On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 08:37 -0400, Paul King wrote: > Hi all > > Thanks for your help so far. I have Cygwin running, and am now trying > to tinker with getting GNOME or KDE to run.
To start an X desktop, you need to do one of the following: 1) run "startx COMMAND" from a Cygwin terminal; 2) OR place the appropriate command in $HOME/.xinitrc and run just "startx"; 3) OR install the cygutils and run packages, and create a Windows shortcut by running: mkshortcut -a '/bin/bash.exe -l -c "/usr/bin/startx COMMAND"' \ -n "WHICHEVER Desktop" -i /usr/bin/XWin.exe -D /usr/bin/run.exe In each case, the required COMMAND (and the required package) is: GNOME desktop (gnome-session): /usr/bin/dbus-launch gnome-session KDE desktop (kdebase-startkde): /usr/bin/dbus-launch startkde XFCE desktop (xfce-utils): /usr/bin/dbus-launch startxfce4 ROX desktop (rox-session): /usr/bin/dbus-launch rox-session -w HTH, Yaakov Cygwin Ports ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA Learn about the latest advances in developing for the BlackBerry® mobile platform with sessions, labs & more. See new tools and technologies. Register for BlackBerry® DevCon today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy1 _______________________________________________ Cygwin-ports-general mailing list Cygwin-ports-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cygwin-ports-general
