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| Subject: | Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched |
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| From: | mike <mikereape AT onetel DOT com> |
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| Date: | Tue, 25 Jul 2017 01:03:06 +0100 |
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On 24/07/2017 18:02, Brian Inglis wrote: > 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. > Could you please then tell me how to do that? I should point out that almost every time (or maybe every time) I've tried to update Cygwin in the past (going back quite a long way) some part of the post-installation scripts fails and I have to run setup-x86.exe again and then it finishes properly. Thanks, Mike -- I *AM* a unique and special snowflake -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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