Re: XDMCP on Windows 95

[PD Dr. Edward Wornar]

From: "J S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: XDMCP on Windows 95
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 11:14:28 +

> Hi,
> 
> When I try to run the command:
> 
> XWin -query smpd9 -fp tcp/smpd9:7100 -from a217447
> 
> that brings up the solaris xdmcp session if I'm running XFree86 on win XP/2K 
> or NT. But if I try to run this on windows 95, it bombs out.
> 
> Is this because Xfree86 doesn't support XDMCP on Windows 95?

Definitely not as I got it running on several Win95 machines on our institute.
Does the name resolving work? Does it run locally? Without the -fp stuff?

Cheers

Edi

Re: Inconvinient colormap

[PD Dr. Edward Wornar]

I'm just wondering:

I can't get links in graphics mode to work in a cygwin/xfree
session (I'm using cygwin/xfree only to turn Windows PCs
int X-terminals). Maybe the problems are related?

Edi

From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: Inconvinient colormap
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 21:05:07 -0400

> Hi Harold,
> 
> Here is what I get when running rxvt inside XWindow:
> 
> rmedina@LIMON /Cartas >rxvt &
> [1] 1007841
> rmedina@LIMON /Cartas >rxvt: can't load color "Red3"
> rxvt: can't load color "Red3"
> rxvt: can't load color "Green3"
> rxvt: can't load color "Green3"
> rxvt: can't load color "Yellow3"
> rxvt: can't load color "Yellow3"
> rxvt: can't load color "Blue3"
> rxvt: can't load color "Blue3"
> rxvt: can't load color "Magenta3"
> rxvt: can't load color "Magenta3"
> rxvt: can't load color "Cyan3"
> rxvt: can't load color "Cyan3"
> rxvt: can't load color "AntiqueWhite"
> rxvt: can't load color "AntiqueWhite"
> rxvt: can't load color "Grey25"
> rxvt: can't load color "Grey25"
> rxvt: can't load color "#B2B2B2"
> rxvt: can't load color "#B2B2B2"
> rxvt: can't allocate Color_bottomShadow
> --
> Here follows /tmp/Xwin.log
> ---
> OsVendorInit - Creating bogus screen 0
> winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1024 h 768
> winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> (EE) Unable to locate/open config file
> InitOutput - Error reading config file
> winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows 95/98/Me
> winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 0017
> InitOutput - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1
> winSetEngine - Windowed && PseudoColor => ShadowGDI
> winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of 8 bits per
> pixel
> winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - Initial w: 1024 h: 768
> winAdjustForAutoHide - Original WorkArea: 0 0 768 1024
> winAdjustForAutoHide - Taskbar is auto hide
> winAdjustForAutoHide - Found BOTTOM auto-hide taskbar
> winAdjustForAutoHide - Adjusted WorkArea: 0 0 767 1024
> winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed - WindowClient w 1018 h 737 r 1018 l 0 b
> 737 t 0
> winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed -  Returning
> winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks:   
> winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks    BPRGB 8 d 8 bpp 8
> winScreenInit - returning
> (EE) No primary keyboard configured
> (==) Using compiletime defaults for keyboard
> Rules = "xfree86" Model = "pc101" Layout = "us" Variant = "(null)" Options
> = "(null)"
> _XSERVTransSocketUNIXAccept: accept() failed
> _XSERVTransSocketUNIXAccept: accept() failed
> _XSERVTransSocketUNIXAccept: accept() failed
> -
> 
> bye
> 
> 

Re: I can`t unzip nedit*.tar.gz

[PD Dr. Edward Wornar]

> > 
> > tar -xyvf nedit-5.3RC1-source.tar.gz -C /urs/src
> 
> If you didn't make a typo in the mail, /urs should be
> /usr.

I'd try

tar xzvf nedit-5.3RC1-source.tar.gz -C /usr/src
 ^   ^^

Cheers

Edi

Re: CYGWin reliability

[PD Dr. Edward Wornar]

> I have been using Cygwin for the last 4 months now and find it reasonably
> good to use, however.
> I have been having continuous problems getting it to connect to the server
> box.
> The configuration is Server: Redhat 7.2 (was7.1) running xdm > Win2K Server.
> Sometimes it will connect sometimes it wont connect at all.
> I updated the Cygwin installation last week.
> I have an eval copy of Xwin32 which works fine and my NCD300 terminal also
> connects every time.
> Is there any tricks? Have I missed anything?

