Hi,
I've been following this thread as a lurker and hopefully this message
will be threaded with those already posted. I have tried several of the
suggestions. They work mostly, but I can't seem to get wmaker going
as does a 'startx' command.
Using the shortcut with XWin just brings
Andrew Schulman schrieb:
And this doesn't open a shell window? That's what the OP wanted to avoid.
The shell window closes after starting Xwin.
Holger Krull
My question is this... I currently open Cygwin's bash shell window and
type startx to start up my X server. (I use the windowless option to avoid
the ugly background.) But this leaves me with a bash shell that I don't
use. I use my X shell windows. Is there a way to start the X server with
I don't know what options you have in your startx script, but I have a
shortcut in my Windows startup folder with target
C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\XWin.exe -multiwindow -clipboard -dpi 100
But that only works if the cygwin dlls are in your PATH.
I use
D:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -l -c xwin +kb -xkbmap
I don't know what options you have in your startx script, but I have a
shortcut in my Windows startup folder with target
C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\XWin.exe -multiwindow -clipboard -dpi 100
But that only works if the cygwin dlls are in your PATH.
So, put them in. Then you can run other
