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Old 02-10-2010
Cygwin/X install help
Hi All,

Not sure if this is the right forum but hope someone has the answer. I installed Cygwin/X and usually use the 'startxwin.bat' to start xwin. However, I recently updated to Windows 7 and noticed that 'startxwin.bat' is not in the normal path (normally its in /usr/X11/bin). Anyone know where the new location is? Thanks.

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Old 02-21-2010
This thread on the Windows7Forums may have some advice:

cygwin can not run on windows 7 anymore ?

I've Googled for compatibility, working execution paths, etc. Microsoft says "Contact the developer," which is as helpful as a kick in the head, though their Answers forum says point blank Cygwin-X is incompatible with W7. Not much in the way of advice from cygwin.com themselves; either that or Google's confusing Windows 7 with "Sesame Street was brought to you today by...the number 7."

Meanwhile, this Lifehacker article comes close to contradicting what MS Answers says. It's a mess.

I'd check those short forum threads. It's a start, anyway.

BZT
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