Questions tagged [cygwin-x]
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Cygwin-x dbus-daemon process does not unload itself from memory after termination
I have 64 bit cygwin on Windows 10. When I terminate X sessions, a process spawned by c:\cygwin64\bin\dbus-daemon.exe stays in memory together with c:\windows\system32\conhost.exe 0x4. If I do it ...
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Cygwin/X and Windows Subsystem for Linux with Unix domain socket
Graphical apps in WSL, e.g., gedit or xterm and so forth, can connect to Cygwin/X through TCP. Since current WSL (partially) supports AF_UNIX, is it possible to connect to Cygwin/X through Unix domain ...
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How can I setup the Cygwin X server as a service?
I've read the Cygwin/X user's guide; I've installed Cygwin, the X-related packages, and am able to run X and apps on X.
However - that's all manual. I need to invoke startxwin and need to call xhost +...
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Choose Gvim font that maps pixel-to-pixel with display?
I was advised here to post this question at Superuser, as it deals with both Windows and X11 (via Cygwin).
I recently bought a Windows 10 laptop, TravelMate P2410-G2-M. The resolution is set to the ...
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X-windows middle-mouse button using touchpad on Windows 10
Cygwin is the only unix environment of which I know that works on top of Windows. I am getting frequent reminders to move from Windows 7 to Windows 10. It doesn't make sense to migrate my 2011 ...
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Setting the xterm window title on Ubuntu sets the wrong title
I'm trying to set the window and icon title for xterm on Ubuntu 17.
odin:~% grep PRET /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 17.04"
odin:~% printf "\e]0;%s\a" X00X
odin:~% xterm -help
XTerm(324) usage:
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An issue with ncview (netCDF visual browser) on cygwin - windows 10
I have an issue with ncview on cygwin. Can anyone help?
I have installed cygwin on windows 10 and followed the instructions on Ncview under Windows.
my output from ./configure and make install are ...
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how do i install pip in cygwin? [closed]
I want to install pip in cygwin (Windows 10). When I try that I get the comment that the destination file is missing. So how can I choose file? Is there any way to see the entire file system in cygwin?...
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Is Cygwin 2.0.2 supported on Windows Server 2016?
I need some small clarification on Cygwin and Windows compatibility.
Is cygwin 2.0.2 compatible with Windows Server 2016? Or do need to get the latest version of Cygwin?
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How to change the Start Menu shortcut action for all users in Windows 10?
I set up a Cygwin/X environment in my Windows 10 computer and it created a Start Menu shortcut for all users, named XWin Server.
However, I need to change the shortcut to enable TCP connections. To ...
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Copying files in a pipeline using cygwin bash shellscript
I need to select certain files in a directory and copy them to another directory using a cygwin script but I cannot get the syntax for the copy.
i.e.
for i in cat boards
do
ls -t $work |grep ^$i |...
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cygwin at-spi-bus-launcher and xwin-xdg-menu high cpu
Running cygwin/X I see at-spi-bus-launcher and xwin-xdg-menu are using most of the cpu. There are two instances of xwin-xdg-menu.
Between the three of them there isn't much left for anything else. ...
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When trying to connect remote clients to Cygwin/X, I get 'Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified'
I just installed Cygwin/X and I launch it with startxwin -- -listen tcp to allow remote clients to connect to it through tcp.
However, remote clients fail to connect to the remote display with the ...
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Always run X11 on Windows 10?
I have Cygwin-X installed on my Windows 10 machine.
When I run XLaunch, everything starts up fine.
What I would like, though, for X11 to start up, and stay running, when Windows starts, and to ...
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I know base 2 and base 10 , MB and MiB, but i'm not understanding the byte counts shown for a directory, by du and by windows explorer
The du command shows 43G in use. I'm not sure whether that's base 2 in the sense of 2^30 or if it's base 10, in the sense of 10^9. But anyhow -
Running this du command from cygwin, to see the size ...
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How can I use programmers dvorak layout on X11 apps on Cygwin?
How can I use programmers dvorak layout on X11 apps on Cygwin? Programers Dvorak works fine on my windows 10 host machine. However, when I type into X11 apps launched locally or remotely, I only get ...
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What changed with Cygwin from 1.7 to 2.5?
