What is replacement for the "-kb" Xwin startup parameter
I a using Xwin to connect to an AIX system using XDMCP. This was working fine on an old version of Xwin, As long as I used the "-kb" command line argument (there was an old post in the FAQ, suggesting that parameter As the workaround for AIX not handling "keyboard extensions"). I just downloaded 1.7.3.0 on another Win-XP system, and discovered That -kb is no longer supported. Without that argument, I am able To successfully connect using XDMCP, but after opening my 2nd Xterm, the window "freezes" up... neither mouse or keyboard Seems to function with it (which was the same symptom I had on The old version prior to adding the "-kb" startup parm. Suggestions are welcome. -tony -- 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/
XDMCP connects successfully but "freezes" shortly thereafter - Was: What is replacement for the "-kb" Xwin startup parameter
I thought I'd change the subject and describe the problem in a little better detail and perhaps get a response... Additional info: - On one PC, I have XWin release 1.5.3.0 (20090222) installed and working - That release uses the following command line: XWin -query my_AIX_SERVER_NAME -ac -clipboard -kb -fp FOLLOWED-BY-A-FONT-PATH-TO-A-FONTSERVER - On another PC, I have XWin Release 1.7.3.0 (10703000) installed - That release will NOT allow me to use the "-kb" argument, so I have eliminated the "-kb" Here is the behavior I get with 1.7.3.0: - Window opens up... the CDE "logon" window from the AIX_SERVER comes up - I can successfully "logon" to the CDE "logon" window - On the CDE Desktop (on my AIX 5.3 system), I can "right-click" to get up the "root menu", and select an option that opens up an SSH aixterm window (an AIX version of xterm) - I can successfully sign-on to that aixterm window - I can successfully run commands on that window - BUT as soon as I click on anything other that the aixterm window everything "freezes"... - I have to "exit" by clicking the "x" in the upper right corner of the root window or right click on the X entry in the task-bar and select "close" - The XWin.0.log gives no clues to the problem - The CDE "startlog" only contains this: Mon Jan 11 11:13:19 2010 dtsession: Screen lock when the screen saver is turned on is not available on this server. Your screen will not be locked when the screen saver is turned on. Mon Jan 11 11:15:51 2010 dtsession: Connection to server lost - exiting. Any help will be greatly appreciated, since I can no longer use XWin... ...and am forced to use "putty"... Thanks, -tony -Original Message- From: Bennett, Tony Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 9:14 PM To: 'cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com' Subject: What is replacement for the "-kb" Xwin startup parameter I a using Xwin to connect to an AIX system using XDMCP. This was working fine on an old version of Xwin, As long as I used the "-kb" command line argument (there was an old post in the FAQ, suggesting that parameter As the workaround for AIX not handling "keyboard extensions"). I just downloaded 1.7.3.0 on another Win-XP system, and discovered That -kb is no longer supported. Without that argument, I am able To successfully connect using XDMCP, but after opening my 2nd Xterm, the window "freezes" up... neither mouse or keyboard Seems to function with it (which was the same symptom I had on The old version prior to adding the "-kb" startup parm. Suggestions are welcome. -tony -- 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: 1.7.1: no xdmcp login prompt after upgrade
Is your IPTRACE from the "remote" host's perspective, or from your cygwin-X perspective...??? I ask because I too am using 1.7.3 with "-query" and I'm having problems... but only after "successfully" logging onto the remote system. -Original Message- >From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com] On >Behalf Of Paxton, Michael >Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 12:33 PM >To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com >Subject: 1.7.1: no xdmcp login prompt after upgrade > >After upgrading to Cygwin/X 1.7.1, XDMCP query to any remote host no >longer produces a login prompt. All XDMCP connections functioned >correctly prior to upgrade. > >Examination of an iptrace report (ipreport10.out) on the remote host >shows that Cygwin/X is not continuing the connection sequence after the >remote host replies to the initial port 177 communication. > >To verify that X connectivity was still available on the remote host, >connection was attempted from another local system with Cygwin/X 1.5.25. >That connection functioned as expected, and its IP exchange was also >captured on the remote host as a benchmark. (An attempt to include that >traced was rejected by mailer-dae...