Issues since last update of cygwin - clipboard, crashing

2014-10-08 Thread Gulliver Smith
Windows 7 Professional, I updated cygwin on the weekend of Oct 4 and am now having issues with cygwin X, mostly with the clipboard. I am running with no root window (XWin.exe) I have two different systems (home and work), one running cygwin 64 bit and the other cygwin 32 bit. Both have these

X11 crashing - no errors in log file

2014-10-08 Thread Nem W Schlecht
X11 has been crashing on me in 2 cases since upgrading to 1.16.1-1 1) Using 'xv' on any image. I compiled this myself and it was running fine in the past, but now when I try to open any image, all of X11 crashes. I tried to recompile it, but same issue. Nothing is showing up in the XWin.0.log

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-server-1.16.1-2

2014-10-08 Thread Jon TURNEY
The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** xorg-server-*1.16.1-2 These packages contain XWin and the other X.Org X11 servers. The following cygwin-specific changes have been made since 1.16.1-1: * Fix transposed format specifiers in some logging added in

Re: FW: Cygwin start menu / mirrors‏

2014-10-08 Thread t s
On 04/10/2014 18:16, t s wrote: first of all, regarding the Cygwin setup program; the options are install / re-install / un-install / default is it correct that to install only the latest updates, I would choose the option 'default' ? I'm not sure what text you are looking at. The

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-server-1.16.1-2

2014-10-08 Thread Nem W Schlecht
I just remembered that my version of xv has been modified to place the current image filename in the X11 clipboard. That might have been the cause of the issue. Regardless, my crashes seem to have gone away with this update. Thanks for all the hard work on Cygwin X11! On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at

Re: X11 crashing - no errors in log file

2014-10-08 Thread Chris Carlson
I also have been getting crashes, but I can't figure out what is causing it. I opened Microsoft Word, and X just crashed in the background. It's happened twice now, but the first time, I can't remember what I did to make it happen. Note that I have Cygwin 1.16 running on a Windows 7 laptop,

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-server-1.16.1-2

2014-10-08 Thread Chris Carlson
No sooner did I respond than I see the update. Nevermind. Chris Carlson On 10/8/2014 8:31 PM, Nem W Schlecht wrote: I just remembered that my version of xv has been modified to place the current image filename in the X11 clipboard. That might have been the cause of the issue. Regardless,