Re: changing font

[Reid Thompson]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:00:21PM -0400, matias kaukonen wrote:
> -
> xlsfonts
> -
> . . .
> -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--14-140-75-75-m-90-iso10646-1
> -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--14-140-75-75-m-90-iso8859-1
> -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--14-140-75-75-m-90-iso8859-10
> -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--14-140-75-75-m-90-iso8859-13
> -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--14-140-75-75-m-90-iso8859-14
> -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--14-140-75-75-m-90-iso8859-15
> -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--14-140-75-75-m-90-iso8859-2
> -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--14-140-75-75-m-90-iso8859-3
> 
> -
> Then I changed .Xdefaults to
> -
> aterm*font:-adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--17-120-100-100-m-100-iso10646-1
> XTerm.font:-adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--17-120-100-100-m-100-iso10646-1
> urxvt*font:-adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--17-120-100-100-m-100-iso10646-1
> -
> Next, I selected the font with xfontsel, and then started
> up an xterm
> -
> result: the font did not change
> Is something incorrect or out of order?
> 
> matt.
> 
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did you restart X after modifying Xdefaults?

this page
http://sgenomics.org/~jtang/blog/posts/Reloading_Xdefaults_without_restarting_X/

notes that

To reread your .Xresources file, and throw away your old resources, you
can type:

xrdb ~/.Xdefaults


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Re: changing font

[Reid Thompson]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:33:14AM -0400, Reid Thompson wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 04:59:11PM -0400, matias kaukonen wrote:
> > 1. Could someone pls post instructions about how to reply to an existing 
> > post.


a starting point would be to google
mailing list netiquette

some pointers in general,
   before you hit send, look at To:  Cc:  Bcc:   etc and make sure that
   you're sending to who you want to addresss.  Generally, this will be
   the mailing list address only.  In rare/some cases, it may be
   directly to the poster -- but that is generally *rare*
   don't reply to digests
   trim the original email text to what is pertinent to your response
   don't top post -- either bottom post or inline post



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Re: changing font

[Reid Thompson]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 04:59:11PM -0400, matias kaukonen wrote:
> 1. Could someone pls post instructions about how to reply to an existing post.
> 2. I have a font I'd like to use and its located at
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF with
> administrator permissions.
> 3. How can I make this font the default for an xterm?  Do I have to
> set the path in
> some manner?

lookup the xlsfonts and xfontsel packages and how to use them to get a
font.

i.e.

$ xlsfonts |grep -i terminus|grep medium
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--0-0-72-72-c-0-iso10646-1
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--0-0-72-72-c-0-iso8859-1
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--0-0-72-72-c-0-iso8859-13
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--0-0-72-72-c-0-iso8859-15
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--0-0-72-72-c-0-iso8859-16
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--0-0-72-72-c-0-iso8859-2
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--0-0-72-72-c-0-iso8859-5
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--0-0-72-72-c-0-iso8859-7
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--0-0-72-72-c-0-iso8859-9
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--0-0-72-72-c-0-koi8-r
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--0-0-72-72-c-0-koi8-u
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--0-0-72-72-c-0-microsoft-cp1251
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--0-0-72-72-c-0-paratype-pt154
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-iso10646-1
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-iso8859-1
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-iso8859-13
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-iso8859-15
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-iso8859-16
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-iso8859-2
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-iso8859-5
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-iso8859-7
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-iso8859-9
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-koi8-r
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-koi8-u
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-microsoft-cp1251
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-paratype-pt154
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--14-140-72-72-c-80-iso10646-1
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--14-140-72-72-c-80-iso8859-1
snip

$ grep -i termin .Xdefaults 
aterm*font: -xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal-*-12-120-72-72-c-60-iso10646-1
Xterm.font: -xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal-*-12-120-72-72-c-60-iso10646-1
urxvt*font: -xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--14-140-72-72-c-80-iso10646-1


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Re: Good Xterm Fonts for C Programming

[Reid Thompson]

