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

[mike <mikereape at onetel dot com>]

On 24/07/2017 23:08, Ian Lambert via cygwin wrote:
> On Mon, 7/24/17, Ken Brown <> wrote:
>
>   Subject: Re: how to access and display apps that I've launched
>   To: "Ian Lambert" <>, cygwin@cygwin.com
>   Date: Monday, July 24, 2017, 3:51 PM
>   
>   On 7/24/2017 12:08 PM, Ian
>   Lambert wrote:
>   > On Sun, 7/23/17, Ken
>   Brown <> wrote:
>   >   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,
>   >
>   >
>   > I have a relatively new install, since pi
>   day 2017, and no .startxwinrc.
>   >
>   > I had something similar Thursday 7/20/17
>   afternoon, after running updates
>   > for
>   Windows security, and Cygwin.
>   
>   Mike's description of his problem suggests
>   that he was using fbpanel.
>   He refers to an
>   icon at the top middle of the screen, not the
>   xwin-xdg-icon in the notification area.  Your
>   description is different,
>   and at least one
>   of your error messages (gedit 8876
>   child_info_fork::abort:...) sounds like a
>   rebase issue.
>   
>   Ken
>   
It's not a .startxwinrc problem because I don't have one.  Also I was 
trying to access the apps from the notification area I just wasn't 
calling it the right thing.  I wasn't trying to access anything by the 
very top icon.  In the notification area among other things you can get 
an XDG Menu.

