multiwindow doesn't work
I'm reposting. Any suggestions? Thanks, Jim --- Jim Scheef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:41:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim Scheef [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: multiwindow doesn't work To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alexander, Thanks for the prompt reply, but this used to work and I can't minimize the desktop window because it is frameless. Worse, the desktop remains on top and hides all Windows apps. The syntax startx -multiwindow comes from the KDE web site and clearly indicates that the desktop is not to appear, so something is wrong. What causes the message: ERROR: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)? This message is also displayed when I start any KDE apps, like kwrite. Thanks, Jim --- Alexander Gottwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Scheef wrote: Hello. Ever since CygwinX switched X server source (or whatever changed), I have not been able to make -multiwindow work on my machine running XP SP1. KDE 3 is installed as the desktop. When I start using startx -multiwindow , everything seems to start up correctly - the splash screen is displayed in a Windows window, the round plays and then the root window appears and initializes in frameless mode. KDE has it's own root (or better desktop) window. This is just a simple window and Xwin can do nothing to hide it. Other KDE application will be displayed as simple windows and you could minimize the destop window and have the others still present. bye ago NP: Accessory - I say go (Hocico Mix) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
Re: multiwindow doesn't work
Alexander, Thanks for the prompt reply, but this used to work and I can't minimize the desktop window because it is frameless. Worse, the desktop remains on top and hides all Windows apps. The syntax startx -multiwindow comes from the KDE web site and clearly indicates that the desktop is not to appear, so something is wrong. What causes the message: ERROR: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)? This message is also displayed when I start any KDE apps, like kwrite. Thanks, Jim --- Alexander Gottwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Scheef wrote: Hello. Ever since CygwinX switched X server source (or whatever changed), I have not been able to make -multiwindow work on my machine running XP SP1. KDE 3 is installed as the desktop. When I start using startx -multiwindow , everything seems to start up correctly - the splash screen is displayed in a Windows window, the round plays and then the root window appears and initializes in frameless mode. KDE has it's own root (or better desktop) window. This is just a simple window and Xwin can do nothing to hide it. Other KDE application will be displayed as simple windows and you could minimize the destop window and have the others still present. bye ago NP: Accessory - I say go (Hocico Mix) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
multiwindow doesn't work
Hello. Ever since CygwinX switched X server source (or whatever changed), I have not been able to make -multiwindow work on my machine running XP SP1. KDE 3 is installed as the desktop. When I start using startx -multiwindow , everything seems to start up correctly - the splash screen is displayed in a Windows window, the round plays and then the root window appears and initializes in frameless mode. I've reinstalled from scratch and run numerous updates to get the latest packages. A sample XWin.log is attached. There are several messages: ERROR: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) Is this the problem? What did I do to cause this? Can this be fixed? Thanks, Jim XWin.log Description: XWin.log
Re: Detecting Running Apps on Windoze in Cygwin
Tennis, Back in the days when I used VB 4/5/6, we got the window titles via a Win32 call. Can you do that in tcl? Jim Tennis Smith wrote: Yeah, I can figure out what processes are running from ps, but not what windows are up. Basically, I'm trying to verify that a couple applications are running and have windows of a particular name up and running. Thanks for the reply. -Tennis -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 16:59 To: Tennis Smith Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Detecting Running Apps on Windoze in Cygwin On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Tennis Smith wrote: Hi, What I would like to do is very simple (I hope): Determine which Win applications are running and, if possible, what the names are in the title bars. How best can that be done? I'd prefer to use TCL. TIA, -Tennis The Unix way (ps) will work. I'm sure you can invoke it from TCL via exec() (or, if you actually want to process the output, via open()). See ps --help for the appropriate command-line arguments. This won't give you the title bar info, though. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fLa.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster. -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://shopnow.netscape.com/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Souldn't we put [Cygwin] or [CygXwin] here depending on the question?
