On 2024-09-30 18:00, Jim Reisert AD1C via Cygwin wrote:
For a long time, I have been a Windows Insider. I'm currently on the Beta
Channel:
Edition Windows 11 Pro
Version 23H2
Installed on 3/17/2023
OS build 22635.4225
The last update (or the one before that) changed the way that the Cygwin/X
taskbar icons appear. Before the most recent Windows update, the icon in
the Windows taskbar for a given Cygwin/X window (xterm or emacs) would be
the same as the one shown in the upper-left-hand corner of that window.
I.e. a sigma-like "E" for emacs, or a "T" overlaid on an "X" for Xterm.
After the most recent Windows update:
https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/09/20/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-22635-4225-beta-channel/
the icons on the Windows taskbar now are all the same, regardless of
application -- a big black X with an orange-ish ring around it.
Here is how I start the Xwin server:
D:\Cygwin\bin\run.exe --quote /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c "cd; exec
/usr/bin/startxwin"
I'm 99% sure this is a Windows thing, but I wonder if any Cygwin or
Cygwin/X developers can speculate about what is happening and whether there
is a way to make Cygwin/X more resilient to these kinds of changes in
Windows.
That's the Xwin default app task placeholder icon - look at
...\cygwin...\bin\XWin.exe in File Explorer, or right click icon, right click
Xwin (#), pick Properties, click Change icon.
Could it be MS Windows does not allow unsigned apps to draw taskbar icons?
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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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