Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-26 Thread Ian Lambert via cygwin
On Wed, 7/26/17, Brian Inglis <> wrote: Subject: Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched To: cygwin Date: Wednesday, July 26, 2017, 1:07 PM > Anyway, Achim can easily fix this. You can fix this locally quickly usi

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-26 Thread Ian Lambert via cygwin
On Wed, 7/26/17, Achim Gratz <> wrote: Subject: Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched To: cygwin Date: Wednesday, July 26, 2017, 1:13 PM Ian Lambert via cygwin writes: > Indeed, Cygwin is installed on a FA

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-26 Thread Achim Gratz
Ian Lambert via cygwin writes: > Indeed, Cygwin is installed on a FAT32 formatted > external drive, which is limited to 1980-01-01 on > the early end. Yes, that's the problem. Oh well, a braindead fs, where have I seen that before… is there any other such system in use that somebody would want to

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-26 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-07-26 08:59, Ken Brown wrote: > On 7/26/2017 10:19 AM, Ian Lambert via cygwin wrote: >> Indeed, Cygwin is installed on a FAT32 formatted >> external drive, which is limited to 1980-01-01 on >> the early end. >> >> So apparently rebase has not been working for me >> "forever," > > More gene

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-26 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/26/2017 10:19 AM, Ian Lambert via cygwin wrote: Indeed, Cygwin is installed on a FAT32 formatted external drive, which is limited to 1980-01-01 on the early end. So apparently rebase has not been working for me "forever," More generally, it seems that the autorebase postinstall script wil

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-26 Thread Ian Lambert via cygwin
On Tue, 7/25/17, Brian Inglis <> wrote: Subject: Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tuesday, July 25, 2017, 8:09 PM Unless you are on some FAT or other legacy filesystem that migh

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-25 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-07-25 15:48, Ian Lambert via cygwin wrote: > > On Tue, 7/25/17, Brian Inglis <> wrote: > > Subject: Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched > To: cygwin > Date: Tuesday, July 25, 2017, 3:57 PM >

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-25 Thread Ian Lambert via cygwin
On Tue, 7/25/17, Brian Inglis <> wrote: Subject: Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched To: cygwin Date: Tuesday, July 25, 2017, 3:57 PM On 2017-07-25 12:16, Achim Gratz wrote: > Brian Inglis writes: >> reb

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-25 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-07-25 12:16, Achim Gratz wrote: > Brian Inglis writes: >> rebaselst uses touch -t 700101 ... - could be patched to 19700101. > > Could be, but touch is specified to assume "19" yhen YY=70 by POSIX, AFAIK. > >> Is this affected by locale and by Windows regional date settings in Con

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-25 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/25/2017 12:05 PM, Ian Lambert wrote: On Tue, 7/25/17, Ken Brown <> wrote: Normally you don't ever need to think about rebasing on x86_64. The perpetual postinstall script /etc/postinstall/0p_000_autorebase.dash should handle everythin

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-25 Thread Achim Gratz
Ian Lambert via cygwin writes: > $ rebaselst --rebuild update --cleardb rebase > removing /var/cache/rebase/rebase_pkg > creating empty /var/cache/rebase/rebase_pkg > touch: setting times of '/var/cache/rebase/rebase_pkg': Invalid argument So why does this fail for you? Evidently no packages to r

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-25 Thread Achim Gratz
Ian Lambert via cygwin writes: > Obviously something is not right; here is output from "rebase -is": > > rebase: failed to open rebase database "/etc/rebase.db.x86_64": > No such file or directory > > "locate rebase.db" gives: > /cygdrive/e/cygwin64-3/etc/rebase.db.x86_64 > so it was apparently t

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-25 Thread Achim Gratz
Brian Inglis writes: > rebaselst uses touch -t 700101 ... - could be patched to 19700101. Could be, but touch is specified to assume "19" yhen YY=70 by POSIX, AFAIK. > Is this affected by locale and by Windows regional date settings in Control > Panel/Region/Formats tab/Additional setting

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-25 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: >> touch: setting times of '/var/cache/rebase/rebase_user_exe': Invalid argument > > I have no idea what would cause such error messages. Achim, have you > ever seen this? No, not really. The message seems to suggest that the file was created, but the time can't be set (it's su

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-25 Thread Ian Lambert via cygwin
On Tue, 7/25/17, Ken Brown <> wrote: Normally you don't ever need to think about rebasing on x86_64.  The perpetual postinstall script /etc/postinstall/0p_000_autorebase.dash should handle everything without any manual intervention.  You might

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-25 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/25/2017 10:38 AM, Ian Lambert via cygwin wrote: > I'm using 64 bit cygwin already. This is a difference from the OP (It was in my earlier post). Sorry, I missed that. Have you looked at the output of 'rebase -is'? Conflicts are marked with '*'. What about BLODA? = =

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-25 Thread Ian Lambert via cygwin
On Tue, 7/25/17, Ken Brown <> wrote: Subject: Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched To: "Ian Lambert" <>, cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tuesday, July 25, 2017, 9:03 AM On 7/25/2017 12:26 AM, Ian Lambert wro

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-25 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/25/2017 12:26 AM, Ian Lambert wrote: On July 24, 2017 10:58:29 PM EDT, Ken Brown <> wrote: On 7/24/2017 6:08 PM, Ian Lambert via cygwin wrote: This time I ran "rebase-trigger full", did full shutdown/restart, then ran setup. And are you sure there were no Cygwin processes running? This

