Re: Cygwin X11 on second (Nvidia) graphics card

Am 27.01.2023 um 16:22 schrieb Franz Fehringer via Cygwin: Hi, I have a question which seems quite natural but i cannot find anything useful using google & co. My (business) notebook has two graphics cards, one builtin identifying as Intel Iris Xe and an additional one, a Nvidia MX550. I star

Re: Cygwin X11 on second (Nvidia) graphics card

Hi Franz, On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 06:18:43PM +0100, cygwin wrote: > Am 27.01.2023 um 20:58 schrieb Brian Inglis via Cygwin: > > On 2023-01-27 08:22, Franz Fehringer via Cygwin wrote: > > > I have a question which seems quite natural but i cannot find > > > anything useful using google & co. > > >

Re: Cygwin X11 on second (Nvidia) graphics card

On 2023-01-29 10:18, Franz Fehringer via Cygwin wrote: Am 27.01.2023 um 20:58 schrieb Brian Inglis via Cygwin: On 2023-01-27 08:22, Franz Fehringer via Cygwin wrote: I have a question which seems quite natural but i cannot find anything useful using google & co. My (business) notebook has two g

Re: Cygwin X11 on second (Nvidia) graphics card

Am 27.01.2023 um 20:58 schrieb Brian Inglis via Cygwin: On 2023-01-27 08:22, Franz Fehringer via Cygwin wrote: I have a question which seems quite natural but i cannot find anything useful using google & co. My (business) notebook has two graphics cards, one builtin identifying as Intel Iris Xe

Re: Cygwin X11 on second (Nvidia) graphics card

On 2023-01-27 08:22, Franz Fehringer via Cygwin wrote: I have a question which seems quite natural but i cannot find anything useful using google & co. My (business) notebook has two graphics cards, one builtin identifying as Intel Iris Xe and an additional one, a Nvidia MX550. I start X11 (xwi

Re: Cygwin/X11 on Windows 10

On 30.09.2020 09:23, Thomas Schweikle via Cygwin wrote: Tried it. Does not work. X11 is fired up and terminates immediately. I am using: ~/.startxwinrc: #!/bin/bash xterm & exec sleep infinity changing "exec sleep infinity" to wait does not change anything. "~/.startxwinrc" is mode 0755: -rwxr-x

Re: Cygwin/X11 on Windows 10

On 9/30/2020 3:23 AM, Thomas Schweikle wrote: > Tried it. Does not work. X11 is fired up and terminates immediately. I am using: > ~/.startxwinrc: > #!/bin/bash > xterm & > exec sleep infinity > > changing "exec sleep infinity" to wait does not change anything. "~/.startxwinrc" is mode 0755: > -

Re: Cygwin/X11 on Windows 10

Tried it. Does not work. X11 is fired up and terminates immediately. I am using: ~/.startxwinrc: #!/bin/bash xterm & exec sleep infinity changing "exec sleep infinity" to wait does not change anything. "~/.startxwinrc" is mode 0755: -rwxr-xr-x 1 sct-muc user 42 30. Sep 09:12 .startxwinrc And

Re: Cygwin/X11 on Windows 10

On 9/29/2020 6:26 AM, Thomas Schweikle via Cygwin wrote: > Hi! > > I've managed to install cygwin/X on Windows 10. Now I'm looking for command > "startxwin" -- does not seen to exist. If following instructions from > https://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/setup.html it should be installed? Or is an > extra

Re: Cygwin/X11 on Windows 10

The documentation given at https://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/setup.html isn't really clear about what packages shall be selected. It only states one awaiting all others pulled in as dependencies. Since this isn't true it might be better to give a list which ones to select. Now the next problem: xinit:

Re: cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade

Steinar Bang writes: > I googled up this documentation which states "All subdirectories in the > directory path you specify will also be excluded." Trend Micro has (or had) multiple exclusion lists, not all of which you can see in the GUI (depending on how your admin has set things up). The one t

Re: cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade

On 04/08/2020 13:01, Steinar Bang wrote: >> Eliot Moss : >> On 8/2/2020 4:25 PM, Steinar Bang wrote: "Holger, Vodafone" : And I have checked on my system today, my strace output stop at the same tmmon64.dll, so it is likely the reason for the error. I have opened a serv

