Laurens Blankers 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?
Because the default options in the distribution provided
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
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
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.
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
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:
On 2015-01-04 00:02, Larry Hall (Cygwin-X) wrote:
The fact that the recent
changes interfere with previous usage is an issue that needs attention
for
sure but reverting, while the maintainer's call, just trades misbehaviour
in the eyes of one group for that of the other.
That may be true, but
On 01/04/2015 06:41 AM, Laurens Blankers wrote:
On 2015-01-04 00:02, Larry Hall (Cygwin-X) wrote:
The fact that the recent
changes interfere with previous usage is an issue that needs attention for
sure but reverting, while the maintainer's call, just trades misbehaviour
in the eyes of one
On 3-1-2015 04:48, Larry Hall (Cygwin-X) wrote:
But the functionality in the latest release of the xinit corrects some
long-standing Cygwin incompatibilities with startx, so there's
no benefit to turning back as a strategy.
This is exactly why I have such hard time convincing people that using
On January 3, 2015 12:03:58 AM PST, Laurens Blankers
laur...@blankersfamily.com wrote:
I am not arguing that the solution should be discarded, I am arguing
that the way the transition was handled, or not handled actually, it
not
worthy of being called engineering, development, or even
On 01/03/2015 03:03 AM, Laurens Blankers wrote:
On 3-1-2015 04:48, Larry Hall (Cygwin-X) wrote:
But the functionality in the latest release of the xinit corrects some
long-standing Cygwin incompatibilities with startx, so there's
no benefit to turning back as a strategy.
This is exactly why I
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,
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