On Wed, 13 May 2020 19:22:25 +0200 Maarten Hoes via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> > > > Now that you mentioned that, I seem to be having similar behavior as you: > > Xfce start every time I try it. But now that I tried it some more, LXDE is > > not consistent for me either. Sometimes I get a black screen, sometimes a > > black screen and the right-click-on-background-menu, and sometimes a normal > > working LXDE environment. The first time I try to start LXDE after a reboot > > of my PC seems to work always, and after that I get mostly the black screen > > without pop-up menu. The only thing I seem to be able to reproduce reliably > > with LXDE is the first try after reboot. > > I missed the start of this thread. the menu entries that you can find under the windows start menu work every once in a while, but the majority of the time they do like you say: 1 nothing 2 runs, but black screen 3 runs, and window manager comes up (very seldom) interestingly , running "startx" in mintty is 100% working. I am using the xfce desktop, and this all started on the last cygwin upgrade i did (which also broke graphics characters in terminals , although i'm sure the two are not related). hangs in cygwin are quite common in my experience, i know that a lot of the time it is due to stupid network drives in the PATH variable causing problems. I have very carefully set-up my bashrc file to remove all the corporate network drives from the path. that helped a lot. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
