From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2037 invoked by alias); 24 Feb 2016 00:12:28 -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 2024 invoked by uid 89); 24 Feb 2016 00:12:28 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=defense, Ken, H*f:sk:1456258, outdated X-HELO: limerock04.mail.cornell.edu Received: from limerock04.mail.cornell.edu (HELO limerock04.mail.cornell.edu) (128.84.13.244) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 00:12:27 +0000 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite4.serverfarm.cornell.edu [10.16.197.9]) by limerock04.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id u1O0CPBs014707 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 19:12:25 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.4] (cpe-67-249-176-138.twcny.res.rr.com [67.249.176.138]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id u1O0COII027820 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 19:12:25 -0500 From: Ken Brown Subject: Re: XWin won't run xterm on start To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1456258759.50776.ezmlm@cygwin.com> <56CCC418.3070307@ro.ru> Message-ID: <56CCF573.1050505@cornell.edu> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 00:12:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56CCC418.3070307@ro.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-02/txt/msg00377.txt.bz2 On 2/23/2016 3:42 PM, Jaakov wrote: > Ken, I'll try your file, thanks a lot! > > But let us recapitulate that such files get outdated very quickly. Your best defense against this is to read the xinit release announcements. You can always ask for help if you want to change the new behavior and aren't sure how. Here are the last two announcements in which there were major changes to the xinit package; both of them spelled out the changes very clearly: https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-announce/2015-07/msg00013.html https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2014-11/msg00004.html Ken -- 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