Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched

[mike <mikereape at onetel dot com>]

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.

Thanks, Mike

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