From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 70508 invoked by alias); 2 Nov 2017 16:29:46 -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 70023 invoked by uid 89); 2 Nov 2017 16:29:45 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-7.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,GIT_PATCH_2,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=listen, tcp, Hx-spam-relays-external:ESMTPA X-HELO: out4-smtp.messagingengine.com Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out4-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 02 Nov 2017 16:29:44 +0000 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id E20A220A85; Thu, 2 Nov 2017 12:29:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 02 Nov 2017 12:29:42 -0400 X-ME-Sender: Received: from [192.168.1.102] (host86-162-230-154.range86-162.btcentralplus.com [86.162.230.154]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 7991224ED5; Thu, 2 Nov 2017 12:29:42 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Proper way to run emacs from desktop To: The Cygwin Mailing List References: <9c416ff2-1d4b-988d-9161-30c17234d156@cornell.edu> Cc: David Karr From: Jon Turney Message-ID: <7af22489-3785-41da-b3b2-828bd2b24c5a@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2017 16:29:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2017-11/txt/msg00038.txt.bz2 On 01/11/2017 21:57, David Karr wrote: > On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 12:57 PM, Ken Brown wrote: >> On 11/1/2017 1:08 PM, David Karr wrote: >>> I install Cygwin every couple of years and then use it continuously >>> without updates between those installations. I installed it on a new >>> laptop today, and I'm trying to work through issues. >>> >>> The current issue is running Emacs from the desktop. >>> >>> I had a shortcut working for a long time that does the following: >>> ------------- >>> C:\cygwin64\bin\run2.exe --display 127.0.0.1:0.0 /usr/local/bin/emacs.xml >>> ------------- Just '--display :0.0' is probably better, as it won't stop working when the Xserver is run without '-listen tcp'... >>> The "run2" application doesn't appear to exist. I checked my notes, >>> and I can't tell whether I installed this from somewhere else the last >>> time I did this. >> >> Just install the run2 package. It's still available. > > Ok. I find the search facility in setup somewhat confusing. I > couldn't find it before. I found it now, and I've installed it. You can also search using e.g. https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=run2.exe&arch=x86_64 -- 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