XWin gives black screen
Dear all, When I start XWin I get completely black screen. Everything works fine but the problem is -- when I minimize any applications it disappears due to the black screen, and I cannot retrieve that application. I tried some options, e.g., setting serverargs=-nolisten inet6, but that didn't work. I also attach my XWin.0.log: I would be grateful if somebody give me some hints. Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 1.7.3.0 (10703000) Build Date: 2009-12-22 Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com XWin was started with the following command line: xwin -scrollbars ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1920 h 1200 winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning 2010-02-09 08:49:33 _XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6 2010-02-09 08:49:33 _XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/win-homnath:0 2010-02-09 08:49:33 _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6 2010-02-09 08:49:33 winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1 2010-02-09 08:49:33 (II) xorg.conf is not supported 2010-02-09 08:49:33 (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information 2010-02-09 08:49:33 winPrefsLoadPreferences: /etc/X11/system.XWinrc 2010-02-09 08:49:33 LoadPreferences: Done parsing the configuration file... 2010-02-09 08:49:33 winGetDisplay: DISPLAY=:0.0 2010-02-09 08:49:33 winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP 2010-02-09 08:49:33 winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed 2010-02-09 08:49:33 winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed 2010-02-09 08:49:33 winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 0007 2010-02-09 08:49:33 winSetEngine - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking 2010-02-09 08:49:33 winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel 2010-02-09 08:49:33 winWindowProc - WM_SIZE - window w: 1920 h: 1166, new client area w: 1912 h: 1135 2010-02-09 08:49:33 winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff ff00 00ff 2010-02-09 08:49:34 Screen 0 added at XINERAMA coordinate (0,0). 2010-02-09 08:49:34 (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so 2010-02-09 08:49:34 (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0 2010-02-09 08:49:36 winPointerWarpCursor - Discarding first warp: 956 567 2010-02-09 08:49:36 (--) 5 mouse buttons found 2010-02-09 08:49:36 (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31 2010-02-09 08:49:36 (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: 0414 (0414) 2010-02-09 08:49:36 (--) Using preset keyboard for Norwegian (414), type 4 2010-02-09 08:49:36 Rules = base Model = pc105 Layout = no Variant = none Options = none 2010-02-09 08:49:37 winProcEstablishConnection - Hello 2010-02-09 08:49:37 winInitClipboard () 2010-02-09 08:49:37 winProcEstablishConnection - winInitClipboard returned. 2010-02-09 08:49:37 winClipboardProc - Hello 2010-02-09 08:49:37 DetectUnicodeSupport - Windows NT/2000/XP 2010-02-09 08:49:37 winGetDisplay: DISPLAY=:0.0 2010-02-09 08:49:37 winClipboardProc - DISPLAY=:0.0 2010-02-09 08:49:37 winClipboardProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the display. 2010-02-09 08:51:08 winWindowProc - WM_SIZE - window w: 1920 h: 1166, new client area w: 1912 h: 1135 2010-02-09 08:51:10 winWindowProc - WM_SIZE - window w: 1920 h: 1166, new client area w: 1912 h: 1135 2010-02-09 09:13:21 winWindowProc - WM_SIZE - window w: 1920 h: 1166, new client area w: 1912 h: 1135 2010-02-09 09:17:09 winWindowProc - WM_SIZE - window w: 1920 h: 1166, new client area w: 1912 h: 1135 Thanks, Hom nath -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: libglib2, Emacs and GTK applications
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: You may want to try these patches and see if they help: My build of Emacs was related to current trunk (precisely, rev. 99467), so, almost surely, those patches are already applied (indeed, I find tracks of them in the current code). The problems seem to be consequence of the fact that 'gamin-server.exe' is not removed after application finishes, but only after 20-30 seconds and I see this behavior also with the test case reported. However, thanks a lot for your clarifications and for having followed this. Ciao, Angelo. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: XWin gives black screen
On 09/02/2010 02:36, Hom Nath Gharti wrote: When I start XWin I get completely black screen. Everything works fine but the problem is -- when I minimize any applications it disappears due to the black screen, and I cannot retrieve that application. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2009-06/msg3.html Yaakov Cygwin/X -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: XWin gives black screen
