gtk2-x11-devel is missing gdk/gdkwin32.h

[Andrew Schulman]

I don't know if this file has been deliberately excluded from the package
(version 2.4.4-1), but I needed it in order to build LablGtk2.  I had to go
and fetch it from http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/gtk+-dev-2.4.7.zip.

Andrew.

Re: cygwin and startx

[Ken Dibble]

Start here:
http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Mamedov, Joel wrote:
I get startx:  bash: startx: command not found
message.
I have downloaded and installed a full package.
I can't find startx anywhere in cygwin folders.

 

Mac OS/X, Virtual PC 6, Oracle, and Cygwin/X - a tale

[Dr Robert Young]

Well it is possible to get cygwin/X running on Virtual PC 6.1.1 under 
Mac OS/X 10.3. There are some  tricks (simply to make it work, and to 
preserve your sanity..all Windows OSs are NOT created equal), so 
please  bear with me while I provide some "color" to my tale.

Now, you may ask why anyone would want to get this combo working on a 
Macintosh Powerbook G4 running OS/X 10.3.5? You can get X windows for 
OS/X directly.

However, the world is populated by Windows machines, and as a database 
consultant, I have to access a multitude of client sites "remotely" 
since travel is not an option for a myriad of reasons. That means you 
enter the world of VPNs, which are in heavy use today, and getting more 
common by the minute. And the world of VPNs is dominated by Windows 
software ( NOT the VPN that you  get w/Windows direct from Microsoft, 
but the proprietary ones like Contivity, Cisco, Avaya, etc). Further 
VPN's do not "like" to be installed on the same machine as other VPN's 
( these things do not "play well" together), so if you are working with 
3-4-5 customers and all the associated VPN software is from different 
vendors...well you can see the problem even if you don't toss in the 
point that I wanted to use my Mac that I had already paid for with hard 
earned, cold, unadulterated CASH.

That was my original motivation for getting Virtual PC...so one could 
use the Windows VPN software to access the client sites, by defining 
"multiple" virtual PCs each with their own software installed for a 
specific customer, and do it all from (1) laptop. AND IT WORKS!

The next issue came from Oracle Corporation ( remember I make a living 
as a database consultant). On Unix (Sun, HP, AIX, Linux) the Oracle 
installer is the "Universal Installer"...ie it is  a java based & 
X-based. Character based telnet installs are not a real option anymore, 
much to the telecommuter's regret.

That means I needed to come up with a means of running remote X-apps, 
through the client's VPN under Windows, but (in my case solely as a 
matter of personal preference) on a Macintosh OS/X system. There is now 
a version of Virtual PC for Windows letting you define multiple Win 
OS's on the same Intel platform ( I do, in fact,  have an older Compaq 
laptop ), but that means I have to by a newer Intel based laptop with 
more disk & memory & the Win Virtual PC software, and I didn't want to 
spend the $$$ there.

Enough of the "tedious" background...but you do now have a good feel 
for the situation

I looked at several commercial Windows X servers (since I had to use 
Windows based VPNs) , and all would run under Virtual PC but in true 
Murphy's form, each had its own "problem" with the Oracle Universal 
Installer...fonts, missing buttons, etc. The glitches were well 
documented around the various Oracle www sites, but no real good 
solutions were available unless you could get a customer to change 
their X client setup "just for you" ( not a point you really want to 
ask a paying customer), upgrade their Oracle site-wide ( only a few 
hundred thousand dollars for that one), or  you could find V6 of the 
'X' server software (which was now on V12..lotsa luck on that one). 
Then I came across cygwin/X...

Now I like free software in my business, it allows me to spend more 
money on my hobbies. So I downloaded cygwin/X onto two different 
Virtual PC setups...one is Windows 2000, the other is Windows 98SE.

In the case of the basic cygwin, one has to increase the environment 
space for storing PATH information, etc. Once that was done, cygwin 
would come up under both Windows OSs, but it was much slower under Win 
2000.

Next I needed the X software running. For each Windows OS, I tried 
startxwin.bat & startxwin.sh. Sorry to say, these were a no go. The "X" 
showed up in the task bar, but no xterm was generated, and no X app 
would display. I should not say they never worked, startxwin.bat did 
work completely (1) time in 5 days of trial and error...but it never 
repeated.

So then I went back an extra step.. to the cygwin admin window and 
entered

xinit -- -kb
and IT WORKED! It worked on both OSs, but it was much ...much faster in 
Win 98SE.  This was with the VPN running ( my only immediate need is 
for the Avaya VPN, but I plan to test it with some of the others as 
well at a later date).

After the xterm appeared, I started the Oracle Installer on the remote 
Sun system using

ssh -Y [EMAIL PROTECTED]  /usr/openwin/bin/xterm
and then from the Sun xterm, I could run the Installer ( I could have 
run it directly from ssh, but after the install you usually have to 
check some things, so I wanted a xterm window ready, willing, and 
able), and it displayed back on the Mac WITH NO VISIBLE PROBLEMS.

So, cygwin/X now lets me run the Oracle software, displayed back to my 
existing Mac, without having to purchase either a commercial Windows X 
server ( around $300), or buy a another laptop ($1,000-2,000).

