From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11017 invoked by alias); 13 Dec 2014 18:17:20 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 11004 invoked by uid 89); 13 Dec 2014 18:17:19 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-wg0-f50.google.com Received: from mail-wg0-f50.google.com (HELO mail-wg0-f50.google.com) (74.125.82.50) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Sat, 13 Dec 2014 18:17:18 +0000 Received: by mail-wg0-f50.google.com with SMTP id a1so11459320wgh.23 for ; Sat, 13 Dec 2014 10:17:14 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.180.103.38 with SMTP id ft6mr18041983wib.19.1418494634093; Sat, 13 Dec 2014 10:17:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.108] (pD9E619C2.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [217.230.25.194]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id t4sm776000wjy.21.2014.12.13.10.17.12 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 13 Dec 2014 10:17:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <548C82A3.9080604@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 18:17:00 -0000 From: Marco Atzeri User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: startxwin.exe no longer exists? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-12/txt/msg00029.txt.bz2 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 -- 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/