can't run cygwin emacs or XWin Server

mike mikereape@onetel.com
Sun Dec 25 22:59:00 GMT 2016


On 25/12/2016 15:13, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> On 25/12/2016 13:55, mike wrote:
>> I run 32 bit cygwin on a 64 bit machine running Windows 7.
>>
>> I used to get an XWin Server terminal running bash at startup (logging
>> into Windows) from which I could run the emacs packaged in cygwin.
>> After a round of updates I don't get the terminal window at startup and
>> if I try to manually launch it it fails to launch and AFAICT if I try to
>> run emacs from a command prompt I get the native version of emacs that I
>> also have installed and not the cygwin one.  The shortcut for XWin
>> Server is
>>
>>    C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startxwin.exe
>
> Question:
> Is the Xserver running and you just don't have the Xterm automatically 
> run ?
> If yes, the behavior is the current default.
>
>
> If no, and the Xserver does not run at all, please follow
Okay but what am I looking for?  Is it an application, a process, a 
service or a "task" (in Windows terms)?  What name am I looking for?  
I've tried the Task Manager, MSCONFIG and Display Running Tasks but 
nothing obvious jumps out at me.  According to cygcheck -c I have 
packages xorg-cf-files, xorg-docs, xorg-scripts, xorg-server, 
xorg-server-dmx, xorg-sgml-doctools, xorg-util-macros and 
xorg-x11-bin-dlls installed and up to date.  I also have emacs, 
emacs-el, emacs-ocaml and emacs-X11 and bash, bash-completion and bashdb 
installed and up to date.

You also mentioned the default behaviour.  What would that be?  Can you 
point me to something that I can read to learn about the default 
behaviour please?

Thanks in advance
>
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> and provide as attachment the cygcheck.out.
>
>> Merry Christmas
>> Mike
>>
>
> Buon Natale
> Marco
>
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