John Emmas wrote on Monday, August 18, 2008 7:43 PM:: > Sorry Phil if my questions seem 'lame'. I should have explained that > I only installed Cygwin this morning so I'm by no means up to speed > with the concepts or terminology.
I'm sorry if it came across wrongly. I didn't mean to suggest you were currently lame. I had assumed from the context that you were probably new to at least some of the technology and was trying to steer you away from _becoming_ a lame Windows user. > Anyway, I managed to arrange Windows so that it now starts X at boot > up. This means that I can use a (DOS) console window to navigate to > the appropriate directory, type 'HelloWorld' and my HelloWorld app > launches with X just running silently in the background. That's a > lot slicker than the procedure I was using a few hours ago. Thanks > for the suggestion. > > What's strange though is that I can't just double-click on the app's > icon and launch it. There's a (slim) chance that this could be a > Windows problem but I've never known any other Windows app that can > be started from a command line but can't be started by clicking its > icon. Any ideas? As cgf has suggested, it's probably the DISPLAY environment variable. Alternatively, you could use the standard X parameter "-display :0" if your program supports it. Phil -- This email has been scanned by Ascribe PLC using Microsoft Antigen for Exchange. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
