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Re: Items under Cygwin-X menu do not start.
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Nick Longo wrote:
>
> > Dear Cygwin Enthusiasts,
> > Forgive me if I ask a newbie question, but I couldn't find an
> > answer on the web, faq, or mailing list. So despite the dire
> > warnings on the web page I just wanted to ask...
> >
> > I downloaded and installed cygwin yesterday on a dell 600m laptop,
> > running Win XP SP1. While X starts ok when I run comments from
> > the cygwin prompt when i try to use the menu items that were
> > placed in windows start menu nothing seemed to happen. I copied
> > the commands out of the short cut and ran them directly from the
> > cygwin prompt, still no luck and no error messages...
> >
> > An example of the command that is not working for me is
> > C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\run.exe xterm -display 127.0.0.1:0.0
> >
> > or from the cygwin propmpt
> > /usr/X11R6/bin/run.exe xterm -display 127.0.0.1:0.0
> >
> > If I then start a Xwin by hand, then the command from the cygwin
> > prompt works but still not from the windows start menu. I am a
> > bit confused by the whole business.
>
> Does the xman link work?
>
> The xterm link is broken because xterm can not find some dlls because
> they are in a different directory. I'll take a look and check what
> can be done to solve this.
I've provided updated packages of X-startup-scrips and X-start-menu-icons.
Please upgrade them both. This should solve the problem.
bye
ago
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