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Bug: xinit: XWin Server shortcut won't work if Cygwin not in C:
- From: Rajesh Advani <rajeshjadvani at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:05:47 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Bug: xinit: XWin Server shortcut won't work if Cygwin not in C:
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Bug description: X Win Server shortcut won't work if Cygwin not in C drive
To reproduce:
1. Install Cygwin/X in a drive other than C: (say D:)
2. Try starting the x server using the Start Menu -> Cygwin-X
Nothing will happen.
Reason:
The shortcut 'XWin Server' runs the command -
<path-to-cygwin>\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/startxwin.bat
However, it doesn't provide a "Start in" directory. The default "Start in" is in C:, and the above command for some reason needs to be executed in the same in a working directory on the same drive where Cygwin is installed.
Solution/Workaround:
Change/Set the "Start in" value in the 'XWin Server' shortcut, to the drive where you installed Cygwin (say "D:\").
Note: Both the machines I tested this in, already had Cygwin/X11R6 installed. I got this problem (and a couple of issues of missing Adobe and ISO8859 fonts - but that's a different problem) when I upgraded from X116 to X117. I haven't tried a fresh install, but I don't see a reason why that would behave differently.
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