Re: problem with startxwin.exe and a possible solution

2010-02-03 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 21/01/2010 23:13, Marco Atzeri wrote: Hi, after the transition from startxwin.bat to startxwin.exe, I had the Xwin Server menu pratically unusable. The server start but the xterm usually don't show up while ps reports it running. Running a second xterm could appear but most of the time as if

Re: problem with startxwin.exe and a possible solution

2010-02-03 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
I posted a related problem a month ago (CYGWIN=tty). In my case, when starting the server, I could not start an Xterm, nor could I start one from the system tray icon. I could start one from a shortcut icon on my desktop, however. This is the first time that anyone else on this list has

Re: problem with startxwin.exe and a possible solution

2010-02-03 Thread George Barrick
2010.02.03.16:43:56 EST Hi Jim and cygwin-xfree folks, I had the same problem that Jim was experiencing. I had started with cygwin-1.7 back in August, and over the course of the autumn months had my difficulties with startxwin.bat. Among the things that I did to make

Re: problem with startxwin.exe and a possible solution

2010-01-21 Thread Charles Wilson
Marco Atzeri wrote: Today I start some experiments and I have found that changing the menu target from C:\cygwin2\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startxwin.exe to C:\cygwin2\bin\run.exe -p /usr/bin /usr/bin/startxwin.exe all the problems seem gone. The Xserver is