CGF, On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Christopher Faylor<cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 10:51:26AM -0700, William Deegan wrote: >>Larry, >> >>On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Larry Hall >>(Cygwin)<reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com> wrote: >>> 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. >> >>I had a similar issue. If you do a from scratch install recently, you >>do not get the "XWin Server" under "Cygwin-X". >>For my install I did install the x windows, and can start from startx >>in the shell or the startxwin.bat, just no menu item. > > ...and if you were reading the cygwin-xfree mailing list you might have > caught the recent discussion about this.
My Bad. I filter cygwin-x and cygwin into same folder.. Somehow I missed the reply. > > cgf > > (who wonders if he should make good on this threat to merge the > cygwin-xfree and cygwin mailing lists) Probably. -Bill -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple