Re: can't run cygwin emacs or XWin Server

[mike <mikereape@onetel.com>]

Hi Marco okay my mistake sorry I made a mistake.  I've re-posted to the 
list.

Best regards and thanks for your help
Mike

On 25/12/2016 16:29, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> Reply in the mailing list please.
>
> On 25/12/2016 17:00, mike wrote:
>> On 25/12/2016 15:13, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>>> On 25/12/2016 13:55, mike wrote:
>>>> I run 32 bit cygwin on a 64 bit machine running Windows 7.
>>>>
>>>> I used to get an XWin Server terminal running bash at startup (logging
>>>> into Windows) from which I could run the emacs packaged in cygwin.
>>>> After a round of updates I don't get the terminal window at startup 
>>>> and
>>>> if I try to manually launch it it fails to launch and AFAICT if I 
>>>> try to
>>>> run emacs from a command prompt I get the native version of emacs 
>>>> that I
>>>> also have installed and not the cygwin one.  The shortcut for XWin
>>>> Server is
>>>>
>>>>    C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c 
>>>> /usr/bin/startxwin.exe
>>>
>>> Question:
>>> Is the Xserver running and you just don't have the Xterm automatically
>>> run ?
>> I actually don't know how to do that.  Can you tell me please? (I'm not
>> really a Windows person at all more Linux ...)
>
>
> Are the icon of X or XDG visible on the toolbar
> as in the attached picture ?
>


--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple