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> On Apr 8, 2016, at 9:40 AM, Jon Turney <jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 08/04/2016 02:13, REBSTOCK, ROLAND wrote:
>> All, I reinstalled Cygwin on my win7 workstation and though I can
>> start a X server, when I right click the X icon in the task menu I no
>
> I guess you are starting the X server directly, rather than using startxwin?
>
>> longer have a option to start a xterm. What I found is I have to
>> access CygwinX via start menu and then click on xterm which then
>
> I think you meant to write something other than 'xterm' here, but I'm not
> sure what...
>
>> starts up a new X applications menu and then I can launch a xterm by
>> going to systemtool/xterm. Can I get it back to the way it was with
>
> System Tools/Xterm ?
>
>> the the X server in the task bar at the bottom and just right click
>> to open a xterm? Unsure why I now have 2 different icons in my task
>> bar.
>
> This is noted in [1] as a change in 1.18.0-1: 'Remove the "Applications"
> submenu from the default XWinrc for new installations, as redundant to
> xwin-xdg-menu.'
>
> The X applications menu is supposed to be an improvement, as the X
> applications menu automatically lists installed X applications, rather than a
> manually edited fixed list.
>
> If you really want to restore the previous behaviour, you can copy
> /etc/X11/system.Xwinrc to ~/.XWinrc and change it as follows:
>
> --- system.XWinrc.old 2016-04-08 14:19:23.667013700 +0100
> +++ system.XWinrc 2016-04-08 14:20:05.839995700 +0100
> @@ -81,17 +81,17 @@
> // own configuration file.
>
> // Make some menus...
> -# menu apps {
> -# xterm exec "xterm"
> -# "Emacs" exec "emacs"
> -# notepad exec notepad
> -# xload exec "xload -display %display%" # Comment
> -# }
> + menu apps {
> + xterm exec "xterm"
> + "Emacs" exec "emacs"
> + notepad exec notepad
> + xload exec "xload -display %display%" # Comment
> + }
>
> menu root {
> -// "Applications" menu apps
> + "Applications" menu apps
> // Comments fit here, too...
> -// SEPARATOR
> + SEPARATOR
>
> [1] https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2015-11/msg00048.html
> [2] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-local-apps.html
>
> --
> Jon TURNEY
> Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer
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