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Re: Thanks and a question
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com, freemyer-ml at NorcrossGroup dot com
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 14:45:54 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Thanks and a question
- References: <1074021925.12310.7.camel@david.internal.NorcrossGroup.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> Harold,
>
> Your work on the clipboard with xdmcp capability is greatly
> appreciated.
>
> >From my minimal testing it works great.
>
> Now that the startup batch script can be simplified to a one liner, I
> want to directly invoke "Xwin -query" from my desktop without first
> launching a bash console.
>
> ie. I currently launch a bash script, then run my batch script. It
> would be nice to instead just double click an icon on my desktop.
>
> I have setup a shortcut to XWin.exe on my desktop, but it is not
> working.
>
> Currently I am getting an error about a missing DLL. Unfortunately I
> need dlls from both /cygwin/bin and /cygwin/usr/X11R6/bin, so just
> changing the startup directory is not quite enough.
>
> Is there a recommended way to get this to work?
>
> ie. Adding a shortcut (or a cygwin hardlink) to the cygcygipc-2.dll in
> X11R6/bin
>
> Thanks Again
> Greg
Greg,
Just add both c:/cygwin/bin and c:/cygwin/usr/X11R6/bin to the end of your
Windows PATH variable.
Igor
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