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 05:50:08PM +0100, Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > I know I am asking a subjective question here, but still I think I may
> 
> [RIC] Highly subjective, and while I am answering this is really not the right
> forum...
> 
> > 1) Can somebody suggest me some good fonts on the basis of experience,
> > something that is good to read/write C codes?
> > 2) I believe Courier OR Fixed fonts should be good, any inputs?
> 
this will give some good suggestions
http://markmail.org/search/?q=+list%3Acom.googlegroups.vim_use+font

a google on best/top programmer fonts will give you hours of reading

various ones i've used

from .Xdefaults
aterm*font: -xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal-*-12-120-72-72-c-60-iso10646-1
#aterm*font: xft:Terminus:pixelsize=12
xterm.Font: xft:Terminus:pixelsize=8
#Xterm.Font: xft:Inconsolata:pixelsize=12
urxvt*font: -xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-iso10646-1
#urxvt*font: xft:Terminus:pixelsize=12
#urxvt*font: xft:Inconsolata:pixelsize=12
#urxvt*font: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:pixelsize=12
#urxvt*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-3
#urxvt*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-3

from .gvimrc
" set guifont=-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso8859-1
" set guifont=Andale_Mono:h10:w
"set guifont=Courier_New:b:h9
"set guifont=-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso8859-1
"set guifont=Courier\ New\ Bold\ 14
"set guifont=Triskweline\ Bold\ 12
"set guifont=Bitstream_Vera_Sans_Mono_Bold:h9:b:cANSI
"set guifont=Bitstream\ Vera\ Sans\ Mono\ Bold
"set guifont=-windows-proggyclean-medium-r-normal--13-80-96-96-c-70-iso8859-1
"set guifont=-xos4-terminus-bold-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-80-iso8859-1
"set guifont=-xos4-terminus-bold-r-normal--20-200-72-72-c-100-iso8859-1
"set guifont=ProFontWindows\ 16
"set guifont=ProFontWindows\ 18
"set guifont=Monospace\ 14
"set guifont=Droid\ Sans\ Mono\ 14
set guifont=Terminus\ 12


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Re: problems starting xterm

[Reid Thompson]

On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 10:54 +0100, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> Hi,

> I have plenty of shells installed (bash, ash, dash), and they work ok  
> in MinTTY. I'm afraid I'm missing some simple but important setting  
> somewhere. Any ideas?

what happens when you call xterm from the mintty command line?

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Re: How do I start WM?

[Reid Thompson]

On 2/26/2010 6:40 PM, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:

Hi;

   Now, if it isn't asking too much, I'd like to use KDE as my Window
Manager and I'd like some KDE-based utilities, like konsole and karm
(? the task/time manager).

   I don't see a great deal of visible difference between twm and
openbox, but I'll look on openbox.org and find more details.

   The Windoze start shortcut did help, and the ~/.xinitrc did help -- thank 
you.

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott

i've not checked to see if KDE or any of it's components is/are available as part of the cygwin X stuff (when 
I use a heavyweight desktop environment i use gnome).  a quick search on KDE at the package search page of 
cygwin lists nothing, while a search on gnome lists quite a few.  someone with more knowledge will have to 
advise you


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Re: How do I start WM?

[Reid Thompson]

On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 12:32 -0800, Joseph Ess wrote:
> From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" 
> > Openbox is just a WM.  It does not provide a panel, pager, or other 
> desktop components.
> 
> Maybe I'm thinking of BlackBox, since it has a "toolbar".
> Thanks,
> Joe

these types of components can be used with openbox, if you want.
obconf allows you to set N number of desktops, dock location etc.
the openbox website has a lot of information regarding usage and
configuration ( i.e. i have openbox run 3 desktops and I mapped the
-F1-3 to switch between them -- i also run a taskbar
(tint2) that allows me to do the same as well as have systray)

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Re: How do I start WM?

