Re: X / gtk-x11 / flicker and other problems
- 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: gv became really slow?
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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
can't start xterm
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? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-server-1.5.3-6
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The following package has been updated in the Cygwin net distribution: *** xorg-server-1.5.3-6 This release was rebuilt with libXfont-1.3.4 to fix the reported problems with the builtin fonts. Yaakov Cygwin/X DOWNLOAD: = Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't allowed due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: == If you want to make a point or ask a question the cygwin-xfree mailing list is the appropriate place. CYGWIN-XFREE-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO: === To unsubscribe to the cygwin-xfree-announce mailing list, look at the List-Unsubscribe: tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-xfree-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain@cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEAREIAAYFAkmLQ+MACgkQpiWmPGlmQSOk4wCeKFZozlsl62+B+qaa/IQcOecE +JsAn3ovzDKnOD/YrWu6HpcQm3UT14QB =cRHr -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libXfont-1.3.4-1
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The following package has been updated in the Cygwin net distribution: *** libXfont1-1.3.4-1 *** libXfont-devel-1.3.4-1 This is a version bump, which includes a fix for builtin fonts reloading after server reset. Yaakov Cygwin/X DOWNLOAD: = Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't allowed due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: == If you want to make a point or ask a question the cygwin-xfree mailing list is the appropriate place. CYGWIN-XFREE-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO: === To unsubscribe to the cygwin-xfree-announce mailing list, look at the List-Unsubscribe: tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-xfree-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain@cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEAREIAAYFAkmLQ9sACgkQpiWmPGlmQSOdDgCg6o1Ms2iWvi7dH4N9Zpd0AOZD +ZEAoOgWp7Ql9Qw4KHkgfw5k3YEvIl2I =VTmM -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-util-macros-1.2.1-1
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The following package has been updated in the Cygwin net distribution: *** xorg-util-macros-1.2.1-1 This is a version update, which will be required for building X.Org packages from now on. Yaakov Cygwin/X DOWNLOAD: = Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't allowed due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: == If you want to make a point or ask a question the cygwin-xfree mailing list is the appropriate place. CYGWIN-XFREE-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO: === To unsubscribe to the cygwin-xfree-announce mailing list, look at the List-Unsubscribe: tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-xfree-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain@cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEAREIAAYFAkmLQVIACgkQpiWmPGlmQSMSgACg7YjkIOvrktOOmFW/05v48bo0 ccsAoNtg+XjDzsl31SSVLSyLewStBap4 =m53o -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Problems with X surfaced recently
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? http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-i-cant-type-anything 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? http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-where-are-my-fonts --- 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. ;^/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: can't start xterm
On Feb 5, 2009, at 2:30 PM, Ryan Stewart rds6...@gmail.com 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. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
