Re: new start method questions
On 10/06/2016 02:55, mathog wrote: On 09-Jun-2016 16:32, mathog wrote: With an older version of Cygwin I had constructed a cut down distribution which included only the minimum pieces needed to run X11. It was about 40Mb, installed. This approach is not working well at all for the current release. Last time around I just tossed things into a folder to temporarily hide them, and by process of elimination winnowed it down to that small size. This time there are many, many, MANY more dll's that are required for the server to start, at least via this method: C:\cygwinX\bin\run.exe --quote /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c "cd; exec /usr/bin/startxwin" For instance, cyggtk-x11-2.0.0.dll. Take it out and the X11 server does not start. That dll, according to "ldd" has everything but the kitchen sink linked into it. It isn't linked directly into the server though, it is needed for "xwin-xdg-menu.exe", an accessory program, which if removed from /usr/bin, also results in the server not starting. look on /etc/X11/xinit/startxwinrc It is calling xwin-xdg-menu 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: new start method questions
On 09-Jun-2016 16:32, mathog wrote: With an older version of Cygwin I had constructed a cut down distribution which included only the minimum pieces needed to run X11. It was about 40Mb, installed. This approach is not working well at all for the current release. Last time around I just tossed things into a folder to temporarily hide them, and by process of elimination winnowed it down to that small size. This time there are many, many, MANY more dll's that are required for the server to start, at least via this method: C:\cygwinX\bin\run.exe --quote /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c "cd; exec /usr/bin/startxwin" For instance, cyggtk-x11-2.0.0.dll. Take it out and the X11 server does not start. That dll, according to "ldd" has everything but the kitchen sink linked into it. It isn't linked directly into the server though, it is needed for "xwin-xdg-menu.exe", an accessory program, which if removed from /usr/bin, also results in the server not starting. Last time around the start bat script was just: @echo off set CYGXTOP=%~dp0 C: chdir "%CYGXTOP%\var\log\xwin" move XWin.0.log.1 XWin.0.log.2 move XWin.0.log XWin.0.log.1 chdir "%CYGXTOP%\bin" start Xwin :0 -multiwindow Is there some reason that a similar cut down bat file would not work with the current cygwin X11 server? (With "-listen tcp" plus a windows firewall rule to only let it talk to localhost.) Thanks, David Mathog mat...@caltech.edu Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech -- 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/
new start method questions
Hi, With an older version of Cygwin I had constructed a cut down distribution which included only the minimum pieces needed to run X11. It was about 40Mb, installed. Since the X11 server update the start method changed. The .bat file which starts things now has this as its active line: C:\cygwinX\bin\run.exe --quote /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c "cd; exec /usr/bin/startxwin" Unfortunately this method creates a "/home/username" directory. The startxwin part isn't the culprit, just starting bash does it. This is sufficient: C:\cygwinX\bin\run.exe --quote /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c "cd; ls" Is there a way to run startxwin without allowing bash to make a new home directory? Leaving off the "-l" does not create the home directory - it also does not start the X11 server. This distribution is intended to work with putty's ssh, not the ssh in cygwin. To get putty to work these changes were made to startxwin: defaultserverargs="" to defaultserverargs=" -listen tcp" and eval xinit \"$client\" $clientargs -- \"$server\" $display $serverargs to #rotate the log files, keep 2 older ones cp -f /var/log/xwin/XWin.0.log.1 /var/log/xwin/XWin.0.log.2 cp -f /var/log/xwin/XWin.0.log /var/log/xwin/XWin.0.log.1 (sleep 5; export DISPLAY=$defaultdisplay; xhost +localhost)& eval xinit \"$client\" $clientargs -- \"$server\" $display $serverargs I really don't like the cludgy way xhost is started. However, it does work, or at least it works the "most of the time" when the X11 server starts within 5 seconds. Ideally it would be more like this: (xinit \"$client\" $clientargs -- \"$server\" $display $serverargs)& export DISPLAY=$defaultdisplay; xhost +localhost wait This doesn't work though. The first line throws an error with that syntax, the part within the parens doesn't just use eval, it apparently requires it. Anybody know the correct syntax for this variant? xhost might fail because it starts before the X11 server is working, but I can deal with that once the background start is going. Thanks, David Mathog mat...@caltech.edu Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech -- 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/
