From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 71862 invoked by alias); 24 Feb 2016 01:19:37 -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 71849 invoked by uid 89); 24 Feb 2016 01:19:36 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_RP_RNBL,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*r:4.76, H*MI:sk:1456258, H*i:sk:1456258, Hx-languages-length:1145 X-HELO: huan2.mail.rambler.ru Received: from huan2.mail.rambler.ru (HELO huan2.mail.rambler.ru) (81.19.66.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 01:19:35 +0000 Received: from [UNAVAILABLE] ([93.204.121.9]:55693 helo=[192.168.3.203]) by huan2.mail.rambler.ru with esmtpa (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1aYO6q-00049q-7V for cygwin@cygwin.com; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 04:19:26 +0300 Subject: Re: XWin won't run xterm on start To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1456258759.50776.ezmlm@cygwin.com> From: Jaakov Message-ID: <56CD0517.8020407@ro.ru> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 01:19:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/38.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1456258759.50776.ezmlm@cygwin.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rambler-User: j_k_v@ro.ru/93.204.121.9 X-SW-Source: 2016-02/txt/msg00378.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 But let us recapitulate that such files get outdated very quickly.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 Inside, Yaakov says "* xterm is no longer started by default. Users may start their choice of terminal from the menu." So, let me beg for an excuse, I should have really read that earlier. However, search engines did not give me that message and http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-startxwin-no-windows misled me, since it said "Task manager shows the startxwin.exe process starting, spawning XWin.exe and xterm.exe,..." This FAQ entry is outdated and should be adapted. In any case, let me thank you for you help and links! Best, Jaakov (with J, not Y). -- 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