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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 12:29:17 -0700
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On 20/12/2012 10:46 AM, George Barrick wrote:
> Re: X windows problems
>
>                        2012.12.20.17:45:35 UT
>
> Hi Art,
>
>       I installed Cygwin earlier this year on
> the laptop computer of one of my students.  I
> typically use a rather barebones configuration
> where I have XWin running in the multiwindow
> mode.  I use Cygwin in order to get tex-live
> and GNU Octave running on my crappy WinXP
> workstation at the college where I work.  I
> believe that the installation I did on the
> laptop still works.
>
>      The notes that I made for myself when I
> did the Win7 installation on the laptop were:
>
> 1) definitely disable UAC (User Access Control).
>       The UAC ruins your ability to start up
>       Cygwin and XWin.
In what way did UAC prevent you from running X? I've never had trouble 
with it (Windows 7 user).

Ryan


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