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RE: Cygwin/x window no longer appears
- From: "Mike Ayers" <mike_ayers at tvworks dot com>
- To: <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:04:10 -0800
- Subject: RE: Cygwin/x window no longer appears
- References: <839759.5608.qm@web51001.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-
> owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Olivia Cheronet
> Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 2:16 PM
> I have recently started to work with Cygwin/X.
> Until now, I have been starting Cygwin/X by using startxwin.bat in the
> Cygwin bash shell. Everything seemed to be working fine. However, it
> has now stopped working...
> When I type "startxwin.bat" in the Cygwin shell, the normal
> >startxwin.bat - starting on Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
> appears. Yet, the window which used to appear no longer does. I am
> really not too sure what to do about this, given that I have not
> (consciously!) modified anything.
> I have installed Cygwin (and Cygwin/x) very recently, and have tried to
> reinstall the latter using Cygwin's setup.exe, but to no effect.
Try this:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2009-11/msg00071.html
or set your LOCALE to en_US.UTF-8. You may need to install CJK fonts if things work but are sluggish.
HTH,
Mike