Re: X / gtk-x11 / flicker and other problems [+PATCH]
- Original Message - From: John Emmas john...@tiscali.co.uk One more thing Jon. I'm probably being ludicrously simplistic here - but to fix the resizing problem (not resizing until the user lets go of the mouse button) could there be a simple fix for this just by responding to the WM_MOUSEHOVER notification? Or if you'd prefer not to do this in WM_SIZING, WM_NCMOUSEHOVER might be more successful and would at least make Cygwin's resizing work more like Linux's. I guess the main problem with WM_NCMOUSEHOVER though is that it doesn't get issued by older versions of Windows. However, that's Windows fault, not Cygwin's. 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/
starxwin.bat always misfires the xterm once
Hi all, I have installed cygwin-x on windows XP and I'm pretty much happy about it. There is only one little annoying thing that I am not able to fix. I use cygwin-x to ssh into linux systems and occasionally launch remote applications. I do not use a x-desktop. I've added an icon to the quick-launch windows toolbar pointing to startxwin.bat. Pressing that icon should launch cygwin-x and open a xterm. It does so on my other window box, running win 2000. However, on windows xp there seems to be some glitch. The first time I launch the cygwin-x icon after booting the OS, no xterm pops up. At least, not immediatly. I've been waiting a few minutes, but no trace of xterm all the same. The xserver is running, though. I can launch an xterm from by right clicking the small X icon in the icon tray, but it opens in /usr/X11R6/bin, prompting bash-3.2$. If I close the xserver and launch it a second time, all goes as I expect to. The xserver is started again, and an xterm almost immediatly pops out as required in startxwin.bat. The xterm correctly starts from my home directory. Therefore I always have to launch cygwin-x, shut down the server and launch it again. As I mention, this double launching is not necessary in win 2000. The xterm pops up the first time I launch startxwin.bat. Is this a known problem? I've tried to search the mailing list but came up with nothing. Perhaps I've used the wrong search terms. Thanks a lot for any help F -- 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/
R: starxwin.bat always misfires the xterm once
--- Lun 16/2/09, Franz di Coccio ha scritto: Da: Franz di Coccio Oggetto: starxwin.bat always misfires the xterm once A: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Data: Lunedì 16 febbraio 2009, 11:08 Hi all, I have installed cygwin-x on windows XP and I'm pretty much happy about it. There is only one little annoying thing that I am not able to fix. I use cygwin-x to ssh into linux systems and occasionally launch remote applications. I do not use a x-desktop. I've added an icon to the quick-launch windows toolbar pointing to startxwin.bat. Pressing that icon should launch cygwin-x and open a xterm. It does so on my other window box, running win 2000. However, on windows xp there seems to be some glitch. The first time I launch the cygwin-x icon after booting the OS, no xterm pops up. At least, not immediatly. I have a similar issue. It is probably due to Xwin not yet ready when xterm tries to verify the existence of a X server try to add %CYGWIN_ROOT%\bin\sleep 4 so a 4 second delay (or what ever value is fine for you system) before %RUN% xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l this should allow xterm to find a ready Xwin. I've been waiting a few minutes, but no trace of xterm all the same. The xserver is running, though. I can launch an xterm from by right clicking the small X icon in the icon tray, but it opens in /usr/X11R6/bin, prompting bash-3.2$. If I close the xserver and launch it a second time, all goes as I expect to. The xserver is started again, and an xterm almost immediatly pops out as required in startxwin.bat. The xterm correctly starts from my home directory. Therefore I always have to launch cygwin-x, shut down the server and launch it again. As I mention, this double launching is not necessary in win 2000. The xterm pops up the first time I launch startxwin.bat. Is this a known problem? I've tried to search the mailing list but came up with nothing. Perhaps I've used the wrong search terms. Thanks a lot for any help F Regards Marco Passa a Yahoo! Mail. La webmail che ti offre GRATIS spazio illimitato, antispam e messenger integrato. http://it.mail.yahoo.com/ -- 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/
R: starxwin.bat always misfires the xterm once - it works!
