Hello

[John Emmas]

Thanks Marco, you were absolutely right.  I've now re-installed following
those instructions and a lot more things are getting installed.  It looks
like this will be a lengthy process so in the meantime, can I ask another
newbie question please...?

At the moment, I'm starting Cygwin by using its desktop icon, This brings up
a DOS window and (I'm assuming) that from within the DOS window I'll need to
type commands - e.g. to start X and to run any program that I eventually
want to run.  Is that the normal procedure - or will I eventually get to the
stage where I can launch an app directly from a desktop icon and everything
else will happen automatically?

John


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marco Lechner" <marco.lechner@geographie.uni-freiburg.de>
To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: 18 August 2008 07:52
Subject: Re: Hello


> 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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