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- From: Magus <magus1011ca at yahoo dot ca>
- To: Cygwin-XFree Mailing List <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 08:07:05 -0600
- Subject: Beginners questions.
- Organization: What me organized? Never!
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: Magus <magus1011ca at yahoo dot ca>
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Hi All,
I think I've got Cygwin and XFree installed correctly on my
Win98 SE box. I type "think" because I have no standard to go
by. How can I tell when Cygwin is correctly installed? It
currently runs and I can access info, man, sh, bc and most
other good things that I know about.
I'm in the same position with the X window stuff. I have no
idea what I'm supposed to see. Since there are at least three
ways of starting X detailed in the FAQ/User Manual, I'd like to
try and tell you folks what I see when I try them and then you
can tell me if this is normal or not, OK?
First attempt was the startxwin.bat I get a full screen window
with a bash window. When I left clicked the mouse and selected
"exit" the bash window lost it's title. When I clicked the
Windows Close button the Full Screen window went away and was
replaced with another one. This one had no sub-windows and the
mouse was not clickable but it did move.
The next attempt was to start Cygwin and then type "startx" at
the command prompt. Other than giving me a Xclock, unresponsive
xterm and two bash windows this one behaved the same as the
above.
The last one was to start Cygwin and type:
"sh /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh" (without the quotes) on the
command prompt. This gave me a nice aquamarine (?) window with
an Xclock and a bash window. Once again exit removes the
windows titles, but this time close does close the window
without a second one opening.
OK, are these normal? If not, what is wrong with my install
that is causing the problem and how do I go about fixing it?
This is a totally fresh install, no files added.
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Best regards,
Magus
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