Re: Cygwin/X failing to launch applications

2017-02-02 Thread Jason Ahrens
Going back through archives I found this from a couple of years ago. Seems to be the same problem, but there was no resolution posted. https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-07/msg00439.html At least I know I'm not the only one. Just to be thorough, I just tried fully removing Cygwin, rebooting,

Cygwin/X failing to launch applications

2017-02-01 Thread Jason Ahrens
I installed Cygwin/X following the directions on https://x.cygwin.com/ and the linked howto. The install seems to have gone fine with no errors popping up. However there seems to be a problem starting X properly. When I use 'startxwin' the icon appears in the system tray, but nothing seems