Hello

[Marco Lechner]

Hi John,

I suppose you are trying an install from localdirectory. Because you
didn't download the X11-packages (because you used only the
default-option only defaultz packages were downloaded).
Why not reading the Installation-Howo?
http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/setup-cygwin-x-installing.html

Marco

John Emmas schrieb:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Faylor" 
> <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
> Subject: Re: Hello
>>
>> Rerun http://cygwin.com/setup.exe, keep hitting Next, and when it 
>> gets to
>> the "Select Packages" screen, maximimize the screen and you'll see an
>> "X11" category on the bottom.  You can either install everything by
>> clicking once on the "Default" next to the X11 or you can click on the
>> plus to see the available packages and install the packages
>> individually.
>>
> Thanks Christopher,
>
> When I first installed, I left everything set at 'Default'.  Now I've 
> re-run
> the setup program and I navigated to that screen with X11 at the bottom.
> The categories all have a little + sign and if I click it, they expand 
> and
> give various sub-options.  But if I click the + sign for 'X11' there 
> are no
> sub-options.  The only thing I can do with the X11 branch is change it 
> from
> 'Default' to 'Install'.  However, that makes no difference to the 
> installed
> file count.  This makes me suspect that X11 is probably already 
> installed.
> Is there a way to check?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Faylor" 
> <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
> To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
> Sent: 17 August 2008 18:34
> Subject: Re: Hello
>
>
>> On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 06:27:05PM -0000, John Emmas wrote:
>>> Hi - I just installed Cygwin today for the first time and I'm trying to
>>> find out if any kind of X server got installed.
>>>
>>> When I click on the Cygwin desktop icon (I'm running it under Windows
>>> XP) it opens a DOS type window and I can search around my various
>>> folders etc.  I've tried looking for things like 'xwin' or 'startx' and
>>> stuff like that but I can't find anything.  Is there a way to find out
>>> if X got installed?
>>
>> If you didn't specify that X should be installed then X was not
>> installed.
>>
>> Rerun http://cygwin.com/setup.exe, keep hitting Next, and when it 
>> gets to
>> the "Select Packages" screen, maximimize the screen and you'll see an
>> "X11" category on the bottom.  You can either install everything by
>> clicking once on the "Default" next to the X11 or you can click on the
>> plus to see the available packages and install the packages
>> individually.
>>
>> cgf
>>
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