Re: X no longer spawning windows after update

so the X graphic that started appearing floating in the top left corner of a screen, but no longer does, had some sort of menu associated with it? Who knew? Yes, new notification bar icon (occasionally two?) has xterm option in pop up menu in pop up window of all notification icons, of which

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated catdoc 0.94.2-5

Version 0.94.2-5 of package catdoc wordview are available in the Cygwin distribution: CYGWIN CHANGES -First 64 bit release. -Splitted wordview in a separate package due to the tck-tk (and X) dependency. - Added tiny catdocx script to handle latest word docx format DESCRIPTION catdoc is a

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Update: mintty 2.1.2

Hi Thomas, Maybe setsid() should not be called if fork() fails... Could you try this please: if (daemonize !isatty(0)) { int pid = fork(); if (pid 0) exit(0);// exit parent process if (pid == 0) setsid(); // detach child process if (pid 0) {

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Update: mintty 2.1.2

I found the bug (more or less): it is me (AND you). More will follow soon. Hi Thomas, As I reported earlier, I found the culprit ... No, I did not build my own Cygwin.dll, as advised by Corinna, because to her Cygwin is NOT rocket science (after all these years), however to me, it is still

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Update: xdelta 1.1.4-2 xdelta3 3.0.9-2

Version 3.0.9-2 of package xdelta3 and version 1.1.4-2 of libxdelta2 xdelta xdelta-devel are available in the Cygwin distribution: CHANGES Updated to latest upstream versions for v.1 and v3. Both xdelta and xdelta3 are now available, with different behaviour. CYGWIN CHANGES As

Update: xdelta 1.1.4-2 xdelta3 3.0.9-2

Version 3.0.9-2 of package xdelta3 and version 1.1.4-2 of libxdelta2 xdelta xdelta-devel are available in the Cygwin distribution: CHANGES Updated to latest upstream versions for v.1 and v3. Both xdelta and xdelta3 are now available, with different behaviour. CYGWIN CHANGES As

Re: X no longer spawning windows after update

On 7/25/2015 4:00 AM, xxx wrote: Think it would be good if the Cygwin installer threw vital changes to behaviour in packages (like the one referenced below) in face to click through before doing installs. If it's a deliberate change, document it in the installer loading in package-specific

Re: Ok, just a request for explanation/clarification then ...

Hi Corinna, I hesitate to ask ... yes, I am aware you have enough on your plate. If you cannot explain the phenomenon from the top of your head, let it rest, please. Please, ignore request ... For the record: although still present when using v203 of mintty, it appears to have gone when