[Reid Thompson]

On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 10:56 -0800, Joseph Ess wrote:
> From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" 
> >On 2010-02-25 10:16, Joseph Ess wrote:
> > >I can reproduce your finding.  Putting just "openbox&" in my ~/xinitrc 
> > >does not work. 
> > Of course not; the xinit(1) man page explains that clearly.
> 
> Really? I looked. Your definition of "clear" and mine must be different.  
> The xinit(1) man page suggests an ~/xinitrc like so:
> 
> xrdb -load $HOME/.Xresources
> xsetroot -solid gray &
> xclock -g 50x50-0+0 -bw 0 &
> xload -g 50x50-50+0 -bw 0 &
> xterm -g 80x24+0+0 &
> xterm -g 80x24+0-0 &
> twm
> I would assume (yea, I'm sticking my neck out) I could comment out twm and 
> substitute another WM. Doing so works with WindowMaker.  It doesn't with 
> OpenBox.
> Reid Thompson suggested doing something similar here: 
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2010-02/msg00149.html 
> What am I doing wrong and how can i fix it?
> Thanks,
> Joe

yep -- mine is probably not the best/a little off.

Note my last line, i'm not at my cygwin box right now, but I'll bet that
if you exit the xterm that is opened on startup, that everything goes
away (i.e. xinit exits after that xterm exits )

exec xterm -geometry 80x6+0+0 -name login


I generally start my xserver & apps with my own script.  Which is why i
had the short debugging session to get startx/.xinitrc/.xserverrc
working on my box that i posted in my email.  At some point in the way
back, I left things in a bad state.

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Re: How do I start WM?

[Reid Thompson]

On 2/24/2010 9:54 PM, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:


Apparently I'm missing some components...

$ openbox-session
which: no hsetroot in [PATH content deleted]
which: no esetroot in [PATH content deleted]
xsetroot:  unable to open display 'KWOLCOTT-T61:0.0'
which: no gnome-settings-daemon in [PATH content deleted]
which: no xfce-mcs-manager in [PATH content deleted]
which: no start_kdeinit in [PATH content deleted]
Openbox-Message: Failed to open the display from the DISPLAY
environment variable.

Normally I use the Xming X Window manager if I'm not running the twm
Window Manager executed from Cygwin.



Lets make sure we're on the same page.
Xming X Window manager -> from a quick glance, this is an X server, not a window manager.  It's corresponding 
executable in cygwin would be Xwin.exe, started via either startx or startxwin.exe.


twm and openbox (and openbox-session which adds some autostart and xdg interactions to an openbox manages 
session) are window managers.  window managers require an xserver to be started first, all the X applications 
'paint' themselves on the Xserver.  The window manager, allows you to 'manage' those applications (size, 
location, minimize,maximize etc ).


So running openbox or openbox-session w/o an X server already running will fail 
ala above.
Have you had a chance to read through my previous post?

reid


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Re: How do I start WM?

[Reid Thompson]

Try this:
Copy the shortcut as mentioned earlier in the email trail.
set the Target to be:
  C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c "/usr/bin/startx -- 
/usr/bin/Xwin.exe"
Note the double quotes around the last argument.  Without them, Xwin.exe doesn't start on my box.  startx also 
would not invoke Xwin.exe on my box unless I explicitly called it ala above

Commmand line invocation-> $ startx -- /usr/bin/Xwin.exe
perhaps it's not reading the symlink properly (the default server is set as /usr/bin/X, which is symlinked to 
/usr/bin/Xwin.exe) -- nope, explicitly setting default server to /usr/bin/Xwin.exe doesn't start it either via 
a plain startx on the command line.  setting startx to echo the eval of the invocation yields


   xinit "/home/rthompso/.xinitrc"  -- "/home/rthompso/.xserverrc" :0  -auth 
'/home/rthompso/.serverauth.5912'
aha -- my .xserverrc has:
 #exec X -screen 0 1024x768x16 -engine 4 -ac -nowinkill -noreset 
-emulate3buttons 100
uncomment it and try again from command line a plain startx... xserver starts up in it's own window with my 
.xinitrc programs running.

shut it down, and try my copy of the shortcut again, starts again.

