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. cgf (who wonders if he should make good on this threat to merge the cygwin-xfree and cygwin mailing lists) -- 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
