Dr. M. C. Nelson mcnelson at materialintelligencellc.com writes:
We installed cygwin/x on a new acer laptop (vista).
The X server does not start from the icon, and the x server does not start
from the command line startx
The batch script startxwin.bat is not present.
The
There might be a very destructive error in the uninstall instructions:
3. Delete the Cygwin root folder and all subfolders.
The subfolders include /cygdrive/c/, etc.
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From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com] On
Behalf Of
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU - Reformatted.
On 02/17/2010 09:46 AM, Dr. M. C. Nelson wrote:
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From: cygwin-xfree-owner at cygwin dot com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner at cygwin
dot com] On Behalf Of Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 17/02/2010 08:42, Jim Olson wrote:
I found that using the (1 year old) startxwin.bat is
easier than trying to figure out how to get startwin.exe
with a $HOME/.startxwinrc file after
trying to do the latter, because I would get
wmaker warning: wrong option value for key NewStyle.
Should be
FWIW, I've found that, under Vista, I have to run the Cygwin X server,
bash shell, and xterm as Administrator for everything to work.
Scott
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
On 17/02/2010 08:42, Jim Olson wrote:
I found that using the (1 year old) startxwin.bat is
easier than trying to figure out how
And that is the problem (server, shell and xterm have to run as
administrator). Even if the programs are set to run at elevated privilege,
they will still throw up a UAC dialog, and the user will have to type in an
administrator password.
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From:
On 17/02/2010 18:59, Scott Fordin wrote:
FWIW, I've found that, under Vista, I have to run the Cygwin X server,
bash shell, and xterm as Administrator for everything to work.
There is nothing about the X server that requires Administrator
privileges. I run W7 with the default UAC settings
