Re: can't start xterm

[Dan Moulding]

On Feb 5, 2009, at 2:30 PM, Ryan Stewart  wrote:


I had been using
the startxwin.bat to start X in multiwindow mode, and I have a couple
of lines in there to auto-start some xterm windows. That doesn't work
anymore. The X server starts, but no xterms appear. When I right click
the tray icon and go to Applications->xterm, nothing happens either


What happens if you run xterm from a bash shell started from  
Cygwin.bat? I'm thinking it might give you an error message that may  
hint at the cause of the problem.


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Re: Problems with X surfaced recently

[Linda Walsh]

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:

(thank you for your responses...)

Cygwin-X questions go to the cygwin-xfree list.

---
   I thought the lists were being merged because there was next to zero
traffic on the X-cygwin list?  Did that plan fall by the wayside?  Besides, I
wasn't sure if there was some negative interaction being caused by the setup
problems. 


Did you miss this FAQ?




   Well, I didn't get the "Change Notification", if that's what you mean...:-)
I have read the FAQ's, but I don't re-read them with each release.  I'm
pretty certain, I wouldn't notice a few new paragraphs difference in a
90k document...

   I normally don't use the start-menu as it suggests, as I don't use the
same XWin start args nor start an xterm when starting X. 




Or this one?



---
   I think I'll go look more closely at the FAQ.  :-)
The keyboard is functioning, now,  on another remote app (make xconfig
-- which is what started this 'detour').  However, an Xterm running on a
remote (linux) system fails when trying to display to my "cygwin-OS" system
with a similar font problem, so I reckon some font paths have changed or moved.
Sigh.
  

Thanks for following the problem reporting protocol concerning cygcheck
output. :-)

---
   I try to  improve...just a bit slow sometimes or not sure when a
specific rule applies.  I'm overly concerned (paranoid?) with dumping a large
quantity of script-produced data, since I don't know if there is something in
the dump that might create a security leak and I know the email list is archived
and publicly searchable forever.  ;^/





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[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-util-macros-1.2.1-1

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can't start xterm

[Ryan Stewart]

Yet again, I seem to have inadvertently gotten an update to cygwin X,
and now I'm having trouble getting xterm to start. I had been using
the startxwin.bat to start X in multiwindow mode, and I have a couple
of lines in there to auto-start some xterm windows. That doesn't work
anymore. The X server starts, but no xterms appear. When I right click
the tray icon and go to Applications->xterm, nothing happens either.
Same deal if I run "XWin.exe" or "XWin -multiwindow" manually. If I
run Cygwin.bat to get the cygwin shell, then run startx, I get the
"Cygwin/X:0.0" blue root window with a "login" xterm and various,
square "icon" things in three of the corners. I'm not sure exactly
what this is, but it's the only place that I can currently get new
xterm windows to open, either by using Applications->xterm from the
tray icon or by running "xterm" from the existing terminal.

How can I get back to running X in multiwindow mode so I can have
several xterm windows?

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Re: gv became really slow?

[Frédéric Bron]

> It used to be the case that opening a postscript file with gv on
> cygwin was more or less immediate. I've recently updated cygwin and
> now it takes about 2-5 seconds (a clock is displayed while gv is
> "thinking"). This happens even if the postscript file contains only a
> few words. For example, if you do:
>
> % echo hello > hello.txt
> % a2ps hello.txt -o hello.ps
> % gv hello.ps
>
> The gv version I have running is 3.6.5 (cygwin 1.5.25 on XP). I have
> no way of telling whether this is a cygwin problem or something else.
> But running the above example on a debian machine with a gv-3.6.5
> installed results in an immediate, much snappier, response.
>
> Is this just my problem? And if not, can something be done?

I confirm that gv is practically unusable since I updated to x.org
7.4. It is very very slow. For the example you give, it takes only 2
seconds to load (same version 3.6.5, Windows XP, Dual Core2 Duo 2.6
GHz) but on the large ps files I use it takes ages to show compared to
before I upgraded. This may be a problem of the X system so I forward
the email to the list.

Frédéric Bron

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Re: X / gtk-x11 / flicker and other problems

[John Emmas]

- Original Message - 
From: "Jon TURNEY"

Subject: Re: X / gtk-x11 / flicker and other problems


At the moment, -multiwindow mode always selects the GDI engine for reasons
which are lost in the mists of time (rooted modes are able to use
DirectDraw), so a GDI BitBlt is used to transfer the contents of the
shadow buffer to the display.


Jon - did I understand you correctly here?  Are you saying that there's an
alternative mode I could try that should give me better performance (even
though it might be limited to just one monitor)?  If so, how do I need to
call Xwin to work in a rooted mode?

Thanks,

John 



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