Marco, your suggestion to insert %CYGWIN_ROOT%\bin\sleep 4 before the xterm launch instruction %RUN% xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l in starxwin.bat did the trick! Thanks a lot! Grazie! F PS That's a weird behaviour, anyway... I wonder why the pause is needed only for the first execution after the system boot. Whatever... Now it works :) -- 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: RE: Intermittent X clipboard failure
This is the same workaround I've been using. I'm also using Office 2003 and X11R7. I'm fine with this workaround. I need Office but I don't need the Office clipboard. We have other X servers here and I've experienced clipboard problems with those and the Office clipboard also. -Chris -Original Message- From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of n05q4nn Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 11:43 AM To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: RE: Intermittent X clipboard failure I don't know if there is permanent fix for this but this is my workaround. I faced similar issue after I upgraded my X server recently. Copy/paste between X and windows apps works fine as long as no MS Office 2003 apps are open. If Office apps are open, they hang immediately if I copy anything from X, e.g. xterm. Killing the hung Office apps usually restore my copy/paste function. My workaround: disable the Office clipboard. This forces Office apps to use the Windows clipboard but the apps don't hang when I copy/paste from X. To disable the Office clipboard: * On the Office Clipboard task pane, click Options. * Clear the Show Office Clipboard Automatically check box. * Clear the Show Office Clipboard When Ctrl+C Pressed Twice check box. * Clear the Collect Without Showing Office Clipboard check box. YMMV Williams, Chris (Marlboro) wrote: Hi, This clipboard failure happened again. This time I notice I could still copy from X apps to the Windows clipboard buffer. Also this time I copied some log information about the shutdown: Start log clip winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress winClipboardProc - winClipboardFlushWindowsMessageQueue trapped WM_QUIT message, exiting main loop. winClipboardProc - XDestroyWindow succeeded. winClipboardIOErrorHandler! End log clip Anyone have any specific hints about hunting down this clipboard problem? Possibly apropos, anyone have any issues running the Office Clipboard that comes with MS Office 2003 with this new X server, X.Org 7.4? Thanks, Chris -Original Message- From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Williams, Chris (Marlboro) Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 6:59 PM To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Intermittent X clipboard failure Hi, I've been using the Xwin release 1.5.3.0 on XP SP2 and I'm experiencing odd copy/paste behavior. When I first start the X server with the -clipboard command-line option everything works fine, copy/paste to/from X apps with no problem. After a while, and unfortunately I don't know what event triggers this, Windows stops accepting clipboard data from the X apps and vice versa, I can't paste into any X app. The log isn't that much help, probably because I don't understand what I'm looking at. I do see messages like: winProcessXEventsTimeout - Call to select () failed: 0. Bailing. winClipboardFlushXEvents - SelectionRequest - OpenClipboard () failed: If I restart the X server this problem goes away immediately. Or if I wait long it enough I stop seeing those log messages and the problem goes away on it's own apparently. Anyone else have this type of problem? I'm not even sure what the next step is as far as providing useful data for debugging purposes. I'll also add that I'm only talking about text copy here. Thank you, Chris -- 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/ -- 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/ -- 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/ -- 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: Intermittent X clipboard failure
Hello, Williams, Chris (Marlboro) wrote: After a while, and unfortunately I don't know what event triggers this, Windows stops accepting clipboard data from the X apps and vice versa, I can't paste into any X app. I recognize your symptoms. I have the same problem on Windows Vista. The application I use most in GNU emacs. It eventually dies with a message of memory exhaustion. Most often, closing the Office application, if early enough, helps. An other symptom is an Office Clipboard report of: 6 of 24 - Clipboard Item not collected. and something like: Format non supported. Marc -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Intermittent-X-clipboard-failure-tp21083419p22046890.html Sent from the cygwin-xfree mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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/
/usr/bin/startx fails on new x.org install?
I updated Cygwin and got the new x.org server. I have a couple of problems: 1. /usr/bin/startx can no longer be used to launch X in multiwindow mode. Instead, it creates the auth file, prints a dialog telling me to read /var/log/XWin.0.log, and that I'm running the Cygwin/X project version 1.5.3.0 (20090205), i.e. I'm current, and exits. /var/log/XWin.0.log says: [..] XWin was started with the following command line: /usr/bin/X :0 -auth /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/lwood/.serverauth.3000 ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1400 h 1050 winInitializeDefaultScreens - returning Unrecognized option: and [..] the 'and' suggesting that something, somewhere, is not quoting path names or escaping spaces to '\ 'to handle the spaces in 'Documents and Settings' correctly. Some messing around with the startx script didn't turn up anything obvious; putting quotes around /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/lwood/.serverauth.3000 did not change the error behaviour; still 'Unrecognized option: and'. So, probably not startx's fault. it would be nice if the unrecognised option line shows up in the dialog directly to speed up testing. 2. Trouble launching multiwindow mode. startx (which previously gave me multiwindow) no longer works (above). xinit -multiwindow fails xinit -- -multiwindow oddly, succeeds. No idea why. 3. No cut and paste between the X desktop and Windows. Completely separate. Is this by design? (I can't figure out any copy/paste in the cygwin dumb terminal window, either.) Hurrah for multiwindow mode, where it works, and which I happily scurried back to as soon as I figured out how. 4. Hogging and not freeing menu/window resources in X, as my Insight Tcl program failing with 'unable to register Tk TopLevel class' or failing to draw a window properly indicates: http://coding.derkeiler.com/Archive/Tcl/comp.lang.tcl/2008-04/msg00769.html yes, Insight Tcl programs can be run without X being launched. But I have to quit X (desktop or multiwindow mode) to pull down and draw a menu in e.g. the mail program where I'm writing this. 5. No OpenGL hardware acceleration (yet?) Any hints welcomed. thanks, L. -- 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/
