I know this is a fixed issue, but some comments below nonetheless, to tie up loose ends.
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Dirk Schleicher wrote: > Am Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:04:53 -0500 > schrieb René Berber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. Thanks. > > René Berber wrote: > > [snip] > > > You probably can just run a Windows shortcut to XWin with all the > > > parameters, and use .xinitrc or .xsession to start up SC. > > [snip] > > > > I made a little experiment and the above sentence is not true: if I > > start XWindows from an icon/shortcut (using "C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe > > -p /usr/X11R6/bin XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error -dpi > > 100") XWin starts fine but my .xinitrc (and .xsession) is not used... > > XWin does not know what user started it. Naturally -- .xinitrc and .xsession are artifacts of xinit (and startx), not XWin. > > So to run the application I would also need an icon/shortcut for the > > application. > > I found out that the .xinitrc parameters are used with startx. I start > the normal bash and type in startx. This start Xserver and SC. And SC > works fine. > C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe -p /usr/X11R6/bin/ startx -display 127.0.0.1:0.0 > do not work because startx is a script not an .exe Right, but C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe -p /usr/X11R6/bin/ bash --login -c startx -display 127.0.0.1:0.0 will, because bash will know how to interpret the shebang (#!) in startx and invoke the script appropriately. People often overlook this solution and declare that it's impossible to start a script from a shortcut. Or you could've used xinit, which *is* a .exe. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac"
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