Re: cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade

> Eliot Moss : > On 8/2/2020 4:25 PM, Steinar Bang wrote: >>> "Holger, Vodafone" : >> >>> And I have checked on my system today, my strace output stop at the same >>> tmmon64.dll, so it is likely the reason for the error. >>> I have opened a service request with our IT and wait for their

Re: cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade

On 8/2/2020 4:25 PM, Steinar Bang wrote: "Holger, Vodafone" : And I have checked on my system today, my strace output stop at the same tmmon64.dll, so it is likely the reason for the error. I have opened a service request with our IT and wait for their answer. Did you get any further with t

Re: cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade

> "Holger, Vodafone" : > And I have checked on my system today, my strace output stop at the same > tmmon64.dll, so it is likely the reason for the error. > I have opened a service request with our IT and wait for their answer. Did you get any further with this? I added the directory C:\cyg

Re: cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade

He Steinar, That sound like a completely different topic, you should open a new thread for this > Am 02.07.2020 um 17:01 schrieb Steinar Bang : > > Here's another datapoint: > After trying to start XWin.exe, the keyboard on the laptop becomes > sluggish and laggy and the only way I've found to

Re: cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade

Here's another datapoint: After trying to start XWin.exe, the keyboard on the laptop becomes sluggish and laggy and the only way I've found to get it normal again, is to reboot the Windows 10 laptop. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com

Re: cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade

> "Holger, Vodafone" : > Update: Solution: > When changing the execution mode of C:\cygwin64\bin\XWin.exe to „Windows 7 > Compatbility“ the start of XWin work. > There is no Virus Blocking of TrendMicro but an incompatibility (no block > message in TM). Didn't help me, unfortunately. Her

Re: cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade

Update: Solution: When changing the execution mode of C:\cygwin64\bin\XWin.exe to „Windows 7 Compatbility“ the start of XWin work. There is no Virus Blocking of TrendMicro but an incompatibility (no block message in TM). Regards, Holger > Am 16.06.2020 um 13:46 schrieb Holger, Vodafone : >

Re: cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade

Nothing changes (as expected) when running with logverbose 3 OsVendorInit - Creating default screen 0 winInitializeScreens - 1 winInitializeScreen - 0 winValidateArgs - Returning. (II) xorg.conf is not supported (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html

Re: cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade

On 13/06/2020 10:04, Steinar Bang wrote: Steinar Bang : Platform: amd64, windows 10 10.0.18363 Build 18363, cygwin xorg-server 1.20.5-3, xlaunch 20160530-1 I start X11 by double clicking the following config.xlaunch: https://gist.github.com/steinarb/8687e2113c601e061da909e75a18

Re: cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade

Holger, Vodafone writes: > At least I know, that TrendMicro is on my System, if someone can help > me, which folder is meant to be added to the TrendMicro Exceptions I > can check with our internal IT. If the root-kit-like character of some of their components and the many CVE in TrendMicro that e

Re: cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade

Apparently tmmon64.dll is a Trend Micro DLL that overwrites Windows dynamic memory allocation entry points to monitor and track memory allocation. It has been implicated by MS in a number of failures of MS software and system crashes. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Re: cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade

And it look like a problem from at least 2018: https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/cygwin/2018-07/msg00278.html > Am 15.06.2020 um 14:17 schrieb Holger, Vodafone : > > And I have checked on my system today, my strace output stop at t

Re: cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade

And I have checked on my system today, my strace output stop at the same tmmon64.dll, so it is likely the reason for the error. I have opened a service request with our IT and wait for their answer. > Am 15.06.2020 um 00:21 schrieb Holger, Vodafone : > > Hi, > > I found a thread which look s

Re: cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade

Hi, I found a thread which look similar: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/XWin-startup-crash-x86-64-Windows-10-td126544.html At least I know, that TrendMicro is on my System, if someone can help me, whi

Re: cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade

> Marco Atzeri via Cygwin : > I guess we have only two methods to further going down > 1) checking with strace if it is crashing during any system call > strace -o XWin.strace /usr/bin/XWin :0 -multiwindow -auth > XWin.strace should contain some hints, hopefully XWin.strace attached to t

Re: cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade

On 14.06.2020 18:12, Steinar Bang wrote: "Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin" : Steinar Bang writes: [troubles with XWin] Have a look at what Windows shows as the processes that are running. I've had intermittent problems with XWin processes running without actually showing any windows. You c

