Re: can't start xterm

[Ryan Stewart <rds6235 at gmail dot com>]

>> > On Feb 5, 2009, at 2:30 PM, Ryan Stewart <rds6235@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I had been using
>> > the startxwin.bat to start X in multiwindow mode, and I have a couple
>> > of lines in there to auto-start some xterm windows. That doesn't work
>> > anymore. The X server starts, but no xterms appear. When I right click
>> > the tray icon and go to Applications->xterm, nothing happens either
>>

Problem solved by using the startxwin.bat in /usr/X11R6/bin. I guess
the one at /usr/bin wasn't updated because I'd modified it? The only
change I noticed was from:
SET RUN=%CYGWIN_ROOT%\bin\run -p /usr/bin
to:
SET RUN=%CYGWIN_ROOT%\bin\run -p /usr/X11R6/bin

This strikes me as odd, since the upgrade instructions seem to
indicate that /usr/X11R6/bin was going away in favor of /usr/bin:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2008-11/msg00000.html

So what's the deal here? Where is startxwin.bat supposed to live now?
And how do I overcome the apparent problem of customizing it and
getting killed by updates?

A separate question: where can I find some documentation on
\cygwin\bin\run.exe? I only have a vague idea what it does and no idea
what options are available with it.

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