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-24 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-07-24 20:58, Ken Brown wrote: > On 7/24/2017 6:08 PM, Ian Lambert via cygwin wrote: >> This time I ran "rebase-trigger full", did full shutdown/restart, then ran >> setup. > > And are you sure there were no Cygwin processes running? This could happen > even > after shutdown/restart if y

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-24 Thread Ian Lambert via cygwin
On July 24, 2017 10:58:29 PM EDT, Ken Brown <> wrote: >On 7/24/2017 6:08 PM, Ian Lambert via cygwin wrote: >> This time I ran "rebase-trigger full", did full shutdown/restart, >then ran setup. > >And are you sure there were no Cygwin processes running? This could >happen even after shutdown/resta

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-24 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/24/2017 6:08 PM, Ian Lambert via cygwin wrote: This time I ran "rebase-trigger full", did full shutdown/restart, then ran setup. And are you sure there were no Cygwin processes running? This could happen even after shutdown/restart if you have any Cygwin services that start automatical

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-24 Thread mike
On 24/07/2017 18:02, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2017-07-23 13:18, mike wrote: On 23/07/2017 19:14, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2017-07-23 11:39, mike wrote: On 23/07/2017 16:58, Jack wrote: On 2017.07.23 08:32, mike wrote: Hi I updated my Cywin installation on the 21st or 22nd of July 2017. I run 3

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-24 Thread mike
On 24/07/2017 23:08, Ian Lambert via cygwin wrote: On Mon, 7/24/17, Ken Brown <> wrote: Subject: Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched To: "Ian Lambert" <>, cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Monday, July 24, 2017, 3:51 PM On 7/24/2017 12:08 PM, Ian

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-24 Thread Ian Lambert via cygwin
On Mon, 7/24/17, Ken Brown <> wrote: Subject: Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched To: "Ian Lambert" <>, cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Monday, July 24, 2017, 3:51 PM On 7/24/2017 12:08 PM, Ian Lambert wrote: > On Sun, 7/23/17, Ken Brown <>

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-24 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/24/2017 12:08 PM, Ian Lambert wrote: On Sun, 7/23/17, Ken Brown <> wrote: Yes, there was a change about two years ago. I suspect you have a .startxwinrc that uses fbpanel instead of xwin-xdg-menu. See https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-announce/2015-07/msg00013.html Ken,

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-24 Thread Ian Lambert via cygwin
On Mon, 7/24/17, Brian Inglis wrote: Subject: Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Monday, July 24, 2017, 1:02 PM On 2017-07-23 13:18, mike wrote: > On 23/07/2017 19:14, Brian Inglis wrote

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-24 Thread Ian Lambert via cygwin
On Sun, 7/23/17, Ken Brown <> wrote: Subject: Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sunday, July 23, 2017, 5:18 PM On 7/23/2017 8:32 AM, mike wrote: > Hi > > I updated my Cywin

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-24 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-07-23 13:18, mike wrote: > On 23/07/2017 19:14, Brian Inglis wrote: >> On 2017-07-23 11:39, mike wrote: >>> On 23/07/2017 16:58, Jack wrote: On 2017.07.23 08:32, mike wrote: > Hi > > I updated my Cywin installation on the 21st or 22nd of July 2017. I run > 32-bit Cygwi

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-23 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/23/2017 8:32 AM, mike wrote: Hi I updated my Cywin installation on the 21st or 22nd of July 2017. I run 32-bit Cygwin/X on 64-bit Win 7 Pro. If I launch the Cygwin Xwin Server I get the icon at the very top middle of the screen and can then go into the icons menu and right click on the

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-23 Thread mike
On 23/07/2017 19:14, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2017-07-23 11:39, mike wrote: On 23/07/2017 16:58, Jack wrote: On 2017.07.23 08:32, mike wrote: Hi I updated my Cywin installation on the 21st or 22nd of July 2017. I run 32-bit Cygwin/X on 64-bit Win 7 Pro. If I launch the Cygwin Xwin Server I ge

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-23 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-07-23 11:39, mike wrote: > On 23/07/2017 16:58, Jack wrote: >> On 2017.07.23 08:32, mike wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> I updated my Cywin installation on the 21st or 22nd of July 2017. I run >>> 32-bit Cygwin/X on 64-bit Win 7 Pro. If I launch the Cygwin Xwin Server I >>> get the icon at the very

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-23 Thread mike
On 23/07/2017 16:58, Jack wrote: On 2017.07.23 08:32, mike wrote: Hi I updated my Cywin installation on the 21st or 22nd of July 2017. I run 32-bit Cygwin/X on 64-bit Win 7 Pro. If I launch the Cygwin Xwin Server I get the icon at the very top middle of the screen and can then go into the

Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-23 Thread Jack
On 2017.07.23 08:32, mike wrote: Hi I updated my Cywin installation on the 21st or 22nd of July 2017. I run 32-bit Cygwin/X on 64-bit Win 7 Pro. If I launch the Cygwin Xwin Server I get the icon at the very top middle of the screen and can then go into the icons menu and right click on t

how to access and display apps that I've launched

2017-07-23 Thread mike
Hi I updated my Cywin installation on the 21st or 22nd of July 2017. I run 32-bit Cygwin/X on 64-bit Win 7 Pro. If I launch the Cygwin Xwin Server I get the icon at the very top middle of the screen and can then go into the icons menu and right click on the Cygwin icon and get a list of cat