how to access and display apps that I've launched
Ken Brown
kbrown@cornell.edu
Sun Jul 23 22:46:00 GMT 2017
On 7/23/2017 8:32 AM, 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.
Yes, there was a change about two years ago. I suspect you have a
.startxwinrc that uses fbpanel instead of xwin-xdg-menu. See
https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-announce/2015-07/msg00013.html
Ken
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