Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

["Ian Lambert via cygwin" <cygwin@cygwin.com>]

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On Sun, 7/23/17, Ken Brown <> wrote:

 Subject: Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched
 To: cygwin@cygwin.com
 Date: Sunday, July 23, 2017, 5:18 PM
 
 On 7/23/2017 8:32 AM, 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.
 
 Yes, there was a change about
 two years ago.  I suspect you have a 
 .startxwinrc that uses fbpanel instead of
 xwin-xdg-menu.  See
 
    https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-announce/2015-07/msg00013.html
 
 Ken,


I have a relatively new install, since pi day 2017, and no .startxwinrc.

I had something similar Thursday 7/20/17 afternoon, after running updates 
for Windows security, and Cygwin. 

$ startxwin & would get the icon with menu, but selecting xterm would not
display an xterm. This is often all I use with Cygwin menu.

A couple restarts and runs of setup without any updates didn't help.

After a complete shutdown over a 3-day weekend, and another cygwin setup/update today,
startxwin & xterm from menu click worked OK. 
So I was relieved, but also, I suppose, glad to not be the only one, maybe.

Some other things do not work right.

Windows 7 Enterprise, SP1; 64 bit Cygwin.
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.1 MYPCNAME 2.8.2(0.313/5/3) 2017-07-12 10:58 x86_64 Cygwin

Aside from the usual:

xterm: cannot load font "-Misc-Fixed-bold-R-*-*-13-120-75-75-C-120-ISO10646-1"
xterm: cannot load font "-Misc-Fixed-bold-R-*-*-13-120-75-75-C-120-ISO10646-1"
xterm: cannot load font "-Misc-Fixed-bold-R-*-*-13-120-75-75-C-120-ISO10646-1"

I am now seeing things in the mintty console like:

SetupSysMenu: GetSystemMenu() failed for HWND 0x6055c
OS has icon alpha channel support: yes
SetupSysMenu: GetSystemMenu() failed for HWND 0x11071a
SetupSysMenu: GetSystemMenu() failed for HWND 0x1b0740
SetupSysMenu: GetSystemMenu() failed for HWND 0xc0746
SetupSysMenu: GetSystemMenu() failed for HWND 0xc0560
SetupSysMenu: GetSystemMenu() failed for HWND 0x200746



Calculator, galculator, gvim, nedit work OK from the menu click

However,

files (nautilus), gedit, leafpad do not start from menu click

leafpad from command line starts OK, and exits without errors to console.

gedit eventually starts from command line, but is not happy,
giving errors:


** (gedit:6788): WARNING **: Error retrieving accessibility bus address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process org.a11y.Bus exited with status 1

(gedit:6788): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_dbus_proxy_new_sync: assertion 'G_IS_DBUS_CONNECTION (connection)' failed

(gedit:6788): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_dbus_proxy_get_name_owner: assertion 'G_IS_DBUS_PROXY (proxy)' failed


(gedit:6788): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed

(gedit:6788): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed
      0 [main] gedit 8876 child_info_fork::abort: E:\cygwin64-3\bin\cygpangocairo-1.0-0.dll: Loaded to different address: parent(0x2F0000) != child(0x300000)


Failed to connect to socket /tmp/fam-myuser/fam-

when closing:

(gedit:6788): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed


Simlar messages for nautilus:


** (nautilus:8640): WARNING **: Error retrieving accessibility bus address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process org.a11y.Bus exited with status 1

(nautilus:8640): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_dbus_proxy_new_sync: assertion 'G_IS_DBUS_CONNECTION (connection)' failed

(nautilus:8640): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_dbus_proxy_get_name_owner: assertion 'G_IS_DBUS_PROXY (proxy)' failed
      0 [main] nautilus 8520 child_info_fork::abort: E:\cygwin64-3\bin\cygatk-bridge-2.0-0.dll: Loaded to different address: parent(0x340000) != child(0x310000)


Failed to connect to socket /tmp/fam-myuser/fam-

(nautilus:8640): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed

(nautilus:8640): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed

** (nautilus:8640): WARNING **: Unable to get contents of the bookmarks file: Error opening file /home/myuser/.gtk-bookmarks: No such file or directory

(nautilus:8640): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_set: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(nautilus:8640): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed
      0 [main] nautilus 7764 child_info_fork::abort: E:\cygwin64-3\bin\cygpangocairo-1.0-0.dll: Loaded to different address: parent(0x2F0000) != child(0x500000)

(nautilus:8640): GnomeDesktop-WARNING **: Error creating thumbnail for file:///home/myuser/dppl2f.dat: Unrecognized image file format


(nautilus:8640): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed

(nautilus:8640): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed

(nautilus:8640): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_set: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(nautilus:8640): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_dbus_connection_call_internal: assertion 'G_IS_DBUS_CONNECTION (connection)' failed



 
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