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From: Tim Prince <n8tm@aol.com>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: startxwin not found; solution
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2011 01:44:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DEADF52.5090209@aol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201106042306.p54N6Ujh027180@greengenes.cit.cornell.edu>

On 6/4/2011 7:06 PM, Dave Matthews wrote:
> I've tried to install Cygwin/X several time over the last two months and
> always it only installed Cygwin, no X at all.  "startxwin not found" and
> nothing relevant in /usr/bin.
>
> The problem was that the Default setting of the installer
> http://cygwin.com/setup.exe for the X11 package is "Skip".
>
> So when you've stepped through the intaller to the "Select Packages"
> screen, click X11 and set it to "Install".
>

As the documents tell you, xinit is required for startxwin, and that 
rquires setup to bring in the necessary X11 dependencies.  How could you 
spend 2 months on this without looking it up?
Answered earlier from Blackberry, but the spam filter here doesn't 
permit that.


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      reply	other threads:[~2011-06-05  1:44 UTC|newest]

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2011-06-04 23:06 Dave Matthews
2011-06-05  1:44 ` Tim Prince [this message]

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