XWin won't run xterm on start
Marco Atzeri
marco.atzeri@gmail.com
Sun Feb 21 17:27:00 GMT 2016
On 21/02/2016 15:38, Jaakov Jaakov wrote:
>
> Dear all:
> How to make xterm start automatically on XWin start? When I run XWin
> from a Windows shortcut, the X Server starts, but not an xterm. The same
> happens when I run startxwin from a cygwin terminal.
> (After the X server starts, choosing xterm from the graphical menu does
> bring up an xterm window. So, xterm is functional.)
>
> The Cygwin/X FAQ is not helpful: there is no CYGWIN environment variable
> on my system and there is no particular error message. (The system is
> completely updated as of today. Due to strong filtering of the mailing
> list, the output of cygcheck cannot be attached in my case; it can be
> sent it to a private e-mail address if asked.)
>
> Any help? Thanks in advance,
>
> Jaakov.
>
http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using.html#using-starting
You may create a ~/.startxwinrc script to customize the client programs
started, rather than using the default /etc/X11/xinit/startxwinrc script.
see EXAMPLE on
http://x.cygwin.com/docs/man1/startxwin.1.html
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