From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 111110 invoked by alias); 10 Jun 2016 02:27:39 -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 111099 invoked by uid 89); 10 Jun 2016 02:27:39 -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,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=HTo:U*cygwin-xfree X-HELO: mail-wm0-f51.google.com Received: from mail-wm0-f51.google.com (HELO mail-wm0-f51.google.com) (74.125.82.51) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 10 Jun 2016 02:27:37 +0000 Received: by mail-wm0-f51.google.com with SMTP id k204so83363031wmk.0 for ; Thu, 09 Jun 2016 19:27:37 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=NRkMsozu7zA+33x4nByx51qKhAb0OoNMza5W3SlmTdM=; b=FCc71mHrBVKhcfhvAR2mdk/tIASHfJv0KiMVSHSMTK72DFEGBi9zR+5vnhzXoULiRr TefIXirRCGB5H54WcNG9Y2dg8v9IIAP4qgriNNPwAQuRFBxZHhkXqiFgQV3qoADPg8ek 3STlC/WcM3rnumlQq2PfiZW2RAmFi4Eu6/pK+CWC1M3+z9DgRxEW3SGFlZIjAhGHGgTY vrqjQGistXirRUTrLFBYGxp2Jy+5kCRY7lVlkA4Gru476vd+jTLZ8e7abxvs5AXXIq1v fiqL8RCIFrDt+ejWRpiTAIZvNcxqVmg5QDxXtvZozXCAjRzXsye//1IXmAHNCnqveh6C HbDg== X-Gm-Message-State: ALyK8tKxm1fnbbANQ/oUi+M7gtu5TJuHTkXhqxainWL7aD4Rmt3E80U6W1mNcCaWW2ux1Q== X-Received: by 10.28.147.19 with SMTP id v19mr15700328wmd.13.1465525654626; Thu, 09 Jun 2016 19:27:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.109] (p5B298527.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [91.41.133.39]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id r16sm19639889wmb.23.2016.06.09.19.27.33 for (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 09 Jun 2016 19:27:33 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: new start method questions To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com References: <07401d01668c0c31f54ded0a299814a8@saf.bio.caltech.edu> <7892d5e91645a81686d1d3f2f40c0fe0@saf.bio.caltech.edu> From: Marco Atzeri Message-ID: Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 02:27:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <7892d5e91645a81686d1d3f2f40c0fe0@saf.bio.caltech.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-06/txt/msg00003.txt.bz2 On 10/06/2016 02:55, mathog wrote: > On 09-Jun-2016 16:32, mathog wrote: >> With an older version of Cygwin I had constructed a cut down >> distribution which included only the minimum pieces needed to run X11. >> It was about 40Mb, installed. > > This approach is not working well at all for the current release. Last > time around I just tossed things into a folder to temporarily hide them, > and by process of elimination winnowed it down to that small size. This > time there are many, many, MANY more dll's that are required for the > server to start, at least via this method: > > C:\cygwinX\bin\run.exe --quote /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c "cd; exec > /usr/bin/startxwin" > > For instance, cyggtk-x11-2.0.0.dll. Take it out and the X11 server does > not start. > That dll, according to "ldd" has everything but the kitchen sink linked > into it. It isn't linked directly into the server though, it is needed > for "xwin-xdg-menu.exe", > an accessory program, which if removed from /usr/bin, also results in > the server not starting. > look on /etc/X11/xinit/startxwinrc It is calling xwin-xdg-menu Regards Marco -- 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/