A caveat to anyone new to Linux going after a/the Gnome WM for Cygwin.

Yes, there is still a Gnome category in the Cygwin setup.exe. Yes, the items in that category do install from the mirrors using the latest, or next-to-latest, version of said setup utility. But unfortunately the Cygwin/X Gnome pages are more than a little out of date. Most of them are still calling the Cygwin X stuff by its old name "X-Free86" while in terms of 'what came from where,' is technically correct, a good many things have changed with Cygwin X from those days to now, enough to make instructions on how to start Gnome within Cygwin practically useless. For instance: the mention of an /opt/gnome folder -- in my two most recent installs of Cygwin, an "opt" folder was not installed. Yet by following the instructions on the main Gnome for Cygwin pages, one would end up (as I did) adding a nonexistent folder to their execution path, either on the Cygwin side, the M$ side or both.

Just a little word of warning from someone who, after KDE, likes Gnome most of all in the Linux universe.

BZT