On 11/18/2016 10:31 AM, Jon Turney wrote: > > The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: > > *** xorg-server-*1.19.0-1 > > I still haven't learned how to make it start on Win8.1 or 10:
$ startxwin Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 1.19.0.0 OS: CYGWIN_NT-6.3 Timlaptop 2.6.0(0.304/5/3) 2016-08-31 14:32 x86_64 OS: Windows 8.1 [Windows NT 6.3 build 9600] (Win64) Package: version 1.19.0-1 built 2016-11-17 XWin was started with the following command line: /usr/bin/XWin :0 -multiwindow -auth /home/Tim/.serverauth.3028 (II) xorg.conf is not supported (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information LoadPreferences: /home/Tim/.XWinrc not found LoadPreferences: /etc/X11/system.XWinrc not found LoadPreferences: See "man XWinrc" to customize the XWin menu. LoadPreferences: Loading built-in default winDetectSupportedEngines - RemoteSession: no winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed, allowing ShadowDDNL winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 00000005 winSetEngine - Multi Window or Rootless => ShadowGDI winScreenInit - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1920 height: 1080 depth: 32 winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32 MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shared memory support in the kernel glWinSelectGLimplementation: Loaded 'cygnativeGLthunk.dll' (II) AIGLX: Testing pixelFormatIndex 1 GL_VERSION: 4.3.0 - Build 10.18.14.4264 GL_VENDOR: Intel GL_RENDERER: Intel(R) HD Graphics 4400 (II) GLX: enabled GLX_SGI_make_current_read (II) GLX: enabled GLX_SGI_swap_control (II) GLX: enabled GLX_MESA_swap_control (II) GLX: enabled GLX_SGIX_pbuffer (II) GLX: enabled GLX_ARB_multisample (II) GLX: enabled GLX_SGIS_multisample (II) GLX: enabled GLX_ARB_fbconfig_float (II) GLX: enabled GLX_EXT_fbconfig_packed_float (II) GLX: enabled GLX_ARB_create_context (II) GLX: enabled GLX_ARB_create_context_profile (II) GLX: enabled GLX_ARB_create_context_robustness (II) GLX: enabled GLX_EXT_create_context_es2_profile (II) GLX: enabled GLX_ARB_framebuffer_sRGB (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer (II) 80 pixel formats reported by wglGetPixelFormatAttribivARB (II) 44 fbConfigs (II) ignored pixel formats: 0 not OpenGL, 0 unknown pixel type, 36 unaccelerated (II) GLX: Initialized Win32 native WGL GL provider for screen 0 winPointerWarpCursor - Discarding first warp: 960 540 (--) 3 mouse buttons found (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31 (--) Windows keyboard layout: "00000409" (00000409) "US", type 4 (--) Found matching XKB configuration "English (USA)" (--) Model = "pc105" Layout = "us" Variant = "none" Options = "none" Rules = "base" Model = "pc105" Layout = "us" Variant = "none" Options = "none" winInitMultiWindowWM - DISPLAY=:0.0 winMultiWindowXMsgProc - DISPLAY=:0.0 winInitMultiWindowWM - xcb_connect () returned and successfully opened the display. winProcEstablishConnection - winInitClipboard returned. winClipboardThreadProc - DISPLAY=:0.0 winMultiWindowXMsgProc - xcb_connect() returned and successfully opened the display. Using Composite redirection OS maintains clipboard viewer chain: yes winClipboardProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the display. ______________________ But I don't see it opening an X display, and the taskbar icon disappears after a few seconds. May be missing the important user advice. --0r 1 Tim Prince -- 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