From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26765 invoked by alias); 2 Jan 2015 20:11:03 -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 26738 invoked by uid 89); 2 Jan 2015 20:11:01 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-lb0-f181.google.com Received: from mail-lb0-f181.google.com (HELO mail-lb0-f181.google.com) (209.85.217.181) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 02 Jan 2015 20:11:00 +0000 Received: by mail-lb0-f181.google.com with SMTP id l4so15738943lbv.12 for ; Fri, 02 Jan 2015 12:10:56 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.112.160.104 with SMTP id xj8mr78273440lbb.62.1420229456756; Fri, 02 Jan 2015 12:10:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.152.23.34 with HTTP; Fri, 2 Jan 2015 12:10:56 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 20:11:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: run.exe will not work with upgrade from 1.14.4 to 1.16.3 From: schilpfamily To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-01/txt/msg00000.txt.bz2 i have been running cygwin/x for a long time. i was on 1.14.4 and decided to upgrade to 1.16.3. the problem is that i am unable to start an xterm from a dos prompt. i have been using the following command line for years now: D:\cygwin\bin\run.exe -p /bin bash ~/scripts/xtermLaptop the contents of xtermLaptop are: #!/usr/bin/env bash export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 xterm -geometry 80x75 -sb -rightbar & exit this has worked for years, now when i run this command, a window very briefly blinks into existence but then goes away. any idea why this would stop working now? -- 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/