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Re: Installed Cygwin 1.7 - no X?
CGF,
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Christopher
Faylor<cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 10:51:26AM -0700, William Deegan wrote:
>>Larry,
>>
>>On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Larry Hall
>>(Cygwin)<reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com> wrote:
>>> Lloyd Wood wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Installed Cygwin 1.7 beta on a new clean machine - figured I may as well
>>>> get with the 1.7 program. Let it install all defaults plus a few packages
>>>> I knew I'd need. Added to default list, didn't remove anything.
>>>> Installed on C:\cygwin under Windows XP SP2.
>>>>
>>>> How to start X? No XWin Server icon in menu. Just the cygwin shell
>>>> server on desktop. No /usr/bin/startxwin.bat script. No /usr/bin/Xwin.exe.
>>>> And no xinit, which I thought was how X 7.4 got started.
>>>
>>> My installation has a "XWin Server" menu item under "Cygwin-X" in the
>>> "Programs" menu.
>>
>>I had a similar issue. If you do a from scratch install recently, you
>>do not get the "XWin Server" under "Cygwin-X".
>>For my install I did install the x windows, and can start from startx
>>in the shell or the startxwin.bat, just no menu item.
>
> ...and if you were reading the cygwin-xfree mailing list you might have
> caught the recent discussion about this.
My Bad. I filter cygwin-x and cygwin into same folder.. Somehow I
missed the reply.
>
> cgf
>
> (who wonders if he should make good on this threat to merge the
> cygwin-xfree and cygwin mailing lists)
Probably.
-Bill
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