Re: X refuses to start

2015-02-24 Thread Fj
It should be -listen tcp, you can see it picking up -auth as the argument for that option. On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 10:59 PM, Will Parsons varro@nodomain.invalid wrote: I'm accustomed to start X via a shortcut which runs the command: C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe --quote /usr/bin/bash.exe -l \ -c cd;

Re: Dfficulty with xorg-server-1.17.1-2.

2015-02-24 Thread Jon TURNEY
. This seems to be a problem with xlaunch, which needs a small update to work correctly with xserver 1.17. I've just uploaded xlaunch-20150224-1, which should fix this. I think this is actually also the cause of your 'crashes' as well. After about 12 minutes, xlaunch is deciding that the X server

Re: Dfficulty with xorg-server-1.17.1-2.

2015-02-24 Thread Jon TURNEY
it. So don't bother, unless you have crash problems after upgrading to xlaunch-20150224-1, or when not using xlaunch. -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: X refuses to start

2015-02-24 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 24/02/2015 20:59, Will Parsons wrote: I'm accustomed to start X via a shortcut which runs the command: C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe --quote /usr/bin/bash.exe -l \ -c cd; /usr/bin/startxwin -- -listen [...] I can't make sense out of what this is telling me about why X failed to start. Since

Re: Dfficulty with xorg-server-1.17.1-2.

2015-02-24 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 24/02/2015 19:05, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 11:03 AM, GEORGE BARRICK wrote: The other notable problem to report is that my X-server now crashes after about 5-10 minutes of use. Since this issue does not get reported in xwin.0.log or xwin.0.log.old, I do not yet

X refuses to start

2015-02-24 Thread Will Parsons
I'm accustomed to start X via a shortcut which runs the command: C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe --quote /usr/bin/bash.exe -l \ -c cd; /usr/bin/startxwin -- -listen This was working, but now doesn't, with the following shown in the log file: Welcome to the XWin X

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xlaunch-20150224-1

2015-02-24 Thread Jon TURNEY
*** xlaunch-20150224-1 * Fix for X server 1.17 * Close help window when xlaunch is closed * Use cygpath on path provided to xlaunch for Open/Edit actions x86: 7afc52b7c36fd076896929d9d45b1632 *xlaunch-20150224-1-src.tar.xz 6fd65620e45b41ddbf1c9359723ecbbb *xlaunch-20150224-1.tar.xz

Disable xterm auto-wrap: Mess up vi-like command line

2015-02-24 Thread Paul
If I disable auto-wrap, the vi editing at the comand line misbehaves when the line being edited is long, especially when yanking a lot of text and pasting it. I suppose that this might be technically correct behaviour, since an extra long command line needs to wrap in order to see it properly.

Re: Help porting the XLaunch feature to autoselect the display number

2015-02-24 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 24/02/2015 03:57, Michael DePaulo wrote: I am trying to port this feature of VcXsrv (and XMing also I think) to Cygwin XLaunch: https://sourceforge.net/p/vcxsrv/code/ci/460182676a960385dff96c1563f781213060f6fc/ Attached is my WIP patch. (I know it needs the comments updated for main.cc).

Re: Can't open display with PuTTY and xinit 1.3.4-1

2015-02-24 Thread Fj
On 2015-01-05 05:31, Laurens Blankers wrote: When using PuTTY with X11 forwarding enabled X clients are no longer able to connect to the X server running locally. When reverting back to 1.3.2-1 the problem goes away. This may be related to the -nolisten tcp which is now the default[1]. If this

Dfficulty with xorg-server-1.17.1-2.

2015-02-24 Thread GEORGE BARRICK
2015.02.24.09:26:38 EST Hey cygwin folks, I've been using xlaunch with a windows desktop shortcut for about a year to start a multi-window instance of xwin on my Win7 computers. This is cygwin32 on an installation of Win7_x86-64. The command within the

Re: Dfficulty with xorg-server-1.17.1-2.

2015-02-24 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 11:03 AM, GEORGE BARRICK wrote: The other notable problem to report is that my X-server now crashes after about 5-10 minutes of use. Since this issue does not get reported in xwin.0.log or xwin.0.log.old, I do not yet know how to provide more information. I have

Re: Can't open display with PuTTY and xinit 1.3.4-1

2015-02-24 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 24/02/2015 16:55, Fj wrote: On 2015-01-05 05:31, Laurens Blankers wrote: When using PuTTY with X11 forwarding enabled X clients are no longer able to connect to the X server running locally. When reverting back to 1.3.2-1 the problem goes away. This may be related to the -nolisten tcp

Display issue

2015-02-24 Thread Maarten Hoes
Hi, Im experiencing an issue where the graphics arent displayed correctly. When I start LibreOffice on my Fedora 21 Linux system from a cygwin/x system, the left hand side (open file, template, writer document, etc.) isnt displayed properly initially. After clicking around some, the display

Re: Dfficulty with xorg-server-1.17.1-2.

2015-02-24 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: With regard to the crash problems, can you please try the instructions at [1] to generate a backtrace. [1] http://x.cygwin.com/devel/backtrace.html This isn't a backtrace, but it's what caused the X server to crash (while I was at work): [

Re: X refuses to start

2015-02-24 Thread Will Parsons
Jon TURNEY wrote: On 24/02/2015 20:59, Will Parsons wrote: I'm accustomed to start X via a shortcut which runs the command: C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe --quote /usr/bin/bash.exe -l \ -c cd; /usr/bin/startxwin -- -listen [...] I can't make sense out of what this is telling me about why X failed

Re: Dfficulty with xorg-server-1.17.1-2.

2015-02-24 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
With regard to the crash problems, can you please try the instructions at [1] to generate a backtrace. [1] http://x.cygwin.com/devel/backtrace.html gdb won't let me continue: # gdb --pid=`pidof /usr/bin/XWin` ... Reading symbols from /usr/bin/XWin.exe...Reading symbols from

Re: Dfficulty with xorg-server-1.17.1-2.

2015-02-24 Thread GEORGE BARRICK
2015.02.24.18:06:36 EST Hey Jon, Thanks for your attention to all that detail. I will test the updated xlaunch-20150224-1 when it hits some of the mirrors tomorrow morning. Georgegee_barrick_at_kent_dot_edu