Re: can't start KDE on FreeBSD from Windows XP
On Tuesday 07 September 2004 10:36, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, Bruce Rhodewalt wrote: I'm having trouble configuring KDE on my Windows XP machine (using Cygwin/X 2004/03/25). From my bash shell, I can ssh or telnet to my FreeBSD 5.2.1 RELEASE machine. However, if I try to connect and run KDE, I have problems. where do you run KDE? On the FreeBSD box or on cygwin? The log below say you're starting it on cygwin. If so then I'd pass you on to the kde-cygwin mailing list. iceauth: creating new authority file /home/Bruce/.ICEauthority KDEINIT_KIO_EXEC kdeinit: Launched KLauncher, pid = 3604 result = 0 C:\programfiles\cygwin\opt\kde3\bin\kdeinit.exe (3872): *** unable to remap C:\p rogramfiles\cygwin\bin\cygz.dll to same address as parent(0xD3) != 0xD4 1105 [main] kdein 3604 sync_with_child: child 3872(0x65C) died before initi alization with status code 0x1 1632 [main] kdein 3604 sync_with_child: *** child state child loading dlls I think this is the reason why you get no windows. But i have no clue what caused this error. This is a rebasing problem. See http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/kde3/faq.php#rebase. BTW: Don't know the email address of bruce so send to the cygwin-xfree list too. Regards Ralf
RE: Mac OS/X, Virtual PC 6, Oracle, and Cygwin/X - a tale
I read your email with great interest, and congratulate you on your perseverence and creativity in solving you VPN problem. However, something occurred to me that you might want to consider. I don't know a whole lot about Virtual PC, but if it really behaves as a stand-alone PC which co-exists on the same LAN as the Host PC (in this case the Mac), it should be entirely possible to set up a simple network route which routes TCP/IP traffic between the VPN endpoint (at the virtual PC side) over to the host Mac. This would allow you to run Apple's X server instead of using Cygwin/X. I'm willing to bet that VPN-VirtualPC(virtual route)-Max X-server is going to have better performance than VPN-VirtualPC(Cygwin/X). I think WinME and WinXP have routing built-in (called Internet Connection Sharing, or ICS). Other flavors of Windows can be setup to route using 3rd-party freeware. gt;From: Dr Robert Young lt;rcyoung_ta_aliconsultants_tod_comgt; gt;Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gt;To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gt;Subject: Mac OS/X, Virtual PC 6, Oracle, and Cygwin/X - a tale gt;Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 12:49:58 -0400 gt; gt;Well it is possible to get cygwin/X running on Virtual PC 6.1.1 gt;under Mac OS/X 10.3. There are some tricks (simply to make it work, gt;and to preserve your sanity..all Windows OSs are NOT created gt;equal), so please bear with me while I provide some quot;colorquot; to my gt;tale. gt; gt;Now, you may ask why anyone would want to get this combo working on gt;a Macintosh Powerbook G4 running OS/X 10.3.5? You can get X windows gt;for OS/X directly. gt; gt;However, the world is populated by Windows machines, and as a gt;database consultant, I have to access a multitude of client sites gt;quot;remotelyquot; since travel is not an option for a myriad of reasons. gt;That means you enter the world of VPNs, which are in heavy use gt;today, and getting more common by the minute. And the world of VPNs gt;is dominated by Windows software ( NOT the VPN that you get gt;w/Windows direct from Microsoft, but the proprietary ones like gt;Contivity, Cisco, Avaya, etc). Further VPN's do not quot;likequot; to be gt;installed on the same machine as other VPN's ( these things do not gt;quot;play wellquot; together), so if you are working with 3-4-5 customers gt;and all the associated VPN software is from different vendors...well gt;you can see the problem even if you don't toss in the point that I gt;wanted to use my Mac that I had already paid for with hard earned, gt;cold, unadulterated CASH. gt; gt;That was my original motivation for getting Virtual PC...so one gt;could use the Windows VPN software to access the client sites, by gt;defining quot;multiplequot; virtual PCs each with their own software gt;installed for a specific customer, and do it all from (1) gt;laptop. AND IT WORKS! gt; gt;The next issue came from Oracle Corporation ( remember I make a gt;living as a database consultant). On Unix (Sun, HP, AIX, Linux) the gt;Oracle installer is the quot;Universal Installerquot;...ie it is a java gt;based amp; X-based. Character based telnet installs are not a real gt;option anymore, much to the telecommuter's regret. gt; gt;That means I needed to come up with a means of running remote gt;X-apps, through the client's VPN under Windows, but (in my case gt;solely as a matter of personal preference) on a Macintosh OS/X gt;system. There is now a version of Virtual PC for Windows letting you gt;define multiple Win OS's on the same Intel platform ( I do, in fact, gt; have an older Compaq laptop ), but that means I have to by a newer gt;Intel based laptop with more disk amp; memory amp; the Win Virtual PC gt;software, and I didn't want to spend the $$$ there. gt; gt;Enough of the quot;tediousquot; background...but you do now have a good feel gt;for the situation gt; gt; gt;I looked at several commercial Windows X servers (since I had to use gt;Windows based VPNs) , and all would run under Virtual PC but in true gt;Murphy's form, each had its own quot;problemquot; with the Oracle Universal gt;Installer...fonts, missing buttons, etc. The glitches were well gt;documented around the various Oracle www sites, but no real good gt;solutions were available unless you could get a customer to change gt;their X client setup quot;just for youquot; ( not a point you really want to gt;ask a paying customer), upgrade their Oracle site-wide ( only a few gt;hundred thousand dollars for that one), or you could find V6 of the gt;'X' server software (which was now on V12..lotsa luck on that one). gt;Then I came across cygwin/X... gt; gt;Now I like free software in my business, it allows me to spend more gt;money on my hobbies. So I downloaded cygwin/X onto two different gt;Virtual PC setups...one is Windows 2000, the other is Windows 98SE. gt; gt;In the case of the basic cygwin, one has to increase the environment gt;space for storing PATH information, etc. Once that was done, cygwin gt;would come up under
RE: X11 becomes unresponsive. VERY unresponsive.