@sourceware.org). > >Please advise as to any fix or workaround available. Alternately, please >advise as to the best way to revert to Cygwin/X 1.5.25. > >Respectfully, > >D. Michael Paxton, Esq., M.B.A. >FBI/CJIS Systems Agency Information Security Officer >Indiana State Police >(317) 232-5686 > Is your IPTRACE from the "remote" host's perspective, or from your cygwin-X perspective...??? I ask because I too am using 1.7.3 with "-query" and I'm having problems... but only after "successfully" logging onto the remote system. Meaning I'm getting further than you. Here's my "startup" (note I'm using a fontserver on the XDM host): XWin -logverbose 255 \ -ac \ -query dmsdev.con-way.com \ -fp \"tcp/dmsdev.con-way.com:8000,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/Type1/\" " Thanks, -tony -- 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: 1.7.1: no xdmcp login prompt after upgrade
D. Michael, I must admit that my frustration with this problem, accompanied by the loss of my windows box with the 1.5 install, has caused me to look elsewhere for a solution. I have installed XMING, and it seems to work just fine. Unfortunately, XMING is an XSERVER only... so, I've kept my Cygwin-xfree install for the other X tools. I'll keep monitoring this list in the hopes of a fix to the problem. I might add that I couldn't get XMING to work until I was able to specify to its Xserver the address of my Font-Server. -tony -Original Message- From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Paxton, Michael Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 9:53 AM To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: RE: 1.7.1: no xdmcp login prompt after upgrade Tony, As I noted in my problem, the iptrace ran on the remote host and therefore is from the perspective of the remote. Nonetheless, each packet in the trace report displays both the source and destination IP addresses and TCP/UDP ports. You correctly observe that you are getting farther than I, in that I never receive the logon prompt. By the way, although my iptrace report is from an AIX remote host, I have tested this against RHEL3 and OEL5 remote hosts with the same results. Again, my Cygwin/X 1.5.25 client logs on and functions correctly to all remote hosts. Respectfully, D. Michael Paxton, Esq., MBA FBI/CJIS Systems Agency Information Security Officer Indiana State Police (317) 232-5686 -Original Message- From: "Bennett, Tony" Sent: Friday, 15 January 2010 17:45 To: 'cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com' Subject: 1.7.1: no xdmcp login prompt after upgrade Is your IPTRACE from the "remote" host's perspective, or from your cygwin-X perspective...??? I ask because I too am using 1.7.3 with "-query" and I'm having problems... but only after "successfully" logging onto the remote system. Meaning I'm getting further than you. Here's my "startup" (note I'm using a fontserver on the XDM host): XWin -logverbose 255 \ -ac \ -query dmsdev.con-way.com \ -fp \"tcp/dmsdev.con-way.com:8000,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/ 75dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/Type1/\" " Thanks, -tony -- 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: 1.7.1: no xdmcp login prompt after upgrade
Great tip, Thanks -Original Message- From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Paxton, Michael Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 11:24 AM To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: RE: 1.7.1: no xdmcp login prompt after upgrade Tony, Try installing from http://cygwin.com/win-9x.html to get version 1.5.25. Although it states it is only for supporting Windows 95/98/Me, it may work to get your functionality back. As for me, should no solution be forthcoming to resolve my issue, I will likely do the same. Respectfully, D. Michael Paxton, Esq., MBA FBI/CJIS Systems Agency Information Security Officer Indiana State Police (317) 232-5686 -Original Message- From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Bennett, Tony Sent: Thursday, 21 January 2010 14:16 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: RE: 1.7.1: no xdmcp login prompt after upgrade D. Michael, I must admit that my frustration with this problem, accompanied by the loss of my windows box with the 1.5 install, has caused me to look elsewhere for a solution. I have installed XMING, and it seems to work just fine. Unfortunately, XMING is an XSERVER only... so, I've kept my Cygwin-xfree install for the other X tools. I'll keep monitoring this list in the hopes of a fix to the problem. I might add that I couldn't get XMING to work until I was able to specify to its Xserver the address of my Font-Server. -tony -Original Message- From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Paxton, Michael Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 