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From: t s <furriner67@hotmail.com>
To: "jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk" <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>,
"cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com" <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: problems running Cygwin/x
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 18:00:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <COL125-W45ABF04DC4DCD04E7ADEACCDBF0@phx.gbl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54257F84.8060208@dronecode.org.uk>
When you make the changes to "run-1.3.3", can you email me and say when I should re-install the appropriate packages please?
my email is furriner67@hotmail.com
thank you
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> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 16:00:20 +0100
> From: jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> CC: furriner67@hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: problems running Cygwin/x
>
> 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
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2014-09-21 16:56 t s
2014-09-26 15:00 ` Jon TURNEY
2014-09-26 18:00 ` t s [this message]
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