Re: cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade

> "Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin" : > Steinar Bang writes: > [troubles with XWin] > Have a look at what Windows shows as the processes that are running. > I've had intermittent problems with XWin processes running without > actually showing any windows. You can see process information either

Re: cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade

Steinar Bang writes: [troubles with XWin] Have a look at what Windows shows as the processes that are running. I've had intermittent problems with XWin processes running without actually showing any windows. You can see process information either with a special tool such as ProcExp or with the

Re: cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade

> Jon Turney : > Sorry to hear you are having problems. [1] lists the ways of starting > the X server we think should work [2]. Ok. xlaunch is still on the list in [1] and it has worked fine for me until these problems started. It seems likely that this is something that happened in the rece

Re: cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade

> Marco Atzeri via Cygwin : > Hi Steinar, > forgot to ask, there is stackdump of Xwin ? > usually the stack dump are under /usr/bin > ls /usr/bin | grep stack > but they can also be on your home directory > or in other places. Nothing in /usr/bin but there is an lxterminal.exe.stackdump

Re: cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade

On 11.06.2020 17:57, Steinar Bang wrote: Platform: amd64, windows 10 10.0.18363 Build 18363, cygwin xorg-server 1.20.5-3, xlaunch 20160530-1 I start X11 by double clicking the following config.xlaunch: https://gist.github.com/steinarb/8687e2113c601e061da909e75a180f39 After the rebo

Re: cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade

Greetings, Marco Atzeri! >> >> USER = 'sbang' >> PWD = '/cygdrive/d/Profiles/sbang' >> HOME = '/cygdrive/d/Profiles/sbang' > It is never a good idea to have the Cygwin Home dir the > same of Windows user dir That's not true. > have you modified the "/etc/nsswitch.conf" ? > nothing obvious from

Re: cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade

> Steinar Bang : > Marco Atzeri via Cygwin : >> can you reset the default >> db_home: /home/%U >> close all processes and try X again ? >> This should use /home/sbang as your new home and >> we can see if it is a permission problem that is causing >> issue to Xwin > I changed the /etc

Re: cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade

> Marco Atzeri via Cygwin : >>> It is never a good idea to have the Cygwin Home dir the >>> same of Windows user dir >> Why this not a good idea? > because permissions like the one needed for ssh > can be screwd by Windows ACL permission inherited Ok. FWIW I have used cygwin ssh for two thi

Re: cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade

On 13.06.2020 15:14, Holger, Vodafone wrote: Hello, If you ever find it out, I have the same situation (win10, X startup fail with connection refused) Also Windows 10, but I do not know, when it starts, I am not using X very often. I tried to re-install the complete x-packages of Cygwin, also

Re: cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade

On 13.06.2020 14:00, Steinar Bang wrote: Marco Atzeri via Cygwin : as attachment was mentioned in the link. In line screw up the search function of the mailing list archive. Sorry! USER = 'sbang' PWD = '/cygdrive/d/Profiles/sbang' HOME = '/cygdrive/d/Profiles/sbang' It is never a good i

Re: cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade

Hello, If you ever find it out, I have the same situation (win10, X startup fail with connection refused) Also Windows 10, but I do not know, when it starts, I am not using X very often. I tried to re-install the complete x-packages of Cygwin, also started from scratch with my dot-files in the

Re: cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade

> Steinar Bang : > Marco Atzeri via Cygwin : >> this looks like another program blocking the effort and it can be as >> Xwin can NOT write files with the needed permission on your home >> directory > Could this be a virus checker blocking the writer? What files is it XWin tries to write?

Re: cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade

> Marco Atzeri via Cygwin : > this looks like another program blocking the effort and it can be as > Xwin can NOT write files with the needed permission on your home > directory Could this be a virus checker blocking the writer? > What is the output of > grep home /etc/nsswitch.conf sban

Re: cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade

> Marco Atzeri via Cygwin : > as attachment was mentioned in the link. > In line screw up the search function of the mailing list > archive. Sorry! >> USER = 'sbang' >> PWD = '/cygdrive/d/Profiles/sbang' >> HOME = '/cygdrive/d/Profiles/sbang' > It is never a good idea to have the Cygwin Hom

Re: cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade

On 13.06.2020 11:55, Steinar Bang wrote: Steinar Bang : Marco Atzeri via Cygwin : can you start X11 with startxwin ? If you start with just "XWin :0 -multiwindow -clipboard" does it work ? startxwin isn't found: sbang@ITEM-S63383:~$ startxwin -bash: startxwin: command not found sbang

