From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 58395 invoked by alias); 25 Dec 2016 23:49:50 -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 58381 invoked by uid 89); 25 Dec 2016 23:49:49 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=H*r:8.12.10, cygwinannounce, cygwin-announce, H*i:sk:97b83fd X-HELO: limerock01.mail.cornell.edu Received: from limerock01.mail.cornell.edu (HELO limerock01.mail.cornell.edu) (128.84.13.241) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 25 Dec 2016 23:49:39 +0000 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite3.serverfarm.cornell.edu [10.16.197.8]) by limerock01.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id uBPNnaIB025387 for ; Sun, 25 Dec 2016 18:49:36 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.5] (mta-68-175-148-36.twcny.rr.com [68.175.148.36] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id uBPNnYvQ031774 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 25 Dec 2016 18:49:35 -0500 Subject: Re: can't run cygwin emacs or XWin Server To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <914c7a91-da0d-5102-f884-3fe0deba5bf3@onetel.com> <062b5d1e-bf39-0018-2566-d960f05598df@gmail.com> <97b83fdd-d698-8ab2-e53f-1d8b10c749e6@onetel.com> From: Ken Brown Message-ID: <6766ed96-5355-134e-221b-7200fc5ba6bd@cornell.edu> Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2016 23:49:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <97b83fdd-d698-8ab2-e53f-1d8b10c749e6@onetel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Cornell-Gauge: Gauge=XXXXX X-PMX-CORNELL-AUTH-RESULTS: dkim-out=none; X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-12/txt/msg00265.txt.bz2 On 12/25/2016 5:59 PM, mike wrote: > On 25/12/2016 15:13, Marco Atzeri wrote: >> On 25/12/2016 13:55, mike wrote: >>> I run 32 bit cygwin on a 64 bit machine running Windows 7. >>> >>> I used to get an XWin Server terminal running bash at startup (logging >>> into Windows) from which I could run the emacs packaged in cygwin. >>> After a round of updates I don't get the terminal window at startup and >>> if I try to manually launch it it fails to launch and AFAICT if I try to >>> run emacs from a command prompt I get the native version of emacs that I >>> also have installed and not the cygwin one. The shortcut for XWin >>> Server is >>> >>> C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startxwin.exe startxwin.exe doesn't exist any more. It's been replaced by a script /usr/bin/startxwin. And, as Marco said, it doesn't start an xterm automatically any more. See https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-announce/2015-07/msg00013.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