startxwin failing after most recent updates

2015-02-02 Thread Jim Garrison
I updated Cygwin (which pulled in a bunch of Cygwin-X updates) and now startxwin no longer works. According to the log (below) it starts the XServer successfully but then shuts down. My .startxwinrc is an empty (zero-length) file to prevent automatic launching of the default clients, which I

Re: startxwin failing after most recent updates

2015-02-02 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On Mon, 2015-02-02 at 16:52 -0800, Jim Garrison wrote: I updated Cygwin (which pulled in a bunch of Cygwin-X updates) and now startxwin no longer works. According to the log (below) it starts the XServer successfully but then shuts down. My .startxwinrc is an empty (zero-length) file to

Launching Cygwin/X in background with no clients

2015-02-02 Thread Jim Garrison
On 2/2/2015 5:21 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: On Mon, 2015-02-02 at 16:52 -0800, Jim Garrison wrote: I updated Cygwin (which pulled in a bunch of Cygwin-X updates) and now startxwin no longer works. According to the log (below) it starts the XServer successfully but then shuts down. My

Re: Cygwin/X XDMCP Issue

2015-02-02 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 22/01/2015 07:46, Maarten Hoes wrote: Well I changed from GDM to KDM, and now everything is working as expected. Just one last question: are there any known issues with XDMCP and Gnome GDM ? Or is that combination supposed to just work ? Yes, XDMCP is supposed to work with GDM. No, there

Re: Cygwin/X XDMCP Issue

2015-02-02 Thread Maarten Hoes
Hi, On 2-2-2015 16:20, Jon TURNEY wrote: If you can provide the details of the linux distribution and release you are using on your remote host, I can see if I can try to reproduce the problem. I can reproduce the behavior with GDM on both Fedora 21 and Ubuntu 14.04. So im not too sure

Re: 64-bit xfree86 failing?

2015-02-02 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 04/12/2014 02:53, l.w...@surrey.ac.uk wrote: working again. my mistake was in years of using startx -- -multiwindow -clipboard because /usr/bin/startx no longer starts x I'm kind of surprised this used to work at all, since this is requesting both the internal multiwindow mode window

Cygwin, Python Anaconda 32-bit, Google Cloud SDK: Issues with Python functionality inside of Cygwi

2015-02-02 Thread mjmv
Hello, I am new to Cygwin, and am not sure what to make of my current issue regarding Python and, ultimately, Google Cloud's SDK and bdutl package, required for me to deploy a Hortonworks platform Hadoop/Apache toolkit NoSQL db et al. When I went to install Cygwin, I did not see an option for