Re: cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade

On 13.06.2020 11:30, Steinar Bang wrote: Marco Atzeri via Cygwin : Hi Steinar, please provide the cygcheck.out as suggested by: Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html Here is cygcheck.out: as attachment was mentioned in the link. In line screw up the search function of t

Re: cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade

> Steinar Bang : > Marco Atzeri via Cygwin : >> can you start X11 with startxwin ? >> If you start with just "XWin :0 -multiwindow -clipboard" >> does it work ? > startxwin isn't found: > sbang@ITEM-S63383:~$ startxwin > -bash: startxwin: command not found > sbang@ITEM-S63383:~$ which

Re: cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade

> Marco Atzeri via Cygwin : > can you start X11 with startxwin ? > If you start with just "XWin :0 -multiwindow -clipboard" > does it work ? startxwin isn't found: sbang@ITEM-S63383:~$ startxwin -bash: startxwin: command not found sbang@ITEM-S63383:~$ which startxwin which: no startxwin i

Re: cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade

> Marco Atzeri via Cygwin : > Hi Steinar, > please provide the cygcheck.out as suggested by: >> Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html Here is cygcheck.out: Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Sat Jun 13 10:28:45 2020 Windows 10 Enterprise Ver 10.0 Build 1

Re: cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade

> Steinar Bang : > Platform: amd64, windows 10 10.0.18363 Build 18363, > cygwin xorg-server 1.20.5-3, xlaunch 20160530-1 > I start X11 by double clicking the following config.xlaunch: > https://gist.github.com/steinarb/8687e2113c601e061da909e75a180f39 > After the reboot caused by

Re: cygwin x11 doesn't start after windows 10 upgrade

On 11.06.2020 17:57, Steinar Bang wrote: Platform: amd64, windows 10 10.0.18363 Build 18363, cygwin xorg-server 1.20.5-3, xlaunch 20160530-1 I start X11 by double clicking the following config.xlaunch: https://gist.github.com/steinarb/8687e2113c601e061da909e75a180f39 After the rebo

Re: Cygwin X11 Server slow performance

On 6/5/2018 6:19 PM, Paul Sheer wrote: 20 years ago Linux cult members were using the same "blame-the-user"-type arguments. Nothing has changed. Please refrain from rants. You paid us nothing and we support you on our free time I don't need to do ANY analysis or tests to see that the Cygwin

Re: Cygwin X11 Server slow performance

20 years ago Linux cult members were using the same "blame-the-user"-type arguments. Nothing has changed. I don't use Emacs. I only gave it as an easily-testable example. Try: apt-get install xemacs ; export DISPLAY=windows.mylan:0.0 ; xemacs Professionally, I have been a C++ developer fo

Re: Cygwin X11 Server slow performance

Paul Sheer wrote: Maybe you aren't familiar with 'X'. X is just a graphical transport. It doesn't have menus unless some other program puts them up. Try 'X' on linux -- running it from startX from a console and see how easy it is to use. NetSarang commercial X server has configurati

Re: Cygwin X11 Server slow performance

> Maybe you aren't familiar with 'X'. X is just a graphical > transport. It doesn't have menus unless some other program puts them up. > Try 'X' on linux -- running it from startX from a console and see > how easy it is to use. > NetSarang commercial X server has configuration menus to se

Re: Cygwin X11 Server slow performance

Paul Sheer wrote: Cygwin/X is most definitely being used, and this might help: https://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-shared-memory.html Being used? I find that very difficult to believe. What type of PC and network do you have? I've been using Cygwin since Windows XP days, and wh

Re: Cygwin X11 Server slow performance

Greetings, Paul Sheer! > 6. cygserver-config does not work. It gives: > [[[ > psheer@psheer-HP ~ > $ cygserver-config > Overwrite existing /etc/cygserver.conf file? (yes/no) yes > Generating /etc/cygserver.conf file > chown: changing ownership of '/etc/cygserver.conf': Permission denied > Warni

Re: Cygwin X11 Server slow performance

On 4/30/2018 6:48 AM, Paul Sheer wrote: Cygwin/X is most definitely being used, and this might help: https://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-shared-memory.html Being used? I find that very difficult to believe. There are a large number of usability problems I have found and I have only been usi

