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Re: startup of XFree86 with not movable windown

 Hi Harold,

I have installed whole cygwin from scratch (together with Xfree86-lib
4.2.0-3) and the "startx" it now working well.

Thanks.

Viliam Batka


"Harold Hunt" <huntharo@msu.edu> wrote in message
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> Viliam,
>
> > I have found my misunderstanding.
> > I have started the "startx" instead of "startxwin.sh ".
> > The "startx" (I am not in linux) is pointing to the not existing
"xinitrc"
> > file.
> > Therefore the windows manager "twm" was newer started.
>
> Okay, I added a post-install script to the XFree86-lib package.
>
> Look for XFree86-lib-4.2.0-3 to appear on mirrors within 12 to 24 hours.
> Install this package with Cygwin's setup.exe.
>
> Let me know how it works for you,
>
> Harold
>
>
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