Re: can't run cygwin emacs or XWin Server

[mike <mikereape at onetel dot com>]

Hi Marco okay my mistake sorry I made a mistake.  I've re-posted to the 
list.

Best regards and thanks for your help
Mike

On 25/12/2016 16:29, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> Reply in the mailing list please.
>
> On 25/12/2016 17:00, mike wrote:
> > On 25/12/2016 15:13, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> > > On 25/12/2016 13:55, mike wrote:
> > > > I run 32 bit cygwin on a 64 bit machine running Windows 7.
> > > >
> > > > I used to get an XWin Server terminal running bash at startup (logging
> > > > into Windows) from which I could run the emacs packaged in cygwin.
> > > > After a round of updates I don't get the terminal window at startup 
> > > > and
> > > > if I try to manually launch it it fails to launch and AFAICT if I 
> > > > try to
> > > > run emacs from a command prompt I get the native version of emacs 
> > > > that I
> > > > also have installed and not the cygwin one.  The shortcut for XWin
> > > > Server is
> > > >
> > > >    C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c 
> > > > /usr/bin/startxwin.exe
> > >
> > > Question:
> > > Is the Xserver running and you just don't have the Xterm automatically
> > > run ?
> > I actually don't know how to do that.  Can you tell me please? (I'm not
> > really a Windows person at all more Linux ...)
>
>
> Are the icon of X or XDG visible on the toolbar
> as in the attached picture ?


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