Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-server-1.19.0-1 (TEST)

[Tim Prince <n8tm@aol.com>]

On 11/19/2016 9:41 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
> [Please keep the discussion on the mailing list.]
>
> On 11/19/2016 9:19 AM, Tim Prince wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 11/19/2016 8:42 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
>>> On 11/18/2016 6:52 PM, Tim Prince wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 11/18/2016 2:21 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
>>>>> On 11/18/2016 1:35 PM, Tim Prince wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 11/18/2016 10:31 AM, Jon Turney wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin
>>>>>>> distribution:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *** xorg-server-*1.19.0-1
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I still haven't learned how to make it start on Win8.1 or 10:
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>> But I don't see it opening an X display, and the taskbar icon
>>>>>> disappears
>>>>>> after a few seconds.  May be missing the important user advice.
>>>>>
>>>>> Have you looked for the xwin-xdg-icon in your hidden icons?  It's a
>>>>> black C superimposed over a green X.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ken
>>>>>
>>>> The icon stays up in the hidden icons. but seems to have little use.
>>>
>>> Don't you get a menu when you click on it?
>>>
>> That menu has the option to shut down xserver or view documentation but
>> not to open an xterm.
>
> I don't think we're talking about the same icon.  The one I referred
> to is a black C superimposed over a green X, and it has many options
> to start programs, including XTerm (under System Tools).  It's started
> by the xwin-xdg-icon program, which in turn is started by
> /etc/X11/xinit/startxwinrc (unless you have a ~/.startxwinrc that
> overrides it).  Does 'ps' show that xwin-xdg-icon is running?
>
> Ken
>
I've never seen that icon.  xwin-xdg-menu shows up in ps (mulitiple
copies if I keep trying) but not xdg-icon.

-- 
Tim Prince


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