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Subject: Re: WMaker crashes when starting with startxwin.bat
Hello,
I have just installed cygwin and everything is working fine except for one
small problem.
When I start up cygwin and load up Xwin via bash everything is fine, I have
2 xterms popup and a clock.
My xterms are set
Hello,
I have just installed cygwin and everything is working fine except for one
small problem.
When I start up cygwin and load up Xwin via bash everything is fine, I have
2 xterms popup and a clock.
My xterms are set to start in my home dir.
My problem is loading Xwin via startxwin.bat. I
Hi Klaus
yes, you're probably right. But now the tricky question:
How can I change the windows home to point to my $HOME in cygwin to
solve
that problem?
take my startxwin.bat as an example. Cygwin is installed on d:\cygwin. The
only customized lines are SET HOME, SET CYGWIN_ROOT, the rest
Hi hjb,
this was the sollution!
Actually I had two problems:
1. When I installed cygwin, it didn't create a 'good' home directory. It
cretared a directory '/usr/bin/%USERPROFILE%' because my Windows Home is on a
different drive than my cygwin installation.
2. The correct path to HOME had to be
Klaus,
FYI, HOME is set in the default /etc/profile... When you start from the
Cygwin bash window, bash will have executed /etc/profile, and you have the
right $HOME. If you run from a batch file, /etc/profile would not have
been executed, and $HOME not set. Try putting 'bash --login -c
Hi Klaus,
This answer probably won't help because I'm probably speaking rubbish, but I
have got the same problem as you, so I know what you're talking about.
You can start wmaker from the cygwin window, but not from a batch file (or
more specifically a windows command window). I think this
JS,
yes, you're probably right. But now the tricky question:
How can I change the windows home to point to my $HOME in cygwin to solve
that problem?
Klaus
Hi Klaus,
This answer probably won't help because I'm probably speaking rubbish, but
I
have got the same problem as you, so I know