9:53 AM To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: RE: 1.7.1: no xdmcp login prompt after upgrade Tony, As I noted in my problem, the iptrace ran on the remote host and therefore is from the perspective of the remote. Nonetheless, each packet in the trace report displays both the source and destination IP addresses and TCP/UDP ports. You correctly observe that you are getting farther than I, in that I never receive the logon prompt. By the way, although my iptrace report is from an AIX remote host, I have tested this against RHEL3 and OEL5 remote hosts with the same results. Again, my Cygwin/X 1.5.25 client logs on and functions correctly to all remote hosts. Respectfully, D. Michael Paxton, Esq., MBA FBI/CJIS Systems Agency Information Security Officer Indiana State Police (317) 232-5686 -Original Message- From: "Bennett, Tony" Sent: Friday, 15 January 2010 17:45 To: 'cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com' Subject: 1.7.1: no xdmcp login prompt after upgrade Is your IPTRACE from the "remote" host's perspective, or from your cygwin-X perspective...??? I ask because I too am using 1.7.3 with "-query" and I'm having problems... but only after "successfully" logging onto the remote system. Meaning I'm getting further than you. Here's my "startup" (note I'm using a fontserver on the XDM host): XWin -logverbose 255 \ -ac \ -query dmsdev.con-way.com \ -fp \"tcp/dmsdev.con-way.com:8000,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/ 75dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/Type1/\" " Thanks, -tony -- 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: Cygwin/X 1.7 keyboard/mouse freeze shortly after Xwin login to Solaris
I just finished trying 1.7.5-1 trying to connect to an AIX server. Here's how I'm starting it from a .bat file: bash -c "PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin; XWin -logverbose 255 -ac -query \ aix_server_name -fp \"tcp/aix_server_name:8000,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/Type1/\" " I performed the same test as Mark Veneziano performed (click up-triangle on one of the panels to get my terminal icon...) and got the same results. In case it helps, here is the contents of my /var/log/XWin.0.log, which you will notice I had logging verbose-ly: Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 1.7.5.0 (10705000) Build Date: 2010-02-25 Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com XWin was started with the following command line: XWin -logverbose 255 -ac -query aix_server_name -fp tcp/aix_server_name:8000,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/Type1/ ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1280 h 1024 winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning 2010-03-01 07:42:05 (WW) /tmp mounted in textmode 2010-03-01 07:42:05 OsVendorInit - Creating bogus screen 0 2010-03-01 07:42:05 _XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6 2010-03-01 07:42:05 _XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/ISO912887:0 2010-03-01 07:42:05 _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6 2010-03-01 07:42:05 XDMCP warning: INET6 UDP socket creation failed 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winValidateArgs - Returning. 2010-03-01 07:42:05 (II) xorg.conf is not supported 2010-03-01 07:42:05 (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information 2010-03-01 07:42:05 (++) FontPath set to "tcp/aix_server_name:8000,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/Type1/" 2010-03-01 07:42:05 LoadPreferences: /home/trbennett/.XWinrc not found 2010-03-01 07:42:05 LoadPreferences: Loading /etc/X11/system.XWinrc 2010-03-01 07:42:05 LoadPreferences: Done parsing the configuration file... 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winGetDisplay: DISPLAY=:0.0 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 0007 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winScreenInit - dwWidth: 1280 dwHeight: 1024 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winSetEngine - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL - Using Windows display depth of 16 bits per pixel 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - User w: 1280 h: 1024 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - Current w: 1280 h: 1024 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winAdjustForAutoHide - Original WorkArea: 0 0 996 1280 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winAdjustForAutoHide - Adjusted WorkArea: 0 0 996 1280 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - WindowClient w 1274 h 971 r 1274 l 0 b 971 t 0 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winWindowProc - WM_ACTIVATEAPP 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - Returning 