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

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

On 1/1/2010 12:41 PM, john wrote:

>
> Are you executing startxwin from a login shell? I use
> "\path\to\cygwin\bin\run.exe /bin/bash.exe -l -c /bin/startxwin.exe"
> and it works for me.

Yes, my startup folder shortcut is:

D:\Cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startxwin.exe

As I've said before, this works properly on my XP SP3 system at work, 
but not on my Windows 7 64-bit system at home.

- Jim


>
> On Fri, 1 Jan 2010, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
>
>> On 12/31/2009 1:43 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>>
>>> This sounds like it has nothing to do with startxwin. I can't reproduce
>>> this, but do any of the following help:
>>>
>>> 1) creating a ~/.startxwinrc containing just "xterm&"?
>>
>> Same problem.  No xterm.
>>
>>> 2) changing that .startxwinrc to "run xterm"?
>>
>> Pop-up:  "Couldn't find xterm anywhere.  I even looked in the PATH"
>>
>> Same when I tried "run /usr/bin/xterm" (couldn't find /usr/bin/xterm anywhere
>> etc.)
>>
>>> 3) setting LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1 ?
>>
>> No change.
>>
>>> 4) installing the font-daewoo-misc, font-isas-misc, and font-jis-misc
>>> packages?
>>
>> Those fonts are already installed.
>>
>> As I said, I have a desktop icon for starting an XTERM that works.  It only
>> "doesn't work" when trying to start the xterm from ~/.startxwinrc, or from the
>> system tray.
>>
>> - Jim

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Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us

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