Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xinit-1.3.4-1 (Major overhaul of X session handling)

2014-12-05 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 29/11/2014 20:19, Nem W Schlecht wrote: On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 8:46 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote: On 11/29/2014 3:05 AM, Nem W Schlecht wrote: * User-defined ~/.startxwinrc files must now be executable, the final command therein must be run in the foreground, and that command's exiting will end

Re: Sunday's update broke startx - crash on clipboard (winCpliboardProc trapped WM_QUIT

2014-12-05 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 02/12/2014 15:53, Gulliver Smith wrote: This has happened on two different computers in different locations, one with 32 bit and one with 64 bit cygwin. Latter cygcheck attached. xwin log attached. I guess you have an empty ~/.startxwinrc, the behaviour of which has unfortunately changed.

Re: build error on 1.16.2-1

2014-12-05 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 01/12/2014 23:37, J. Offerman wrote: This is an obvious source-header discrepancy. The source file(auto-generated anyway) doesn't seem to be changed recently, while the header file(glext.h) has a timestamp of Nov 16 now. So it looks like only the header file got advanced here. Looking at the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xinit-1.3.4-1 (Major overhaul of X session handling)

2014-12-05 Thread Nem W Schlecht
My solution was to write a quick C program that does nothing but block on waiting to receive any signal. I named it 'xnoexit' and I call it from my .startxwinrc script in my home directory. It's been working well for me. Sorry - I'm extra picky. I didn't like seeing a 'sleep' in my 'ps' list.

xf86-video-nested HOWTO or FAQ?

2014-12-05 Thread Bob Cunningham
Hi, I've seen the announcements that xf86-video-nested is included in CygwinX, and is intended to replace Xnest/Xephyr. But nowhere have I (well, google) been able to find instructions on how to actually accomplish this within the Cygwin environment. Has anyone actually successfully done

Re: xf86-video-nested HOWTO or FAQ?

2014-12-05 Thread Bob Cunningham
Wouldn't you know it: Moments after hitting send, I found /usr/share/doc/xf86-video-nested/README on my local system. Looking through it now. -BobC On 12/05/2014 08:34 AM, Bob Cunningham wrote: Hi, I've seen the announcements that xf86-video-nested is included in CygwinX, and is intended

Re: xf86-video-nested HOWTO or FAQ?

2014-12-05 Thread rcunningham
OK, the README says to use this line: X -config my.conf -noreset -retro :1 but Cygwin X doesn't support the -config option. Any recommendations for how to make this work? TIA, -BobC On 12/5/2014 8:47 AM, Bob Cunningham wrote: Wouldn't you know it: Moments after hitting send, I found

Re: xf86-video-nested HOWTO or FAQ?

2014-12-05 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On 2014-12-05 11:32, rcunningham wrote: OK, the README says to use this line: X -config my.conf -noreset -retro :1 but Cygwin X doesn't support the -config option. Any recommendations for how to make this work? /usr/bin/X is a symlink to the native DDX. On Linux this is Xorg, but on