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Creating primary surface 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Created primary surface 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Attached clipper to primary surface 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - lPitch: 2548 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - Created shadow pitch: 2548 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - Created shadow stride: 1274 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: f800 07e0 001f 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winInitVisualsShadowDDNL - Masks f800 07e0 001f BPRGB 6 d 16 bpp 16 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winRandRInit () 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winCreateDefColormap - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap () 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winFinishScreenInitFB - returning 2010-03-01 07:42:05 Screen 0 added at XINERAMA coordinate (0,0). 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winScreenInit - returning 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winGenerateAuthorization - GenerateAuthorization success! AuthDataLen: 16 AuthData: µ–ã›Ä¤âŠxÓž4- 2010-03-01 07:42:05 InitOutput - Returning. 2010-03-01 07:42:05 MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support 2010-03-01 07:42:05 XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shared memory support in the kernel 2010-03-01 07:42:05 (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so 2010-03-01 07:42:05 (II) GLX: Initialized DRISWRAST GL provider for screen 0 2010-03-01 07:42:06 winPointerWarpCursor - Discarding first warp: 637 485 2010-03-01 07:42:06 (II) XKB: Reusing cached keymap 2010-03-01 07:42:06 (--) 3 mouse buttons found 2010-03-01 07:42:06 (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31 2010-03-01 07:42:06 (--) winConfigKeyboar
RE: Cygwin/X 1.7 keyboard/mouse freeze shortly after Xwin login to Solaris
Parenthetically, I am currently using XMING due to this problem, but would like to go back to using cygwin-X. If any X11-developer would like to give me a "debug" version of xorg-server to try & capture the location of the problem, I would be assist. -Original Message- From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Bennett, Tony Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 7:55 AM To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Cygwin/X 1.7 keyboard/mouse freeze shortly after Xwin login to Solaris I just finished trying 1.7.5-1 trying to connect to an AIX server. Here's how I'm starting it from a .bat file: bash -c "PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin; XWin -logverbose 255 -ac -query \ aix_server_name -fp \"tcp/aix_server_name:8000,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/Type1/\" " I performed the same test as Mark Veneziano performed (click up-triangle on one of the panels to get my terminal icon...) and got the same results. In case it helps, here is the contents of my /var/log/XWin.0.log, which you will notice I had logging verbose-ly: Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 1.7.5.0 (10705000) Build Date: 2010-02-25 Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com XWin was started with the following command line: XWin -logverbose 255 -ac -query aix_server_name -fp tcp/aix_server_name:8000,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/Type1/ ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1280 h 1024 winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning 2010-03-01 07:42:05 (WW) /tmp mounted in textmode 2010-03-01 07:42:05 OsVendorInit - Creating bogus screen 0 2010-03-01 07:42:05 _XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6 2010-03-01 07:42:05 _XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/ISO912887:0 2010-03-01 07:42:05 _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6 2010-03-01 07:42:05 XDMCP warning: INET6 UDP socket creation failed 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winValidateArgs - Returning. 2010-03-01 07:42:05 (II) xorg.conf is not supported 2010-03-01 07:42:05 (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information 2010-03-01 07:42:05 (++) FontPath set to "tcp/aix_server_name:8000,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/Type1/" 2010-03-01 07:42:05 LoadPreferences: /home/trbennett/.XWinrc not found 2010-03-01 07:42:05 LoadPreferences: Loading /etc/X11/system.XWinrc 2010-03-01 07:42:05 LoadPreferences: Done parsing the configuration file... 