From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 106585 invoked by alias); 23 Jul 2017 21:18:11 -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 106565 invoked by uid 89); 23 Jul 2017 21:18:11 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=click, icons X-HELO: limerock04.mail.cornell.edu Received: from limerock04.mail.cornell.edu (HELO limerock04.mail.cornell.edu) (128.84.13.244) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 23 Jul 2017 21:18:09 +0000 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite3.serverfarm.cornell.edu [10.16.197.8]) by limerock04.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id v6NLI7w1008934 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2017 17:18:07 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.4] (mta-68-175-129-7.twcny.rr.com [68.175.129.7] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id v6NLI6Fa010537 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2017 17:18:07 -0400 Subject: Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <6885072f-51bf-4077-70d7-432fe9fdf912@onetel.com> From: Ken Brown Message-ID: Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2017 22:46:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <6885072f-51bf-4077-70d7-432fe9fdf912@onetel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Cornell-Gauge: Gauge=XXXXX X-PMX-CORNELL-AUTH-RESULTS: dkim-out=none; X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-07/txt/msg00316.txt.bz2 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 -- 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