From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 121638 invoked by alias); 24 Jul 2017 17:02:55 -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 120707 invoked by uid 89); 24 Jul 2017 17:02:53 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=View, click, icons, among X-HELO: smtp-out-so.shaw.ca Received: from smtp-out-so.shaw.ca (HELO smtp-out-so.shaw.ca) (64.59.136.137) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 24 Jul 2017 17:02:52 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([24.64.240.204]) by shaw.ca with SMTP id Zgkrd1EqrMaqMZgksdxoOW; Mon, 24 Jul 2017 11:02:50 -0600 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=Qc8WhoTv c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=MVEHjbUiAHxQW0jfcDq5EA==:117 a=MVEHjbUiAHxQW0jfcDq5EA==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=6V-fkkyjAjgY2rgFnJkA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 From: Brian Inglis Subject: Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched Reply-To: Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <6885072f-51bf-4077-70d7-432fe9fdf912@onetel.com> <042b6de9-12dd-5633-42f4-1dcebc35ea11@onetel.com> <83867445-3204-15c9-f5bc-78f5d0ff2225@SystematicSw.ab.ca> <0e8187da-4df5-edc3-2ba5-eb50c7cd3cec@onetel.com> Message-ID: Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 17:31:00 -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: <0e8187da-4df5-edc3-2ba5-eb50c7cd3cec@onetel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfCujEHyZ9NwvLcjnJgkcg4fsxoYnOcwig2OTUnLPZ5ot6DbJyUHlnij3+zC6Rv8vEHeLqzJTfx5hEfFyB6vCPUz0tj0x9eMCVgLJ0Sbd3Ze9Fzef+sBJ KbM/jW7kP2HPSLWfDqJe6IkUw3MAiLbS6OVRUoSFJxrAT4NVjWoki7l0nopc73Z/DM7lVXI3R67RIg== X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-07/txt/msg00324.txt.bz2 On 2017-07-23 13:18, mike wrote: > On 23/07/2017 19:14, Brian Inglis wrote: >> On 2017-07-23 11:39, mike wrote: >>> On 23/07/2017 16:58, Jack wrote: >>>> On 2017.07.23 08:32, 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. >>>>> >>>>> Can somebody please tell me what I am doing wrong? I would be very grateful >>>>> for any help. Thanks in advance. >>>>> >>>>> Mike >>>> Are you sure those apps you are trying to launch are actually installed? You >>>> could always bring up a Cygwin terminal (not through the X icon) and >>>> explicitly "export DISPLAY=0:0" and then try to launch one of the apps from >>>> the command line to see any errors. >>>> >>>> Jack >>> All I did was download setup-x86.exe on the 21st, run it and when presented with >>> the drop down View list used Pending (by default) and then clicked Next etc. If >>> I switch to Up To Date when presented with the drop down View list it does >>> indeed show that everything I've tried to run is installed. I must have >>> hundreds of packages installed. I did that last year intentionally. I selected >>> packages to install by Category and then installed the entire Categories. That's >>> what I'm saying all this stuff used to just work and now it just doesn't so I'm >>> either completely missing the obvious or else it really seems like something is >>> wrong with my installation or the behaviour has changed. If I'm just missing >>> the obvious then please just tell me where I'm going wrong. >>> >>> I do not want to uninstall everything and then re-install because I have no >>> confidence that that will solve the problem. To repeat the Cygwin/X icon is >>> there and the menu is there. The packages that I am most immediately interested >>> in are the Cygwin Emacs packages which are clearly in the Up To Date list. If >>> the packages aren't installed then why would they show up in the menu? If I >>> look in C:\cygwin\bin I can see among others emacsclient-nox.exe, >>> emacsclient-X11.exe, emacs-nox.exe and emacs-X11.exe so they're installed right? >> May have run out of DLL address space. >> Run "rebase-trigger full", shut down everything Cygwin, download and run >> setup-x86, then check /var/log/setup.log.full for rebase problems. >> > I wasn't running anything Cygwin when I ran setup-x86.exe on the 21st. I've > attached /var/log/setup.log.full. There is no occurrence of the word rebase The log indicates it only downloaded the mirror list and setup.ini and updated nothing. That's why you should run "rebase-trigger full" then run setup-x86. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- 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