i have been running cygwin/x for a long time. i was on 1.14.4 and
decided to upgrade to 1.16.3. the problem is that i am unable to start
an xterm from a dos prompt. i have been using the following command
line for years now:
D:\cygwin\bin\run.exe -p /bin bash ~/scripts/xtermLaptop
the contents
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
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.
On 01/02/2015 03:35 PM, schilpfamily wrote:
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,
