Hi Eduard,
I'm not sure I understand your problem, but in any event here's what I
do (running cygwin on a WindowsXP laptop) to start the xterm and then a
session on a different machine:
first, I have a shortcut on my desktop to:
C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\startxwin.bat
Once oyu double click on the shortcut, also in this case you'll have a
window that pops-up and then disappears. That's fine, because you've
simply opened your xterm from within windows.
In startxwin.bat I think I have only un-commented the following line:
run XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error +bs
After that I have created several shortcuts for an xterm window and also
to connect to external Linux boxes:
C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -fn 7x14 -g 120x24 -si -sk -sb -fg black -bg
white -T "cygwin terminal Window" -e /usr/bin/tcsh -l
C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -ls -si -sk -sb -fg white -bg blue -fn 7x14 -g
120x24 -T "lxplus.cern.ch" -e ssh -X -Y -l mylogin mymachine.cern.ch
I hope this may help you.
Cheers,
Fab
Eduard Witteveen wrote:
When i double click on the Cygwin shortcut on the desktop a new window
pops up and after 2 seconds it hides again. Since i want to use cygwin,
i run start > "cmd" and i tried to lauch bash from the console:
C:\cygwin\bin>bash.exe --version
C:\cygwin\bin>bash.exe
C:\cygwin\bin>
I also tried a few (maybe another also works) other executables with the
same result. Since i was working on a windows machine, i assumed that i
had to reboot the machine, but this didnt influence the results in any way
I also tried to see if the application needed the path in anyway or the
executable to be started with the current directory specification
C:\cygwin\bin>bash.exe
C:\cygwin\bin>set PATH=c:\cygwin\bin\
C:\cygwin\bin>bash
C:\cygwin\bin>./bash
'.' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
C:\cygwin\bin>bash.exe
C:\cygwin\bin>
When i look in the taskmanager's processlist, i dont see any cygwin
processes running.
I was happy to see cygcheck.exe working:
C:\cygwin\bin>cygcheck.exe -c -v -r
Cygwin Package Information
Last downloaded files to: c:\cygwin\download
Last downloaded files from: ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/cygwin
Package Version Status
_update-info-dir 00328-1 OK
alternatives 1.3.20a-1 OK
ash 20040127-3 OK
base-files 3.6-1 OK
base-passwd 2.2-1 OK
bash 3.0-11 OK
bzip2 1.0.3-1 OK
coreutils 5.3.0-9 OK
crypt 1.1-1 OK
cygrunsrv 1.11-1 OK
cygutils 1.2.9-1 OK
cygwin 1.5.18-1 OK
cygwin-doc 1.4-3 OK
diffutils 2.8.7-1 OK
editrights 1.01-1 OK
findutils 4.2.25-2 OK
gawk 3.1.5-1 OK
gdbm 1.8.3-7 OK
grep 2.5.1a-2 OK
groff 1.18.1-2 OK
gzip 1.3.5-1 OK
less 381-1 OK
libbz2_1 1.0.3-1 OK
libcharset1 1.9.2-1 OK
libgdbm 1.8.0-5 OK
libgdbm-devel 1.8.3-7 OK
libgdbm3 1.8.3-3 OK
libgdbm4 1.8.3-7 OK
libiconv 1.9.2-1 OK
libiconv2 1.9.2-1 OK
libintl 0.10.38-3 OK
libintl1 0.10.40-1 OK
libintl2 0.12.1-3 OK
libintl3 0.14.1-1 OK
libncurses5 5.2-1 OK
libncurses6 5.2-8 OK
libncurses7 5.3-4 OK
libncurses8 5.4-4 OK
libpcre0 6.3-1 OK
libpopt0 1.6.4-4 OK
libreadline4 4.1-2 OK
libreadline5 4.3-5 OK
libreadline6 5.0-4 OK
login 1.9-7 OK
man 1.5p-1 OK
minires 1.00-1 OK
mktemp 1.5-3 OK
ncurses 5.4-4 OK
openssh 4.1p1-2 OK
openssl 0.9.8a-1 OK
openssl097 0.9.7i-1 OK
rsync 2.6.6-1 OK
run 1.1.6-1 OK
sed 4.1.4-1 OK
tar 1.15.1-2 OK
termcap 20050421-1 OK
terminfo 5.4_20041009-1 OK
texinfo 4.8-1 OK
wget 1.9.1-2 OK
which 1.7-1 OK
zlib 1.2.3-1 OK
How can i get the executables working? If more information is needed
about the system please ask.
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