Hi,
TL;DR (The Management Summary) : I installed an old version (dated 2016) of (all of) Cygwin where KDE does give me the 'full desktop' experience (single MS-Windows window). Is there a desire for follow up (and more details), in the sense that current Cygwin might be made to work as well ? - Maarten On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 6:57 PM Maarten Hoes <hoes.maar...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.t...@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.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