We're using Cygwin/XFree86 4.1 at work to connect to a linux server and
find it *extremely* reliable: Over 20 boxes and no such problems yet.

What message do you get? Are these problems timeouts, refused connections, do other
things work from a box when it can't connect? What else is running on these boxes?
There's a lot of "utilities" and virus scanners out there which severely damage
the network stuff on Windows. 

To me, it looks more like a network problem than a cygwin problem.

HTH

Edi

Re: Problems using CYGwin

[PD Dr. Edward Wornar]

From: Wilhelm Person <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems using CYGwin
Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 23:33:17 +0200 (CEST)

> 127.0.0.1 (localhost) is just a reference to your own computer, it's
> supposed to be that way. You shouldn't have to change anything in your
> configuration to fix that part.
> 
> I don't know what causes your problem though.

Fancy it's one of the programs fired up by startxwin.sh shooting down the X-server.
Most probably it's a program that can't be found due to a wrong $PATH environment
or an incomplete installation.

HTH

Edi

> > I installed cygwin on my PC but when I start
> >$ sh /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh
> > I get the fauílure
> >X connection to 127.0.0.1:0.0 broken (explicit kill or server
> >shutdown) .X connection to 127.0.0.1:0.0 broken (explicit kill or
> >server shutdown).
> > I know you do not take any responsibillity for this bit can you give me any hint 
>whats wrong with my Windows98SE configuration?
> > I use German Telecom's T-DSL.
> > How can I set the local host adress 127.0.0.1?
> >
> > thanks a lot
> >
> > Kurt Struevy
> >
> 
> +---+
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> 

Re: Unable to get french keyboard with XDMCP connexion on AIX

[PD Dr. Edward Wornar]

> I think all us from europe should try to get together and get the NLS
> thinngs to work on top of the great job the primarily done by Harold - this
> would really make a breakthrough on this side of the Atlantic ;-) - if I
> find some time I will try to sketch out the basics

We could use a good tool for writing these X keymap files (I'm talking
about xkb support, not xmodmap), but I think this is not the way to go
with a word processor. I often have multilingual text, and If I'm in
a, say, Russian part of my file, I want the keyboard to behave
differently than in a, say, Esperanto or German or Czech part. In MS
Word (which I have to use for a certain project, otherwise I'm fine
with emacs and LaTeX), I can map key sequences to characters, a
feature I really like and which would solve these problems for most of
us. Missing it keeps me from using Oo for that MS Word project and
other things apart from playing around with it. It could be done nicer
than in Word, of course, so that certain mappings would only be valid
for certain languages.

For me, that autocorrect function would already be sufficient if it
could be told to immediately replace in the middle of words as well,
so I could simply say 'c -> cacute and untick a 'whole word only'
checkbox. There would be several projects I'd use Oof for immediately.
But I don't know where I should post this and I don't have
the time to dig into the sources of Oo myself.

Best

Edi

Re: can't open XDisplay

[PD Dr. Edward Wornar]

Hi,

are you trying to run the program from the cygwin shell, or from
an xterm within xfree86 (as you should)? 

Cheers

Edi

> 
> I am compiling  a linux XWindows application in win98 using cygwin/xfree86.
> But when I execute the program, opening XDisplay fails, due to the following
> code fragment
> 
>  dpy = XOpenDisplay(getenv("DISPLAY"));
>  if (dpy == 0)
>  {
>   fprintf(stderr,"Can't open X display\n");
>   exit(1);
> }
> 
> 
> what could be the problem???

Re: some help with xWin

[PD Dr. Edward Wornar]

From: "Harold Hunt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: some help with xWin
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 14:15:09 -0400

> Edi,
> 
> Actually, you don't need the -from parameter anymore.  It usually doesn't
> even help when you have multiple network card, if I recall correctly.
> 

Thanks. But we're still running XFree 4.1 and therefore definitely
need it (and I'm not in a mood to upgrade 30 Windows boxes).