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winGetDisplay: DISPLAY=:0.0 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 0007 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winScreenInit - dwWidth: 1280 dwHeight: 1024 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winSetEngine - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL - Using Windows display depth of 16 bits per pixel 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - User w: 1280 h: 1024 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - Current w: 1280 h: 1024 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winAdjustForAutoHide - Original WorkArea: 0 0 996 1280 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winAdjustForAutoHide - Adjusted WorkArea: 0 0 996 1280 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - WindowClient w 1274 h 971 r 1274 l 0 b 971 t 0 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winWindowProc - WM_ACTIVATEAPP 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - Returning 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Creating primary surface 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Created primary surface 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Attached clipper to primary surface 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - lPitch: 2548 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - Created shadow pitch: 2548 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - Created shadow stride: 1274 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: f800 07e0 001f 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winInitVisualsShadowDDNL - Masks f800 07e0 001f BPRGB 6 d 16 bpp 16 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winRandRInit () 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winCreateDefColormap - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap () 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winFinishScreenInitFB - returning 2010-03-01 07:42:05 Screen 0 added at XINERAMA coordinate (0,0). 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winScreenInit - returning 2010-03-01 07:42:05 winGenerateAuthorization - GenerateAuthorization success! AuthDataLen: 16 AuthData: µ–ã›Ä¤âŠxÓž4- 2010-03-01 07:42:05 InitOutput - Returning. 2010-03-01 07:42:05 MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack
RE: What is replacement for the "-kb" Xwin startup parameter
>-Original Message- >From: Jon TURNEY [mailto:jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk] >Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 10:33 AM >To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com >Cc: Bennett, Tony >Subject: Re: What is replacement for the "-kb" Xwin startup parameter > >>On 07/01/2010 05:13, Bennett, Tony wrote: >> I a using Xwin to connect to an AIX system using XDMCP. >> >> This was working fine on an old version of Xwin, >> As long as I used the "-kb" command line argument >> (there was an old post in the FAQ, suggesting that parameter >> As the workaround for AIX not handling "keyboard extensions"). >> >> I just downloaded 1.7.3.0 on another Win-XP system, and discovered >> That -kb is no longer supported. Without that argument, I am able >> To successfully connect using XDMCP, but after opening my 2nd >> Xterm, the window "freezes" up... neither mouse or keyboard >> Seems to function with it (which was the same symptom I had on >> The old version prior to adding the "-kb" startup parm. >> >Thanks for pointing out the FAQ 5.1.5 is out of date, I'll fix that. > >The Xming troubleshooting page has some more up-to-date advice [1], >but I can't personally check that. > >[1] http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/trouble.php#head-142 Jon, Yes I saw that posting in XmingNotes. Since the config files in question impact ALL users of the AIX host, I can't modify them. However, I am able to successfully use Xming without modifying them. I do have to turn on and off my NumLock key... but I can live with that. I do NOT have the Freeze issue with Xming, that I do with Cygwin-X... ...However, I believe Xming is based upon an "earlier" version of X-Org: Welcome to the Xming X Server Vendor: Colin Harrison Release: 6.9.0.31 The Xming website says this version was released: 4 May 2007 Lets hope that there's an upstream fix to the problem, so that I can go back to using Cygwin-X exclusively. -tony -- 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/
Cut and Paste between X and WindowsXP sometimes fails
