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From: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Cc: furriner67@hotmail.com Subject: Re: problems running Cygwin/x Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 15:00:00 -0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <54257F84.8060208@dronecode.org.uk> (raw) In-Reply-To: <COL125-W1089096449EA7453DC1FECCDB20@phx.gbl> On 21/09/2014 17:56, t s wrote: > I successfully installed Cygwin/x on an NTFS drive > > unfortunately the menu items are limited to; > > one item for Cygwin (cygwin64 terminal) > five items for cygwinx (GNOME openbox, KDE openbox, openbox, xlaunch, xwin server) > if I try GNOME Openbox, or KDE Openbox, or Openbox; it appears to > start, but I cannot run xclock and there is no X server icon in the > lower right icon panel [...] > essentially I want to be sure Cygwin/x has installed > correctly; particularly the three Openbox options do not seem to do > anything; should they be bringing up some sort of GNOME or KDE > desktop? It seems that the open start menu links don't work correctly anymore. It seems that shortcut targets like 'C:\cygwin64\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c "/usr/bin/startx /usr/bin/openbox-session"' need the new --quote option in run-1.3.3 to work correctly. Thanks for drawing this problem to my attention. -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- 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/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-26 15:00 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2014-09-21 16:56 t s 2014-09-26 15:00 ` Jon TURNEY [this message] 2014-09-26 18:00 ` t s
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