Re: Invisible X client window borders
not much help from me but I had the same problem with TWM myself, no border when resizing. I think I had border when I was moving but I am not sure it was a while ago. I downloaded and compiled Blackbox and the problem doesn't show up under that. - Original Message - From: Dwight Schauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 2:26 PM Subject: Invisible X client window borders I'm not sure if this is an Xserver problem or a a window manager on. In TWM and in Afterstep I don't get the rectangle or grid when moving or resizing client windows. The proper window decoration does show up on the x clients. I have an Nvidia GeForce II MX and Windows XP. (On an Athlon Thunderbird). I installed the latest Cygwin and Xfree a few days ago. I'm running AfterStep v. 1.8.11 compiled and running under Cygwin/XFree. I did the same at work a week ago on a different machine, and resizing, placing, and moving windows is fine. (I don't have window contents shown on resize or move, and I use manual window placement if there is no room to display the window). At work on Cygwin/XFree the grid/rectangle shows up correctly in Afterstep, as it does on a native Linux XFree86 server. Apart from that, XFree and Afterstep seem to be running fine on Cygwin. I can't get aterm to work, (it compiles and run and can get as far as displaying the shell prompt, but then it locks up) so I'm using the cygwin provided rxvt instead and it runs fine under X.
Re: missing telnet, solution
This whole thread got me thinking about possible ways to avoid this xxx is missing problem... I thought that I'd throw an idea out for discussion... Would it make sense to have setup install a dummy script for some of the common utilities and then overwrite that script with the actual utility if it is selected from the gui as it should be? Assume that the missing utility is called ttt.exe Have setup create /bin/missing and link ttt.exe to missing ln -s /bin/missing /bin/telnet.exe stuckymb [547] ls -l missing ttt.exe -rwxr-xr-x1 stuckymb mygroup 214 Mar 25 18:00 missing lrwxrwxrwx1 stuckymb mygroup94 Mar 25 17:58 ttt.exe - missing stuckymb [548] stuckymb [548] stuckymb [548] stuckymb [548] cat missing #!/bin/sh echo If you are seeing this message, it means that the echo echo$0 echo echo 'still needs to be selected from within setup' echo echo 'Please re-run setup' echo stuckymb [549] stuckymb [549] stuckymb [549] stuckymb [549] ttt.exe If you are seeing this message, it means that the ./ttt.exe still needs to be selected from within setup Please re-run setup When setup is re-run to download the actual ttt.exe the dummy ttt.exe could be deleted and then replaced with the correct executable. Just my 0.02 cents worth... --Mark - Original Message - From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 9:46 PM Subject: Re: missing telnet, solution On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 06:18:05PM +0100, Palic, Darko wrote: Hello Christopher, okay it is nice to follow the request of the users, but why isn't a selectbox available, there something like basic/minimal, common/typical and complete could be selected instead of changing the whole setup? It would help! What answer are you expecting? It's a volunteer project. We make changes as time permits and as people are inclined. We thought the current setup with categories would be an improvement and apparently it wasn't. It never occurred to us that people wouldn't be able to figure out that you could click on things and see packages to install. But, that was the case. Once it became clear that there was a problem and that people didn't like having to select things individually, I would have liked to see an immediate resolution of the problem but it just didn't happen. It's not like I can fire anyone for not improving setup for you. I'm just damn grateful that Robert and others are spending time working on it at all. Anyway, the new, just released, version of setup has some improvements for selecting whole categories. That should make things much easier. We're discussing other alternatives all of the time but the basic problem is that we have a lot of people who just ask aggrieved questions like the above or who repeat the same observations that have been made countless times before, and very few people who are actually willing to help make things better. If you want to contribute (and apparently you do), then setup.exe discussions are happening in the cygwin-apps mailing lists. If you have further questions, you should (after reviewing the mail archives there) send them there. cgf I think the change you're referring to was that we added, at the request of many users, a minimal install. It's based on the debian base category, which does not include bzip2. The default installation is a really basic one and it's looking like we need to change that. Anyway, I'll try to keep in this in mind if we change something in the future that impacts Cygwin/XFree86. It never occurred to me that this would be an issue.
RE: missing telnet, solution
-Original Message- From: mstucky5 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 10:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: missing telnet, solution This whole thread got me thinking about possible ways to avoid this xxx is missing problem... I thought that I'd throw an idea out for discussion... Would it make sense to have setup install a dummy script for some of the common utilities and then overwrite that script with the actual utility if it is selected from the gui as it should be? In debian, there is a package that will do this - I think it that when a binary is not found it queries dpkg to see if a package that can provide it exists. Anyway, I think that an _automated_ approach to this could be quite useful, but not a manual one. (I realise that you didn't imply either, I'm simply getting there first :}). Rob
X connection to 127....broken
Hi, I am assuming this is the list for config troubleshooting. Here is my prob. I just dl and installed cygwin and xfree today but I can't get it to run though. The sceen just pops up for about a second and then it vanishes. The startxwin window says: X connection to 127.0.0.1:0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown) The log file says this: ddxProcessArgument () - Initializing default screens winInitializeDefaultScreens () - w 800 h 600 ddxProcessArgument () - screen - argc: 5 i: 1 When I try to run XWin, it gives an error message: A required .DLL file, CYGWIN1,DLL was not found. I got all my stuff from: http://archive.progeny.com/cygwin/xfree/binaries/4.2.0/ TIA Ed __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards® http://movies.yahoo.com/
X connection to 127.0. ...explicit kill...
Hi, I'm assuming this is the list for config problems. I dl the prog today from: http://archive.progeny.com/cygwin/xfree/binaries/4.2.0/ When I run it, the x window pops up for maybe a second and then vanishes and the startxwin shell says: X connection to 127.0.0.1:0 broken (explicit kill or server shudown) If I try to run XWin.exe, it says that it cant find cygwin1.dll. TIA The log file says: ddxProcessArgument () - Initializing default screens winInitializeDefaultScreens () - w 800 h 600 ddxProcessArgument () - screen - argc: 5 i: 1 __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards® http://movies.yahoo.com/
Exiting xfree
One problem I have when I run xfree in Windows mode (which I prefer), is that sometimes I accidentally hit the exit button in the upper right hand corner of the my Cygwin/Xfree window. This sometimes causes me to loose work. I know that a way of avoiding this is to use the fullscreen flag with XWin.exe. However, I prefer to run in a window, so my question is whether there is a way to disable the windows exit button so that the only way to exit is with Alt-F4? (Using the nowinkill flag doesn't help here.) Thanks, Lars. -- Lars Jensen, TMCC/Vista B200, 7000 Dandini Blvd, Reno NV 89512-3999. Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.scsr.nevada.edu/~jensen Tel: 775.673.7113 FAX: 775.674.7592
