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/
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 Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Fri Feb 06 12:32:19 2009 Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 3 Path: C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin C:\cygwin\bin C:\cygwin\bin C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin c:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools\ c:\Program Files\PHP\ c:\Perl\bin\ c:\Python24\ c:\WINDOWS\system32 c:\WINDOWS c:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem c:\Program Files\Support Tools\ C C:\cygwin\Program Files\ISIS\CoSMIC\bin c:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\ c:\Program Files\IDM Computer Solutions\UltraEdit-32 C:\cygwin\bin e:\sm\bin Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (nontsec) UID: 11294(sm) GID: 10545(mkgroup-l-d) 0(root) 544(Administrators) 545(Users) 10545(mkgroup-l-d) Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (ntsec) UID: 11294(sm) GID: 10545(mkgroup-l-d) 0(root) 544(Administrators) 545(Users) 10545(mkgroup-l-d) SysDir: C:\WINDOWS\system32 WinDir: C:\WINDOWS USER = 'sm' PWD = '/cygdrive/e/sm' HOME = '/cygdrive/e/sm' MAKE_MODE = 'unix' HOMEPATH = '\sm' GME_ROOT = 'C:\Program Files\GME\' MANPATH = '/usr/local/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/man::/usr/ssl/man' APPDATA = 'e:\sm\Application Data' HOSTNAME = 'beatrice' VS71COMNTOOLS = 'c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\Tools\' TERM = 'cygwin' PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER = 'x86 Family 6 Model 14 Stepping 8, GenuineIntel' WINDIR = 'C:\WINDOWS' OLDPWD = '/usr/bin' USERDOMAIN = 'PRISMTECH' PHPRC = 'C:\Program Files\PHP\' OS = 'Windows_NT' ALLUSERSPROFILE = 'C:\Documents and Settings\All Users' TEMP = '/cygdrive/c/Temp' COMMONPROGRAMFILES = 'C:\Program Files\Common Files' LIB = 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\SDK\v1.1\Lib\' QTJAVA = 'C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_06\lib\ext\QTJava.zip' PROCESSOR_LEVEL = '6' FP_NO_HOST_CHECK = 'NO' SYSTEMDRIVE = 'C:' USERPROFILE = 'e:\sm' CLIENTNAME = 'Console' COSMIC_ROOT = 'C:\Program Files\ISIS\CoSMIC\' PS1 = '\[\e]0;\w\a\]\n\[\e[32m\...@\h \[\e[33m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\n\$ ' LOGONSERVER = '\\POWEREDGE' PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE = 'x86' !C: = 'C:\cygwin\bin' SHLVL = '1' PATHEXT = '.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.py;.pyw' OPENSSL_CONF = 'C:\OpenSSL097i\bin\openssl.cnf' HOMEDRIVE = 'e:' PROMPT = '$P$G' COMSPEC = 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe' TMP = '/cygdrive/c/Temp' SYSTEMROOT = 'C:\WINDOWS' PRINTER = '\\POWEREDGE\Sharp Copier South' CVS_RSH = '/bin/ssh' PROCESSOR_REVISION = '0e08' CLASSPATH = '.;C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_06\lib\ext\QTJava.zip' !E: = 'E:\sm' INFOPATH = '/usr/local/info:/usr/share/info:/usr/info:' PROGRAMFILES = 'C:\Program Files' NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS = '2' INCLUDE = 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\SDK\v1.1\include\' SESSIONNAME = 'Console' COMPUTERNAME = 'BEATRICE' _ = '/usr/bin/cygcheck' HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin
Re: Possible issue with X-start-menu-items : XWin fails to start when launched from start menu icon
Simon McQueen schrieb: 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. Well, I think I'm still kind of the maintainer but I have not touched that package in a long time so it's still not updated to reflect the x11 package layout. Since updating it would make the person angry who writes my paycheck I rather put the X-start-menu-items package up for adoption. -- 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/
