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Beginners questions.

From: Magus <magus1011ca at yahoo dot ca>
To: Cygwin-XFree Mailing List <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 08:07:05 -0600
Subject: Beginners questions.
Organization: What me organized? Never!
Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Reply-to: Magus <magus1011ca at yahoo dot ca>

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Hi All,

  I think I've got Cygwin and XFree installed correctly on my
  Win98 SE box. I type "think" because I have no standard to go
  by. How can I tell when Cygwin is correctly installed? It
  currently runs and I can access info, man, sh, bc and most
  other good things that I know about.

  I'm in the same position with the X window stuff. I have no
  idea what I'm supposed to see. Since there are at least three
  ways of starting X detailed in the FAQ/User Manual, I'd like to
  try and tell you folks what I see when I try them and then you
  can tell me if this is normal or not, OK?

  First attempt was the startxwin.bat I get a full screen window
  with a bash window. When I left clicked the mouse and selected
  "exit" the bash window lost it's title. When I clicked the
  Windows Close button the Full Screen window went away and was
  replaced with another one. This one had no sub-windows and the
  mouse was not clickable but it did move.

  The next attempt was to start Cygwin and then type "startx" at
  the command prompt. Other than giving me a Xclock, unresponsive
  xterm and two bash windows this one behaved the same as the
  above.

  The last one was to start Cygwin and type:
  "sh /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh" (without the quotes) on the
  command prompt. This gave me a nice aquamarine (?) window with
  an Xclock and a bash window. Once again exit removes the
  windows titles, but this time close does close the window
  without a second one opening.

  OK, are these normal? If not, what is wrong with my install
  that is causing the problem and how do I go about fixing it?
  This is a totally fresh install, no files added.

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Best regards,
 Magus

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