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 situ
On 1/2/2010 10:01 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
Since you mention it's your home computer that's having issues, I can
only guess this might be it. If you're not using keychain, then we'll
need to see your 'cygcheck -srv' output and your /var/log/XWin.0.log (as
plain-text attachments).
Hi Yaakov
On 01/01/2010 16:04, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
Yes, my startup folder shortcut is:
D:\Cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startxwin.exe
As I've said before, this works properly on my XP SP3 system at work,
but not on my Windows 7 64-bit system at home.
I run Win7 64bit as well a
On 1/1/2010 12:41 PM, john wrote:
Are you executing startxwin from a login shell? I use
"\path\to\cygwin\bin\run.exe /bin/bash.exe -l -c /bin/startxwin.exe"
and it works for me.
Yes, my startup folder shortcut is:
D:\Cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startxwin.exe
As I've
Are you executing startxwin from a login shell? I use
"\path\to\cygwin\bin\run.exe /bin/bash.exe -l -c /bin/startxwin.exe"
and it works for me.
On Fri, 1 Jan 2010, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> On 12/31/2009 1:43 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>
> > This sounds like it has nothing to do with startxwin
On 12/31/2009 1:43 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
This sounds like it has nothing to do with startxwin. I can't reproduce
this, but do any of the following help:
1) creating a ~/.startxwinrc containing just "xterm &"?
Same problem. No xterm.
2) changing that .startxwinrc to "run xterm"?
Po
On 30/12/2009 11:07, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
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.
This sounds
On 12/31/2009 10:53 AM, john at asyn dot org wrote:
On Thu, 31 Dec 2009, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
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
I had this problem. It was happening because PATH was not being set. The
problem went away when I used /startxwin.bat instead of
/bin/startxwin.exe.
On Thu, 31 Dec 2009, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 6:33 AM, dahaiou wrote:
> >
> >
> > Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> >>
> >> I am u
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 6:33 AM, dahaiou wrote:
>
>
> Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
>>
>> 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"
>> As a work-around, I creat
Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
>
> 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"
> As a work-around, I created a shortcut on my desktop to start an xterm:
> D:\
>> > On Feb 5, 2009, at 2:30 PM, Ryan Stewart wrote:
>> >
>> > I had been using
>> > the startxwin.bat to start X in multiwindow mode, and I have a couple
>> > of lines in there to auto-start some xterm windows. That doesn't work
>> > anymore. The X server starts, but no xterms appear. When I righ
Jeffrey A Delinck wrote:
I did one thing to my startxwin.bat file to make it work. I commented out
the "set" commands thus:
rem SET XAPPLRESDIR=
rem SET XCMSDB=
rem SET XKEYSYMDB=
rem SET XNLSPATH=
I am not sure if this is what really made it work because it didn't work
with the startxwin.sh
I did one thing to my startxwin.bat file to make it work. I commented out
the "set" commands thus:
rem SET XAPPLRESDIR=
rem SET XCMSDB=
rem SET XKEYSYMDB=
rem SET XNLSPATH=
I am not sure if this is what really made it work because it didn't work
with the startxwin.sh command, either. However, i
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Dan Moulding wrote:
> > On Feb 5, 2009, at 2:30 PM, Ryan Stewart wrote:
> >
> > I had been using
> > the startxwin.bat to start X in multiwindow mode, and I have a couple
> > of lines in there to auto-start some xterm windows. That doesn't work
> > anymore. The X s
On Feb 5, 2009, at 2:30 PM, Ryan Stewart wrote:
I had been using
the startxwin.bat to start X in multiwindow mode, and I have a couple
of lines in there to auto-start some xterm windows. That doesn't work
anymore. The X server starts, but no xterms appear. When I right click
the tray icon and g
update you Cygwin, please.
Suhaib
> -Original Message-
> From: jari timonen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 10:59 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: can't start xterm
>
>
> My xterm (and some other applications) won't start.
> Windows just hang and i
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