Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xinit-1.3.4-1 (Major overhaul of X session handling)
On 11/29/2014 3:05 AM, Nem W Schlecht wrote: In reference to: * User-defined ~/.startxwinrc files must now be executable, the final command therein must be run in the foreground, and that command's exiting will end the X session, just like with startx and ~/.xinitrc or ~/.Xclients. In most UNIX systems, this last command would be the window manager. I'm not liking fbpanel (although I will give it a try) and I don't like using an XTerm as my "last" command, since I often close/reopen them all when making changes to my .bashrc/.bash_profile. Are there any suggestions from the list for some *other* program that won't use any resources that I can use as my final foreground command? I don't want it to do anything, just not let X11 exit. xclock and xeye should be light enough Regards Marco -- 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/
Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xinit-1.3.4-1 (Major overhaul of X session handling)
In reference to: * User-defined ~/.startxwinrc files must now be executable, the final command therein must be run in the foreground, and that command's exiting will end the X session, just like with startx and ~/.xinitrc or ~/.Xclients. In most UNIX systems, this last command would be the window manager. I'm not liking fbpanel (although I will give it a try) and I don't like using an XTerm as my "last" command, since I often close/reopen them all when making changes to my .bashrc/.bash_profile. Are there any suggestions from the list for some *other* program that won't use any resources that I can use as my final foreground command? I don't want it to do anything, just not let X11 exit. On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 9:03 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > The following package has been updated in the Cygwin distribution: > > * xinit-1.3.4-1 > > xinit contains commands used for starting X sessions. > > This is an update to the latest upstream release, and includes a number of > major changes to X session handling: > > * startxwin is now a shell script instead of an executable; if you have any > homemade links thereto, be sure to remember the .exe extension. > > * startxwin now automatically finds an unused DISPLAY number, just like > startx. > > * startxwin now includes a default startxwinrc (if ~/.startxwinrc is absent) > which launches a number of applicable "autostart" session services if > present. > > * The new default startxwinrc also launches a miniature fbpanel in the upper > left corner of the screen which contains an XDG application menu (the 'X' > icon) for launching X applications, plus an on-demand area for X tray icons. > After the first run, the panel and menu can be customized in > ~/.config/fbpanel/multiwindow. > > * User-defined ~/.startxwinrc files must now be executable, the final > command therein must be run in the foreground, and that command's exiting > will end the X session, just like with startx and ~/.xinitrc or ~/.Xclients. > > * Both startx and startxwin now start a D-Bus session bus automatically. > > * X sessions (both multwindow and desktop) started with the newly revised > Start Menu shortcuts now log stderr to ~/.xsession-errors. > > * startx now prefers ~/.Xclients (which must also be executable) instead of > ~/.xinitrc; the latter can still be used, but doing so will override many of > the new features mentioned here. > > * If startx is run from the command line and neither ~/.xinitrc nor > ~/.Xclients are present, it will try to start a real desktop environment if > present before falling back to twm/xterm. > > * startx and startxwin now pass '-nolisten tcp' to the server by default, > which increases security in the X server by not opening a port to TCP > connections. The '-listen' flag can be passed as a server argument to > override this. > > -- > Yaakov > Cygwin/X > > -- > 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/ > -- Nem W Schlecht n...@emptec.com Empyreal Technologieshttp://www.emptec.com/ "Perl did the magic. I just waved the wand." -- 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/
Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xinit-1.3.4-1 (Major overhaul of X session handling)
On 11/27/2014 10:03 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: * The new default startxwinrc also launches a miniature fbpanel in the upper left corner of the screen which contains an XDG application menu (the 'X' icon) for launching X applications, plus an on-demand area for X tray icons. After the first run, the panel and menu can be customized in ~/.config/fbpanel/multiwindow. This is not working well for me. I've tested on both 32-bit and 64-bit Cygwin with no .startxwinrc and no .[xX]* files, and I've tested on two different computers (both running Windows 7). I started the X server via the new start menu shortcut. What happens is that a band appears across the bottom of the screen (full width), hiding about 2/3 of the taskbar. This makes it impossible to access the icons on the right side of the taskbar. Also, there's no X icon in the upper left corner of the screen. But there is a large X icon in the taskbar, partially visible above the band, and when I mouse over it, I see a little window that says "X panel". Closing this window makes the band go away. So I guess this band is the miniature fbpanel referred to above, but it's appearing in the wrong place. I don't see anything suspicious in XWin.0.log, but .xsession-errors says, "fbpanel: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.". But this only appears after I've exited the server, so maybe it's normal. Finally, ~/.config/fbpanel/multiwindow exists but is empty. Ken -- 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/
Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xinit-1.3.4-1 (Major overhaul of X session handling)
On 28/11/2014 08:45, Marco Atzeri wrote: On 11/28/2014 4:03 AM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: The following package has been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * xinit-1.3.4-1 xinit contains commands used for starting X sessions. noticed this new warning xinit: XFree86_VT property unexpectedly has 0 items instead of 1 For what I see there is no XFree86_VT setting anywhere xinit has been emitting this warning for a long time, it's just now you see it with startxwin. It's entirely safe to ignore, but I guess we should do something to quench that warning to prevent confusion and alarm... -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- 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/
Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xinit-1.3.4-1 (Major overhaul of X session handling)
On 11/28/2014 4:03 AM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: The following package has been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * xinit-1.3.4-1 xinit contains commands used for starting X sessions. noticed this new warning xinit: XFree86_VT property unexpectedly has 0 items instead of 1 For what I see there is no XFree86_VT setting anywhere Ideas ? Marco -- 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/
