Re: Starting applications from Start | ... | Cygwin-X menu

[Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

Ugh, top-posting...  Reformatted.

On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Angelo Graziosi wrote:

> > According to Angelo Graziosi on 2/20/2006 6:00 AM:
> > >
> > > I have noted that many applications do not start when one clicks on
> > > the links in
> > >
> > >    Start | Programs | Cygwin-X     (on W2K SP4)
> > >
> > > This happens even if one has started XWin (startxwin.bat).
> > >
> > > For example, 'xeyes' starts (after startxwin.bat), but emacs does not!
> > >
> > > Then, why should one install those links in the Start | Programs
> > > menu (by setup.exe), if they (many of them) seem do not work ?
>
> Too late for my replay to Brett Serkez <techie at serkez dot net>!
>
> In any case I think that this is not a stricly problem regarding
> 'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'.
>
> It should regard the installation process by setup.exe.
>
> At the end of the installation, when one chooses to add links in Start
> menu, many of those links do not seem to work.

FYI, the only link setup adds to the Start Menu is Cygwin/Cygwin Bash
Shell.  All others are added explicitly by the package postinstall
scripts, and have nothing to do with the installer.

The script that adds the links you're complaining about (Cygwin-X) belongs
to the X-start-menu-icons package, which is associated with Cygwin/X --
thus the redirection to this list.
	Igor
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