New Xfree User Question

[Harold Hunt]

You're not supposed to launch startxwin.bat from a Cygwin prompt, you are
supposed to double-click the batch file from Windows Explorer or you can
launch startxwin.bat from a Windows command prompt (not a Cygwin command
prompt).

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Martin Bosticky
> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 9:14 PM
> To: 'cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com'
> Subject: RE: New Xfree User Question
>
>
> Dear XFree crew,
>
> can I add that i also have the same problem and that I tried to get the
> latest cygwin snapshot as described in a recent email and it didn't help.
> Perhaps i have missed something during configuration i suppose
> but the bash
> shell seems to be working fine. I am running Windows 2000
>
> Martin.
>
> >I have run into a problem when I started to learn / use Xfree on my
> >XP laptop.
> >
> >When I launch via /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.bat at the Cygwin prompt,
> >I get the background window, but the terminal window, which on my
> >Win98 machine is my shell running bash, appears to be iconized in
> >the upper left corner, and when I click on it, it disappears.
> >
> >I apologize for the awkward and no doubt technically incorrect way I
> >have explained this, but I was hoping someone would say, oh, I know
> >what that idiot is babbling about.
> >
> >Wayne Keen
> >
>
>
> Martin Bosticky
> Software Engineer
> Opcom
> Office +61 7 3371 1311
> Fax +61 7 3371 1257
> Email mbosticky@opcom.com.au
> Web www.opcom.com.au <http://www.opcom.com.au/>
>
>