On 19/02/2010 15:40, Dr. M. C. Nelson wrote:
I just did a fresh install on Vista, and confirmed the following
1) From an administrator account, it works out-of-the-box. Beautiful.
2) From a regular user account, clicking the x-server or shell icons, produces
a UAC prompt.
The behavior,
On 18/02/2010 03:38, Dr. M. C. Nelson wrote:
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.
I think,
, February 19, 2010 10:10 AM
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Vista, new install, x server does not start, startxwin.bat missing
On 18/02/2010 03:38, Dr. M. C. Nelson wrote:
And that is the problem (server, shell and xterm have to run as
administrator). Even if the programs are set to run
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
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
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
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
...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com] On
Behalf Of Scott Fordin
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 8:00 PM
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Vista, new install, x server does not start, startxwin.bat missing
FWIW, I've found that, under Vista, I have to run the Cygwin X server
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
I think something else might be going on.
Note the following line from the log file
XWin was started with the following command line: /usr/bin/X :0
-auth /home/Tattie/.serverauth.2764
The start command is being run from a user Dvorah, but the start is
trying to access a file under
On 03/02/2010 01:18, Dr. M. C. Nelson wrote:
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.
Don't panic about the absence of
On 02/02/2010 08:18 PM, Dr. M. C. Nelson wrote:
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
Your XWin.0.log file indicates that the server is already started. This
means the
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