From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 500 invoked by alias); 21 Nov 2011 17:40:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 362 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Nov 2011 17:40:15 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp0.epfl.ch (HELO smtp0.epfl.ch) (128.178.224.219) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with SMTP; Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:40:01 +0000 Received: (qmail 8855 invoked by uid 107); 21 Nov 2011 17:39:56 -0000 Received: from dhcphost-ic245.utsc.utoronto.ca (HELO discarded) (142.1.102.245) (authenticated) by smtp0.epfl.ch (AngelmatoPhylax SMTP proxy) with ESMTPA; Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:39:56 +0100 Message-ID: <4ECA8CEB.7080805@cs.utoronto.ca> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:40:00 -0000 From: Ryan Johnson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: XWin.exe causes Windows apps. to freeze References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-11/txt/msg00028.txt.bz2 On 21/11/2011 12:14 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: > I have a persistent problem at work after XWin has been running for a > while (sometimes hours, sometimes days). Windows programs will > spontaneously freeze > For example, > I'm composing a message in Outlook, and all of a sudden, my keyboard > stops responding, then I'll get the Windows hourglass in that window. > Or I'll be surfing in Firefox and window changes just stop, again > hourglass. Once this happens, killing XWin.exe from the task manager > immediately releases the hang condition(s), though the hang may > release itself if I wait several minutes (yeah, right). At this > point, I can re-start XWin, but later on, it will happen again. > > I'm starting XWin.exe from the install shortcut: > > C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startxwin.exe > > I'm running the latest of Cygwin everything, the problem has been > across several (many) releases of the Xorg server. I think it's using > the default options for multi-monitor, cut/paste, etc. I can usually > copy/paste between XWin and MS Windows (and usually Citrix) without > any problems. I keep thinking that the problem is something in the > XWin code that interfaces to Windows' copy/paste engine (OLE?). If you think it's clipboard related, try running with -noclipboard and see if that fixes it. Downside is, you lose all clipboard functionality... BTW, what do you use x11 for? Other than the odd gnuplot session, I've not needed an X server since switching from xterm to mintty (which just became the official cygwin terminal). If a similar situation applies to you, you could temporarily switch to mintty while doing the above experiment and still be able to use clipboard in the meantime. Finally, I've never used a multi-monitor setup myself, but according to the XWin man page you should specify the -multimonitors option since you apparently (really??) don't run in -multiwindow mode. Or maybe the man page is just out of date and -multiwindow is the default now, in which case multiple monitor support comes for free. Ryan -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/