new start method (again?)

2016-11-24 Thread David Lee Lambert
So I have several Win7 or Win10 PCs with a small set of users who use them, I had modified the "XWin Server" shortcut by making it a per-user start menu item that would start each user's server at a different display number. Since some recent update, those shortcuts no longer work. Here's the

Re: unable to get setup.ini

2013-08-08 Thread David Lee Lambert
if you go out to cygwin.com and look, there are now two different setup clients, one for 32-bit and one for 64-bit. Pick one and use it; there seems to have been an incompatible chage from what old versions of setup.exe expected. 2013/8/8 Wei Xie wei...@rcf.rhic.bnl.gov: Trying to update the

Messed up permissions on /var ?

2013-08-08 Thread David Lee Lambert
I recently migrated a Cygwin instance from Windows XP to Windows 7 (wanted to save a bit of external bandwidth versus running the installer again, also had a lot of custom stuff under /usr/local and so forth). X works fine. I can't get sshd to work (started as a daemon it would present a host

Possible to run multiple X servers under Fast User Switching?

2012-08-12 Thread David Lee Lambert
I've installed Cygwin on a Windows XP system that I only expect to be ever used by less than about five users. I've tried adding XWin Server.lnk to the .../All Users/Start Menu/Programs/Startup group, but the second user who logs in isn't able to start it because the port for :0 is already taken.