It seems the " -engine 1" parameter was all that was needed. Cygwin/X now shows up on my new Windows 11 laptop, as it did on my older one, with the saved session bringing up three xterm windows and all. Giving me a richer experience and enabling me to work more efficiently than when I had to start mintty sessions from the Window task bar. Thanks, anyway, for your help, Jon.
Regards, Erik fre. 21. feb. 2025 kl. 15:17 skrev Jon Turney <jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk>: > On 19/02/2025 19:05, Erik Dybdahl via Cygwin wrote: > > Actually, I found a way to make it work somehow, namely by passing > "-engine > > 1" to XWin.exe, following a (21 year old) tip from here: > > > https://cygwin-xfree.cygwin.narkive.com/maSzrlKY/crash-when-remote-desktop-changes-screen-resolutions > > > > ons. 19. feb. 2025 kl. 19:59 skrev Erik Dybdahl <erik...@gmail.com>: > > > >> Thanks, > >> That first command does indeed cause a server window titled > "Cygwin/X:0.0 > >> to appear (an all white window). > > Yeah, all white is an important clue here, since it means no rendering > is going on at all. > > So, '-engine 1' is what I would recommend also. > > (Why this is failing is still a bit mysterious. Perhaps you have some > exotic graphics card and/or buggy driver, which claims to support > DirectDraw but doesn't actually?) > > >> The next command gives some info and warnings, and then 10 of these: > >> > >> winShadowUpdateDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt () failed: 88760827 > >> winShadowUpdateDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt failure message maximum > (10) > >> reached. No more failure messages will be printed. > >> > >> and nothing shows up. > > -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
