From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 126308 invoked by alias); 25 Jul 2017 00:03:19 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 126166 invoked by uid 89); 25 Jul 2017 00:03:12 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=View, click, icons X-HELO: smtp-out-1.talktalk.net Received: from smtp-out-1.talktalk.net (HELO smtp-out-1.talktalk.net) (62.24.135.65) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 25 Jul 2017 00:03:10 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.2] ([79.66.0.6]) by smtp.talktalk.net with SMTP id ZnJcdEfHrQ527ZnJcdaEQD; Tue, 25 Jul 2017 01:03:08 +0100 X-Spam: 0 X-OAuthority: v=2.2 cv=MI8io4Rl c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=IUz/5zGOwx1AJbwgoa8h8g==:117 a=IUz/5zGOwx1AJbwgoa8h8g==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=BbvtJjdjTXnwDDHRVeIA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 Subject: Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <6885072f-51bf-4077-70d7-432fe9fdf912@onetel.com> <042b6de9-12dd-5633-42f4-1dcebc35ea11@onetel.com> <83867445-3204-15c9-f5bc-78f5d0ff2225@SystematicSw.ab.ca> <0e8187da-4df5-edc3-2ba5-eb50c7cd3cec@onetel.com> From: mike Message-ID: <1273d29d-12a0-6ac5-33e2-f5a3ea7bb966@onetel.com> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 02:16:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfL6MMjAkQyQbI0Vjcn9yMutOmr2ELjxIHkwbpYxsx3NiY5c1F3U5D/gQjoQ/OxCG1Sros/U0tJ8WgIDnSyKWH0axD/ZdLrzGAyqYc8V2SfJOJrH2hL8i /0rx1R2ZHgeISKGopNz5Gz+6BB8TXA8pqAG0jhS257plfZrrEutmPX4O X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-07/txt/msg00339.txt.bz2 On 24/07/2017 18:02, Brian Inglis wrote: > On 2017-07-23 13:18, mike wrote: >> On 23/07/2017 19:14, Brian Inglis wrote: >>> On 2017-07-23 11:39, mike wrote: >>>> On 23/07/2017 16:58, Jack wrote: >>>>> On 2017.07.23 08:32, mike wrote: >>>>>> Hi >>>>>> >>>>>> I updated my Cywin installation on the 21st or 22nd of July 2017. I run >>>>>> 32-bit Cygwin/X on 64-bit Win 7 Pro. If I launch the Cygwin Xwin Server I >>>>>> get the icon at the very top middle of the screen and can then go into the >>>>>> icons menu and right click on the Cygwin icon and get a list of categories of >>>>>> applications to run and apparently launch because if I try to launch some and >>>>>> wait long enough and right click on the aforementioned icon and select quit >>>>>> it says there are N apps running and do I want to close them. The problem is >>>>>> that anything I launch through the icons menu doesn't display anywhere and in >>>>>> particular doesn't appear in the task bar. I have read the FAQ and UG but >>>>>> can't find what I'm looking for. It definitely seems to me that the >>>>>> behaviour has changed since before I updated. >>>>>> >>>>>> Can somebody please tell me what I am doing wrong? I would be very grateful >>>>>> for any help. Thanks in advance. >>>>>> >>>>>> Mike >>>>> Are you sure those apps you are trying to launch are actually installed? You >>>>> could always bring up a Cygwin terminal (not through the X icon) and >>>>> explicitly "export DISPLAY=0:0" and then try to launch one of the apps from >>>>> the command line to see any errors. >>>>> >>>>> Jack >>>> All I did was download setup-x86.exe on the 21st, run it and when presented with >>>> the drop down View list used Pending (by default) and then clicked Next etc. If >>>> I switch to Up To Date when presented with the drop down View list it does >>>> indeed show that everything I've tried to run is installed. I must have >>>> hundreds of packages installed. I did that last year intentionally. I selected >>>> packages to install by Category and then installed the entire Categories. That's >>>> what I'm saying all this stuff used to just work and now it just doesn't so I'm >>>> either completely missing the obvious or else it really seems like something is >>>> wrong with my installation or the behaviour has changed. If I'm just missing >>>> the obvious then please just tell me where I'm going wrong. >>>> >>>> I do not want to uninstall everything and then re-install because I have no >>>> confidence that that will solve the problem. To repeat the Cygwin/X icon is >>>> there and the menu is there. The packages that I am most immediately interested >>>> in are the Cygwin Emacs packages which are clearly in the Up To Date list. If >>>> the packages aren't installed then why would they show up in the menu? If I >>>> look in C:\cygwin\bin I can see among others emacsclient-nox.exe, >>>> emacsclient-X11.exe, emacs-nox.exe and emacs-X11.exe so they're installed right? >>> May have run out of DLL address space. >>> Run "rebase-trigger full", shut down everything Cygwin, download and run >>> setup-x86, then check /var/log/setup.log.full for rebase problems. >>> >> I wasn't running anything Cygwin when I ran setup-x86.exe on the 21st. I've >> attached /var/log/setup.log.full. There is no occurrence of the word rebase > The log indicates it only downloaded the mirror list and setup.ini and updated > nothing. That's why you should run "rebase-trigger full" then run setup-x86. > Could you please then tell me how to do that? I should point out that almost every time (or maybe every time) I've tried to update Cygwin in the past (going back quite a long way) some part of the post-installation scripts fails and I have to run setup-x86.exe again and then it finishes properly. Thanks, Mike -- I *AM* a unique and special snowflake -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple