Re: No more Cygwin-X start menu entries

On 1/16/25 01:17, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote: With Windows Update patches pending restart, Windows sometimes acts weird This was not my case though: _ it did not work before the upgrades were even downloaded; _ it worked after they were installed; _ I never tried in between. N.B. I'm not s

Re: No more Cygwin-X start menu entries

On 2025-01-15 08:05, Andrea Venturoli via Cygwin wrote: On 1/13/25 21:01, Jon Turney wrote: CYGWINFORALL=-A /bin/sh -vx /etc/postinstall/xinit.sh I used the above and, while examining what it did, I saw that it created the start menu entries!!! Only thing that changed from two days ago, is I

Re: No more Cygwin-X start menu entries

On 1/13/25 21:01, Jon Turney wrote: CYGWINFORALL=-A /bin/sh -vx /etc/postinstall/xinit.sh Thanks. I used the above and, while examining what it did, I saw that it created the start menu entries!!! Only thing that changed from two days ago, is I installed the monthly Windows Update patches.

Re: No more Cygwin-X start menu entries

On 13/01/2025 18:51, Andrea Venturoli via Cygwin wrote: On 1/13/25 19:06, Jon Turney wrote: Thanks for reporting this. Thanks for answering! This seems to be something that's changed in Windows 11(?) I'm on Windows 10. As a workaround you might see if the script can be run in an eleva

Re: No more Cygwin-X start menu entries

On 1/13/25 19:06, Jon Turney wrote: Thanks for reporting this. Thanks for answering! This seems to be something that's changed in Windows 11(?) I'm on Windows 10. As a workaround you might see if the script can be run in an elevated shell (right-click on the "Cygwin64 Terminal" icon,

Re: No more Cygwin-X start menu entries

On 13/01/2025 17:42, Andrea Venturoli via Cygwin wrote: Hello. Today I run setup to upgrade all packages: an error popped up saying xinit post-install script was not able to complete. I'm in fact missing Cygwin-X entries in start menu. I tried running it again, but I always get the same error.

No more Cygwin-X start menu entries

Hello. Today I run setup to upgrade all packages: an error popped up saying xinit post-install script was not able to complete. I'm in fact missing Cygwin-X entries in start menu. I tried running it again, but I always get the same error. Extract from setup.log.full: removing /var/cache/reba

Re: More cygwin installations

On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Silver Zachara! > >> can i install cygwin multiple times to different folders? E.g. >> c:\cygwin64, c:\cygwin64_x_test1, c:\cygwin64_x_test2 > >> I want to know, if there will not be any collisions or something similar. >> Or there

Re: More cygwin installations

I went this path yesterday, it's clearer solution from my view, I think that cygwin have to be adjusted for parallel installations and I don't know if he does. As you wrote, it will work in more cases, but there can be some edge cases, when there can be some problem, may be some services, wm is cer

Re: More cygwin installations

Greetings, Silver Zachara! > can i install cygwin multiple times to different folders? E.g. > c:\cygwin64, c:\cygwin64_x_test1, c:\cygwin64_x_test2 > I want to know, if there will not be any collisions or something similar. > Or there have to be only one cygwin installation? You MAY use multiple

Re: More cygwin installations

On 9/24/2016 9:49 AM, Silver Zachara wrote: can i install cygwin multiple times to different folders? E.g. c:\cygwin64, c:\cygwin64_x_test1, c:\cygwin64_x_test2 Yes. I do it routinely for testing purposes. Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

More cygwin installations

Hi, can i install cygwin multiple times to different folders? E.g. c:\cygwin64, c:\cygwin64_x_test1, c:\cygwin64_x_test2 I want to know, if there will not be any collisions or something similar. Or there have to be only one cygwin installation? -- Silver signature.asc Description: OpenPGP d

Re: One more "Cygwin 1.7 setup on Win7 fails with "Unable to extract /etc/..."

On 12/7/2011 7:52 AM, Helio C. Bortolon wrote: Dear colleagues, When trying to install cygwin 1.7 on a Windows XP I came through almost the same problems found in the message below the only difference is that the message in setup.log says "fi

One more "Cygwin 1.7 setup on Win7 fails with "Unable to extract /etc/..."

Dear colleagues, When trying to install cygwin 1.7 on a Windows XP I came through almost the same problems found in the message below the only difference is that the message in setup.log says "file not found" about /etc/setup/setup.rc, but the

more Cygwin

Emmett, I enjoyed reading your article "Comparing Cygwin and MKS Toolkit" at and have a couple comments. First, 'more' actually is available for Cygwin (I did a quick port a long time ago), it's just not installed by default. Look for it "Tex