From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 44853 invoked by alias); 19 Nov 2016 15:54:08 -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 44837 invoked by uid 89); 19 Nov 2016 15:54:07 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_MXURI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-languages-length:1765, H*r:172.26.254, H*RU:172.26.254.173, Hx-spam-relays-external:172.26.254.173 X-HELO: omr-a006e.mx.aol.com Received: from omr-a006e.mx.aol.com (HELO omr-a006e.mx.aol.com) (204.29.186.55) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 19 Nov 2016 15:54:06 +0000 Received: from mtaout-mbe01.mx.aol.com (mtaout-mbe01.mx.aol.com [172.26.254.173]) by omr-a006e.mx.aol.com (Outbound Mail Relay) with ESMTP id EC3833800090 for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2016 10:54:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.200.215] (unknown [72.49.129.109]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mtaout-mbe01.mx.aol.com (MUA/Third Party Client Interface) with ESMTPSA id 58D6B380000AB for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2016 10:54:04 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: tprince@computer.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-server-1.19.0-1 (TEST) References: <56bd3cdc-34af-cc57-33cf-92ad5badaca2@cornell.edu> <95889942-402f-e820-2eb7-beb70453a647@aol.com> To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Tim Prince Message-ID: <2fbc0eb3-ea27-9a34-e42d-aae811e7d2f3@aol.com> Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 18:49:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit x-aol-global-disposition: G x-aol-sid: 3039ac1afead5830759c5f03 X-AOL-IP: 72.49.129.109 X-SW-Source: 2016-11/txt/msg00251.txt.bz2 On 11/19/2016 9:41 AM, Ken Brown wrote: > [Please keep the discussion on the mailing list.] > > On 11/19/2016 9:19 AM, Tim Prince wrote: >> >> >> On 11/19/2016 8:42 AM, Ken Brown wrote: >>> On 11/18/2016 6:52 PM, Tim Prince wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> On 11/18/2016 2:21 PM, Ken Brown wrote: >>>>> On 11/18/2016 1:35 PM, Tim Prince wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On 11/18/2016 10:31 AM, Jon Turney wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin >>>>>>> distribution: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> *** xorg-server-*1.19.0-1 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> I still haven't learned how to make it start on Win8.1 or 10: >>>>> [...] >>>>>> But I don't see it opening an X display, and the taskbar icon >>>>>> disappears >>>>>> after a few seconds. May be missing the important user advice. >>>>> >>>>> Have you looked for the xwin-xdg-icon in your hidden icons? It's a >>>>> black C superimposed over a green X. >>>>> >>>>> Ken >>>>> >>>> The icon stays up in the hidden icons. but seems to have little use. >>> >>> Don't you get a menu when you click on it? >>> >> That menu has the option to shut down xserver or view documentation but >> not to open an xterm. > > I don't think we're talking about the same icon. The one I referred > to is a black C superimposed over a green X, and it has many options > to start programs, including XTerm (under System Tools). It's started > by the xwin-xdg-icon program, which in turn is started by > /etc/X11/xinit/startxwinrc (unless you have a ~/.startxwinrc that > overrides it). Does 'ps' show that xwin-xdg-icon is running? > > I have occasionally got the xdg icon from which xterm can be started, but I haven't found a reproducible way to bring it up. -- Tim Prince -- 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