Re: Bug in startxwin.bat after installing with setup.exe in win98SE

[Nicholas Wourms <nwourms at yahoo dot com>]

--- Jehan <nahor@bravobrava.com> wrote:
> Nicholas Wourms wrote:
> > --- Jehan <nahor@bravobrava.com> wrote:
> > 
> > If you search the archives, others have already made icons ready for
> you
> > use :).  
> 
> Well, I had this one for quite a while already.
> 
> > I wonder why not just can all the dos stuff by having the
> > batch file call bash which then calls startxwin.sh?  One file is
> *much*
> > easier to maintain then two.  Anywho, let me know your thoughts on
> this..
> 
> That would be nice I agree. But for what I see on this mailing list, 
> lots of people have problems with startxwin.sh (.xinitrc and .Xautorithy
> 
> stuff) while very few people complain about startxwin.bat. So until we 
> can have startxwin.sh to work as is for most people, I think it's better
> 
> to stick with the batch file for now.
> 

You are mistaking "startx" for "startxwin.sh".  startxwin.sh is basically
the same thing as startxwin.bat, but without all the nasty path
conversions and soforth.  Look again, it has nothing to do with .xinitrc
and .Xauthority.

Cheers,
Nicholas

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