Dave and all, I have been trying for weeks to find a way to sort these messages in the Netscape 7 version of Mozilla Mail. Nothing has worked. Adding a consistent flag to the subject line like [cygwin] would make the sorting trivial. If it took the list administrator 15 minutes to make this change, it could save the list users many man-years of effort trying to make the filtering work in their email clients. Thanks, Jim Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of David I got mails from both two groups:cygwin, and cygXwin. Well, that's because you're on two completely different mailing lists. It's sometimes confusing. You're very easily confused then. Why don't you set up your mailer to sort them into different folders? Don't we need to seperate one from the other by putting a head into Subject, for example, [cygwin] vs. [cygXwin]? What on earth is the use of putting a tag in the subject line when it only pointlessly duplicates information that is already in the From/To lines: From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of . and when there's presumably many people who are only on one list. You could always just learn how to set up mail-sorting rules in your email program, rather than expect everyone else to suddenly start doing things your way just to save you the five minutes of effort it would take you to sort your own problem out. cheers, DaveK -- Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://shopnow.netscape.com/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Cygwin/xFree from 2 users
Alexander and all, I guess I wasn't clear. I'm sitting at my notebook looking at the XP login screen. If I log in using [EMAIL PROTECTED], Xwin works fine, but fails to start when I log on using [EMAIL PROTECTED] The machine and the Cygwin/Xfree installation are one and the same in both cases. I use the same username (js) in both cases for convenience and I was hoping that this would make it easy to use the same Cygwin home directory (/home/js) for both logins. How can I make this work? Jim --- Alexander Gottwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Jim Scheef wrote: Hello. I use a notebook computer so I can carry my computing environment around. This is WinXP and current versions of Cygwin and xFree as of a few weeks ago. I have several user 'accounts' that belong to various domains. Most of these accounts are 'js', as in [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc. I want all of these to use the same Cygwin home directory. Cygwin and X were installed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] When I'm not connected to a network, I use [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cygwin seems to work with both user accounts but X will not start from [EMAIL PROTECTED] The attached xwin.log came from running xinit. Trying to start kde gives an error that there is no write access to .ICEauthority. I believe the X problem is related to permissions within /home/js. I have tried to set up permissions for both user accounts on /home/js but I can't seem to make them stick. What permissions are needed? What file permissions are critical, which mearly convenient? Does the setup process replace the permissions on the user's home directory? How can Cygwin and X be configured for multiple users on a machine? and the big question - how can I configure Cygwin and X so that I can use the same /home/js directory from multiple 'js' accounts? You can not start two xservers with the same display number (which is in fact the TCP/IP port used). Start the second with an additional parameter :1. eg XWin :1 or xinit -- :1 bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723 Chemnitzer Linux-Tag 2004 - 6. und 7. März 2004 http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com
Cygwin/xFree from 2 users
Hello. I use a notebook computer so I can carry my computing environment around. This is WinXP and current versions of Cygwin and xFree as of a few weeks ago. I have several user 'accounts' that belong to various domains. Most of these accounts are 'js', as in [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc. I want all of these to use the same Cygwin home directory. Cygwin and X were installed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] When I'm not connected to a network, I use [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cygwin seems to work with both user accounts but X will not start from [EMAIL PROTECTED] The attached xwin.log came from running xinit. Trying to start kde gives an error that there is no write access to .ICEauthority. I believe the X problem is related to permissions within /home/js. I have tried to set up permissions for both user accounts on /home/js but I can't seem to make them stick. What permissions are needed? What file permissions are critical, which mearly convenient? Does the setup process replace the permissions on the user's home directory? How can Cygwin and X be configured for multiple users on a machine? and the big question - how can I configure Cygwin and X so that I can use the same /home/js directory from multiple 'js' accounts? Jim __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com XWin.log Description: XWin.log
Re: Multi-window problems on remote clients
Hello, Wow, I actually get an opprotunity to contribute! I use Xdmcp with -multiwindow and it works fine. You just need to use the Xnest client/server to provide a 'window' for the remote machine. The command... $ Xnest :1 -query host gets it going. Jim --- Harold L Hunt II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Takuma Murakami wrote: C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\XWin.exe -multiwindow -nowinkill -once -broadcast I don't think -multiwindow with XDMCP is supported. Takuma is right. The Multi-Window Window Manager is, as the name implies, a window manager; logging into a remote machine via Xdmcp (using the -broadcast, -query, or -indirect command-line parameters) causes the remote machine to start a window manager. You can only have one window manager at a time for a given display and screen. In addition, you are seeing strange behavior when using -clipboard because -clipboard enables some code that allows clients on your local