Re: Fixing problems with new X11

["Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

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Jon TURNEY wrote:
> Hmm.. thinking about this, perhaps the best thing to do is create a new
> shortcut which links to startxwin.bat, so that the end-user at least has some
> chance of a discoverable means of launching the server which should work.

This gets back to what we were discussing before about per-package
Windows shortcuts instead of X-start-menu-icons.  The difference here is
that most programs would use run(1), and if I would implement this in a
widespread fashion, it would be through a new API in cygport.

This might be an exception, though, so I'll look into adding this to the
xinit package.

> Yaakov, would you consider something like the below for
> post-install/pre-remove scripts?
> 
> mkshortcut -A -w ~ -P /usr/bin/startxwin.bat -i /usr/bin/XWin.exe -n "CygwinX
> Server"
> 
> rm "`cygpath -A -P`/CygwinX Server.lnk"
> 
> (Note that it seems we can't say "Cygwin/X" as the shortcut name is a filename
>  so can't contain the directory separator :D)

I would just add a space instead of the slash then.  Let me work on it.


Yaakov
Cygwin/X
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