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Re: XWin Server shortcut broken


Frank Mori Hess wrote:

I did an install of cygwin/x and the xwin server shortcut it installs in the start menu didn't work. I had to go into its properties and set the "Start in:" field to C:\

This may be due to the fact that my home directory is at H:\

Running the command

C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/startxwin.bat

from the command prompt doesn't work if my current drive is H:\ but it does work if I am on the C:\ drive.

Thanks for the bug report. This is a pretty obvious defect in the postinstall script which writes the shortcut, which means the shortcut fails when the cygwin installation and user profile are on different drives.


Entered into bugzilla with a patch to fix
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10292

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