Re: xterm no longer accepts keyboard input

[David Barr <davidbarr at iname dot com>]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Jeff Spirko <spirko@gmail.com> wrote:
> The icon runs from the Windows environment, so the run.exe and
> bash.exe wrapper programs are needed to set up the proper cygwin
> environment. ?Once you're in a cygwin shell, you already have the
> cygwin environment set up. ?That's why you don't need to type them in
> from the command line.
>
> So, they really should be equivalent.

I've probably missed a prior discussion, but if "startxwin.exe"
doesn't set up the Cygwin environment, then what good is it? I thought
that this was about the only advantage that "startxwin.bat" had over
"startx". Considering that "startx" also sets up the .Xauthority file
and startxwin.exe doesn't, I see absolutely no reason to use
startxwin.exe instead of startx.

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