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Re: Re-install of cygwin today 4/7/16 and xterm missing
- From: Jon Turney <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: "REBSTOCK, ROLAND" <rr3320 at att dot com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 14:39:55 +0100
- Subject: Re: Re-install of cygwin today 4/7/16 and xterm missing
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On 08/04/2016 02:13, REBSTOCK, ROLAND wrote:
All, I reinstalled Cygwin on my win7 workstation and though I can
start a X server, when I right click the X icon in the task menu I no
I guess you are starting the X server directly, rather than using startxwin?
longer have a option to start a xterm. What I found is I have to
access CygwinX via start menu and then click on xterm which then
I think you meant to write something other than 'xterm' here, but I'm
not sure what...
starts up a new X applications menu and then I can launch a xterm by
going to systemtool/xterm. Can I get it back to the way it was with
System Tools/Xterm ?
the the X server in the task bar at the bottom and just right click
to open a xterm? Unsure why I now have 2 different icons in my task
bar.
This is noted in [1] as a change in 1.18.0-1: 'Remove the "Applications"
submenu from the default XWinrc for new installations, as redundant to
xwin-xdg-menu.'
The X applications menu is supposed to be an improvement, as the X
applications menu automatically lists installed X applications, rather
than a manually edited fixed list.
If you really want to restore the previous behaviour, you can copy
/etc/X11/system.Xwinrc to ~/.XWinrc and change it as follows:
--- system.XWinrc.old 2016-04-08 14:19:23.667013700 +0100
+++ system.XWinrc 2016-04-08 14:20:05.839995700 +0100
@@ -81,17 +81,17 @@
// own configuration file.
// Make some menus...
-# menu apps {
-# xterm exec "xterm"
-# "Emacs" exec "emacs"
-# notepad exec notepad
-# xload exec "xload -display %display%" # Comment
-# }
+ menu apps {
+ xterm exec "xterm"
+ "Emacs" exec "emacs"
+ notepad exec notepad
+ xload exec "xload -display %display%" # Comment
+ }
menu root {
-// "Applications" menu apps
+ "Applications" menu apps
// Comments fit here, too...
-// SEPARATOR
+ SEPARATOR
[1] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2015-11/msg00048.html
[2] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-local-apps.html
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Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer
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