Cygwin/X XWinrc menu no longer launches after recent updates
Roland Roberts
roland@astrofoto.org
Tue Mar 3 05:14:00 GMT 2020
I only noticed this in the last week or so, and assumed I'd messed up
something with Windows 10 permission, which is still a possibility. My
first attempt to "fix" this was to reinstall pretty much everything in
Cygwin that was part of X11 or Base. And that seemed to fix
things...until I rebooted Windows.
There are no errors in the logs, not stackdumps, nothign to indicate
anything is not working. The X log is below. You'll notice it says
"executing '/bin/mintty', pid 3152"
but that window never opens. If I start a shell directly via my desktop
shortcut, which has this as it's target
C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico -
I can see that there is no PID 3152.
My .XWinrc is this:
---- .XWinrc ----
menu root {
"Cygwin Terminal" exec "/bin/mintty -e /bin/bash"
Emacs exec "/bin/emacs"
xterm exec "/bin/xterm"
notepad exec notepad
SEPARATOR
FAQ EXEC "cygstart
http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html"
"User's Guide" EXEC "cygstart
http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/cygwin-x-ug.html"
SEPARATOR
"View logfile" EXEC "xterm -title $XWINLOGFILE -e less +F $XWINLOGFILE"
SEPARATOR
"Reload .XWinrc" RELOAD
SEParATOR
}
RootMenu root
----
and my .startxwinrc is
---- .startxwinrc ----
if [ -f $HOME/.Xdefaults ]; then
xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xdefaults &
fi
sleep infinity
----
I'm lost on what might be causing this. One thing that I *did* change,
though that was over a month ago, was to add the Cygwin sshd service. On
the off-chance that that was the issue, I disabled it and rebooted to
get a clean start. No joy, I still can't launch from the .XWinrc menu.
The log entry makes it clear that it is seen and is trying.
Oh, and from a mintty shell, if I set DISPLAY=:0.0 when X is running, I
*can* launch other X apps.
2041 roland> cat XWin.0.log
Welcome to the XWin X Server
Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
Release: 1.20.5.0
OS: CYGWIN_NT-10.0-18363 flamsteed 3.1.4-340.x86_64 2020-02-19 08:49 UTC
x86_64
OS: Windows 10 [Windows NT 10.0 build 18363] (Win64)
Package: version 1.20.5-3 built 2019-09-06
XWin was started with the following command line:
/usr/bin/XWin :0 -multiwindow -auth
/home/roland/.serverauth.2909
ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens
winInitializeScreenDefaults - primary monitor w 2560 h 1440
winInitializeScreenDefaults - native DPI x 96 y 96
[ 734.546] (II) xorg.conf is not supported
[ 734.546] (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for
more information
[ 734.546] LoadPreferences: Loading /home/roland/.XWinrc
[ 734.562] winDetectSupportedEngines - RemoteSession: no
[ 734.625] winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed, allowing
ShadowDDNL
[ 734.625] winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines
00000005
[ 734.625] winSetEngine - Multi Window or Rootless => ShadowGDI
[ 734.625] winScreenInit - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per
pixel
[ 734.625] winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 3760
height: 1920 depth: 32
[ 734.625] winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff
[ 734.625] winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff
BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32
[ 734.625] MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support
[ 734.625] XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization
disabled due to lack of shared memory support in the kernel
[ 734.640] glWinSelectGLimplementation: Loaded 'cygnativeGLthunk.dll'
[ 735.171] (II) AIGLX: Testing pixelFormatIndex 5
[ 735.265] GL_VERSION: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 425.91
[ 735.265] GL_VENDOR: NVIDIA Corporation
[ 735.265] GL_RENDERER: Quadro K1000M/PCIe/SSE2
[ 735.265] (II) GLX: enabled GLX_SGI_make_current_read
[ 735.265] (II) GLX: enabled GLX_SGI_swap_control
[ 735.265] (II) GLX: enabled GLX_MESA_swap_control
[ 735.265] (II) GLX: enabled GLX_SGIX_pbuffer
[ 735.265] (II) GLX: enabled GLX_ARB_multisample
[ 735.265] (II) GLX: enabled GLX_SGIS_multisample
[ 735.265] (II) GLX: enabled GLX_ARB_fbconfig_float
[ 735.265] (II) GLX: enabled GLX_EXT_fbconfig_packed_float
[ 735.265] (II) GLX: enabled GLX_ARB_create_context
[ 735.265] (II) GLX: enabled GLX_ARB_create_context_profile
[ 735.265] (II) GLX: enabled GLX_ARB_create_context_robustness
[ 735.265] (II) GLX: enabled GLX_EXT_create_context_es2_profile
[ 735.265] (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer
[ 735.265] (II) 1182 pixel formats reported by
wglGetPixelFormatAttribivARB
[ 735.296] (II) 1146 fbConfigs
[ 735.296] (II) ignored pixel formats: 0 not OpenGL, 0 unknown pixel
type, 36 unaccelerated
[ 735.296] (II) GLX: Initialized Win32 native WGL GL provider for screen 0
[ 735.562] winPointerWarpCursor - Discarding first warp: 1880 960
[ 735.562] (--) 5 mouse buttons found
[ 735.562] (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31
[ 735.562] (--) Windows keyboard layout: "00000409" (00000409) "US",
type 7
[ 735.562] (--) Found matching XKB configuration "English (USA)"
[ 735.562] (--) Model = "pc105" Layout = "us" Variant = "none" Options
= "none"
[ 735.562] Rules = "base" Model = "pc105" Layout = "us" Variant =
"none" Options = "none"
[ 735.562] [ 735.562] winInitMultiWindowWM - DISPLAY=:0.0
winMultiWindowXMsgProc - DISPLAY=:0.0
[ 735.625] winInitMultiWindowWM - xcb_connect () returned and
successfully opened the display.
[ 735.625] winProcEstablishConnection - winInitClipboard returned.
[ 735.625] winClipboardThreadProc - DISPLAY=:0.0
[ 735.625] winMultiWindowXMsgProc - xcb_connect() returned and
successfully opened the display.
[ 735.625] winClipboardProc - xcb_connect () returned and successfully
opened the display.
[ 735.625] Using Composite redirection
[ 795.156] executing '/bin/mintty', pid 3152
[ 1287.562] LoadPreferences: Loading /home/roland/.XWinrc
[ 1287.562] SetupSysMenu: GetSystemMenu() failed for HWND 0x5093c
[ 1287.562] SetupSysMenu: GetSystemMenu() failed for HWND 0x507be
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