Now that we've established that mine wasn't starting due to the invalid 
.xserverrc, reset the shortcut target to
C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startx
and try it -> starts again

Pasted below is my .xinitrc (you said you don't have one in $HOME), you can try this one in your $HOME if you 
want.  It will open a couple of rxvt terms and and xterm.  It is configured to startup the openbox window 
manager.  You MAY prefer to copy the /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc to your $HOME/.xinitrc to use as your base.


cat .xinitrc
#!/bin/sh
# $Xorg: xinitrc.cpp,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:54:30 cpqbld Exp $

userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysresources=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xresources
sysmodmap=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap

# merge in defaults and keymaps

if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
xrdb -merge $sysresources
fi

if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi

if [ -f $userresources ]; then
xrdb -merge $userresources
fi

if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then
xmodmap $usermodmap
fi


/usr/bin/openbox  &
#twm &
#wmaker &
#/opt/gnome2/bin/gnome-session &

# start some nice programs
rxvt -d :0.0 -geometry 80x35+494+51 -sl 1500 -sr -fg lightblue -bg darkolivegreen 
&
rxvt -d :0.0 -geometry 80x20+294-0 -sl 1500 -sr -fg lightblue -bg darkolivegreen 
&
exec xterm -geometry 80x6+0+0 -name login


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Re: RAM requirements for Cygwin/x

[Reid Thompson]

WALLACE, ANDREW F (ATTLABS) wrote:

Dear Cygwin/x developers,

I have a laptop with 2 GB of RAM running Window XP Professional Version
2002.  Do I need more RAM for Cygwin/x to work effectively? 


No.  i've ran X with 512, 768, and 1000MB fine.
I wasn't attempting to run Gnome or KDE desktops, only X applications.  Not sure how resource intensive the 
entire desktop suite is.


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Re: cygwin-x xterm not compatible with windows 7?

[Reid Thompson]

wgw...@sbcglobal.net wrote:

Hi:
   I sent this post earlier this week and have not received any replies. 
If this is the wrong place to post this,

please let me know where I should.

Thanks

Hi All:
   This is my first post here.  I've never had a problem I couldn't fix
with cygwin-x before.
   Here is the deal:

I just bought a new PC with windows 7 64 bit, build number 7600,
version 6.1.
I downloaded a fresh install of cygwin and cannot get cygwin-x xterm
running.  Cygwin version is 1.7.0(0.218/5/3)

I tried running the cygwin-x XWin Server shortcut command line from a cmd
window to get the error output:

C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/startxwin.bat


try this -- edit /usr/bin/startxwin.bat and put a 5 second sleep between the call to Xwin and the call to 
xterm, and see what happens



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Re: Cygwin error

[Reid Thompson]

baseball07 wrote:

Thank you for the suggestion.  Could you please type out the syntax.  I'm a
newbie to Linux code.  Thank you very much.



ssh -Y usern...@host


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Re: Cygwin/x window no longer appears

[Reid Thompson]

Timares, Brian (Patriot) wrote:

On Friday, November 13, 2009 Csaba Raduly wrote:
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Olivia Cheronet wrote:

I have recently started to work with Cygwin/X.
Until now, I have been starting Cygwin/X by using startxwin.bat in
the 

Cygwin bash shell. Everything seemed to be working fine. However, it
has 

now stopped working...
When I type "startxwin.bat" in the Cygwin shell, the normal
startxwin.bat - starting on Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
appears. Yet, the window which used to appear no longer does. I am
really 

not too sure what to do about this, given that I have not


in startxwin.sh or startxwin.bat, which ever you use, add a call to
sleep 5 between the call to Xwin and the call to xterm ... and see what 
effect it has

i.e. assuming startxwin.sh ...
change

XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error &


# Startup an xterm, using bash as the shell.

xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l &


to

XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error &

sleep 5
# Startup an xterm, using bash as the shell.

xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l &




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Re: How to open a standalone xterm

[Reid Thompson]

Joel Gwynn wrote:

Ha!  That seems to do it.  Although I also have to wait a bit between
closing the xwin window and restarting, but that's not so bad.  I
guess there's some process that takes awhile to exit.


possibly having to wait for the X server socket to completely free up between 
between shutdown and restart

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RE: How to open a standalone xterm

[Reid Thompson]

On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 11:49 -0700, Mike Ayers wrote:
> > From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-
> > ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Joel Gwynn
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 8:27 AM
> 
> 
> > And now, sporadically, when I run startxwin.sh, sometimes it works, ie
> > opens up the xterm, but sometimes some windows open, with text that I
> > can't read quickly enough, then go away.  If I close Xwin and try
> > again, sometimes it will work, mostly not.
> 
>   You're not running startxwin twice, right?  That won't work - you must 
> run the xterm command from an existing xterm, a cygwin window, or the xterm 
> icon in the start menu (which can be copied to the quicklaunch bar).
> 
>   Also, try running bash in an existing xterm to see if the problem is in 
> your .bashrc, i.e. not with xterm or X.
> 
> 
>   HTH,
> 
> Mike
> 

test this..

in startxwin.sh or startxwin.bat ( whichever one you're calling to start
X ), between the call to start Xwin and the call to start the xterm, add


sleep 5

if that gets you an xterm every time, then decrement 5 until failure,
leave the call in with failure + 1

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Re: Bad XTerm Vim coloring

[Reid Thompson]

On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 11:34 -0500, Nick Deubert wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> First off thanks for your hard work on cygwin/X it is very
> appreciated. I upgraded to the new Xorg last week and I have had one

you didn't mention whether you'd ran setup.exe and re-installed vim --
perhaps one, or more, of vim's startup files got corrupted during the
update...???

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Re: FW: How to get scroll bars on initial xterm instance?

[Reid Thompson]

On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 12:23 -0700, Siegfried Heintze (Aditi) wrote:
> When I run startx it creates an xterm for me. But this xterm does not have a 
> scroll bar. I like to create xterms with "-sl 3000 -sb" so I get lots of 
> history. How can I make startx create an xterm with these options?
> Thanks,
> siegfried
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edit startxwin.sh/startxwin.bat




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Re: Using XWin.exe to connect to a linux X Server

[Reid Thompson]

On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 09:42 -0500, jose isaias cabrera wrote:
> "Holger Krull" escribio,
> 
> > jose isaias cabrera schrieb:
> >>
> >> Greetings.
> >>
> >> I am trying to connect to a Gentoo X Server and it is connecting, but I
> >> don't seem to be able to open an xterm.  All I get is a full screen
> >> without anything.  I am running this command:
> >>
> >> XWin -query d-tuxedo
> >
> > Are you sure XDMCP is enabled on this server?
> > Try Xwin -query gentoo.numeric.ip -from windows.nummeric.ip
> I did that and I get the same thing.  I get the Cygwin X Window with the 
> title,
> 
> Cygwin/X - d-tuxedo.na.xde3.xerox.org
> 
> Is there a way to add a menu on the X in the taskbar?  I see that there is a 
> Show Cursor, an About and Exit.  Can I add an XTerm to that?  Because I 
> think I am connecting, but I am not getting anything yet.
> 
> thanks.
> 
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from http://x.cygwin.com/features.html

Configurable Tray Icon Menu - Menu entries can be added to the
configurable tray icon menu via a .XWinrc file in the user's home
directory, or via a system.XWinrc file in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11.

