From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay9-d.mail.gandi.net (relay9-d.mail.gandi.net [217.70.183.199]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7AEAC3851C2E for ; Thu, 14 May 2020 01:08:10 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org 7AEAC3851C2E Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=pounceofcats.com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=briand@pounceofcats.com X-Originating-IP: 212.103.49.165 Received: from quarternote (unknown [212.103.49.165]) (Authenticated sender: briand@pounceofcats.com) by relay9-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 23F46FF805; Thu, 14 May 2020 01:08:07 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 18:08:05 -0700 From: To: Maarten Hoes via Cygwin Subject: Re: Cygwin/X: KDE Desktop Message-ID: <20200513180805.055c013a@quarternote> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.16.0 (GTK+ 2.24.32; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, JMQ_SPF_NEUTRAL, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, RCVD_IN_BARRACUDACENTRAL, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, TXREP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 01:08:12 -0000 On Wed, 13 May 2020 19:22:25 +0200 Maarten Hoes via Cygwin wrote: > > > > Now that you mentioned that, I seem to be having similar behavior as you: > > Xfce start every time I try it. But now that I tried it some more, LXDE is > > not consistent for me either. Sometimes I get a black screen, sometimes a > > black screen and the right-click-on-background-menu, and sometimes a normal > > working LXDE environment. The first time I try to start LXDE after a reboot > > of my PC seems to work always, and after that I get mostly the black screen > > without pop-up menu. The only thing I seem to be able to reproduce reliably > > with LXDE is the first try after reboot. > > I missed the start of this thread. the menu entries that you can find under the windows start menu work every once in a while, but the majority of the time they do like you say: 1 nothing 2 runs, but black screen 3 runs, and window manager comes up (very seldom) interestingly , running "startx" in mintty is 100% working. I am using the xfce desktop, and this all started on the last cygwin upgrade i did (which also broke graphics characters in terminals , although i'm sure the two are not related). hangs in cygwin are quite common in my experience, i know that a lot of the time it is due to stupid network drives in the PATH variable causing problems. I have very carefully set-up my bashrc file to remove all the corporate network drives from the path. that helped a lot.