From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 76360 invoked by alias); 28 Feb 2020 07:21:52 -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 76353 invoked by uid 89); 28 Feb 2020 07:21:52 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-5.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,GIT_PATCH_2,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=solving, icon, displays, upgrades X-HELO: smtp-out-no.shaw.ca Received: from smtp-out-no.shaw.ca (HELO smtp-out-no.shaw.ca) (64.59.134.9) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 28 Feb 2020 07:21:51 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.114] ([24.64.172.44]) by shaw.ca with ESMTP id 7ZxxjQD6MnCig7ZxyjYUfr; Fri, 28 Feb 2020 00:21:46 -0700 Reply-To: Cygwin General To: Cygwin General From: Brian Inglis Subject: Cygwin-X shortcut no longer works after recent updates Message-ID: <9237e82b-d2c8-99ee-de23-0baf65816418@SystematicSw.ab.ca> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 07:21:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2020-02/txt/msg00262.txt.bz2 Hi folks, After the recent upgrades to cygwin 3.1.4, perl, etc. I have found that the Cygwin-X Startup, Start Menu, and Task Bar shortcuts no longer work, although I can start Cygwin-X by running startxwin from a mintty window. >From the shortcut, the shell is invoked to run startxwin normally, two copies of xinit fork, and Xwin runs and displays the start tray Xserver icon, but my mintty terminal and the xwin-xdg-menu clients don't start. On exiting the X server, the processes are left running and have to be killed off. There are sockets and lock files, which are left around after termination: $ llgo /tmp/.X11-unix/X0* srw-rw-rw- 1 0 Feb 27 23:11 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0= -rw------- 1 0 Feb 27 23:11 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0.lock The server log /var/log/xwin/XWin.0.log looks normal, and nothing shows in ~/.xsession-errors. My .startxwinrc is a copy of /etc/X11/xinit/startxwinrc with addition of the minnty terminal startup in bg before leaving xwin-xdg-menu running in fg. The shortcut and processes when started normally look like: C:\...\cygwin64\bin\run.exe --quote /bin/sh -l -c "cd; exec /usr/bin/startxwin" /bin/sh /usr/bin/startxwin \_ xinit /home/$USER/.startxwinrc -- /usr/bin/XWin ... [as below] \_ /usr/bin/XWin :0 -multiwindow -auth /home/$USER/.serverauth.$PGID I have checked the man pages and the Cygwin-X docs for hints about things to check and try with little success. Hints and suggestions about possible problems and problem solving approaches would be appreciated. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. -- 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