Hi folks, After the recent upgrades to cygwin 3.1.4, perl, etc. I have found that the Cygwin-X Startup, Start Menu, and Task Bar shortcuts no longer work, although I can start Cygwin-X by running startxwin from a mintty window.
>From the shortcut, the shell is invoked to run startxwin normally, two copies >of xinit fork, and Xwin runs and displays the start tray Xserver icon, but my mintty terminal and the xwin-xdg-menu clients don't start. On exiting the X server, the processes are left running and have to be killed off. There are sockets and lock files, which are left around after termination: $ llgo /tmp/.X11-unix/X0* srw-rw-rw- 1 0 Feb 27 23:11 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0= -rw------- 1 0 Feb 27 23:11 /tmp/.X11-unix/X0.lock The server log /var/log/xwin/XWin.0.log looks normal, and nothing shows in ~/.xsession-errors. My .startxwinrc is a copy of /etc/X11/xinit/startxwinrc with addition of the minnty terminal startup in bg before leaving xwin-xdg-menu running in fg. The shortcut and processes when started normally look like: C:\...\cygwin64\bin\run.exe --quote /bin/sh -l -c "cd; exec /usr/bin/startxwin" /bin/sh /usr/bin/startxwin \_ xinit /home/$USER/.startxwinrc -- /usr/bin/XWin ... [as below] \_ /usr/bin/XWin :0 -multiwindow -auth /home/$USER/.serverauth.$PGID I have checked the man pages and the Cygwin-X docs for hints about things to check and try with little success. Hints and suggestions about possible problems and problem solving approaches would be appreciated. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
