Can't start xterm from Cygwin/X icon in system tray

[Ken Brown]

On 12/31/2009 10:53 AM, john at asyn dot org wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Dec 2009, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
>>> Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I am unable to start an xterm from the Cygwin/X icon in the system tray
>>>> (right-click, select xterm).  Both setups have the same line in .XWinrc:
>>>>          "xterm"      EXEC  "xterm"
>>>> As  a work-around, I created a shortcut on my desktop to start an xterm:
>>>>      D:\Cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/xterm -display localhost:0
>>>> That works perfectly,
[...]
>> I tried this explicitly:
>>
>>           "xterm"      EXEC  "xterm -display localhost:0"
>>
>> That didn't make a difference.
>>
>> One other piece of data:  I modifed ~/.XWinrc and then clicked "Reload
>> .xwinrc" from the menu in the system tray. This KILLED the X server!
 >
 > I had this problem. It was happening because PATH was not being set.
 > The problem went away when I used /startxwin.bat instead of
 > /bin/startxwin.exe.

If PATH is not being set, then you're probably not running startxwin.exe 
from a login shell.  See

   http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2009-12/msg00117.html

Ken

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