how to access and display apps that I've launched

[mike]

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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2017/07/21 16:02:33 Starting cygwin install, version 2.881
2017/07/21 16:02:33 User has backup/restore rights
2017/07/21 16:02:34 Current Directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox
2017/07/21 16:02:34 Could not open service McShield for query, start and stop. McAfee may not be installed, or we don't have access.
2017/07/21 16:02:40 source: network install
2017/07/21 16:02:42 root: C:\cygwin system
2017/07/21 16:02:44 Selected local directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox
2017/07/21 16:02:46 net: Direct
Loaded cached mirror list
Request for URL http://cygwin.com/mirrors.lst satisfied from cache
Fetched URL: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.lst
2017/07/21 16:02:49 site: ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/cygwin/
Fetched URL: ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/cygwin/x86/setup.xz.sig
Fetched URL: ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/cygwin/x86/setup.xz
compress_xz::bid_xz: success: 48
compress_xz::bid_xz: success: 48
INSTALLED.DB version 3
.ini setup_version is 2.881, our setup_version is 2.881
2017/07/21 16:03:19 Ending cygwin install
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