Are you executing startxwin from a login shell? I use "\path\to\cygwin\bin\run.exe /bin/bash.exe -l -c /bin/startxwin.exe" and it works for me.
On Fri, 1 Jan 2010, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: > On 12/31/2009 1:43 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > > > This sounds like it has nothing to do with startxwin. I can't reproduce > > this, but do any of the following help: > > > > 1) creating a ~/.startxwinrc containing just "xterm &"? > > Same problem. No xterm. > > > 2) changing that .startxwinrc to "run xterm"? > > Pop-up: "Couldn't find xterm anywhere. I even looked in the PATH" > > Same when I tried "run /usr/bin/xterm" (couldn't find /usr/bin/xterm anywhere > etc.) > > > 3) setting LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1 ? > > No change. > > > 4) installing the font-daewoo-misc, font-isas-misc, and font-jis-misc > > packages? > > Those fonts are already installed. > > As I said, I have a desktop icon for starting an XTERM that works. It only > "doesn't work" when trying to start the xterm from ~/.startxwinrc, or from the > system tray. > > - Jim > > > -- 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/