From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 116947 invoked by alias); 23 Jul 2017 18:14:52 -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 116932 invoked by uid 89); 23 Jul 2017 18:14:51 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*Ad:D*ca, H*r:ip*192.168.1.100, Brian, inglis X-HELO: smtp-out-so.shaw.ca Received: from smtp-out-so.shaw.ca (HELO smtp-out-so.shaw.ca) (64.59.136.138) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 23 Jul 2017 18:14:50 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([24.64.240.204]) by shaw.ca with SMTP id ZLOxdOCghDJTWZLOyd7rcJ; Sun, 23 Jul 2017 12:14:48 -0600 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=B4DJ6KlM c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=MVEHjbUiAHxQW0jfcDq5EA==:117 a=MVEHjbUiAHxQW0jfcDq5EA==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=k_DBue6BVHMcpiZ5-JEA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 Reply-To: Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca Subject: Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <6885072f-51bf-4077-70d7-432fe9fdf912@onetel.com> <042b6de9-12dd-5633-42f4-1dcebc35ea11@onetel.com> From: Brian Inglis Message-ID: <83867445-3204-15c9-f5bc-78f5d0ff2225@SystematicSw.ab.ca> Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2017 19:18:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <042b6de9-12dd-5633-42f4-1dcebc35ea11@onetel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfAmA18NtOLwEEJWLt7uE0cdFiCA2xckNsScYZ90pqWHPWkSHhj27j/mIi03b+YBdMbRAH3ZqbFAQPrO3LMA9HKZMbpYLVNt/1LoIyEc2TxqDzZFCa+Np qRBRO0ceiv9jEZtwq43Znj+stGCtQm3CZIqG7BQ6QE8RWTvZif2lz8Vg/ZvUXnjGwmLjeIMGTgLL1w== X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-07/txt/msg00313.txt.bz2 On 2017-07-23 11:39, mike wrote: > On 23/07/2017 16:58, Jack wrote: >> On 2017.07.23 08:32, mike wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> I updated my Cywin installation on the 21st or 22nd of July 2017. I run >>> 32-bit Cygwin/X on 64-bit Win 7 Pro. If I launch the Cygwin Xwin Server I >>> get the icon at the very top middle of the screen and can then go into the >>> icons menu and right click on the Cygwin icon and get a list of categories of >>> applications to run and apparently launch because if I try to launch some and >>> wait long enough and right click on the aforementioned icon and select quit >>> it says there are N apps running and do I want to close them. The problem is >>> that anything I launch through the icons menu doesn't display anywhere and in >>> particular doesn't appear in the task bar. I have read the FAQ and UG but >>> can't find what I'm looking for. It definitely seems to me that the >>> behaviour has changed since before I updated. >>> >>> Can somebody please tell me what I am doing wrong? I would be very grateful >>> for any help. Thanks in advance. >>> >>> Mike >> >> Are you sure those apps you are trying to launch are actually installed? You >> could always bring up a Cygwin terminal (not through the X icon) and >> explicitly "export DISPLAY=0:0" and then try to launch one of the apps from >> the command line to see any errors. >> >> Jack > > All I did was download setup-x86.exe on the 21st, run it and when presented with > the drop down View list used Pending (by default) and then clicked Next etc. If > I switch to Up To Date when presented with the drop down View list it does > indeed show that everything I've tried to run is installed. I must have > hundreds of packages installed. I did that last year intentionally. I selected > packages to install by Category and then installed the entire Categories. That's > what I'm saying all this stuff used to just work and now it just doesn't so I'm > either completely missing the obvious or else it really seems like something is > wrong with my installation or the behaviour has changed. If I'm just missing > the obvious then please just tell me where I'm going wrong. > > I do not want to uninstall everything and then re-install because I have no > confidence that that will solve the problem. To repeat the Cygwin/X icon is > there and the menu is there. The packages that I am most immediately interested > in are the Cygwin Emacs packages which are clearly in the Up To Date list. If > the packages aren't installed then why would they show up in the menu? If I > look in C:\cygwin\bin I can see among others emacsclient-nox.exe, > emacsclient-X11.exe, emacs-nox.exe and emacs-X11.exe so they're installed right? May have run out of DLL address space. Run "rebase-trigger full", shut down everything Cygwin, download and run setup-x86, then check /var/log/setup.log.full for rebase problems. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- 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