RE: problems running Cygwin/x
t s <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.cygwin.xfree |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
When you make the changes to "run-1.3.3", can you email me and say when I should re-install the appropriate packages please? my email is [email protected] thank you ---------------------------------------- > Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 16:00:20 +0100 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > Subject: Re: problems running Cygwin/x > > On 21/09/2014 17:56, t s wrote: >> I successfully installed Cygwin/x on an NTFS drive >> >> unfortunately the menu items are limited to; >> >> one item for Cygwin (cygwin64 terminal) >> five items for cygwinx (GNOME openbox, KDE openbox, openbox, xlaunch, xwin server) > >> if I try GNOME Openbox, or KDE Openbox, or Openbox; it appears to >> start, but I cannot run xclock and there is no X server icon in the >> lower right icon panel > [...] >> essentially I want to be sure Cygwin/x has installed >> correctly; particularly the three Openbox options do not seem to do >> anything; should they be bringing up some sort of GNOME or KDE >> desktop? > > It seems that the open start menu links don't work correctly anymore. > > It seems that shortcut targets like 'C:\cygwin64\bin\run.exe > /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c "/usr/bin/startx /usr/bin/openbox-session"' need > the new --quote option in run-1.3.3 to work correctly. > > Thanks for drawing this problem to my attention. > > -- > Jon TURNEY > Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/