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.maar...@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 -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