That's perfect. Thank you. On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) yselkow...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: On 09/02/2010 02:36, Hom Nath Gharti wrote: When I start XWin I get completely black screen. Everything works fine but the problem is -- when I minimize any applications it disappears due to the black screen, and I cannot retrieve that application. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2009-06/msg3.html Yaakov Cygwin/X -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: libglib2, Emacs and GTK applications
On 09/02/2010 03:05, Angelo Graziosi wrote: The problems seem to be consequence of the fact that 'gamin-server.exe' is not removed after application finishes, but only after 20-30 seconds and I see this behavior also with the test case reported. I run GTK+/GNOME apps all the time, and I have yet to see this, so AFAICS it's not a bug in gamin or GLib/GTK+. The only other things I can suggest are: 1) rebaseall, as launching gam_server involves a fork(), the failure of which can lead to strange behaviour. 2) create a ~/.gaminrc with the following contents: fsset ntfs poll 10 The last number is the poll interval, in seconds. The default is every second, and that can sometimes lead to excessive CPU usage. Usually that's only a problem with KDE, where several large parts of /usr/share are monitored, but it's worth trying. Yaakov Cygwin/X -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: libglib2, Emacs and GTK applications
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: 1) rebaseall, as launching gam_server involves a fork(), the failure of which can lead to strange behaviour. Hmm... At the moment my installation is quite stable and I won't rebase without being sure that it really needs a rebase. After all, with Emacs I rarely use dialog box: C-x C-f, etc., are faster to work with... I have to think a little more before rebasing... :-) 2) create a ~/.gaminrc with the following contents: fsset ntfs poll 10 It does not works, sigh! :( In any case, thanks for all your suggestions. Ciao, Angelo. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Changing interactive shell from Bash to Zsh
Hi! I am having trouble changing my shell from Bash to Zsh. Since there is no chsh, I have tried adding exec zsh -l to .bashrc Unfortunately, since cygwin is started as interactive login shell, it doesn't read .bashrc and so it starts as bash If I source .bashrc from .bash_profile (which I don't like), then it works. But then I cannot start X server from the start menu shortcut because bash reads .bashrc, executes zsh and exits; even though startxwin.exe is called by bash -l. So, is there a way to change shell? -- Regards, -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Changing interactive shell from Bash to Zsh
Add exec zsh -l at the end of your .bash_profile Chris From: Anonymous bin ich ichbina...@gmail.com To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Date: 02/09/2010 09:13 AM Subject:Changing interactive shell from Bash to Zsh Sent by:cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com Hi! I am having trouble changing my shell from Bash to Zsh. Since there is no chsh, I have tried adding exec zsh -l to .bashrc Unfortunately, since cygwin is started as interactive login shell, it doesn't read .bashrc and so it starts as bash If I source .bashrc from .bash_profile (which I don't like), then it works. But then I cannot start X server from the start menu shortcut because bash reads .bashrc, executes zsh and exits; even though startxwin.exe is called by bash -l. So, is there a way to change shell? -- Regards, -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Changing interactive shell from Bash to Zsh
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:20 PM, wood.ch...@tatravelcenters.com wrote: Add exec zsh -l at the end of your .bash_profile Then I cannot start X server from start menu icons. All I see in taskmanager is 1 process of bash and 1 subprocess of zsh. Chris From: Anonymous bin ich ichbina...@gmail.com To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Date: 02/09/2010 09:13 AM Subject: Changing interactive shell from Bash to Zsh Sent by: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com Hi! I am having trouble changing my shell from Bash to Zsh. Since there is no chsh, I have tried adding exec zsh -l to .bashrc Unfortunately, since cygwin is started as interactive login shell, it doesn't read .bashrc and so it starts as bash If I source .bashrc from .bash_profile (which I don't like), then it works. But then I cannot start X server from the start menu shortcut because bash reads .bashrc, executes zsh and exits; even though startxwin.exe is called by bash -l. So, is there a way to change shell? -- Regards, -- Regards, -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Changing interactive shell from Bash to Zsh
