After re-installing Cygwin from scratch, I have determined that this environment variable is/was causing the problem:
CYGWIN=tty Once I removed it, I was able to create an X term from the icon in the system tray. - Jim On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:07 AM, I wrote: > I have a very strange situation. > > At work, I am running Win XP SP3. I installed all the latest Cygwin > (1.7.1) + Xorg updates, including startxwin.exe. Everything works > perfectly. > > At home, I am running Windows 7 Professional, 64-bit. I am unable to > start an xterm from the Cygwin/X icon in the system tray (right-click, > select xterm). Both setups have the same line in .XWinrc: > > "xterm" EXEC "xterm" > > I am starting the X server the same way: > > D:\Cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startxwin.exe > > I do not have a ~/.startxwinrc file. The xterm that is supposed to be > created when the server starts doesn't start either. > > The symptom is that xterm.exe is shown running in the task manager, > but there is no Xterm window on the desktop. > > As a work-around, I created a shortcut on my desktop to start an xterm: > > D:\Cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/xterm -display localhost:0 > > That works perfectly, but is not an optimum solution (I try to have as > few desktop icons as possible). > > There is nothing in the /var/log/Xwin log that indicates why an xterm > would start but not open a window. > > Any ideas? -- Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreis...@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us -- 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/