Re: Possible issue with X-start-menu-items : XWin fails to start when launched from start menu icon
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 DDSskype: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/
Re: Unable to load any usable iso8859 font
Dan Moulding wrote: I typically update my Cygwin installations about once a month, and rarely run into any difficulties. However, this morning after updating I could no longer start any X applications due to some apparent font problems. Please note that I successfully installed the *new* Cygwin/X a couple of months ago, and previously resolved some of the seemingly more common font problems (like boxes showing up in emacs). This time, I was getting Unable to load any usable iso8859 font errors anytime I'd try to start xterm. I had the exact same problem, and a couple of others including missing adobe fonts. Here are the packages I installed, to get over font related issues. I may have installed a few extra ones. font-adobe-dpi100 - To fix the adobe font issues font-adobe-dpi75 - To fix the adobe font issues font-bitstream-dpi100 - Just in case font-bitstream-dpi75 - Just in case font-bitstream-type1 - Just in case font-bitstream-vera-ttf - Just in case font-misc-misc - I think I read something somewhere on the internet which led me to install this. Don't remember. xorg-scripts - I had trouble with xinit - (specifically the X Win Server shortcut not working from D drive which I've mentioned in another post) I don't think I installed anything else other than the default upgrade options. If someone can tell me how to retrieve a list of all installed packages on my system, I can send that over too. Rajesh -- 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/
Bug: xinit: XWin Server shortcut won't work if Cygwin not in C:
Bug description: X Win Server shortcut won't work if Cygwin not in C drive To reproduce: 1. Install Cygwin/X in a drive other than C: (say D:) 2. Try starting the x server using the Start Menu - Cygwin-X Nothing will happen. Reason: The shortcut 'XWin Server' runs the command - path-to-cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/startxwin.bat However, it doesn't provide a Start in directory. The default Start in is in C:, and the above command for some reason needs to be executed in the same in a working directory on the same drive where Cygwin is installed. Solution/Workaround: Change/Set the Start in value in the 'XWin Server' shortcut, to the drive where you installed Cygwin (say D:\). Note: Both the machines I tested this in, already had Cygwin/X11R6 installed. I got this problem (and a couple of issues of missing Adobe and ISO8859 fonts - but that's a different problem) when I upgraded from X116 to X117. I haven't tried a fresh install, but I don't see a reason why that would behave differently. -- 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/
