{"id":9141,"date":"2017-10-16T11:08:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T09:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b.shuttle.de\/hayek\/hayek\/jochen\/wp\/blog-en\/?p=9141"},"modified":"2017-10-16T11:08:56","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T09:08:56","slug":"microsoft-windows-and-the-x-window-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2017\/10\/16\/microsoft-windows-and-the-x-window-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Windows and the X Window System &#8212; new title: updating my cygwin installation left me in trouble again"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/X_Window_System\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/X_Window_System<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cygwin\/X\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cygwin\/X<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SSH_tunnel\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SSH_tunnel<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>$ startxwin<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I usually prefer the <em>rootless<\/em> way.<\/p>\n<p>My applications nowadays &#8220;usually&#8221; run on a Linux (Debian, \u2026) system or AIX.<\/p>\n<p>Update 2018-04-18: After some cygwin updating startxwin prefers to shut down immediately.<\/p>\n<p>I had no idea, that startxwin uses this start-up file:\u00a0\/etc\/X11\/xinit\/startxwinrc .\u00a0The last utility called there usually makes X wait for ever, but it faulted:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\/usr\/bin\/xwin-xdg-menu<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is an alternative way to start X \/\u00a0my fallback solution:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>$ xinit &#8212; -multiwindow -clipboard<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Within a shell window started there I ran:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>$ strace\u00a0\/usr\/bin\/xwin-xdg-menu<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It said, there was a problem with\u00a0 cygfreetype-6.dll . This weg page tells you, which cygwin packages include the file in question:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>https:\/\/cygwin.com\/cgi-bin2\/package-grep.cgi<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I reinstalled that package, and everything was fine.<\/p>\n<p>Any lesson learned? The cygwin updating silently (?!?) left at least one corrupt file. Quite hard to find out, which one was concerned.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/X_Window_System https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cygwin\/X https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SSH_tunnel $ startxwin I usually prefer the rootless way. My applications nowadays &#8220;usually&#8221; run on a Linux (Debian, \u2026) system or AIX. Update 2018-04-18: After some cygwin updating startxwin prefers to shut down immediately. I had no idea, that startxwin uses this start-up file:\u00a0\/etc\/X11\/xinit\/startxwinrc .\u00a0The last utility called there usually makes X wait [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[82,347,564,722,721,723],"tags":[1326],"class_list":["post-9141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cygwin","category-microsoft-windows","category-ssh","category-x-window-system-unix","category-x-window-system","category-x11","tag-startxwin"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paO0kP-2nr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}