No more Cygwin-X start menu entries

Jon Turney jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Mon Jan 13 20:01:18 GMT 2025


On 13/01/2025 18:51, Andrea Venturoli via Cygwin wrote:
> On 1/13/25 19:06, Jon Turney wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for reporting this.
> 
> Thanks for answering!
> 
> 
> 
>> This seems to be something that's changed in Windows 11(?)
> 
> I'm on Windows 10.
> 
> 
>> As a workaround you might see if the script can be run in an elevated 
>> shell (right-click on the "Cygwin64 Terminal" icon, choose "Run As 
>> Administrator", run the /etc/postinstall/xinit.sh script)
> 
> Outputs nothing, but also seems to do nothing: at least it doesn't 
> create Cygwin-X folder or populate it in case it exists.

Hmm... can you show the output from the command suggested at the end of 
this:

https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2023-October/254663.html

> 
> Is there a way to make it more verbose, so to see what fails exactly?

yeah, try:

CYGWINFORALL=-A /bin/sh -vx /etc/postinstall/xinit.sh

(as also suggested in that thread)



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