Re: run.exe will not work with upgrade from 1.14.4 to 1.16.3

2015-01-05 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On 2015-01-05 03:06, Laurens Blankers wrote: On 5-1-2015 05:04, Larry Hall (Cygwin-X) wrote: As far as I can tell, from the available information, users which meet any of the following criteria will run into trouble: - Custom .startxwinrc or .xinitrc Just .startxwinrc, and the changes were

Re: run.exe will not work with upgrade from 1.14.4 to 1.16.3

2015-01-05 Thread Laurens Blankers
On 5-1-2015 10:48, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: Just .startxwinrc, and the changes were explained in the announcement. The information is contained within the announcement, but it is a bit difficult to figure out what to do from just the list of changes. A more detailed step-by-step guide, preferably

Re: run.exe will not work with upgrade from 1.14.4 to 1.16.3

2015-01-05 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On 2015-01-05 04:03, Laurens Blankers wrote: On 5-1-2015 10:48, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: Just .startxwinrc, and the changes were explained in the announcement. The information is contained within the announcement, but it is a bit difficult to figure out what to do from just the list of changes.

Re: run.exe will not work with upgrade from 1.14.4 to 1.16.3

2015-01-05 Thread Laurens Blankers
On 5-1-2015 05:04, Larry Hall (Cygwin-X) wrote: So I'm guessing with your statement above that English isn't your primary language. [..] 1. I am not the maintainer of the xinit package. [..] English is indeed not my first language, but that is no excuse for not carefully reading your replies

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

2015-01-05 Thread Laurens Blankers
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 is indeed the case it would be create of adding

Suggestion for improving xinit 1.3.4

2015-01-05 Thread Laurens Blankers
Hi, As requested [1] a separate thread for suggesting improvements to xinit, in order to solve some of the issues people have been having since the release of 1.3.4-1 [2]. 1. Handling of empty .startxwinrc Given the new behaviour of startxwin having an empty is never a correct configuration. It

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

2015-01-05 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
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

Re: run.exe will not work with upgrade from 1.14.4 to 1.16.3

2015-01-05 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin-X)
On 01/05/2015 04:06 AM, Laurens Blankers wrote: snip Since I believe the rest of what you wrote above has been covered in one form or another since my last reply, I won't bore anyone with my responses. This leaves just one very critical piece of business which absolutely must be addressed: A:

Re: Suggestion for improving xinit 1.3.4

2015-01-05 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On 2015-01-05 05:46, Laurens Blankers wrote: As requested [1] a separate thread for suggesting improvements to xinit, in order to solve some of the issues people have been having since the release of 1.3.4-1 [2]. 1. Handling of empty .startxwinrc Given the new behaviour of startxwin having an

Re: Suggestion for improving xinit 1.3.4

2015-01-05 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On 2015-01-05 11:43, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: On 2015-01-05 05:46, Laurens Blankers wrote: As requested [1] a separate thread for suggesting improvements to xinit, in order to solve some of the issues people have been having since the release of 1.3.4-1 [2]. 1. Handling of empty .startxwinrc