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Re: XWin starting differently after update
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: "'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 17:52:09 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: XWin starting differently after update
- References: <DE5929F553ACB4419585B16F64A4846F0BFF18E9@fdnmail.floridadigital.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Sterling Baker wrote:
> I'm on XP and was starting with startxwin.bat with the following;
>
> start /B XWin
> run openbox
> run xsetroot -solid aquamarine4
>
> after doing an update today this gives an 'Run.exe' window saying it
> couldn't find 'openbox' which is in the same directory (/usr/X11R6/bin/) as
> the XWin binary. However if I start the shell first then run startxwin.sh
> with;
try this:
start /B XWin
run -p /usr/X11R6/bin openbox
run -p /usr/X11R6/bin xsetroot -solid aquamarine4
>
> C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\run.exe XWin.exe -query ... -nodecoration
>
> But that failed to find cygwin1.dll till I put it into the same directory as
> XWin.exe.
DON'T EVER DO THIS.
Create the shortcut with c:\cygwin\bin as working directory and with
C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\run.exe XWin.exe
as commandline.
bye
ago
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