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XFree86-start-menu-icons path problem
- From: "Dr.D.J.Picton" <dave at aps5 dot ph dot bham dot ac dot uk>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 10:55:14 +0100 (BST)
- Subject: XFree86-start-menu-icons path problem
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: "Dr.D.J.Picton" <dave at aps5 dot ph dot bham dot ac dot uk>
I went into the start menu, clicked Programs/Cygwin-XFree86/editors/emacs.
No response. (I had started the X11 server!)
So I looked at the properties of the emacs shortcut, and simulated the
operation in a command window:
cd c:\CYGWIN\bin
c\:\CYGWIN\usr\X11R6\bin\run.exe emacs
This failed to work. Typing just 'emacs' revealed the problem - the system
could find the /bin DLL's but not the ones in /usr/X11R6/bin. Appending this
directory to the path then made the start menu icons work:
set path=%path%;c\:CYGWIN\usr\X11R6\bin
A similar change to the system path enabled the start menu icons to work.
But is it a recommended practice to include Cygwin directories in the standard
system path? (It makes it easier to launch Cygwin applications from a
Windows environment, but I'm worried about potential side effects). In my
view it would be preferable for the path setting to be handled by the
shortcut.