Edi

Re: some help with xWin

[PD Dr. Edward Wornar]

From: "Lee, David S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: some help with xWin
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 07:34:55 -0400

> Edi -
> 
> I am starting for Solaris using:
> 
> xwin -query solarix_box -fp tcp/solaris_box:7100

You need at least

xwin -query solarix_box -from windows_box_or_ip
^^^

Cheers

Edi

Re: too many retransmissions - with Linux Mandrake

[PD Dr. Edward Wornar]

From: "Jeremy Wilkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: too many retransmissions - with Linux Mandrake
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 20:15:30 +0100

> Hi,
> 
> Just thinking, I'm fairly sure the network is working happily, I can use ssh
> with out problem, and run X apps on the linux box, displaying on the NT box.
> I can even use launch cygwin X, ssh into the linux bottom, set DISPLAY and
> run startkde, at which point KDE loads happily on the cygwin display, it's
> just the XDMCP stuff thats not running.

Have you tried with IP addresses instead of hostnames?

Edi

Re: some help with xWin

[PD Dr. Edward Wornar]

> I have succesfully installed cygwin/xfree and when attempting to use XWin
> with XDM for solaris even using the -fp tcp/box:7100, I get a creen that is
> grey with a X as the cursor.  Can anyone help on what I am doing wrong?  I
> have attached 2 snapshots 

Nothing wrong so far. Your X has started but you don't have a connection yet.
How are you starting XWin (which command line parameters)?

Edi

Re: cx-logos

[PD Dr. Edward Wornar]

From: "Nupur Saurabh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cx-logos
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 00:38:21 -0800

> hi all,
> i made some changes as per suggestion.
> 
> these are modified from the previous logo4.jpg.
> i made, with 'C' with arrow as cygwin banner has.
> 
> http://www.geocities.com/nupursarpal/logo_6.jpg
> http://www.geocities.com/nupursarpal/logo_7.jpg
> 
> these are logo with cygwin c with arrow and 'X' as in www.x.org.
> 
> http://www.geocities.com/nupursarpal/logo_8.jpg
> 
> http://www.geocities.com/nupursarpal/logo_9.jpg
> 

Hmmm, these are nice, too, I just find the c and the X
too small and the green background square too big and dominating
(it's even stressed by the thick border).

Cheers

Edi

Re: cx-logos

[PD Dr. Edward Wornar]

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nikolaus Bates-Haus)
Subject: Re: cx-logos
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 12:13:37 -0500

> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-02/msg00234.html
> 
> Logo by Tucker McLean; I like it.

Yes, that's a nice one.

Re: XFree speed problems with W2k

[PD Dr. Edward Wornar]

> On W2k it takes minutes to get de xdm login screen, while eating a lot of 
> CPU time. Everyting you do from then is slow and CPU expensive.
> The W2k boxes have SP2 installed.

What is SP2? I have experienced speed problems with win98 which went away
after 
- disabling virus scanners running in background like McAffee
- disabling ATI Graphic utilities (disable and remove from registry)
  which do next to nothing but eat up to 85% of the resources.

Hope this helps

Edi

XDMCP connection dog-slow (hopefully solved)

[PD Dr. Edward Wornar]

> If you are using IPX, and I think you have told me so, the Novell client
> resets the order for the name resolution . Usually the timeout is about 1-2
> minutes. Could you try to uninstall the whole novell client with IPX on a
> client?

I think I've tracked down the problem to a ATI graphic card utility called
ati2evxx.exe. As it seems, it doesn't do anything but eats a lot of system
resources. After throwing it out, at least the two machines I've tried started
networking with cygwin at normal speed. Anyway, thanks a lot for your help.

Cheers

Edi

Re: xfree86 work with Japanese characters?

[PD Dr. Edward Wornar]

> 
> Because I wouldn't know where to start.  This was just an idle question
> for anyone who'd done this.
> 
> AFAICT, the applications that you have mentioned must all be built by
> yourself or acquired elsewhere rather than parts of the standard
> Cygwin/XFree86 package.

Hmm, I'm not running them on the Cygwin machine. I use cygwin/XFree86 to
connect to a linux box. 

