How to properly start xwin at windows seven startup?

[David Karr]

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
<yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-02-02 at 09:49 -0800, David Karr wrote:
>> I've had an old version of Cygwin running on a WinXP laptop for quite
>> a while.  I made it run "startxwin.bat" on startup.  I'm now setting
>> up the latest Cygwin on a Win7 laptop.  The FAQ is saying to not use
>> the "startxwin.bat" file (as it doesn't exist anymore), and use the
>> exe file. However, it also says to not start it directly from Windows.
>>  It needs to be started from a login shell.  What is the proper way to
>> start the Xwin server at Windows startup?  I didn't see this in the
>> FAQ, and I didn't find any obvious answers in searches.
>
> Presuming you want to start XWin in multiwindow mode, the xinit package
> installs an "XWin Server" shortcut into the Start Menu.  Copy this
> shortcut into your Startup folder and you should get the desired result.

That appeared to do the trick, thanks.

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