From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc: David Cunningham <ml@upsilon.org.uk>
Subject: Re: remote GTK apps nor workin correctly in Cygwin/X
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2016 14:58:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a49ae00c-8061-020f-70e5-03734044b649@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <adf158afe71ee17a5967f0ae7668b565@upsilon.org.uk>
On 30/11/2016 12:36, David Cunningham wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is a cygwin problem, a gtk problem or something
> else (please be gentle).
Thanks for reporting this issue.
> I have 3 remote machines, one running servers, one running Ubuntu 16.04
> and the other 2 Debian stretch.
[...]
> Remote applications on the Debian machines from a Cygwin xterm (or
> putty) don't work correctly. An application (gnome-terminal and nemiver
> being the two mostly use) will open correctly and keyboard is (mostly)
> OK but mouse input doesn't work.
>
> For example clicking a menu heading will place a line under the heading
> in the GUI but the menu doesn't open. Note that I get the same failure
> when using the keyboard shortcut keys (e.g ALT-F <> File). Sometimes a
> part of the menu (maybe one or 2 lines) will appear in the top left of
> the Desktop and can be scrolled through and selected using the keyboard.
> The window controls (minimise, maximise, exit) work correctly.
I can reproduce this using a debian stretch VM.
It occurs with the cygwin X server in both windowed and multiwindow
mode, so that would seem to exonerate the cygwin multiwindow mode WM.
The menus work correctly using the debian X server with no WM, though.
> I get (lots of ) GTK error messages in terminal like this as I try to
> use the GUI:
[...]
> I've come across this bug filed against gtk in Debian which seems
> somewhat similar:
>
> <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=842070>.
>
> I'm unclear then whether this is a Debian/gtk issue or a Cywin/X issue
> (given that Ubuntu->Debian is OK).
I'm pretty sure this is more fallout from the change mentioned in the
upstream bug [1] linked there, but why it only manifests under the
cygwin X server, I don't know.
[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773387
> Can anyone advise where I go from here?
I would suggest perhaps raising a bug against gtk+, although idk how
much attention that will get.
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Jon Turney
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2016-11-30 15:25 David Cunningham
2016-12-01 9:36 ` Csaba Raduly
2016-12-02 14:58 ` Jon Turney [this message]
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