X machine to connect to the X Server when you are using Xdmcp. Oddly enough, Xdmcp usually disables access for clients local to the X Server and it requires that all X clients know a certain magic cookie in order to be able to connect. The clipboard code adds an internal magic cookie that allows the clipboard client to connect; it looks like a side-effect of this is that the window manager is also able to connect sometimes. You bring up another interesting point that I have not specifically tested: whether -clipboard works with -broadcast. I know that the clipboard manager generally works with -query for Xdmcp, but there is a slight possibility that it would not work with -broadcast. However, I suspect that your problems with the clipboard support will go away when you remove the -multiwindow parameter. I think I will add some checks to the server now that cause the -multiwindow flag to be overridden if -query, -broadcast, or -indirect is specified. Harold __ Do you Yahoo!? Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools
Re: fatal IO error 104 on start
Harold, I had this same problem. Your suggestions resolved the font problem. The first umount returned no messages, the second gave a file not found error. Does this problem indicate trouble in the setup scripts? Best of all, I can type into xterm for the first time in months. Is there someplace I can find more about the problems caused by installing Microsoft Services for UNIX along with Cygwin Xfree86? Thanks, Jim MSU '68 --- Harold L Hunt II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Follow these steps: 1) Open Cygwin bash shell. 2) In bash shell, run the following two commands: umount /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts umount -u /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts 3) Rerun Cygwin's setup.exe, select 'Reinstall' for any of the following packages that were already installed: XFree86-f100 XFree86-fcyr XFree86-fenc XFree86-fnts XFree86-fscl 4) Launch Cygwin/X again and test that the font problems have gone away. 5) Report your results here along with any deviations you had to make from these instructions. Harold Greg Jewell wrote: Thanks for the tip. Looking at the log file, it appears that this is the pertinent error message: Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' winDeinitClipboard - Noting shutdown in progress winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress Any ideas? I installed the default XFree86 packages. Greg -Original Message- From: Harold L Hunt II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 13:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: fatal IO error 104 on start Greg, Look at /tmp/XWin.log. Harold Greg Jewell wrote: Hi All, I just installed cygwin on my work machine, but am unable to start the X server. Each time I try (using startx), I receive the following error: XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by perr) on X server :0.0 after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. I searched the archives and saw that others were having the same problem at the end of November/beginning of December, but no solution was offered. I downloaded the packages from a couple of different sources this morning, but none of them produced different results. Other than the few times that I've installed the software this morning, cygwin had not been on this machine previously. (It's a new box.) Does anybody know how to resolve this? Thanks, Greg Jewell __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the Signing Bonus Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus
Re: Cygwin XFree ignores the keyboard
Edgar, No, I never got a reply. I have been monitoring the list to see if a solution might come along. Recently there has been some traffic about no keyboard so I'm planning to try the lastest update to see if it fixes the problem. Jim (not Jeff) --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff, You posted the below issue in the Xfree mail list. I am experiencing the same problem. Did you figure it out ? Or Did you get a response from the user community ? If so, please drop me a line. Thanks. Edgar Camacho Cygwin XFree ignores the keyboard * From: Jim Scheef jscheef at yahoo dot com * To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com * Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 12:34:38 -0700 (PDT) * Subject: Cygwin XFree ignores the keyboard * Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com Hello everyone, I have been using Cygwin XFree86 for some time on a Winbook X1 running XP Pro, and it was working great with several Linux machines. A couple of months back it started to ignore the keyboard. IOW, I type and nothing happens in any Xwindows frame which makes things rather difficult. The mouse still works. First I tried doing a 'reinstall' to no effect. Then I uninstalled everything and did a complete reinstall with the latest versions of Cygwin and Xfree86. The reinstall seemed to go well but I saw one script error reporting a 'null' value somewhere. At the time, there was no way to know (that I knew of) to see exactly which package gave the error so I ignored it and went on. This issue is not addressed in the FAQ so now I turn to you. All help will be greatly appreciated. Jim __ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree
Cygwin XFree ignores the keyboard
Hello everyone, I have been using Cygwin XFree86 for some time on a Winbook X1 running XP Pro, and it was working great with several Linux machines. A couple of months back it started to ignore the keyboard. IOW, I type and nothing happens in any Xwindows frame which makes things rather difficult. The mouse still works. First I tried doing a 'reinstall' to no effect. Then I uninstalled everything and did a complete reinstall with the latest versions of Cygwin and Xfree86. The reinstall seemed to go well but I saw one script error reporting a 'null' value somewhere. At the time, there was no way to know (that I knew of) to see exactly which package gave the error so I ignored it and went on. This issue is not addressed in the FAQ so now I turn to you. All help will be greatly appreciated. Jim __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com
