On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 05:02:38PM +0200, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 08:16:15PM -0700, Stephen Harris wrote:
> I wanted to put links on my Windows Desktop that would automatically
> start LyX up.
It should suffice creating a shortcut to
C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin\lyx-x11.exe
on the desktop. You will also get a nice icon.
Enrico wrote:
"Thinking about it, maybe you don't have C:\cygwin\bin in the Windows
system PATH. If this is the case, then you can solve your problem simply
copying lyx-x11.exe to C:\cygwin\bin and then creating a shortcut
to C:\cygwin\bin\lyx-x11.exe."
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You are right. I tried earlier to put Cygwin in the Path, but the
C:\ autoexec.bat had 0 bytes. So I cleverly appended C:\cygwin\bin
to the autoexec.bat which exists in the C:\windows\command\EBD dir.
and copied that file to C:\. That proved to be a big mistake.
Now the C:\autoexec.bat file contains
SET PATH=C:\Windows;C:\Cygwin\bin
doskey
which works *very well*!
I have fontconfig installed, I guess I have to read the documentation.
Thanks for the extensive font explanation and certainly the Path advice.
I will repeat the out of environment remedy to have it all in one place.
If, after installing cygnus, you get the message:
Out of environment space
add the line
shell=C:\command.com /e:4096 /p
to your c:\config.sys
Also thanks for the icon which is kind of tricky in Win98,
Stephen
