Re: Starting applications from Start | ... | Cygwin-X menu

[Angelo Graziosi <Angelo dot Graziosi at roma1 dot infn dot it>]

On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Eric Blake wrote:

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> Wrong list.  Redirected.  Please be sure that followups go to
> cygwin-xfree, as the Cygwin-X start menu item is X related.
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Too late for my replay to Brett Serkez <techie at serkez dot net>!


In any case I think that this is not a stricly problem regarding
'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'.

It should regard the installation process by setup.exe. 

At the end of the installation, when one chooses to add links in Start
menu, many of those links do not seem to work.


Cheers,

   angelo.

 
> According to Angelo Graziosi on 2/20/2006 6:00 AM:
> > 
> > I have noted that many applications do not start when one clicks on the
> > links in 
> > 
> >    Start | Programs | Cygwin-X     (on W2K SP4)
> > 
> > This happens even if one has started XWin (startxwin.bat).
> > 
> > For example, 'xeyes' starts (after startxwin.bat), but emacs does not!
> > 
> > Then, why should one install those links in the Start | Programs menu (by
> > setup.exe), if they (many of them) seem do not work ?
> > 
> 




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