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From: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: startxwin.exe no longer exists?
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 18:17:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <548C82A3.9080604@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <slrnm8mbmj.19r.varro@anukis.local>
On 12/12/2014 7:07 PM, Will Parsons wrote:
> For several years now I have been starting X windows by clicking on an
> icon on my desktop that is a link to C:\cygwin\bin\startxwin.exe. It
> has recently ceased to work because apparently startxwin.exe no longer
> exists. Somehow I missed where this was removed, so what is the
> recommended way of starting X from a desktop icon now?
>
> I seem to recall that startxwin.exe was introduced some time ago
> because using a script to start X was inadequate somehow, but I don't
> remember the details, so what changed?
>
https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2014-11/msg00004.html
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-13 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-13 16:20 Will Parsons
2014-12-13 18:17 ` Marco Atzeri [this message]
2014-12-16 2:50 ` Will Parsons
2014-12-16 2:56 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin-X)
2014-12-16 3:30 ` Will Parsons
2014-12-16 3:35 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin-X)
2014-12-16 14:29 ` Mark Hansen
2014-12-16 16:00 ` Erik Soderquist
2014-12-16 16:36 ` rcunningham
2014-12-16 17:06 ` Erik Soderquist
2014-12-16 17:23 ` rcunningham
2014-12-16 22:58 ` Will Parsons
2014-12-16 23:39 ` Erik Soderquist
2014-12-17 17:29 ` mathog
2014-12-17 17:40 ` Erik Soderquist
2014-12-17 17:52 ` mathog
2014-12-17 18:36 ` Erik Soderquist
2014-12-17 19:02 ` mathog
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