From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 92844 invoked by alias); 18 Nov 2016 23:56:11 -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 92833 invoked by uid 89); 18 Nov 2016 23:56:10 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_MXURI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=H*RU:sk:omr-m01, Hx-spam-relays-external:sk:omr-m01, Hx-languages-length:928, H*r:172.26.221 X-HELO: omr-m011e.mx.aol.com Received: from omr-m011e.mx.aol.com (HELO omr-m011e.mx.aol.com) (204.29.186.11) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 18 Nov 2016 23:56:09 +0000 Received: from mtaout-mca01.mx.aol.com (mtaout-mca01.mx.aol.com [172.26.221.77]) by omr-m011e.mx.aol.com (Outbound Mail Relay) with ESMTP id 71A5138000B5 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2016 18:56:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.200.215] (unknown [72.49.129.109]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mtaout-mca01.mx.aol.com (MUA/Third Party Client Interface) with ESMTPSA id 39215380000A8 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2016 18:56:07 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: tprince@computer.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-server-1.19.0-1 (TEST) References: To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Tim Prince Message-ID: Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 00:57:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit x-aol-global-disposition: G x-aol-sid: 3039ac1add4d582f9517772c X-AOL-IP: 72.49.129.109 X-SW-Source: 2016-11/txt/msg00243.txt.bz2 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. After several more attempts, from the Start Menu Xterm shortcut, I get an icon on the task bar which lasts long enough to click on and open an Xterm. So it looks like it's basically working. Thanks. -- Tim Prince -- 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