Re: 1.7 no start menu entry to launch X Server?

2009-07-06 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 05/07/2009 23:56, William Deegan wrote: Greetings, Some time in the last few months the "X Win Server" start menu item was removed. I just did a fresh install on a new machine and it's not longer there. It was really useful. Any chance of getting it reinstated? I think this is a packaging

Re: Cygwin 1.7 hangs with my .xinitrc

2009-07-06 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 04/07/2009 17:48, David A Bagley wrote: Hi I like to start X with a whole bunch of windows instead of creating each time. In Cygwin 1.5 I did this with no problem. In 1.7 this hangs. It hangs in a way where I can't open anything else and have to pull the power to computer. If I comment o

Re: XWin freezes on xkbcomp

2009-07-06 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 02/07/2009 19:08, Zdrojewski, Tye wrote: After recently reinstalling cygwin, XWin freezes when I try to run it. There are two XWin processes running when it is frozen. When the XWin process with the smaller memory footprint was killed, the following went into the log, and it appeared to unfre

RE: XWin freezes on xkbcomp

2009-07-06 Thread Zdrojewski, Tye
I only say that this is a "big" problem because it cripples my ability to run cygwin/X. I guess I'm surprised no one else has reported this, because I haven't done anything unusual (that I know of). Yes, my *working* installation is a bit older. I use the dvorak layout (not trying to be secretiv

Re: fastpath 0 -> xterm?

2009-07-06 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 29/06/2009 19:29, Tom Roche wrote: Since I'm not seeing this in the FAQ, I wanted to propose the following item: what would be required to go "from zero to xterm"? I.e. from a Cygwin-less windows box (windows>= 2k) to getting a Cygwin/X xterm up on one's screen? From my recent experience, it

Re: Current directory '.' included in startxwin.bat PATH bad practice

2009-07-06 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 26/06/2009 17:53, Rob Gillen wrote: PROPOSAL: please remove the current directory from the PATH setting in startxwin.bat. Yes, that's not right. Thanks for pointing it out. I've queued up a patch to fix that. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem repor

RE: Cygwin 1.7 hangs with my .xinitrc

2009-07-06 Thread Mike Ayers
> From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com > [mailto:cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Jon TURNEY > Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 8:16 AM > I can reproduce the problem using it. I seem to end up with > a few of the > xterms spinning somewhere and trying to use 100% CPU, and > outputting th