Cygwin/X XWinrc menu no longer launches after recent updates

Takashi Yano takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp
Tue Mar 3 09:53:00 GMT 2020


On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 00:14:12 -0500
Roland Roberts wrote:
> I only noticed this in the last week or so, and assumed I'd messed up 
> something with Windows 10 permission, which is still a possibility. My
> first attempt to "fix" this was to reinstall pretty much everything in
> Cygwin that was part of X11 or Base. And that seemed to fix 
> things...until I rebooted Windows.
> 
> There are no errors in the logs, not stackdumps, nothign to indicate 
> anything is not working. The X log is below. You'll notice it says
> 
>      "executing '/bin/mintty', pid 3152"
> 
> but that window never opens. If I start a shell directly via my desktop 
> shortcut, which has this as it's target
> 
>      C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico -
> 
> I can see that there is no PID 3152.

Does reverting cygwin1.dll to 3.1.2 help?

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Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>

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