X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:references:cc:to:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=Whce2Gi6cwGISZSl q5e4tKUebSrYs8gC7apAmnED9YW/zPGYM20xpk08xACCDMtR9KwRoPTn3I86Em9I aQQt9LmyVPF7e95MmhtgWvsCM3e1URoly7DqD824xIFtgHOMA9TzilcE1wffE29S fh98sEuFxPt9NVlmY7uLdsGQA8k= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:references:cc:to:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=MsqAkwGLEcSIQcBujI87Uz IykXE=; b=G3qwuzvlfO9wWp4nN0vqSD4OaNslav1rC8Xkwbbjw4rFH3f5bIyn1g ZyttP8ZZuRVXDMOrKl4cMjhlsr2EDJUWGEdnxBT7y6A9uq87yKKxDEIQGPwIf/Xj Vf15djAKVkkRRWnCvu0XF9nFUrmurBFW2AvEJVLUO2GmkS4tqbyUI= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Turney, H*RU:sk:mail.me, turney, H*RU:sk:host86- X-HELO: out2-smtp.messagingengine.com X-ME-Sender: Subject: Re: X11 becomes unresponsive with complex client programs References: <3dcb5e0d-45bd-cb01-ac46-1a9c36785108 AT pobox DOT com> Cc: David Arnstein To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Jon Turney Message-ID: <41a04977-999a-728b-1e0d-4dc40c634ac3@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 14:09:09 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3dcb5e0d-45bd-cb01-ac46-1a9c36785108@pobox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 14/01/2017 01:38, David Arnstein wrote: > My cygwin installation can display simple X11 clients such as xterm. A > complex client such as git-cola, launched from a remote RedHat Linux > machine, will cause all X11 windows under cygwin to become unresponsive. > Windows Task Manager says "not responding." > > This problem occurs with recent releases of Cygwin/X11. The attached > cygcheck.out indicates the last X11 version that works well: 1.18-4.1. > All other cygwin packages are up to date. Thanks for reporting this problem. Unfortunately, I couldn't reproduce it. However, I suspect this may be caused by switching to the smart scheduler by default in xorg-server 1.19.0-1. So, the first thing I'd suggest you try is adding -dumbSched to the X server options to see if this makes a difference (e.g. 'startxwin -- -dumbSched' -- Jon Turney Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- 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