
> I get no response (no matches).
>
> When I execute the command
>     uname -a
> I get the response
>     CYGWIN_NT-5.1 R8-NF079_GHIHME 1.7.5(0.225/5/3) 2010-04-12 19:07 i686
> Cygwin

It looks like you may have forgotten to install the xinit package.  If 
that doesn't solve your problem, you should resend your message to the 
cygwin-xfree list, following the problem-reporting guidelines at

   http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Ken


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