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From: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Vista, new install, x server does not start, startxwin.bat missing
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:42:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B69B57F.2020706@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002601caa46e$d3a78750$7af695f0$@com>

On 03/02/2010 01:18, Dr. M. C. Nelson wrote:
> We installed cygwin/x on a new acer laptop (vista).
>
> The X server does not start  from the icon, and the x server does not start
> from the command line startx
>
> The batch script startxwin.bat  is not present.

Don't panic about the absence of startxwin.bat.  startxwin.(bat|sh) have been 
retired in favour of a shiny new startxwin.exe [1] in an effort to make... X 
server startup more reliable :-)

I've finally got around to updating the Cygwin/X User Guide [2] to take note 
of this fact

[1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2009-12/msg00005.html
[2] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using.html

-- 
Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-02-03 17:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-03  1:19 Dr. M. C. Nelson
2010-02-03  2:06 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
2010-02-03 17:42 ` Jon TURNEY [this message]
2010-02-17 14:45 ` Jim Olson
2010-02-17 19:36   ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
2010-02-18  0:59     ` Scott Fordin
2010-02-18  3:38       ` Dr. M. C. Nelson
2010-02-19 15:09         ` Jon TURNEY
2010-02-19 15:41           ` Dr. M. C. Nelson
2010-02-24 23:21             ` Jon TURNEY
2010-02-18  5:08       ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
2010-02-18 17:39         ` Scott Fordin
2010-02-09  4:25 Dr. M. C. Nelson

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