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Re: XWin Server shortcut broken
- From: Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:32:26 +0100
- Subject: Re: XWin Server shortcut broken
- References: <200906101447.17520.frank.hess@nist.gov>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
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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