can't run cygwin emacs or XWin Server

[mike]

On 25/12/2016 23:49, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 12/25/2016 5:59 PM, mike wrote:
>> On 25/12/2016 15:13, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>>> On 25/12/2016 13:55, mike wrote:
>>>> I run 32 bit cygwin on a 64 bit machine running Windows 7.
>>>>
>>>> I used to get an XWin Server terminal running bash at startup (logging
>>>> into Windows) from which I could run the emacs packaged in cygwin.
>>>> After a round of updates I don't get the terminal window at startup 
>>>> and
>>>> if I try to manually launch it it fails to launch and AFAICT if I 
>>>> try to
>>>> run emacs from a command prompt I get the native version of emacs 
>>>> that I
>>>> also have installed and not the cygwin one.  The shortcut for XWin
>>>> Server is
>>>>
>>>>    C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c 
>>>> /usr/bin/startxwin.exe
>
> startxwin.exe doesn't exist any more.  It's been replaced by a script 
> /usr/bin/startxwin.  And, as Marco said, it doesn't start an xterm 
> automatically any more.  See
>
>   https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-announce/2015-07/msg00013.html
That is very useful.  Thank you.  I will check it out and report back.
>
> Ken
Mike
>
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