From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Cc: Gulliver Smith <gulliver.m.smith@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Strange disappearing xterm behaviour (recent) - Xwin multi window
Date: Sat, 12 May 2018 14:53:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9a450c92-3daf-3dcc-745b-1cfede27d48e@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK2rWZVwcQ3b-u_LY8-Dvk_NMOoJHi8EUSWi0+mxXjVtST_6BQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 03/05/2018 19:08, Gulliver Smith wrote:
> I have been running a cygwin X server in multi window mode for years,
> first supporting xterms running on external boxes, then in a variety
> of VirtualBox virtual machines. X is started as follows on both
> Windows 10 and Windows 7 boxes.
>
> /usr/bin/X -multiwindow -listen tcp
>
> I keep Cygwin up-to-date regularly, also my Linux virtual machines and
> the windows hosts.
>
> In the last few weeks I am getting new, annoying behavior.
Did the update of something cause this?
> Essentially, my X clients, e.g. xterm are no longer visible. A "ps" on
> the linux VM shows that they are still running. This happens with
> emacs too, and emacsclient calls also do not open windows on the
> display.
>
> Is it a change to Cygwin or a change to a Fedora 27 package? Is there a fix?
I don't see any other reports of anything like this.
It might be worth investigating what state the windows which have
disappeared are in. Are the X windows in a viewable or notviewable
state, according to xwininfo? You could use spy++/winspector/etc to see
if a Windows window exists and is hidden or not.
Is this linked to any 'virtual desktop' type software?
--
Jon Turney
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