rolling back to 1.3.2-1 fixed it. thank you very much for this, i was really pulling my hair out on this. i read your request to the maintainers and fully agree. while i only brought up this one bug, since it was basically making cygwin/x useless, there were other issues that made it annoying.
thanks again. bill On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 3:21 PM, Laurens Blankers <laur...@blankersfamily.com> wrote: > On 2-1-2015 21:10, schilpfamily wrote: >> this has worked for years, now when i run this command, a window very >> briefly blinks into existence but then goes away. any idea why this >> would stop working now? > This is most likely due to a major rewrite of the xinit package which > contains all start-up scripts. > > If you downgrade the xinit package from 1.3.4-1 to 1.3.2-1 does your > setup work again? Here is how you downgrade: > > 1. Start the Cygwin installer > 2. Select the appropriate mirror and directories > 3. In the package selection screen search for 'xinit' > 4. Select the one from the 'X11' category and click on the version until > it cycles to 1.3.2-1 in stead of 1.3.4-1. > 5. Click Next and install > > If this does solve your problem you may want to read my request to the > maintainers: > > https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2014-12/msg00060.html > > Laurens > > -- > 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/