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Re: Can't get startwin.bat to work
- From: Mark Paulus <mark dot paulus at mci dot com>
- To: Cygwin XFree Forum LIST <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:52:34 -0700
- Subject: Re: Can't get startwin.bat to work
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Have you tried to open up a cygwin shell, and then
starting up an xterm, to see if it might just be there, awaiting
connections? If you open in multiwindow mode (native mode
by default), then I wouldn't expect anything to happen until
your X Server actually has a client window to display.
open up a cygwin bash shell, make sure your DISPLAY is set,
or give the -display option to some xclient (xterm, xclock, etc),
and see if it pops up on your desktop.
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 04:49:47 -0800 (PST), Mike McCollister wrote:
>I have been using cygwin for years and the X client under cygwin for about a
>year. In order to get X to work, I have to make sure that I am running bash
>and then run startxwin.sh to get it to work. Well, I've been trying to get it
>to work with just startxwin.bat but I am not successful. It seems to have a
>problem with the "run" commands. Here are the run commands:
>run XWin -clipboard -silent-dup-error
>run xterm -sl 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms red -fg yellow -bg black -e /usr/bin/bash
>-l
>I do have cygwin installed in c:\progra~1\cygwin and I have modified
>startxwin.bat so that
>SET CYGWIN_ROOT=c:\progra~1\cygwin
>The last time I updated anything in cygwin as last week (first week of
>November).
>Does anyone know how to get the startxwin.bat to work?
>Just a little more background. When I mean that it does not work, I mean that
>the "X" shows up as an icon next to the clock but nothing else happens. If I
>right click on the "X", nothing happens. I have to use the Task Manger to kill
>XWin.exe.
>Thanks,
>Mike
>
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