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04-28-2010

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Cygwin/X11 issues on Windows 7

Hi All,

I recently upgraded to windows 7 and am therefore reinstalling cygwin/x11 after a long time. On XP I would start xterm from the startxwin.bat file. I am experiencing trouble starting with the startxwin executable which is the new recommended startup method as well as afew other issues:

(1) When I try to start from /cygwin/bin/startxwin.exe I get an error message through cygwin. I can get the xterm to start from going to "XWin Server" in start menu (which isn't so bad) but sometimes it only starts the server as opposed to starting the server + opening xterm window. Is there a way to click on one of the programs and get the xterm to pop up automatically like with startxwin.bat?

(2) One problem is that I don't have a .startxwinrc yet. I was hoping someone can recommend how I would translate my startxwin.bat into the .startxwinrc? I had the startxwin.bat set up so that it would have a black background, be of a certain size, etc. I tried just copying my startxwin.bat as .startxwinrc but that didn't work. I used the following command in startxwin.bat to set the xterm perferences:

run xterm -s1 1000 -sb +tb -rightbar -fg white -bg black -geometry 115x65 -ls -e /usr/bin/bash -l

(3) I installed the openssh package through setup but when I try to run the 'ssh' command I get that the program does not exist. Why might this happen?

Any thoughts or help is greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
ScKaSx

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sys::filesystem::cygwin

Sys::Filesystem::Cygwin(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			      Sys::Filesystem::Cygwin(3pm)

NAME

       Sys::Filesystem::Cygwin - Return Cygwin filesystem information to Sys::Filesystem

SYNOPSIS

       See Sys::Filesystem.

INHERITANCE

	 Sys::Filesystem::Cygwin
	 ISA Sys::Filesystem::Unix
	   ISA UNIVERSAL

METHODS

       version()
	   Return the version of the (sub)module.

ATTRIBUTES

       The following is a list of filesystem properties which may be queried as methods through the parent Sys::Filesystem object.

       device
	   Device mounted.

       mount_point
	   Mount point.

       fs_vfstype
	   Filesystem type.

       fs_mntops
	   Mount options.

SEE ALSO

       <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html>

VERSION

       $Id: Cygwin.pm 128 2010-05-12 13:16:44Z trevor $

AUTHOR

       Nicola Worthington <nicolaw@cpan.org> - <http://perlgirl.org.uk>

       Jens Rehsack <rehsack@cpan.org> - <http://www.rehsack.de/>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2004,2005,2006 Nicola Worthington.

       Copyright 2008-2010 Jens Rehsack.

       This software is licensed under The Apache Software License, Version 2.0.

       <http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0>

perl v5.10.1							    2010-05-18					      Sys::Filesystem::Cygwin(3pm)