I reported the exact same problem in my mail titled - Bug: xinit: XWin Server shortcut won't work if Cygwin not in C:
I had a default HOME but installed Cygwin at d:\cygwin. Updating the "starts in" field to "d:\" fixes the problem. ----- Original Message ---- From: Simon McQueen <s...@prismtech.com> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Sent: Friday, February 6, 2009 6:27:14 PM Subject: Possible issue with X-start-menu-items : XWin fails to start when launched from start menu icon Hi all, I have performed a complete cygwin install from scratch today. cygcheck output is attached. Please note that my specific user home is not the Windows default. It's e:\sm, hence my ~ is /cygdrive/e/sm. Cygwin is installed in the default location of c:\cygwin. Attempting to launch "XWin Server" from the start menu icon does not launch a shell or produce the running XWin widget in the system tray. I've acknowledged the below: s...@beatrice ~ $ startxwin.bat startxwin.bat - Starting on Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 The system cannot find the path specified. The system cannot find the path specified. s...@beatrice ~ $ pushd /cygdrive/c /cygdrive/c ~ s...@beatrice /cygdrive/c $ startxwin.bat startxwin.bat - Starting on Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 s...@beatrice /cygdrive/c $ ... in the second instance XWin starts OK. The comments in the batch file explain why this is the case. Examining the properties of the "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Cygwin-X\XWin Server" shortcut that I used when trying to launch X from the start menu I note that the "Start in" field is unpopulated. This contrasts with "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Cygwin-X\xterm" where this field has the value "c:\cygwin\bin". If I populate this field in the "XWin Server" shortcut with c:\cygwin\bin the shortcut works as expected and X launches OK. I presume (but am unable to verify) that this would still be the case for users in the more typical case of having their homes on c:. Thanks for reading. Cheers, -- Simon McQueen s...@prismtech.com OpenFusion CORBA & OpenSplice DDS skype:simonmcqueen?add http://www.prismtech.com/middleware callto://+441914979966 -- 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/ -- 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/
