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Re: Cygwin Xwin error
- From: Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>
- To: paul at paulhardy dot net, cygwin-xfree <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 17:11:38 +0100
- Subject: Re: Cygwin Xwin error
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On 14/10/2013 21:11, Paul Hardy wrote:
> Sorry, my googling on that error message led me to the page that I quoted
> which has no links to email lists, but did have your emails.
The Cygwin website has instructions about how to report bugs in Cygwin.
> I use Cygwin on an XP laptop set up in 2007, to provide Xwindows/Motif login
> to a historic VMS simulation in SimH using Xdmcp, and this works fine. I'm
> trying to get it going on a new PC running Windows 7, which has necessitated
> a later Cygwin.
>
> The SimH side is fine, but I can't get a current Cygwin to behave. I get an
> error when I try to start Xwin saying "winValidateArgs - -fullscreen is
> invalid with -scrollbars, -resize, -nodecoration, or -lesspointer." However,
> my command line is "/usr/bin/XWin -ac -fullscreen -depth 8 -query
> 192.168.1.200 " which doesn't contain any of "-scrollbars, -resize,
> -nodecoration, or -lesspointer.".
Thanks for reporting this problem.
This is a bug. XWin currently always sets the default resize mode to
-resize=randr. As it doesn't make sense to try to resize the screen in
-fullscreen mode, we should set the default resize mode to -noresize.
> Putting -noresize gets me further, in that I get no immediate error message,
> but a totally black screen. I had to hit the Windows key to escape.
>
> The Xwin log file is attached. Are you able to interpret?
> [296068.603] winBlockHandler - pthread_mutex_unlock()
> [296083.595] winRedrawScreenShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt () failed: 887601c2
> [296083.595] winRedrawScreenShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt () failed: 887601c2
This is DDERR_SURFACELOST, and I think just means that you pressed the Windows
key so that the X server lost fullscreen.
> [296092.658] winRedrawScreenShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt () failed: 887601c2
> [296092.658] winRedrawScreenShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt () failed: 887601c2
> [296100.349] winDestroyColormapShadowDDNL - Failed freeing the default colormap DirectDraw palette.
> [296100.349] winDestroyColormap - Engine specific colormap destruction procedure failed. Continuing, but it is possible that memory was leaked, or that colors will be messed up from now on.
> [296100.380] winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress
> [296100.380] Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.
Can you try this again, but wait about 2 1/2 minutes to see if any XDM errors
appear.
> I note that I can still connect from my old laptop to the target VMS virtual
> system running in a SimH VM on the new PC, so the target system and
> networking are OK.
I assume that this is running an older version of the X server. Can you say
which? -depth 8 is not often used, so it's quite possible something has
gotten broken.
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