Re: Cygwin X11 Server slow performance

> > Cygwin/X is most definitely being used, and this might help: > > https://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-shared-memory.html > Being used? I find that very difficult to believe. There are a large number of usability problems I have found and I have only been using Cygwin for a couple of hours. It'

Re: Cygwin X11 Server slow performance

On 2018-04-29 20:58, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On 2018-04-29 21:52, Paul Sheer wrote: >> I am trying to use the Cygwin X11 Server on Windows 64-bit as follows: >> C:\cygwin64\bin>XWin.exe -ac -listen tcp >> (Note this is on a private LAN without Internet access.) >> The X Server renders perfe

Re: Cygwin X11 Server slow performance

On 2018-04-29 21:52, Paul Sheer wrote: > I am trying to use the Cygwin X11 Server on Windows 64-bit as follows: > > C:\cygwin64\bin>XWin.exe -ac -listen tcp > > (Note this is on a private LAN without Internet access.) > > The X Server renders perfectly well and my favorite applications do

Re: Cygwin/X11 - the X11 server won't start.

*/ Original message From: Jon Turney Date: 10/12/17 08:45 (GMT-08:00) To: Greywolf , The Cygwin Mailing List Subject: Re: Cygwin/X11 - the X11 server won't start. On 12/10/2017 01:51, Greywolf wrote: > Just got a new laptoy (Lenovo ThinkPad P51) with an nVidia display >

Re: Cygwin/X11 - the X11 server won't start.

On 12/10/2017 01:51, Greywolf wrote: Just got a new laptoy (Lenovo ThinkPad P51) with an nVidia display adapter as well as Intel integrated graphics.  X11 doesn't start. Everything seems to be fine until it reports back "cannot connect to display :0.0" The five-year-old Dell I had worked jus

Re: Cygwin X11 server won't start

On 04/07/2015 07:27, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: I am happy to report that I found the culprit. While installing another piece of software today, "Lavasoft Web Companion" came along as a stow-away. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to remove this @#$%^& program, and I ended up corrupting my regis

Re: Cygwin X11 server won't start

I am happy to report that I found the culprit. While installing another piece of software today, "Lavasoft Web Companion" came along as a stow-away. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to remove this @#$%^& program, and I ended up corrupting my registry in the process. I was able to restore my C:

Re: Cygwin X11 server won't start

On 7/4/2015 6:12 AM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: I had a Windows 7 crash this afternoon and now Cygwin/X server won't start. I've attached a couple files. Any idea how to correct this? Things have been OK for weeks. Thanks - Jim [48.438] (EE) Error compiling keymap (server-0) [48.438]

Re: Cygwin/X11/QT3.3.3/Scribus1.3CVS: ./configure errors

Steven Boothe wrote: Gerrit P. Haase wrote: configure:2620: gcc -fdata-sections -Wl, --enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc, --script, /opt/qt/3.3/mkspecs/cygwin-g++/i386pi.x-no-rdata conftest.c >&5 gcc: /opt/qt/3.3/mkspecs/cygwin-g++/i386pi.x-no-rdata: No such file or directory cc1: error: unrecognized

Re: Cygwin/X11/QT3.3.3/Scribus1.3CVS: ./configure errors

Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Steven Boothe wrote: Hello all: I've just been taking some time to return to looking into compiling Scribus 1.3 from Scribus CVS and thought after looking at the errors in the config.log that I would start here as they looked to be more related to compiling under cygwin than

Re: Cygwin/X11/QT3.3.3/Scribus1.3CVS: ./configure errors

Steven Boothe wrote: Hello all: I've just been taking some time to return to looking into compiling Scribus 1.3 from Scribus CVS and thought after looking at the errors in the config.log that I would start here as they looked to be more related to compiling under cygwin than issues related to the S

Re: Cygwin/X11/QT3.3.3/Scribus1.3CVS: ./configure errors

I just tried this at home too and generated the following in my config.log: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/src/Scribus $ CFLAGS="-fdata-sections" CXXFLAGS="-fdata-sections" LDFLAGS="-Wl, --enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc, --script, $QTDIR/mkspecs/cyg win-g++/i386pi.x-no-rdata" ./configure --prefix=/opt/scribus/1.

Re: Cygwin X11

On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 03:27:03PM -0800, Joseph I. Davida wrote: > I am running latest Cygwin with X11 which were > downloaded from > programming.ccp14.ac.uk > > I am running on win2K with all the latest patches. > > After some time (I think about an hour or more) > the Cygwin window in which