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Re: Using XWin.exe to connect to a linux X Server

[Reid Thompson]

On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 09:38 -0500, jose isaias cabrera wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > DISPLAY on the Linux box must be set to the IP address of the cygwin box.
> H...
> 
> > But DISPLAY on the cygwin box must be set to either localhost or the IP 
> > address of this machine.
> Ok, this one was set to d-tuxedo, which I did not change.  But I just set it 
> back to localhost:0.0 and still happens.
> 
> > You also must have some method to communicate between both machines. I 
> > always used telnet as it was all locally done. You can also take SSH if 
> > you do not know who else listens between.
> I do.  I am able to connect to d-tuxedo through ssh, etc.  I just want to 
> use X with cygwin to get to it.
> 
try ssh -Y [EMAIL PROTECTED]

or ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED]

and then try to start an xterm

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Re: scroll

[Reid Thompson]

Reid Thompson wrote:

Cole Radcliffe wrote:

What are the XWin server options you are using with that Reid? Mine
which are "%RUN% XWin -clipboard -silent-dup-error -multiwindow" give
some weird object that looks like a scrollbar on the side but it does
not allow you to scroll


my options are the same - XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error &


What exactly is weird? Email me directly a png of the xterm window.

click in the terminal window and hold down your enter key until your 
buffer starts scrolling up -- then you can use the left and right mouse 
buttons to scroll up/down the xterm buffer by clicking above/below the 
scrollbar slider ( i.e. you will NOT be able to scroll until you've 
 enough to cause buffering to occur



you may prefer rxvt over xterm
the options are pretty much the same

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Re: scroll

[Reid Thompson]

Cole Radcliffe wrote:

What are the XWin server options you are using with that Reid? Mine
which are "%RUN% XWin -clipboard -silent-dup-error -multiwindow" give
some weird object that looks like a scrollbar on the side but it does
not allow you to scroll


my options are the same - XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error &


What exactly is weird? Email me directly a png of the xterm window.

click in the terminal window and hold down your enter key until your 
buffer starts scrolling up -- then you can use the left and right mouse 
buttons to scroll up/down the xterm buffer by clicking above/below the 
scrollbar slider ( i.e. you will NOT be able to scroll until you've 
 enough to cause buffering to occur



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Re: scroll bars

[Reid Thompson]

On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 00:22 -0500, Cole Radcliffe wrote:
> "%RUN% xterm -fn 10x20 -scrollbar -e /usr/bin/bash -l" does not work for me
> 
> I also tried it with "-scrollBar"
> 

That's because -scrollbar is not a valid command line parameter tor
xterm.

"%RUN% xterm -fn 10x20 -sb -sl 2500 -e /usr/bin/bash -l" 


see xterm -help

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Re: scroll bars

[Reid Thompson]

Cole Radcliffe wrote:

Thanks for the help with the font size. Now why does why does "%RUN%
XWin  -silent-dup-error -scrollbars" give me a terminal with no scroll
bars?

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the scrollbars param for XWin is not the same as the scrollbar param for 
terminals...


xterm ( and other terminal emulators take a 'scrollbar' variant parameter )

EX.
xterm -sb -sl 2500
rxvt -sb -sl 2500

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Re: font and screen size

[Reid Thompson]

Cole Radcliffe wrote:

OK. I think it was not working because I was just appending options to
 -e /usr/bin/bash -l" in the startx batch file which for
some reason does not work for any option I append (the shell just dies
quickly).

One interesting thing I found is that if I replace the "%RUN% xterm -e
/usr/bin/bash -l" in the startx batch file with "xterm -fn 12X24" I
get the large font size however it opens onto my Windows desktop not
my cygwin hierarchy which is in a different drive. It opens into the
correct drive but with the small font with "%RUN% xterm -e
/usr/bin/bash -l".

How can I get it to open with the large font size in the correct directory?

On 9/5/07, Cole Radcliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

That is weird. I do not have a .Xdefaults in my home directory. I do
have a .Xauthority-c file, which is empty. I downloaded it pretty
recently, maybe we are working with different versions.

On 9/5/07, Angelo Graziosi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

In my $HOME/.Xdefaults I have:

try
"%RUN% xterm -fn 12x24 -e /usr/bin/bash -l

anything after the -e /usr/bin/bash is being passed as a parameter to 
bash, not xterm...