When I tried it on my system, it worked. Of course, it is not really using zsh as your login shell, since it is running inside bash, but when you exit zsh, it logs you off, which is the expected behavior. What shortcut are you using? An example of mine is C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe -p /usr/X11R6/bin xterm -display 127.0.0.1:0.0 -ls -sb 1000 -fg green -bg black Chris From: Anonymous bin ich ichbina...@gmail.com To: wood.ch...@tatravelcenters.com Cc: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Date: 02/09/2010 09:41 AM Subject:Re: Changing interactive shell from Bash to Zsh On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:20 PM, wood.ch...@tatravelcenters.com wrote: Add exec zsh -l at the end of your .bash_profile Then I cannot start X server from start menu icons. All I see in taskmanager is 1 process of bash and 1 subprocess of zsh. Chris From: Anonymous bin ich ichbina...@gmail.com To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Date: 02/09/2010 09:13 AM Subject:Changing interactive shell from Bash to Zsh Sent by:cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com Hi! I am having trouble changing my shell from Bash to Zsh. Since there is no chsh, I have tried adding exec zsh -l to .bashrc Unfortunately, since cygwin is started as interactive login shell, it doesn't read .bashrc and so it starts as bash If I source .bashrc from .bash_profile (which I don't like), then it works. But then I cannot start X server from the start menu shortcut because bash reads .bashrc, executes zsh and exits; even though startxwin.exe is called by bash -l. So, is there a way to change shell? -- Regards, -- Regards, -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Changing interactive shell from Bash to Zsh
Anonymous bin ich writes: Hi! I am having trouble changing my shell from Bash to Zsh. Since there is no chsh, I have tried adding exec zsh -l to .bashrc Unfortunately, since cygwin is started as interactive login shell, it doesn't read .bashrc and so it starts as bash If I source .bashrc from .bash_profile (which I don't like), then it works. But then I cannot start X server from the start menu shortcut because bash reads .bashrc, executes zsh and exits; even though startxwin.exe is called by bash -l. So, is there a way to change shell? All chsh does is edit the last field in /etc/passwd. You can do this yourself in any text editor (assuming you've got write access). Just change /bin/bash to /bin/zsh and you should be OK. Don't even think about hacking .bashrc, .bash_profile or .profile. If you do, then anything that tries to run bash will end up running zsh, and will probably fail. (This would include all post-install scripts run by setup.exe, so you'd probably end up with a hosed system) BTW, this is the wrong list for this topic; it has nothing to do with X. Phil -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Graphics not appearing in Gaussview 3
I have been using the 1.5 version of cygwin/X installed in Windows XP to
connect to a SLES9 server running Gaussview with little problem. When I
upgrade to 1.7 everything works fine except the graphics do not show in the
Gaussview windows. The only e-mail from the archive I found related to
Gaussview is:
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Dear Sir / Madam,
I need to use GView (a software for molecules visualization
constructed by Gaussian). An error occurs when I use the GView through
cygwin/X. This error is that the GView appears in my desktop. However,
when I try to display a molecule, no molecule is observed in the window
of GView.
The Gaussian's reply is :
{{{ I see the following line in the setup,
xorg-x11-xwin-gl (761 KiB; optional, the Cygwin/X X Server with
***EXPERIMENTAL*** GLX acceleration)
and the fact that GaussView starts but does not show molecules, which
require GLX while the splash screen and the basic dialog windows to
not, can be the problem. Can you turn off the experimental GLX
acceleration? }}}
How can I do it?
Regards,
Patrick Pang
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There was no reply to this e-mail that I could find. I am not a programmer,
just an end user, so please put any reply in layman's terms. Thank you.
