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Re: can not start 'startx' from the prompt and missing files
- From: Andrew Markebo <andrew dot markebo at telia dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 21:04:00 +0200
- Subject: Re: can not start 'startx' from the prompt and missing files
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| Question 1:
| I am trying to find out why command 'startx' at the prompt gives me an
| error message and won't start the xwindow. Cygwin1.dll is installed
| only in C:\cygwin\bin. Below is the error message on the screen.
|
|>$ startx
You should use "startxwin.bat" or "startxwin.sh", depending on from
where you start..
[...]
| Question 2:
|
| My .xinitrc file in my home directory says this. My question
| is... shouldn't I have the .Xresources and .Xmodmap files in the
| /usr/X11R6/X11/xinit directory also? I checked and I don't have that
| directory at all.
Who made your .xinitrc file? Normally it is you, the user who does it
if my memory doesn't fail me, or your sysadm, so this is a small
difference in how installations handles this if my memory doesn't fail
me.
/Andy
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