run.exe fails to start XWin on Windows 8.1 through the shortcut

[Achim Gratz]

Jaakov Jaakov writes:
> 1) Issuing
> C:\cygwin64\bin\run.exe --quote /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c "cd; /usr/bin/startxwin"
> from cmd does not start an Xwin server; no error message is produced.

You don't get a stackdump?

> 2) Issuing run.exe --quote /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c "cd; /usr/bin/startxwin"
> from cygwin64 text console (mintty with some arguments) does start an
> Xwin Server. (Xterm has to be started separately afterwards, but let's
> hope that this is a different issue.)

It is.


Regards,
Achim.
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