Thanks, Mike
> = = =
>
> Please let me know if this should be a different thread then,
> but it seemed similar and timing was coincidental.
>
> When I did
> > run "rebase-trigger full" then run setup-x86
> (or x86_64) the first time, I had not shut down all cygwin processes between
> trigger full and setup.
> This time I ran "rebase-trigger full", did full shutdown/restart, then ran setup.
>
> This time xterm will not start from the xwin-xdg-menu, but will start from
> command line (after export DISPLAY=:0.0).
>
> I saw these from $ startxwin &
>
> (WW) /tmp mounted on a filesystem without hardlinks, activating -nolock
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Mode of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to 1777
> _XSERVTransmkdir: this may cause subsequent errors
>
>
> and some rebase-related touch error messages in setup.log.full:
>
>   2017/07/24 17:24:08 running: E:\cygwin64-3\bin\dash.exe "/etc/postinstall/0p_000_autorebase.dash"
> Note: _autorebase will do a full rebase the next time setup is run.
> removing /var/cache/rebase/rebase_pkg
> creating empty /var/cache/rebase/rebase_pkg
> touch: setting times of '/var/cache/rebase/rebase_pkg': Invalid argument
> Updating package information in /var/cache/rebase/rebase_pkg.
> removing /var/cache/rebase/rebase_lst
> creating empty /var/cache/rebase/rebase_lst
> touch: setting times of '/var/cache/rebase/rebase_lst': Invalid argument
> Updating rebase information for installed executables in /var/cache/rebase/rebase_exe.
> removing /var/cache/rebase/rebase_dyn
> creating empty /var/cache/rebase/rebase_dyn
> touch: setting times of '/var/cache/rebase/rebase_dyn': Invalid argument
> Looking for dynamic language modules/libraries in:
>    /usr/lib/R/site-library
>    /usr/lib/php/20151012
>    /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages
>    /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages
> Updating rebase information for dynamic language modules/libraries /var/cache/rebase/rebase_dyn.
> removing /var/cache/rebase/rebase_user
> creating empty /var/cache/rebase/rebase_user
> touch: setting times of '/var/cache/rebase/rebase_user': Invalid argument
> Updating rebase information for user-defined dynamic objects /var/cache/rebase/rebase_user.
> removing /var/cache/rebase/rebase_user_exe
> creating empty /var/cache/rebase/rebase_user_exe
> touch: setting times of '/var/cache/rebase/rebase_user_exe': Invalid argument
> Updating rebase information for user-defined executables /var/cache/rebase/rebase_user_exe.
> Rebasing with list /var/cache/rebase/rebase_all, built from /var/cache/rebase/rebase_lst /var/cache/rebase/rebase_dyn /var/cache/rebase/rebase_user.
> 2017/07/24 17:24:23 running: E:\cygwin64-3\bin\dash.exe "/etc/postinstall/0p_texlive_prep.dash"
> 2017/07/24 17:24:23 running: E:\cygwin64-3\bin\dash.exe "/etc/postinstall/0p_update-info-dir.dash"
> 2017/07/24 17:24:25 running: E:\cygwin64-3\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/zp_adwaita-icon-theme.sh"
> 2017/07/24 17:24:26 running: E:\cygwin64-3\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/zp_desktop-file-utils.sh"
> 2017/07/24 17:24:26 running: E:\cygwin64-3\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/zp_fontconfig_cache_1.sh"
> 2017/07/24 17:25:30 running: E:\cygwin64-3\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/zp_glib2.0.sh"
> 2017/07/24 17:25:31 running: E:\cygwin64-3\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/zp_hicolor-icon-theme.sh"
> 2017/07/24 17:25:31 running: E:\cygwin64-3\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/zp_man-db.sh"
> 2017/07/24 17:25:33 running: E:\cygwin64-3\bin\dash.exe "/etc/postinstall/zp_octave_finish.dash"
> 2017/07/24 17:25:33 running: E:\cygwin64-3\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/zp_shared-mime-info.sh"
> 2017/07/24 17:25:34 running: E:\cygwin64-3\bin\dash.exe "/etc/postinstall/zp_texlive_finish.dash"
> 2017/07/24 17:25:34 running: E:\cygwin64-3\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/zp_units_cur.sh"
> Error connecting to currency server. <urlopen error [Errno 8] Name or service not known>
>
>
> About half the "accessory" app's won't start from the xdg menu, and throw fork errors when started
> from the xterm command line. For example:
>
>
>    0 [main] nautilus 3240 child_info_fork::abort: E:\cygwin64-3\bin\cygpangocairo-1.0-0.dll: Loaded to different address: parent(0x3F0000) != child(0x2F0000)
>        0 [main] nautilus 3396 child_info_fork::abort: E:\cygwin64-3\bin\cygpangocairo-1.0-0.dll: Loaded to different address: parent(0x3F0000) != child(0x2F0000)
>        0 [main] nautilus 5840 child_info_fork::abort: E:\cygwin64-3\bin\cygpangocairo-1.0-0.dll: Loaded to different address: parent(0x3F0000) != child(0x400000)
>
> (nautilus:6936): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_dbus_proxy_new_sync: assertion 'G_IS_DBUS_CONNECTION (connection)' failed
>
> (nautilus:6936): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_dbus_proxy_get_name_owner: assertion 'G_IS_DBUS_PROXY (proxy)' failed
>        0 [main] nautilus 2364 child_info_fork::abort: E:\cygwin64-3\bin\cygxml2-2.dll: Loaded to different address: parent(0x580000) != child(0x570000)
>        0 [main] nautilus 2900 child_info_fork::abort: E:\cygwin64-3\bin\cygpangocairo-1.0-0.dll: Loaded to different address: parent(0x3F0000) != child(0x500000)
> Failed to connect to socket /tmp/fam-myuser/fam-
>
> (nautilus:6936): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: Failed to fork (Resource temporarily unavailable)
>
> (nautilus:6936): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: Failed to fork (Resource temporarily unavailable)
>
> ** (nautilus:6936): WARNING **: Unable to get contents of the bookmarks file: Error opening file /home/myuser/.gtk-bookmarks: No such file or directory
>
> (nautilus:6936): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_set: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
>
> (nautilus:6936): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: Failed to fork (Resource temporarily unavailable)
>
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