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From: Mark Hansen <meh@winfirst.com>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: startxwin.exe no longer exists?
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 14:29:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <549041B5.5010400@winfirst.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <slrnm8v7ek.etn.varro@anukis.local>

On 12/15/2014 6:49 PM, Will Parsons wrote:
> Marco Atzeri wrote:
>>
>> 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
>
> OK - so what I get from that is that whatever problems were associated
> with the original shell script have been solved and startxwin is now a
> shell script again.  But, my basic question is unanswered - how do I
> start an X session from an icon?  Obviously, simply replacing the link
> to startxwin.exe to startxwin will not work, so I copied the shortcut
> from the start menu to the desktop and tried it (after renaming my
> .xinitrc and .startxwinrc files to avoid any problems with the change
> of model).

Here is the content of the desktop shortcut that I use:

C:\Apps\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c "/usr/bin/startxwin.exe -- -emulate3buttons 100 -multiwindow -clipboard -swcursor"

I have this set to run when I log into the machine and it works fine.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-12-16 14:29 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
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 [this message]
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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