Win32 window manager
Hi everybody, The most annoying problem with XFree and Win32,is the window manager. Some apps were ported to XFree+cygwin but lacking a good (not twm...) window manager makes them useless... What do you use as a window manager on Win32? I tried kde WM (kwin) but it is too heavy for just letting me move/resize the window. The ideal would be a Native Win32 that mimic the Win32 look-n-feel by enabling just the standard win32 buttons, nothingmore. Thanks to share your experiences -jec
Re: Win32 window manager
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Jean-Eric Cuendet wrote: Hi everybody, The most annoying problem with XFree and Win32,is the window manager. Some apps were ported to XFree+cygwin but lacking a good (not twm...) window manager makes them useless... What do you use as a window manager on Win32? I tried kde WM (kwin) but it is too heavy for just letting me move/resize the window. The ideal would be a Native Win32 that mimic the Win32 look-n-feel by enabling just the standard win32 buttons, nothingmore. XWin -multiwindow windowmaker fvwm2 (maybe fvwm95 for Windows LF) bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
Re: keyboard not working
Hi! I have just seen this thread, and report EXACTLY the same problems that Stephan has reported. Mouse, Shift, Alt, Ctrl and the numeric keys do work, the rest does not. I am using a Microsoft Natural Keyboard. I do have the latest DirectX too (don't know if that is related). Xterm does not show characters typed other than numeric chars. xev reports what I mentioned on the previous paragraph. RXVT does not accept input either UNLESS I unset DISPLAY (last version I had did not have this requirement). I have tried to solve this problem by getting a sample XF86Config file and putting in the setting Option XkbModelmicrosoft to no avail. Any hints on what might be happening would be greatly welcomed. I totally depend on Cygwin (I use rxvt all the time), so I would greatly appreciate hints on what to do. Best Regards, JUAN M. MEDINA a.. From: Stephan Schaefer s dot schaefer at sun dot com b.. To: alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de c.. Cc: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com d.. Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 16:16:24 +0100 e.. Subject: Re: keyboard not working f.. Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com Which programs have you tried? Please also run xev for testing and press some keys in the Event Test window. Are there some ButtonPress events reported? Yes! Mouseevents are all reported correctly. Additionally I see events from Shift/Ctrl/Alt and, most surprising, the numeric keypad is working as well. Still nothing from the rest of the keyboard Stephan __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/
Typo on http://xfree86.cygwin.com/ home page
FYI, there's a typo on the Cygwin/X home page, first paragraph of the Downloading and Installing section. s/not yo already/not you already/ hope this is the right place to report it. PM -- Paul Mackinney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
using xbiff on remote mail
I've been trying to use xbiff to monitor a remote mailbox as in `man xbiff`: checkCommand (class CheckCommand) Specifies a shell command to be executed to check for new mail rather than examining the size of file. The specified string value is used as the argument to a system(3) call and may therefore contain i/o redirection. An exit status of 0 indi- cates that new mail is waiting, 1 indicates that there has been no change in size, and 2 indicates that the mail has been cleared. By default, no shell command is provided. I set up a command line for xbiff in a command file: --8-- top cut 1/2 - bottom 1/2 ---8-- #!/bin/tcsh run xbiff -xrm 'checkCommand /home/ingber/local/bin/mbsize' -update 15 -fg red -geometry 75x75+0+75 --8-- bottom cut 1/2 - top 1/2 ---8-- I've tried some different variations of single and double-quotes in this command. I've tested the `mbsize` command file and it does what is expected by checkCommand(). --8-- top cut 2/2 - bottom 2/2 ---8-- #!/bin/tcsh -f set HEADER = 13 set MB = `ssh -q -x XXX.com -n /home/ingber/local/bin//mbsize` if ( $MB = $HEADER) then /bin/rm -f /home/ingber/.Lester_mailbox echo 2 else if (-e /home/ingber/.Lester_mailbox) then set MBHOME = `cat /home/ingber/.Lester_mailbox` if ($MB $MBHOME) then /bin/rm -f /home/ingber/.Lester_mailbox echo $MB /home/ingber/.Lester_mailbox echo 0 else echo 1 endif else echo $MB /home/ingber/.Lester_mailbox echo 0 endif endif --8-- bottom cut 2/2 - top 2/2 ---8-- When I run xbiff, the mailbox window pops up OK, but it not running checkCommand() as far as I can tell? Thanks. Lester
Re: Typo on http://xfree86.cygwin.com/ home page
Paul, I dunno, I kinda like the yo. :) I will fix it. Thanks for the catch. Harold Paul Mackinney wrote: FYI, there's a typo on the Cygwin/X home page, first paragraph of the Downloading and Installing section. s/not yo already/not you already/ hope this is the right place to report it. PM -- Paul Mackinney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
not getting login using xdmcp
I've configured my RH9 to respond to xdmcp and have even successfully tested it with another xserver. But my attempts at getting the cygwin startxdmcp.bat command Xwin -query hostname -nodecoration -lesspointer to get me to a login have not been successful. The server (192.168.1.2) seems to respond as in this dump initation of startxdmcp 21:43:42.670753 192.168.1.132.1061 192.168.1.2.xdmcp: udp 7 21:43:42.835538 192.168.1.2.xdmcp 192.168.1.132.1061: udp 84 (DF) 21:43:52.813260 192.168.1.132.1061 192.168.1.2.xdmcp: udp 66 21:43:52.814046 192.168.1.2.xdmcp 192.168.1.132.1061: udp 52 (DF) 21:43:52.829619 192.168.1.132.1061 192.168.1.2.xdmcp: udp 29 21:44:06.258146 192.168.1.132.1061 192.168.1.2.xdmcp: udp 29 21:44:10.260849 192.168.1.132.1061 192.168.1.2.xdmcp: udp 29 21:44:18.266102 192.168.1.132.1061 192.168.1.2.xdmcp: udp 29 21:44:34.269619 192.168.1.132.1061 192.168.1.2.xdmcp: udp 29 21:45:06.271426 192.168.1.132.1061 192.168.1.2.xdmcp: udp 29 21:45:07.918032 192.168.1.2.xdmcp 192.168.1.132.1061: udp 79 (DF) root cygwin window closes Unfortunately this sequence isn't generating errors to xdm-error.log. I'm thinking that either there is an xdm configuration setting or Xwin option that I don't have set up. I've tried the -from and -port options with no affect. Any advise is appreciated -John
Broken link XFree86-base on ftp server
Hello cygwin. File ftp://cygwin.csie.ntu.edu.tw/pub/cygwin/release/XFree86/XFree86-base/XFree86-base-4.3.0-1.tar.bz2 is damaged. Can you put correct archive? thank you in advance. - Sign up for ICQmail at http://www.icq.com/icqmail/signup.html
RE: Could not create directory '/home/andrew/.ssh'.
When you type mount what does it say? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Clarke Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 7:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Could not create directory '/home/andrew/.ssh'. Hi. I've been using and enjoying Cygwin for a few months now, but I recently reinstalled WIndows XP on my laptop and have been having the following problem when I try to run ssh: bash-2.05b$ ssh -X radagast Could not create directory '/home/andrew/.ssh'. ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host I just uninstalled Cygwin, deleted c:\cygwin, deleted all the references to cygwin and cygnus that I could find in the registry and did a full reinstall and I'm still having this problem. What can I do to get this working? Thanks a lot! - Andrew Clarke.