Cheers

Edi

Re: Please help: XDMCP connection dog-slow

[PD Dr. Edward Wornar]

From: Brian Genisio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: Please help: XDMCP connection dog-slow
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 13:10:02 -0800 (PST)

> Are you connected through dialup, or some sort of WAN?  X doesnt work too well
> across long distances... even if there is a lot of bandwidth... it's a latency
> thing.

Nothing of the sort. 100MBit LAN. At home, a much slower notebook with much less RAM
performs perfectly ok on 10MBit. Right now, I'm logged in from home over a DSL line
and the performance is still acceptable.

> --- "Palic, Darko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Do you use a novell logon?

Yes, all our windows computers do.

> > If so I?m not sure if it is the problem, but could you try to resolve the
> > names of both computers?

Works.

> > Try to logon onto your linux and try to resolve the other computer name, and
> > also the other way (logon on client try to resolve the linux box)

The other way I can't try right now, but the windows clients only use the IP address
anyway. Can it still be an issue? 

Anyway, thanks to both of you

Edi

Re: xfree86 work with Japanese characters?

[PD Dr. Edward Wornar]

From: Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: xfree86 work with Japanese characters?
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 14:44:17 -0500

> On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 06:45:47PM +0100, PD Dr. Edward Wornar wrote:
> >For me (emacs/mew, mozilla, konqueror) it does.
> 
> xterm, too?

I don't know. The fonts are obviously there.
I don't have a Japanese xterm installed. Why don't you just try?
(Or tell me what I have to do to try and tell you.)

Cheers

Edi

Re: XFree86 work with Japanese characters?

[PD Dr. Edward Wornar]

For me (emacs/mew, mozilla, konqueror) it does.

Cheers

Edi

Re: Please help: XDMCP connection dog-slow

[PD Dr. Edward Wornar]

Hi,

thanks for your answer. I'll mail this personally since I'm not
sure it's of common interest for the list.

> how do you connect to the mandrake? Via DNS names or via IP?

IP. Novell stuff (IPX) performs normally, so does ping and VNC. 
everything else (ftp, xdm) is terribly slow.

> Then the login appears, are tere any differences in the performance during
> the session?

The login screen appears *very slowly* and after quite some time.
Login, wait two minutes for your desktop (just fvwm) to appear.
Open a terminal, wait for the window, wait for the shell. And so on ...

Cheers

Edi

Please help: XDMCP connection dog-slow

[PD Dr. Edward Wornar]

Hello,

sorry if this is a bit off-topic but I was unable to find information in 
the mailing-list archives/Howtos.

I have a linux server (Mandrake 8.1) and several Windows clients
running cygwin/xfree-4.1 (plus one linux client). On some of the win98 clients,
XDMCP is *extremely* slow so it literary takes minutes to get the login screen
and log in. They all are in my /etc/hosts file, they
seem to have exactly the same protocols running, but while some react
very snappily, others are extremely sluggish. Maybe anyone can give 
me a clue what might be wrong? (I am not familiar with
TCP/IP interna, so I'm not capable of interpreting the output of
tcpdump but I can mail it to anybody willing to help.)

Cheers

Edi

Re: german keybord with Cygwin Xfree 86

[PD Dr. Edward Wornar]

From: Alexander Gottwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: german keybord with Cygwin Xfree 86
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 16:41:53 +0100 (MET)

> On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> > Hello Alexander,
> > 
> > I'm connecting with startxwin.bat to Sun Solaris mashine and I want to have
> > german keyboard.
> > I have already downloaded xmodmap.de (don't know - where should this file
> > be saved)
> 
> There is now a much easier way can you please test the xserver from
>  and
> 
> 
> This modified version uses the xf86config file and sets the keyboard to 
> the configured keymap on startup

Unfortunately, not for me: It says
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp: Permission denied
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp: Permission denied
and falls back to pre-XKB keymap. 

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp.exe complains about not finding libX11.dll.
Is that because I have XFree4.1?

Cheers

Edi

Shift+KeyPadplus

[PD Dr. Edward Wornar]

Hello,

I've encountered the following problem: When I press
Shift and KeyPad+ (to resize the font in an xterm, e.g.),
I only get capital letters. The only remedy I found so far
is to log out and restart cygwin-xfree. (I haven't found anything
in the faqs and documentations I've searched so I apologize if
this is a faq -- I'm new to this beast.) Can anyone help me here?

Thanks in advance

Edi