From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 94874 invoked by alias); 25 Jul 2015 12:40:27 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 94861 invoked by uid 89); 25 Jul 2015 12:40:27 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: limerock01.mail.cornell.edu Received: from limerock01.mail.cornell.edu (HELO limerock01.mail.cornell.edu) (128.84.13.241) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 25 Jul 2015 12:40:26 +0000 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite4.serverfarm.cornell.edu [10.16.197.9]) by limerock01.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id t6PCeN4s022651 for ; Sat, 25 Jul 2015 08:40:24 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.4] (cpe-67-249-176-138.twcny.res.rr.com [67.249.176.138]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id t6PCeMmM020758 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Sat, 25 Jul 2015 08:40:23 -0400 Subject: Re: X no longer spawning windows after update To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com References: <55B237E2.5050504@dronecode.org.uk> From: Ken Brown Message-ID: <55B383BC.2090304@cornell.edu> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2015 12:40:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-07/txt/msg00009.txt.bz2 On 7/25/2015 4:00 AM, xxx wrote: > Think it would be good if the Cygwin installer threw vital changes to behaviour in packages (like the one referenced below) in face to click through before doing installs. If it's a deliberate change, document it in the installer loading in package-specific readmes so that user accepts the change before discovery and being launched into the unknown, You could also subscribe to the cygwin-announce list. It's a low-volume list and shouldn't be much of a burden. Ken -- 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/