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Re: font and screen size

[Reid Thompson]

run xlsfonts and pick one

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Re: font and screen size

[Reid Thompson]

how bout -fn 12x24


On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 13:26 -0500, Cole Radcliffe wrote:
> I tried to change the font size with the option "-fs" after the xterm
> command however xterm did not recognize that option even though it
> appeared in "man xterm". I am guessing that it was just not compiled
> into the cygwin version of xterm. Is there any other way to accomplish
> this. I could just set the "-fn" option which stands for "font name"
> and use a font that has a large standard size but someone would need
> to explain to me how to set that up!
> 
> I just want to get the shell larger in general so it does not hurt my
> eyes. Maybe there is another way just to scale everything up?
> 
> Thanks.
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Re: xterm

[Reid Thompson]

Cole Radcliffe wrote:

When I try to run "xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l" from the cygwin shell I
get an error that says "xterm Xt error: "Can't open display" "DISPLAY
is not set"

Also, how can I get the replies to this message e-mailed to me?

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you have to start the xserver first.

subscribe to the mailing list(s).

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Re: xterm scrollbar...PLEASE

[Reid Thompson]

try 
$ xterm -sb -ls -rightbar -sl 1000 -bg CornflowerBlue -fg LemonChiffon


What does that give you?

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Re: xterm scrollbar...PLEASE

[Reid Thompson]

sorry, -sr is rxvt try

> $ xterm -sb -ls -sr -rightbar 1000 -bg CornflowerBlue -fg LemonChiffon

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Re: xterm scrollbar...PLEASE

[Reid Thompson]

On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 07:34 -0700, on behalf of ejuror ejuror wrote:
> I would love to have a scrollbar on my xterm window.
> Here is the contents of my .Xdefaults file:
> 
> xterm*background:CornflowerBlue
> xterm*foreground:LemonChiffon
> xterm*scrollBar: true
> xterm*rightScrollBar: true
> XTerm*rightScrollBar: true
> xterm*saveLines: 1000
> xterm*font: 
> -*-lucidatypewriter-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
> xterm*boldFont: 
> -*-lucidatypewriter-bold-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
> 
> and I tried running this from the command line:
> 
> D:\cygwin\bin\run.exe -p /usr/X11R6/bin xterm -display
> 127.0.0.1:0.0 -ls -rightbar
> 
> everything works, but no scrollbar.
> 
> Please help!
> 
> Thanks

try
$ xterm -sb -ls -sr -sl 1000 -bg CornflowerBlue -fg LemonChiffon

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Re: Multiple Session Question

[Reid Thompson]

On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 10:50 -0400, Duane Ellis wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've got cygwin working well via SSH to single host, single window. 
> I connect via SSH, and run "startkde" - I get the KDE desktop in one 
> single window. Works great!
> 
> How do I connect to a second machine at the same time.
> 
> See below for details.
> 
> -Duane.
> 
> 
> For example:
> I login as my self - with ssh & a remote session
> And I login as another person to the same machine.
>  In my case, I have two accounts:
>   A development account
>   And A Test account.
> 
> Likewise, I have this situation:
>   I login to Machine1 - and it works.
>   I login to Machine2 - and it works.
> 
> Problem:
>   I can only have 1 connection to 1 machine at a time.
>   Both should have separate window/display.
> 
> I have done this with commercial X11 packages, but not CygwinX.
> 
> This does not seem to work, and I can't seem to find in the user docs
> any thing that reasonably describes some things.
> 
> (1) Yes, I have tried using a different display, ie:
> 127.0.0.1:0.0
> And 127.0.0.1:1.0
> 
>   That does not work when I have 2 sessions.
>   The two displays work - independent of each other
> 
> (2) I'm not sure what is going on with the /tmp/.X11-unix/dir
> And can't find docs for it - I suspect it is part of the problem.
>  
> (3) I'm not sure what the "--screen" options do for the Xwin program.
> 
> The script I to start the session (via SSH and public keys) is below,
> 
> The difference between the two is WHO and DISPLAY.
> 
> The script below - deletes the old /tmp/.X11-dir, which I know is a bad
> thing with 2 sessions. I have tried not deleting it - that does not seem to
> help.
> 
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> TARGET=linxbox
> 
> WHO=duane
> #WHO=testaccount
> 
> export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
> #export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:1.0
> export PATH=/usr/X11R6/bin:"$PATH"
> export XAPPLRESDIR=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults
> export XCMSDB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Xcms.txt
> export XKEYSYMDB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB
> export XNLSPATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale
> 
> rm -rf /tmp/.X11-unix
> 
> XWin -clipboard -silent-dup-error &
> 
> echo "STARTING KDE REMOTEL"
> ssh -l $WHO $TARGET "startkde" &
> echo "DONE RUNNING KDE REMOTELY"
> 
> exit
> 
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try

