Cygwin/X: KDE Desktop

[Maarten Hoes]

Hi,


Thanks for the effort.

Now that you mentioned that, I seem to be having similar behavior as you:
Xfce start every time I try it. But now that I tried it some more, LXDE is
not consistent for me either. Sometimes I get a black screen, sometimes a
black screen and the right-click-on-background-menu, and sometimes a normal
working LXDE environment. The first time I try to start LXDE after a reboot
of my PC seems to work always, and after that I get mostly the black screen
without pop-up menu. The only thing I seem to be able to reproduce reliably
with LXDE is the first try after reboot.

Also, after I have to exit from the 'black screen', I get some remaining
'bash.exe' processes left in MS-Windows task manager (regardless of what
desktop environment/desktop manager I tried to start). Sometimes it seems
to help if I kill these off before I retry to start LXDE, and sometimes not.

Thanks again,


- Maarten



On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 6:18 PM Tony Richardson <richardson.tony@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 7:11 AM Maarten Hoes via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> I tried a few different Desktop Environments for comparison. At least
>> GNOME-Openbox, KDE-Openbox, Plasma, and MATE give me a black screen and no
>> taskbar/menu, pop-up menu with right-click on background, etc., but I can
>> start applications on them if I open a Cygwin prompt through the 'Cygwin64
>> Terminal' icon by doing (for example) "export DISPLAY=:0.0 ; xterm".
>>
>> However, the LXDE and Openbox desktops do give me the familiar things
>> (like
>> a start-menu, right-click on desktop pop-up menu).
>>
>> I have no idea where to even begin with troubleshooting the issue (of
>> getting KDE or GNOME working). Could it be as simple as some packages that
>> have not been installed ? I installed these desktops by selecting the
>> packages listed on the Cygwin/X website during the overall Cygwin
>> installation (setup-x86_64.exe).
>>
>> Any and all help is appreciated.
>>
>>
>>
>> - Maarten
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 2:38 PM Maarten Hoes <hoes.maarten@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> >
>> > When I run XLaunch and choose single window (or use the KDE 'Plasma'
>> > shortcut), I get a black window (or grey, when also supplying '-retro'),
>> > but I am not getting a desktop like when I do when I run KDE on Linux
>> (KDE
>> > taskbar/menu, pop-up menu with right-click on background, etc.). Is
>> there a
>> > way to do this ?  Or am I missing something obvious here ?
>> >
>> >
>> > Any and all help is appreciated,
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance,
>> >
>> >
>> > - Maarten
>>
>
> Sorry I can't provide help, I just wanted to mention that I have related
> (I think) problems.  I only have the LXDE and Xfce desktop environments
> installed.  Xfce starts consistently everytime.  LXDE only completely
> starts every-other-time.  I get the black window one time (with a pop-up
> openbox menu).  I can log-out and then the next time I get the full LXDE
> desktop.  There is consistent alternation between the two. LXDE is my
> preferred desktop, but I tend to use Xfce because of this problem.
>
> I thought that there might be some weird interaction in the configuration
> files used by the different desktop environments so I deleted all the
> config files (dot files) in my home directory but I still see the same
> behavior.
>
> Tony
>
>