Re: Thanks and a question

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Greg Freemyer wrote:

> Harold,
>
> Your work on the clipboard with xdmcp capability is greatly
> appreciated.
>
> >From my minimal testing it works great.
>
> Now that the startup batch script can be simplified to a one liner, I
> want to directly invoke "Xwin -query" from my desktop without first
> launching a bash console.
>
> ie. I currently launch a bash script, then run my batch script.  It
> would be nice to instead just double click an icon on my desktop.
>
> I have setup a shortcut to XWin.exe on my desktop, but it is not
> working.
>
> Currently I am getting an error about a missing DLL.  Unfortunately I
> need dlls from both /cygwin/bin and /cygwin/usr/X11R6/bin, so just
> changing the startup directory is not quite enough.
>
> Is there a recommended way to get this to work?
>
> ie. Adding a shortcut (or a cygwin hardlink) to the cygcygipc-2.dll in
> X11R6/bin
>
> Thanks Again
> Greg

Greg,

Just add both c:/cygwin/bin and c:/cygwin/usr/X11R6/bin to the end of your
Windows PATH variable.
	Igor
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