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Re: Installed Cygwin 1.7 - no X?
- From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:37:28 -0400
- Subject: Re: Installed Cygwin 1.7 - no X?
- References: <C2370657-5097-4D96-B5FE-630B3DF838ED@surrey.ac.uk>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Lloyd Wood wrote:
Installed Cygwin 1.7 beta on a new clean machine - figured I may as well
get with the 1.7 program. Let it install all defaults plus a few packages
I knew I'd need. Added to default list, didn't remove anything.
Installed on C:\cygwin under Windows XP SP2.
How to start X? No XWin Server icon in menu. Just the cygwin shell
server on desktop. No /usr/bin/startxwin.bat script. No /usr/bin/Xwin.exe.
And no xinit, which I thought was how X 7.4 got started.
My installation has a "XWin Server" menu item under "Cygwin-X" in the
"Programs" menu.
/usr/include/X11 has header files. /usr/lib/X11 is pretty much empty,
bar the config/ dir.
Looked in /usr/bin/X11R6. Nothing there bar run.exe. Which figures,
since that should be history with the 7.4 install. But why is run.exe
there as well as in /usr/bin?
Went through new FAQ and userguide and changes/features. No help.
Did the beta munge the X install?
WFM. I'd first point you at the problem reporting guidelines at the URL
below:
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
I wouldn't have to ask this next question otherwise - did you install X?
It's probably best to answer that with the cygwcheck output mentioned at
the URL above.
Since your questions hinge on whether X is installed or not, it does
fall into the category of something that's appropriate for the main
list. However, Cygwin-X has its own list for all things X and Cygwin,
for future reference. You can ask Cygwin-X questions there and/or
search the archives.
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