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

["Ian Lambert via cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

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On Mon, 7/24/17, Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca> 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:
 >> 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
 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 categories of
 >>>>> applications to run and
 apparently launch because if I try to launch some and
 >>>>> wait long enough and right
 click on the aforementioned icon and select quit
 >>>>> it says there are N apps
 running and do I want to close them.  The problem is
 >>>>> that anything I launch
 through the icons menu doesn't display anywhere and
 in
 >>>>> particular
 doesn't appear in the task bar.  I have read the FAQ
 and UG but
 >>>>> can't
 find what I'm looking for.  It definitely seems to me
 that the
 >>>>> behaviour has
 changed since before I updated.
 >>>>>
 >>>>> Can somebody please tell
 me what I am doing wrong?  I would be very grateful
 >>>>> for any help.  Thanks in
 advance.
 >>>>>
 >>>>> Mike
 >>>> Are you sure those apps you
 are trying to launch are actually installed?  You
 >>>> could always bring up a Cygwin
 terminal (not through the X icon) and
 >>>> explicitly "export
 DISPLAY=0:0" and then try to launch one of the apps
 from
 >>>> the command line to
 see any errors.
 >>>>
 >>>> Jack
 >>> All I did was download
 setup-x86.exe on the 21st, run it and when presented with
 >>> the drop down View list used
 Pending (by default) and then clicked Next etc.  If
 >>> I switch to Up To Date when
 presented with the drop down View list it does
 >>> indeed show that everything
 I've tried to run is installed.  I must have
 >>> hundreds of packages installed. 
 I did that last year intentionally.  I selected
 >>> packages to install by Category
 and then installed the entire Categories. That's
 >>> what I'm saying all this stuff
 used to just work and now it just doesn't so I'm
 >>> either completely missing the
 obvious or else it really seems like something is
 >>> wrong with my installation or the
 behaviour has changed.  If I'm just missing
 >>> the obvious then please just tell
 me where I'm going wrong.
 >>>
 >>> I do
 not want to uninstall everything and then re-install because
 I have no
 >>> confidence that that
 will solve the problem.  To repeat the Cygwin/X icon is
 >>> there and the menu is there.  The
 packages that I am most immediately interested
 >>> in are the Cygwin Emacs packages
 which are clearly in the Up To Date list.  If
 >>> the packages aren't installed
 then why would they show up in the menu?  If I
 >>> look in C:\cygwin\bin I can see
 among others emacsclient-nox.exe,
 >>> emacsclient-X11.exe, emacs-nox.exe
 and emacs-X11.exe so they're installed right?
 >> May have run out of DLL address
 space.
 >> Run "rebase-trigger
 full", shut down everything Cygwin, download and run
 >> setup-x86, then check
 /var/log/setup.log.full for rebase problems.
 >>
 > I wasn't
 running anything Cygwin when I ran setup-x86.exe on the
 21st.  I've
 > attached
 /var/log/setup.log.full.  There is no occurrence of the
 word rebase
 The log indicates it only
 downloaded the mirror list and setup.ini and updated
 nothing. That's why you should run
 "rebase-trigger full" then run setup-x86.
 
 -- 
 Take care.
 Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

> you should run "rebase-trigger full" then run setup-x86.

Didn't seem to help for me.

(Resend:)

I have a relatively new install, since pi day 2017, and no .startxwinrc.

I had something similar Thursday 7/20/17 afternoon, after running updates
for Windows security, and Cygwin.

$ startxwin & would get the icon with menu, but selecting xterm would not
display an xterm. This is often all I use with Cygwin menu.

A couple restarts and runs of setup without any updates didn't help.

After a complete shutdown over a 3-day weekend, and another cygwin setup/update today,
startxwin & xterm from menu click worked OK.
So I was relieved, but also, I suppose, glad to not be the only one, maybe.

Some other things do not work right.

Windows 7 Enterprise, SP1; 64 bit Cygwin.
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.1 MYPCNAME 2.8.2(0.313/5/3) 2017-07-12 10:58 x86_64 Cygwin

Aside from the usual:

xterm: cannot load font "-Misc-Fixed-bold-R-*-*-13-120-75-75-C-120-ISO10646-1"
xterm: cannot load font "-Misc-Fixed-bold-R-*-*-13-120-75-75-C-120-ISO10646-1"
xterm: cannot load font "-Misc-Fixed-bold-R-*-*-13-120-75-75-C-120-ISO10646-1"

I am now seeing things in the mintty console like:

SetupSysMenu: GetSystemMenu() failed for HWND 0x6055c
OS has icon alpha channel support: yes
SetupSysMenu: GetSystemMenu() failed for HWND 0x11071a
SetupSysMenu: GetSystemMenu() failed for HWND 0x1b0740
SetupSysMenu: GetSystemMenu() failed for HWND 0xc0746
SetupSysMenu: GetSystemMenu() failed for HWND 0xc0560
SetupSysMenu: GetSystemMenu() failed for HWND 0x200746



Calculator, galculator, gvim, nedit work OK from the menu click

However,

files (nautilus), gedit, leafpad do not start from menu click

leafpad from command line starts OK, and exits without errors to console.

gedit eventually starts from command line, but is not happy,
giving errors:


** (gedit:6788): WARNING **: Error retrieving accessibility bus address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process org.a11y.Bus exited with status 1

(gedit:6788): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_dbus_proxy_new_sync: assertion 'G_IS_DBUS_CONNECTION (connection)' failed

(gedit:6788): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_dbus_proxy_get_name_owner: assertion 'G_IS_DBUS_PROXY (proxy)' failed


(gedit:6788): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed

(gedit:6788): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed
      0 [main] gedit 8876 child_info_fork::abort: E:\cygwin64-3\bin\cygpangocairo-1.0-0.dll: Loaded to different address: parent(0x2F0000) != child(0x300000)


Failed to connect to socket /tmp/fam-myuser/fam-

when closing:

(gedit:6788): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed


Simlar messages for nautilus:


** (nautilus:8640): WARNING **: Error retrieving accessibility bus address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process org.a11y.Bus exited with status 1

(nautilus:8640): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_dbus_proxy_new_sync: assertion 'G_IS_DBUS_CONNECTION (connection)' failed

(nautilus:8640): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_dbus_proxy_get_name_owner: assertion 'G_IS_DBUS_PROXY (proxy)' failed
      0 [main] nautilus 8520 child_info_fork::abort: E:\cygwin64-3\bin\cygatk-bridge-2.0-0.dll: Loaded to different address: parent(0x340000) != child(0x310000)


Failed to connect to socket /tmp/fam-myuser/fam-

(nautilus:8640): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed

(nautilus:8640): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed

** (nautilus:8640): WARNING **: Unable to get contents of the bookmarks file: Error opening file /home/myuser/.gtk-bookmarks: No such file or directory

(nautilus:8640): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_set: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(nautilus:8640): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed
      0 [main] nautilus 7764 child_info_fork::abort: E:\cygwin64-3\bin\cygpangocairo-1.0-0.dll: Loaded to different address: parent(0x2F0000) != child(0x500000)

(nautilus:8640): GnomeDesktop-WARNING **: Error creating thumbnail for file:///home/myuser/dppl2f.dat: Unrecognized image file format


(nautilus:8640): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed

(nautilus:8640): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed

(nautilus:8640): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_set: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(nautilus:8640): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_dbus_connection_call_internal: assertion 'G_IS_DBUS_CONNECTION (connection)' failed


 
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