Thanks Marco, you were absolutely right. I've now re-installed following
those instructions and a lot more things are getting installed. It looks
like this will be a lengthy process so in the meantime, can I ask another
newbie question please...?
At the moment, I'm starting Cygwin by using its desktop icon, This brings up
a DOS window and (I'm assuming) that from within the DOS window I'll need to
type commands - e.g. to start X and to run any program that I eventually
want to run. Is that the normal procedure - or will I eventually get to the
stage where I can launch an app directly from a desktop icon and everything
else will happen automatically?
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marco Lechner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: 18 August 2008 07:52
Subject: Re: Hello
Hi John,
I suppose you are trying an install from localdirectory. Because you
didn't download the X11-packages (because you used only the
default-option only defaultz packages were downloaded).
Why not reading the Installation-Howo?
http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/setup-cygwin-x-installing.html
Marco
John Emmas schrieb:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Faylor"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hello
Rerun http://cygwin.com/setup.exe, keep hitting Next, and when it gets
to
the "Select Packages" screen, maximimize the screen and you'll see an
"X11" category on the bottom. You can either install everything by
clicking once on the "Default" next to the X11 or you can click on the
plus to see the available packages and install the packages
individually.
Thanks Christopher,
When I first installed, I left everything set at 'Default'. Now I've
re-run
the setup program and I navigated to that screen with X11 at the bottom.
The categories all have a little + sign and if I click it, they expand
and
give various sub-options. But if I click the + sign for 'X11' there are
no
sub-options. The only thing I can do with the X11 branch is change it
from
'Default' to 'Install'. However, that makes no difference to the
installed
file count. This makes me suspect that X11 is probably already
installed.
Is there a way to check?
Thanks,
John
----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Faylor"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: 17 August 2008 18:34
Subject: Re: Hello
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 06:27:05PM -0000, John Emmas wrote:
Hi - I just installed Cygwin today for the first time and I'm trying to
find out if any kind of X server got installed.
When I click on the Cygwin desktop icon (I'm running it under Windows
XP) it opens a DOS type window and I can search around my various
folders etc. I've tried looking for things like 'xwin' or 'startx' and
stuff like that but I can't find anything. Is there a way to find out
if X got installed?
If you didn't specify that X should be installed then X was not
installed.
Rerun http://cygwin.com/setup.exe, keep hitting Next, and when it gets
to
the "Select Packages" screen, maximimize the screen and you'll see an
"X11" category on the bottom. You can either install everything by
clicking once on the "Default" next to the X11 or you can click on the
plus to see the available packages and install the packages
individually.
cgf
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