Cygwin where is startx

From here on, you can open X apps by running them from that XTerm. You can try by running xeyes inside that XTerm. Once you kill this X window, your X server is closed. You can now open another Cygwin window and can invoke individual X apps there and they will be displayed in individual windows. You can try by running xeyes from the Cygwin shell. This is called the multiwindow mode. Originally Posted by threezerous.

I think I am missing something obvious. Colucix, I reviewed the link you provided and I did the exact steps upto step However, for step 15, when I clicked view after selecting X11 category, I do not see many of the packages listed in the link such as xorg-server, xinit, etc. I do see a lot of other packages and a screen similar to the one in the link. But no packages related to "x Not sure what I am missing.

It should be the last entry in the list of available packages and it's named X Expand it and you will see a long list of packages. Do you see X11 at the bottom of the list? Thanks Pan64 and colucix. I uninstalled cygwin completely and then re-installed it. I was then able to view and install the X11 package explicitly. Apparently, during the first run, thee default option for X11 was "do not install".

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Open Source Consulting Domain Registration. Search Blogs. It's been the default for a long time, although I remember the days when it was not, and they were miserable. A lot of people haven't. I only installed xterm. In the past, I only needed the xterm package to get a working X-windows server.

Seriously, install everything! I've had trouble with dependencies before with Cygwin and I'd rather have all the tools available. So I think you need to install the lot. Step 1: Run setup. Step 2. Download without installing make local repository. Step 3. Burn that repos to DVD.

Step 4. Install from DVD. Every 12 months, copy DVD to local repos, update it, then re-burn. Then you're only installing from DVD, much easier. I had everything installed once and it was approaching 20 gb, something to consider if your on an ssd — t3dodson. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google.

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