Re: No Cygwin-X shortcut on fresh install

[Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>]

Anonymous bin ich wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have just installed Cygwin. I selected "gvim", "xorg-server" and
> "rxvt-unicode-X" for packages.
>
> After finishing the installation, I could not start X server from
> "starx" etc. I could, though start X.exe.
>
> Documentation says I should have "Cygwin-X" shortcut on the desktop. I
> have reinstalled everything but I there is not shortcut.
>
> Am I missing something? Something that needs to be installed?

You need to install the 'xinit' package to get startx.

I shall fix the documentation to make this clearer.

Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
> Jon TURNEY wrote:
>> One unrelated point: whilst reviewing the installation instructions I noticed
>> that at the moment, xorg-server does not require xinit, so someone making a
>> new installation (as oppposed to upgrading an existing one) may end up
>> with no obvious means of starting the server after installing it?
>
> It is possible to start XWin directly from console without xinit.  OTOH,
> xinit depends on xorg-server, for obvious reasons, and there's really no
> need to introduce a circular dependency here.

Yaakov,

Perhaps we need an xorg-base package or something to pull in xorg-server and 
xinit on a fresh install ?


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