From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15851 invoked by alias); 5 Jun 2011 01:44:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 15839 invoked by uid 22791); 5 Jun 2011 01:44:07 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,EXECUTABLE_URI,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RFC_ABUSE_POST,TW_TX,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from imr-da04.mx.aol.com (HELO imr-da04.mx.aol.com) (205.188.105.146) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sun, 05 Jun 2011 01:43:52 +0000 Received: from mtaout-mb05.r1000.mx.aol.com (mtaout-mb05.r1000.mx.aol.com [172.29.41.69]) by imr-da04.mx.aol.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id p551hlQv026039 for ; Sat, 4 Jun 2011 21:43:47 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.5] (cpe-69-133-204-177.cinci.res.rr.com [69.133.204.177]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mtaout-mb05.r1000.mx.aol.com (MUA/Third Party Client Interface) with ESMTPSA id 354E6E0000D7 for ; Sat, 4 Jun 2011 21:43:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4DEADF52.5090209@aol.com> Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2011 01:44:00 -0000 From: Tim Prince Reply-To: tprince@computer.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: startxwin not found; solution References: <201106042306.p54N6Ujh027180@greengenes.cit.cornell.edu> In-Reply-To: <201106042306.p54N6Ujh027180@greengenes.cit.cornell.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit x-aol-global-disposition: G X-AOL-SCOLL-SCORE: 0:2:302097312:93952408 X-AOL-SCOLL-URL_COUNT: 0 x-aol-sid: 3039ac1d29454deadf5331d2 X-AOL-IP: 69.133.204.177 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-06/txt/msg00001.txt.bz2 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. -- Tim Prince -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/