From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10886 invoked by alias); 16 Dec 2014 14:29:15 -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 10768 invoked by uid 89); 16 Dec 2014 14:29:14 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: stargate.mehconsulting.com Received: from stargate.mehconsulting.com (HELO stargate.mehconsulting.com) (65.78.188.61) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 16 Dec 2014 14:29:12 +0000 Received: from [192.168.140.48] (vpn.fdielt.com [64.170.21.194]) (authenticated bits=0) by stargate.mehconsulting.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id sBGET9IO010328 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 16 Dec 2014 06:29:10 -0800 Message-ID: <549041B5.5010400@winfirst.com> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 14:29:00 -0000 From: Mark Hansen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: startxwin.exe no longer exists? References: <548C82A3.9080604@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2014-12/txt/msg00036.txt.bz2 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. -- 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/