From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 91083 invoked by alias); 24 Aug 2015 03:01:02 -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 91067 invoked by uid 89); 24 Aug 2015 03:01:01 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-io0-f173.google.com Received: from mail-io0-f173.google.com (HELO mail-io0-f173.google.com) (209.85.223.173) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 03:00:58 +0000 Received: by iodt126 with SMTP id t126so134687592iod.2 for ; Sun, 23 Aug 2015 20:00:57 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.107.32.72 with SMTP id g69mr15613899iog.86.1440385256806; Sun, 23 Aug 2015 20:00:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.79.35.199 with HTTP; Sun, 23 Aug 2015 20:00:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <55D62628.3000506@dronecode.org.uk> References: <55D1A466.8060408@starwolf.com> <55D2CCAE.8040704@starwolf.com> <55D62628.3000506@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 03:01:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: X Windows disappearing/unmapping (Win10 + 3rd party virtual desktops) From: Michael Jennings To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-08/txt/msg00389.txt.bz2 On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: > Thanks for reporting this issue. > > It seems that a change in 1.17.2-1 had the unintended side-effect of > breaking working with VirtuaWin and Dexpot (windows which were hidden when > switching to another virtual desktop become lost) > > While this can probably be worked-around in the virtual desktop software > configuration, I'd like to try to fix it. > > I've built a snapshot with a potential fix. Perhaps you could try that and > see if it improves things for you? > > ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/x86/XWin.20150820-git-fb4e99d8ae5a25c8.exe.bz2 > ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/x86_64/XWin.20150820-git-fb4e99d8ae5a25c8.exe.bz2 THANK YOU!! I specifically joined this mailing list, after being a CygWin user for 15+ years (worked on it with GVV back in the early days), because I was about to go crazy. I originally experienced this problem with mDesktop, but I spent an entire weekend trying literally EVERY multi-desktop app for Windows I could find. I tried almost a dozen, in fact, including Dexpot, VirtuaWin, Virtual Dimenson, Finestra, nSpaces, YODM, and Tri-Desk-a-Top. The only ones that *didn't* display the problem were SysInternals Desktops and 2 others, none of which had any concept of allowing you to move windows from one desktop to another, so they were unusable for me. ALL the others I tried had this same problem. The above executable completely fixes the problem for me in both mDesktop and Dexpot, so I *greatly* appreciate your work to fix this! :-) Though I do have to say, it did force me to try other alternatives apart from mDesktop, and having experienced Dexpot and VirtuaWin, I'll never go back to mDesktop again. So thanks for that, too! ;-) Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ Linux Server/Cluster Admin, LBL.gov Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) -- 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