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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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