how to make startxwin.bat "just like" startx?

Tom Roche Tom_Roche@pobox.com
Wed Oct 16 08:37:00 GMT 2002


Thomas Chadwick Wed, 16 Oct 2002 10:26:36 -0400
 > You might want to take a look at this recent post of mine...

 > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-10/msg00091.html

 > Of particular interest to you might be the stuff at the bottom about
 > how to create a shortcut on the Windows desktop which runs xinit.
 > You could easily change the target to call startx instead.

Thanks!

 > rem My path to bash
 > cd /d D:\bin\cygwin\1.3.13-1\bin
 > bash --login -c "startx"

does the job.




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