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.
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> Thanks for answering!
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>> This seems to be something that's changed in Windows 11(?)
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> I'm on Windows 10.
>
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>> 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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