I don't recall any reported problems with Cygwin/X per se, but there is a HUGE hyperthreading-related thread on the main Cygwin list -- you might do well to check there. Here's an executive summary for the impatient: unless someone tracks down the problem and fixes it, or donates a hyperthreaded system that exhibits the problem to CGF, this won't get fixed. You don't have to donate a whole system yourself - just send money to CGF through Paypal, (CGF address: me -at- cgf -dot- cx), and when/if there's enough, he'll get a hyperthreaded system. -Richard Campbell.
Re: X11 becomes unresponsive. VERY unresponsive.
I've been having similar problems. I have not rebuilt my cygwin in quite a while and haven't had these problems before. any chance there's a conflict with some new patch in Windows 2000? I had not seen these performance problems previously, just the last few weeks. My CPU pegs at 100% during cygwin usage, typically with starting up new windows. It is close to unusable at times. Chuck At 10:12 AM 9/6/2004 +0200, you wrote: On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, David Arnstein wrote: Hello, I have a problem with cygwin-x11 on my home machine, which runs Windows 2000 s.p. 4. All X11 windows become unresponsive. Really unresponsive. The windows don't repaint when exposed. Right mouse button (context) menus do not pop up. Earlier today, I reinstalled ALL of my cygwin packages, it did not help. Just now, I started X11 and I had one xterm running bash. X11 was working OK, as far as I could tell. I left the computer for 10 minutes; so it was completely idle. When I returned, X11 was in the unresponsive state. How can I debug this problem? I close this e-mail with the contents of my /tmp/XWin.log file. Is there anything else I can provide? Thanks for any suggestions! There are some reasons for poor Cygwin/X performance in the FAQ. One of them is a small program from ATI. What about CPU usage? Is XWin taking 100% and nothing happens? Or is it nearly idle? bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723 Charles E. Cooper Swift Program Applied Research Laboratory The Pennsylvania State University (814) 865-6829 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gtk2-x11-devel is missing gdk/gdkwin32.h
| 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. No, it's a problem with lablgtk2. gdk/gdkwin32.h is only for the Win32 gdktarget; the Cygwin gtk2 packages use X11 and hence use gdk/gdkx.h. For some reason, lablgtk2 assumes that Cygwin uses Win32. The attached patch will fix that and the install procedure. OK, thanks. For now I was able to build lablgtk using gdk/gdkwin32.h, so since it works I'll just leave it at that. But I'm filing your patch in case I have to build lablgtk again. Andrew.
Re: X11 becomes unresponsive. VERY unresponsive.
I've also been having similar problems. Unresponsiveness on my end isn't as atrocious (I get delays in single seconds, mostly). For a test case, see my post ssh slowdowns under X.
Re: can't start KDE on FreeBSD from Windows XP
Thanks a lot to you both. I have installed rebase, but the syntax is actually different from what you describe. With and without a parameter on the command line, I get usage errors: $ rebase usage: rebase -b BaseAddress [-Vdv] [-o Offset] [-T FileList | -] Files... $ rebase cygz.dll usage: rebase -b BaseAddress [-Vdv] [-o Offset] [-T FileList | -] Files... $ rebase -v c:\programfiles\cygwin\bin\cygz.dll usage: rebase -b BaseAddress [-Vdv] [-o Offset] [-T FileList | -] Files... My version: $ rebase -V rebase version 2.3 (imagehelper version 0.7) Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Ralf Habacker and Jason Tishler Bruce Ralf Habacker wrote: On Tuesday 07 September 2004 10:36, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, Bruce Rhodewalt wrote: I'm having trouble configuring KDE on my Windows XP machine (using Cygwin/X 2004/03/25). From my bash shell, I can ssh or telnet to my FreeBSD 5.2.1 RELEASE machine. However, if I try to connect and run KDE, I have problems. where do you run KDE? On the FreeBSD box or on cygwin? The log below say you're starting it on cygwin. If so then I'd pass you on to the kde-cygwin mailing list. iceauth: creating new authority file /home/Bruce/.ICEauthority KDEINIT_KIO_EXEC kdeinit: Launched KLauncher, pid = 3604 result = 0 C:\programfiles\cygwin\opt\kde3\bin\kdeinit.exe (3872): *** unable to remap C:\p rogramfiles\cygwin\bin\cygz.dll to same address as parent(0xD3) != 0xD4 1105 [main] kdein 3604 sync_with_child: child 3872(0x65C) died before initi alization with status code 0x1 1632 [main] kdein 3604 sync_with_child: *** child state child loading dlls I think this is the reason why you get no windows. But i have no clue what caused this error. This is a rebasing problem. See http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/kde3/faq.php#rebase. BTW: Don't know the email address of bruce so send to the cygwin-xfree list too. Regards Ralf
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