Dr. Jonathan Rhoad
Modular 7 #43
Department of Chemistry
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Missouri Western State University
816-271-4389
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Re: Can't start X after upgrading to cygwin1.7
On 03/02/2010 19:43, Jon TURNEY wrote: I had the same symptoms. Non-administrator WinXP users couldn't start the XWin Server, and no /var/log/XWin.0.log was created. The log file could get created if there wasn't one already present, which led me to put the log file in the user's directory instead of /var/log. The other problem was that users couldn't create the /tmp/.X0-lock file and /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 socket if they were left by another user. The solution was to give each user their own /tmp directory. I fixed it with the following: 1. Added a line in /etc/profile, just before the chmod 1777 /tmp line: mount -f $USERPROFILE/Local Settings/Temp /tmp 2. Changed the XWin Server icon so instead of just startxwin.exe, it says: ... startxwin.exe -- -logfile ~/XWin.log (Don't take out the beginning of the command that runs startxwin through bash, or the /etc/profile won't get run. The quotes are needed because this is the argument to bash's -c option.) Could any of the guru's comment on how good or bad these solutions are? Thanks. It's long been suspected that there is some problem with lockfiles running XWin as a non-administrator user (See FAQ 3.4,[1]), but I've never had a sufficient clear description to understand what the problem is, until now. Okay, thanks to having some useful reproduction steps I've done a bit of testing and generated some patches (at [1]) which should hopefully address some of these issues. The thing I don't understand at this stage is that the /tmp/.X0-lock file and /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 socket should be removed when the X server shuts down, so shouldn't be causing problems. Is there some specific way the server is being exited which doesn't remove these files? [1] http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9778 -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
How to remotly launch application with SSH and Cygwin/X server
Hi, I've got a problem with Cygwin/X server (via Cygwin 1.7.1) Assuming we have a PC on Linux called X and a PC on Windows called Y. I want to send a SSH command from X to Y which launchs firefox on Y. (ie Windows) Firstly, if I go to Y (Windows) and launch a Cygwin shell and then enter the 'firefox' command (firefox is in the PATH environment variable of course), the Firefox is launched correctly and I can navigate to whatever I want. If I send a SSH command from X (Linux) to Y (Windows) with the firefox command : ssh usern...@y_ip_address firefox, I've got a firefox.exe process in the task manager of Y but Firefox is in the background (ie there is no Firefox window). I have set the DISPLAY environment variable to :0.0. Do you know why it is launched in background ? Is there a mean of displaying Firefox launched from the Linux box on Windows ? Thanks Silver -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: How to remotly launch application with SSH and Cygwin/X server
On 02/09/2010 06:31 PM, Fabien Tillay wrote: Hi, I've got a problem with Cygwin/X server (via Cygwin 1.7.1) Assuming we have a PC on Linux called X and a PC on Windows called Y. I want to send a SSH command from X to Y which launchs firefox on Y. (ie Windows) Firstly, if I go to Y (Windows) and launch a Cygwin shell and then enter the 'firefox' command (firefox is in the PATH environment variable of course), the Firefox is launched correctly and I can navigate to whatever I want. If I send a SSH command from X (Linux) to Y (Windows) with the firefox command : ssh usern...@y_ip_address firefox, I've got a firefox.exe process in the task manager of Y but Firefox is in the background (ie there is no Firefox window). I have set the DISPLAY environment variable to :0.0. No matter. Firefox on Windows knows nothing of X Windows anyway. No surprise, right? Do you know why it is launched in background ? Is there a mean of displaying Firefox launched from the Linux box on Windows ? Generally, no. Depending on the version of Windows and Cygwin you're running, you can go to the Control Panel-Administrative Tools-Services-Cygwin SSHD- Log On and enable Allow service to interact with desktop if you're already running the service with Local System. Pretty much for any other case, you can't do on Windows what you want to do. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