And that is t

cygwin and startx

[Mamedov, Joel]

 I get startx:  bash: startx: command not found
message.
I have downloaded and installed a full package.
I can't find startx anywhere in cygwin folders.




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Is RECORD extension included in cygwins' X server?

[Ariel Burbaickij]

Hello dear mailing list participants,
to dat as I know problems with expectk
still persist and as consequence it is
not possible for example to use the 
android tool for automatized GUI
testing. Yesterday, I ran in the tool
called xnee and I would like to compile/port
it for cygwin. The problem is -- I do not know
whether cygwins' X server has the RECORD
extension included or not. That it the question.

With Best Regards
Ariel Burbaickij

Re: Problem installing and using Cygwin

[Stephan Eickschen]

Daniel,
your log files reads:
XWin was started with the following command line:
/usr/X11R6/bin/XWin -screen0 1600x1200 -from 137.193.73.12 -query
137.193.14.32
ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens
winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1280 h 1024
winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning
Unrecognized option: -screen0
^^^
Further down you will see that there should be a blank between '-screen'
and the screen number:
-screen scr_num [width height]
Enable screen scr_num and optionally specify a width and
height for that screen.
This would be my starting point - even though I am a newbie to cygwin/X,
too...
Hope this helps,
Stephan
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Re: Problem installing and using Cygwin

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Daniel Kliche wrote:

> Hi everybody
>
> i have installed all of the cygwin packages but it didn't work.
>
> I want to use cygwin to connect from a WinXP plattform to a unix server.
>
> A little help would be very usefull

A little info would be very useful.  See .
Igor
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Re: Problem installing and using Cygwin

[Andrew Schulman]

> Hi everybody
> 
> i have installed all of the cygwin packages but it didn't work.
> 
> I want to use cygwin to connect from a WinXP plattform to a unix server.
> 
> A little help would be very usefull

Sure: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs-de.html.

Problem installing and using Cygwin

[Daniel Kliche]

Hi everybody

i have installed all of the cygwin packages but it didn't work.

I want to use cygwin to connect from a WinXP plattform to a unix server.

A little help would be very usefull

cheers Daniel

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XWin.log
Description: Binary data

Re: ghostscript weirdness

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, sven geier wrote:

> Heya all.
>
> I had sent (to the main list) yesterday the following problem
>
> [snipped question about "Unknown device: x11" error from ghostscript]
>
> To this, Igor replied the following:
>
> } First off, questions regarding Cygwin and X11 should go to the
> } cygwin-xfree list.  Please move further discussions onto that list.  I'm
> } directing this reply there as well, and setting Reply-To: appropriately.
^^
Sven, my reply (with your message fully quoted) already went to this list
-- there's no need to forward it again.

> } Secondly, this is a common problem.  Simply install the "ghostscript-x11"
> } package.
> } Igor
>
> Unfortunately, this doesn't solve the problem. As it turns out, I
> already have ghostscript, ghostscript-base and ghostscript-x11 (and gv).
> I even reinstalled ghostscript-x11 but still no luck: gv comes up just
> fine, I can click on the "open" button but when I select a postscript
> file I get the same "Unknown Device: x11" error message. Starting gs by
> hand and entering "Devicenames ==" still yields the same list that does
> indeed not contain the "x11" device.
>
> I'm puzzled...

You also need to make sure that /usr/X11R6/bin/gs gets picked up before
/usr/bin/gs (i.e., that /usr/X11R6/bin is in your PATH before /usr/bin --
which is usually done by default by /etc/profile.d/00xorg-x11-base.sh).
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Re: new install - application windows are dead

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Gareth Edwards wrote:

> A small update: Daniel Gruber also helped me with this off-list and 
> identified that the multiwindow WM was causing the issue; running 
> -rootless with twm or wmaker instead resolved the problem.
> 
> So I guess it looks like -multiwindow with dual head displays is an issue?

have you tried the -multiplemonitors option to XWin?

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Re: new install - application windows are dead

[Gareth Edwards]

A small update: Daniel Gruber also helped me with this off-list and 
identified that the multiwindow WM was causing the issue; running 
-rootless with twm or wmaker instead resolved the problem.

So I guess it looks like -multiwindow with dual head displays is an issue?
Gareth
Marc Bernstein wrote:
I had this problem and traced it to a dual head issue.
 

My laptop was screen 2 and I had to disconnect it before the 
startxwin.bat or sh would work properly.

 

I could not find a local configuration issue; Tried other users, etc.
 

 

Anyone know why or how to configure a dual monitor to work properly with 
CygX?

 

 

Marc

Re: ghostscript weirdness

[Franz Wolfhagen]

I believe to remember that this may be a question in which sequence the
non-x11 bins and the x11 bins are set in your path and how your DISPLAY
variable is set.

If you are running the X based gs you should have the X11 related entries
in the path before the non-X11 once (and vice versa if you are running the
non-X11 gs).

I have not tested this on my local install today - but I believe I have
verified this earlier due to an earlier disussion of the same problem...

Med venlig hilsen / Regards
Franz Wolfhagen