Often when "cutting" from Xwin and attempting to "Paste" to a WindowsXP application, the "most recent" "cut" is not pasted... but instead a "previous" Xwin "cut". In other words, this scenario: LOCATIONACTComment XwinCut "abc" WinXP Pastecorrectly pastes "abc" XwinCut "def" WinXP PasteIncorrectly pastes "abc" When the above problem occurs, no matter how many times a "cut" from Xwin, Whenever I paste on WinXP it pastes "abc". I can "correct" the problem by "cutting" from WinXP and pasting into Xwin... ...after doing this the next Xwin "cut" will "correctly" paste on WinXP. Below is the start of my Xwin.0.log. Thanks for any advise. -tony Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 1.11.4.0 OS: Windows XP Service Pack 3 [Windows NT 5.1 build 2600] (Win32) Package: version 1.11.4-2 built 2012-01-31 XWin was started with the following command line: XWin -clipboard -logverbose 3 -ac -query cdcxvd0559.con-way.com -fp tcp/cdcxvd0559.con-way.com:8000,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/Type1/ ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens winInitializeScreenDefaults - primary monitor w 1440 h 900 winInitializeDefaultScreens - native DPI x 96 y 96 _XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6 _XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/ITG914257:0 _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6 XDMCP warning: INET6 UDP socket creation failed [ 2930.843] OsVendorInit - Creating default screen 0 [ 2930.843] winInitializeScreens - 1 [ 2930.843] winInitializeScreen - 0 [ 2930.859] winValidateArgs - Returning. [ 2930.859] (II) xorg.conf is not supported [ 2930.859] (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information [ 2930.859] (++) FontPath set to "tcp/cdcxvd0559.con-way.com:8000,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/Type1/" [ 2930.859] LoadPreferences: /home/trbennett/.XWinrc not found [ 2930.859] LoadPreferences: Loading /etc/X11/system.XWinrc [ 2930.859] LoadPreferences: Done parsing the configuration file... [ 2930.859] winGetDisplay: DISPLAY=:0.0 [ 2930.859] winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed, allowing ShadowDD [ 2930.859] winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT, allowing PrimaryDD [ 2930.859] winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed, allowing ShadowDDNL [ 2930.859] winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 001f [ 2930.859] winTaskbarInit - Could not get SHGetPropertyStoreForWindow address [ 2930.859] [ 2930.859] winMsgWindowThreadProc - Hello -- 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/
FW: RE: Cut and Paste between X and WindowsXP sometimes fails
>On 03/02/2012 22:55, Bennett, Tony wrote: >> Often when "cutting" from Xwin and attempting to "Paste" to a WindowsXP >> application, >> the "most recent" "cut" is not pasted... but instead a "previous" Xwin "cut". >> >> In other words, this scenario: >> >> LOCATIONACTComment >> XwinCut "abc" >> WinXP Paste correctly pastes "abc" >> Xwin Cut "def" >> WinXP Paste Incorrectly pastes "abc" >> >> When the above problem occurs, no matter how many times a "cut" from Xwin, >> Whenever I paste on WinXP it pastes "abc". >> >> I can "correct" the problem by "cutting" from WinXP and pasting into Xwin... >> ...after doing this the next Xwin "cut" will "correctly" paste on WinXP. > >Yes, this is a rather long-standing problem (see the bug report at [1] for >some of the technical details), which is unfortunately not easy to fix in a >way that works well for all cases. > >Fortunately, there is a simple workaround for the moment: If you install and >run xclipboard, that will cause XWin to notice every change of the clipboard >contents. Thanks for the reply, Jon. Exactly "how" do I use xclipboard...??? Here's how I'm starting Xwin right now in a Windows Script called startx.bat: @echo off C: chdir C:\cygwin\bin bash -c "PATH=$PATH:/bin:/usr/bin;XWin -clipboard -logverbose 3 -ac -query cdcxvd0559.con-way.com -fp \"tcp/cdcxvd0559.con-way.com:8000,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/Type1/\" &" You'll notice I use XDMCP to establish a CDE session on cdcxvd0559... I've tried starting xclipboard in the same script, after starting Xwin (and sometimes even specifying -noclipboard)... and I always get an IO error and X-win dies. -tony -- 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: FW: RE: Cut and Paste between X and WindowsXP sometimes fails
>On 13/02/2012 23:05, Bennett, Tony wrote: >>> On 03/02/2012 22:55, Bennett, Tony wrote: >>>> Often when "cutting" from Xwin and attempting to "Paste" to a WindowsXP >>>> application, >>>> the "most recent" "cut" is not pasted... but instead a "previous" Xwin >>>> "cut". >>>> >>>> In other words, this scenario: >>>> >>>> LOCATIONACTComment >>>> XwinCut "abc" >>>> WinXP Paste correctly pastes "abc" >>>> Xwin Cut "def" >>>> WinXP Paste Incorrectly pastes "abc" >>>> >>>> When the above problem occurs, no matter how many times a "cut" from Xwin, >>>> Whenever I paste on WinXP it pastes "abc". >>>> >>>> I can "correct" the problem by "cutting" from WinXP and pasting into >>>> Xwin... >>>> ...after doing this the next Xwin "cut" will "correctly" paste on WinXP. >>> >>> Yes, this is a rather long-standing problem (see the bug report at [1] for >>> some of the technical details), which is