On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2012-02-02 at 09:49 -0800, David Karr wrote: >> I've had an old version of Cygwin running on a WinXP laptop for quite >> a while. I made it run "startxwin.bat" on startup. I'm now setting >> up the latest Cygwin on a Win7 laptop. The FAQ is saying to not use >> the "startxwin.bat" file (as it doesn't exist anymore), and use the >> exe file. However, it also says to not start it directly from Windows. >> It needs to be started from a login shell. What is the proper way to >> start the Xwin server at Windows startup? I didn't see this in the >> FAQ, and I didn't find any obvious answers in searches. > > Presuming you want to start XWin in multiwindow mode, the xinit package > installs an "XWin Server" shortcut into the Start Menu. Copy this > shortcut into your Startup folder and you should get the desired result.
That appeared to do the trick, thanks. -- 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/
