Extraneous key autorepeat w/ remote desktop
Hi folks, Very nice product. It's going up against Reflection/X on my desktop and is for the most part wining. But there one annoying problem. When I remote desktop to a remote Windows system and run Cygwin/X from the remote system, any communication delays while typing over the remote desktop network are interpreted as one long keypress. Which in turn triggers the keystroke auto repeat and feeds a bunch of extra keystrokes into my input stream. I've tried playing with the autorepeat settings. Turning it off altogether fixes the problem, but isn't very convenient when I want to enter a lot of the same keystroke, for example when moving the text cursor around. Setting up a long initial delay helps some, but communication delays can sometimes last for 5-10 seconds, far longer than I am willing to wait for autorepeat to trigger in normal use. I've also tried running Cygwin/X on the local system and talking to an X client on remote systems. This works, but has some unacceptable delays and problems with the VPN I have to run through. Right now it's kind of a tossup whether it is more annoying to put up with the delays with a local X server, or deal with the extra keystroke with a remote X server. I not sure what, if anything, can be done to detect and avoid remote desktop communication delays. But Reflection/X never has this problem, so there must be some way to do it. Thanks for listening, -Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Wierd display problem.
Hi folks, I've seen a couple times where Cygwin/X gets into a weird mode in which any portion of a window that is within about an inch of the right side of the screen doesn't repaint. Looks really strange when scrolling the screen, most of the screen scrolls but the right most column is locked in place. If I move the window away from the right edge of the screen it refreshes normally. If I move it back the problem reappears. The problem goes away if I shut down and restarting the Cygwin/X server. So it isn't happening currently. I'll keep an eye out for it and try to identify just what sequence puts it into that mode. Is there anything else I could be doing to track this down? Regards, -Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Font initialization?
Hi folks, I have an application that needs some non-standard fonts. It's easy enough to add a manually new directory to the font path. What I haven't figured out is how to configure Cygwin/X to add the new font path directory when it starts up. Thanks for any help -Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Font initialization?
Thanks Igor, I figured that out from the man pages. What I haven't figured out is where I can put that xset +fp where it will be automatically executed at cygwin/X startup. -Ken On Wednesday 07 December 2005 07:54, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Kenneth Corbin wrote: Hi folks, I have an application that needs some non-standard fonts. It's easy enough to add a manually new directory to the font path. What I haven't figured out is how to configure Cygwin/X to add the new font path directory when it starts up. Searching man X for font.*path shows that this could be accomplished with xset +fp DIR (the manpage also gives an example of exactly how to do this). There's also a -fp option to X, but I'm not sure it does what you want. HTH, Igor -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
