Re: Applications no longer launching from xdg

2015-07-29 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 24/07/2015 15:14, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: This seems to be the real error, when I try to start an xterm from the xdg menu: executing 'xterm', pid 11044 pid 11044 exited with status b What is status b? Status 11, but in hexadecimal :) I'm not sure this is a valid exit status, which is perp

Re: Applications no longer launching from xdg

2015-07-24 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
This seems to be the real error, when I try to start an xterm from the xdg menu: executing 'xterm', pid 11044 pid 11044 exited with status b What is status b? And the results of trying to view the log file (same error status) executing 'xterm -title '/cygdrive/D/Home/.xsession-errors' -e less

Re: Applications no longer launching from xdg

2015-07-24 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 6:40 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: > If you can reproduce this problem, you could always examine the > ~/.xsession-errors file directly. Here it is. There "Can't create dir" messages have been there all along. The ones regarding "Failed to connect to socket" may be the problem.

Re: Applications no longer launching from xdg

2015-07-24 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 20/07/2015 06:06, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: I installed Windows 10 over the weekend ("RTM" release 10240, 64-bit, Pro). Cygwin, X server and XDG were working fine until sometime Sunday afternoon. Suddenly, I could not launch xterms, but still could from the old Xwin icon in the system notifica

Re: Applications no longer launching from xdg

2015-07-19 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
One somewhat unrelated thing I'd like to add: Once the 'X' icon appears, it takes another good 20 seconds or so for the xdg menu icon to appear. I have no idea what's causing that. -- Jim Reisert AD1C, , http://www.ad1c.us -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Applications no longer launching from xdg

2015-07-19 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
I installed Windows 10 over the weekend ("RTM" release 10240, 64-bit, Pro). Cygwin, X server and XDG were working fine until sometime Sunday afternoon. Suddenly, I could not launch xterms, but still could from the old Xwin icon in the system notification area. Nothing works from XDG (other than