CygwinX Intermittent Hangs

Jon Turney jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Thu May 18 14:22:00 GMT 2017


On 17/05/2017 15:39, LNX1 wrote:
> I have an issue I think with Cygwin/X server freezing
> intermittently. I have looked at the log file but can not see
> anything printed as error or higher level message.
>
> For example when I launch an Xterm from local windows system
> (Xapplications Menu --> SystemTools --> Xterm), it works fine but
> when I launch another Xterm window, I can not switch back and forth
> between the two as two Xterm sessions would appear hung, and will not
> register mouse clicks or keyboard inputs. One will come out of it
> after awhile but if I click on the other one, they both become
> unresponsive again.

Does this always happen? Or only sometimes?

> This does not happen when there is a single window using the Xserver,
> I can switch back and forth between Windows programs and Cygwin/X
> program Xterm fine.
>
> Is there a way that I can increase logging level to see if there is
> something going on?

You can add '-logverbose 3' to increase the logging level

-- 
Jon Turney
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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