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?
Thank you.
Mike
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