I upgraded my Cygwin and I'm having a little trouble.
As usual, an upgrade utterly breaks everything that is part of my standard workflow.
I figured out the Menu issue, however, my xterm no longer ...
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Adjust grep command to avoid 'extra' lines
I have to find some text inside zipped files. I am using Cygwin.
Some zipped files are empty.
Obviously I don't want to have 'noisy' information about those 'empty zip files' at all.
E.g.
find . -...
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How to pass a windows path with spaces to cygwin bash
I am connecting to a windows server (2012R2 64 bit) running cygwin (latest version that i downloaded from cygwin.com yesterday) using putty.
I am trying to run cmd.exe and pass the cmd.exe a command ...
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Cygwin X on high DPI
On my Windows 10 Surface Pro (2736x1824 resolution), whenever I connect via PuTTY to an Ubuntu 14.04 server and run Eclipse or gVim over Cygwin X, the text and windows are extremely small.
I can drag ...
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Hiding/Removing Cygwin/X 'Start' Menu icon from showing on Windows Desktop
I'm running Cygwin/X (with qt3) under windows 7, and in a modal style, fixed in the top left of my desktop, I have this annoying X icon, which presents me with a cygwin/X/Start menu, style list of ...
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switch to x server window using alt tab program switcher
For x server (Cygwin X server hosted on windows platform) the alt-tab program switcher does not work. The x server window (in my case gvim) does not show up in the list of windows when using alt-tab. ...
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How to run X/Cygwin without first running cygwin.bat?
To run any GUI program, I need first run a startxwin, which has no EXE extension. So I need first run cygwin.bat. startxwin only starts GUI terminal by default, so I am obliged to run 2 intermediate ...
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How to install Cygserver
I'm programming in UNIX, so I'm using Cygwin. But functions of IPC does not work on it, just in Cygserver. How can I install it? I'm looked in google and did not find any concrete information.
Thanks ...
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cygwin-x applications not starting
After installing Cygxin-X, X applications won't run:
$ xman
/usr/bin/xman.exe: error while loading shared libraries: ?: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
$ xcalc
/usr/bin/...
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How do I open a file in Cygwin Emacs from Windows?
I am trying to make Windows open text files in Emacs, which I have installed under Cygwin. I have followed these instructions: and created a bat file like this:
@echo off
chdir C:\LocalApp\cygwin\bin
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Eclipse running slow over Cygwin ssh
I use Cygwin running under Windows XP to make an X Windows ssh connection to a RedHat server.
I’ve run a few applications through the Cygwin/X interface, and they perform fine. However, the main ...
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start X window applications with Cygwin+Xming or CygwinX on Windows 7 64-bit?
I followed the instructions from previous posts on superuser to try and install cygwin including xorg-server as well as trying the alternative of bringing up X windows using Xming (including setting ...
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How can I start urxvt as a child of a running XWin instance?
I have configured XWin to start automatically at logon, this gives me a tray icon where I can launch X apps that will be children of the XWin instance and have their environment correclty set just ...
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Starting xterm under Cygwin from the Start Menu
I'm running Cygwin under Windows 7. How can I create a start menu entry (or desktop shortcut) to start xterm?
Currently, I have to start the Cygwin/X server, and each time I want a new xterm, I have ...
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Multiple Putty and Cygwin/X sessions not working
I'm trying to connect multiple Putty Sessions at once, and have a single CygwinX server running on my machine. The first putty session i open is able to successfully launch a gnome-terminal, proving ...
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Xming and Cygwin/X
For the sole purpose of remotely accessing X applications on Linux from a Windows machine:
What are the differences between Xming and Cygwin/X? (e.g. in terms of speed/features). Do they satisfy the ...
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getting Ubuntu-quality fonts / configuration under Cygwin/X
I have Cygwin/X installed on a Win7 box. I also have an Ubuntu VM running on the Win7 host.
If I do the following:
Start Xming on the Win7 box
Start mate-terminal under Cygwin/X
then mate-terminal ...
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How do I prevent Cygwin's XWin Server automatically starting xterm?
Whenever I start Cygwin's X server using the "XWin Server" link in my Start menu, or by running startxwin from a Cygwin shell, I automatically get an xterm window appearing, which I neither want nor ...