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Re: Run a Cygwin (X) app from a DOS command line
- From: Erich Dollansky <oceanare at pacific dot net dot sg>
- To: John Emmas <johne53 at tiscali dot co dot uk>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:57:01 +0800
- Subject: Re: Run a Cygwin (X) app from a DOS command line
- References: <001d01c96b41$2bbb20e0$4001a8c0@mycomputer> <gjfulb$nbn$1@ger.gmane.org> <495B920A.3040802@cygwin.com> <002601c96b6f$04256030$4001a8c0@mycomputer>
Hi,
it seems to me that the application misses a running X server.
It is the same under Unix if you start an X application directly on a
console without having X running.
Erich
On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 17:41 +0000, John Emmas wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)"
> Subject: Re: Run a Cygwin (X) app from a DOS command line
> >
> > You also need Cygwin's installation path in your Windows PATH variable.
> >
> Thanks Larry. I already had that set up (C:\cygwin\bin) as well as
> C:\cygwin\lib but I can still only launch console apps. When this happened
> for the very first time I seem to remember that "rebaseall" sorted it out.
> Unfortunately, but that doesn't seem to fix the problem any more.
>
> The required program is clearly getting launched because I can see it in
> Task Manager - but it doesn't seem to get as far as putting anything on the
> screen.
>
> cygcheck -c reports a few packages as being incomplete (including libX11
> and xorg-X11-bin). I might try reinstalling them and see if that improves
> things.
>
> John
>
>
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