unfortunately not easy to fix in a >>> way that works well for all cases. >>> >>> Fortunately, there is a simple workaround for the moment: If you install and >>> run xclipboard, that will cause XWin to notice every change of the clipboard >>> contents. >> >> Thanks for the reply, Jon. >> >> Exactly "how" do I use xclipboard...??? >> >> Here's how I'm starting Xwin right now in a >> Windows Script called startx.bat: >> >> @echo off >> C: >> >> chdir C:\cygwin\bin >> >> bash -c "PATH=$PATH:/bin:/usr/bin;XWin -clipboard -logverbose 3 -ac >> -query cdcxvd0559.con-way.com -fp >> \"tcp/cdcxvd0559.con-way.com:8000,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/Type1/\" >> &" >> >> >> You'll notice I use XDMCP to establish a CDE session on cdcxvd0559... >> >> I've tried starting xclipboard in the same script, after starting Xwin >> (and sometimes even specifying -noclipboard)... and I always get >> an IO error and X-win dies. > >Ah. Applying this workaround is perhaps not so simple when using XDMCP :-( > >You can't just add a 'xclipboard' line after 'XWin &', because the X server >may still be starting up when xclipboard tries to start, which will fail. > >However, this shouldn't lead to the X server itself dying. > >It's possible to put a wait here, but there are a couple of other reasons why >this approach won't work well. > >You might find it easier to start xclipboard on the host you are XDMCPing to, >possibly as part of your login script there > Jon, Given that I'd have to "build" xclipboard for the host that I'm XDMCPing to, and that host is running AIX... Sadly, I may just have to "live" with the problem. Is there any hope that the issue will be corrected in the foreseeable future...??? -tony -- 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: FW: RE: Cut and Paste between X and WindowsXP sometimes fails
-Original Message- From: Jon TURNEY Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2012 8:18 AM Subject: Re: FW: RE: Cut and Paste between X and WindowsXP sometimes fails On 15/02/2012 16:26, Bennett, Tony wrote: > Given that I'd have to "build" xclipboard for the host that I'm XDMCPing to, > and that host is running AIX... Sadly, I may just have to "live" with the > problem. > > Is there any hope that the issue will be corrected in the foreseeable > future...??? Well, looking at the rate of progress on fd.o bug #5735, it seems reasonable to hope that it will be fixed in a year or two :-) I've applied the patch I've suggested there to today's snapshot, uploaded a at [1]. Perhaps you could try that out and see if that improves things for you? [1] ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/XWin.20120218-git-c3b936a38812f88b.exe.bz2 - Jon, I downloaded, bunzip2, and installed the new version of Xwin. I restarted Xwin using the new version. I ran some preliminary cut and paste tests, and it seems to work correctly... i.e. I can perform multiple "cut from Xwin & Paste to WinXP", without intervening "cut from WinXP & Paste to Xwin" without error. I will continue running the new version while I perform my daily work, and will advise you if I have a recurrence of the problem. Thanks a lot for this temporary fix. -tony -- 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: FW: RE: Cut and Paste between X and WindowsXP sometimes fails
Jon, The fix continues to work well... ...will this fix be integrated into X soon...??? -tony -Original Message- From: Jon TURNEY Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2012 8:18 AM Subject: Re: FW: RE: Cut and Paste between X and WindowsXP sometimes fails On 15/02/2012 16:26, Bennett, Tony wrote: > Given that I'd have to "build" xclipboard for the host that I'm XDMCPing to, > and that host is running AIX... Sadly, I may just have to "live" with the > problem. > > Is there any hope that the issue will be corrected in the foreseeable > future...??? Well, looking at the rate of progress on fd.o bug #5735, it seems reasonable to hope that it will be fixed in a year or two :-) I've applied the patch I've suggested there to today's snapshot, uploaded a at [1]. Perhaps you could try that out and see if that improves things for you? [1] ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/XWin.20120218-git-c3b936a38812f88b.exe.bz2 - Jon, I downloaded, bunzip2, and installed the new version of Xwin. I restarted Xwin using the new version. I ran some preliminary cut and paste tests, and it seems to work correctly... i.e. I can perform multiple "cut from Xwin & Paste to WinXP", without intervening "cut from WinXP & Paste to Xwin" without error. I will continue running the new version while I perform my daily work, and will advise you if I have a recurrence of the problem. Thanks a lot for this temporary fix. -tony -- 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/