#!/bin/bash

TARGET=linxbox
TARGETONE=linxbox1

WHO=duane
WHO1=testaccount

export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
#export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:1.0
export PATH=/usr/X11R6/bin:"$PATH"
export XAPPLRESDIR=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults
export XCMSDB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Xcms.txt
export XKEYSYMDB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB
export XNLSPATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale


XWin -clipboard -silent-dup-error &

echo "STARTING KDE REMOTEL"
ssh -l $WHO $TARGET "startkde" &
ssh -l $WHO1 $TARGETONE "startkde" &
echo "DONE RUNNING KDE REMOTELY"

exit

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Re: Xterm, rxvt, mrxvt, etc....

[Reid Thompson]

Charles Wilson wrote:


Sigh.  cygwin's rxvt is not broken.  It works for me, and about 2000 
others.  


+1 --I have been using cygwin  rxvt for several years (Xwin and Win) -- 
has fulfilled every terminal need that I have.

kudos to the 'maintainer'??.

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RE: Background-color of bash

[Reid Thompson]

On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 20:18 +0100, Simon Crombie wrote:
> Thanks for the information about changing the defaults for X-term windows.
> How can I amend this to get scroll bars to appear? And can you set the
> default window size there as well?
> 
> Grateful for any advice.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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man xterm or

http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/xterm.1.html


xterm -sb -sl 2600 -rightbar -bg mycolorbg -fg mycolorfg etc, etc, etc

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Re: Background-color of bash

[Reid Thompson]

On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 03:45 -0400, -Patrick wrote:
> This may seem trivial to some, but at least to me it affects
> productivity. I would like to know how I can change the background-color
> of the X- bash shell. So when I do 'startx' at the cygwin shell, I get
> the X terminal, which leads to programs like ddd, emacs etc. etc. This
> terminal's background is default to the color white. How do I change
> this? Further, I would like to change the colors of directories and
> executables for easier identification.
> 
> I apologize if this seems like a ridiculous request, but this type of
> stuff affects the speed in which I can be productive; recognizing easy
> to spot files and multitasking in general, etc etc.
> 
> Thank you and take care,
> -Patrick
> 
> 
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man xterm

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Re: The right user information

[Reid Thompson]

VEGH, Janos wrote:

Hi,

I am trying to use your Win32 X server.
The first step was perfect, I accepted all the default settings,
I proceeded as shown in the step-by step tutorial.

I successfully installed it, I have the bash (DOS) box.
Even I can make a limited use of it, like

"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
$ ls /
bin  cygdrive  cygwin.bat  cygwin.ico  etc  home  lib  proc  tmp  usr 
var

"

I cannot go much further, however.
In page 
http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/configure.html#configure-cygwin-x-overview

I see
Cygwin/X settings are configured primarily through command-line
parameters passed to XWin.exe. Cygwin/X comes with a file called
startxwin.bat that launches an X Server, a terminal, and a window
manager.

The only batch file I see is
/cygwin.bat

In page
http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using.html#using-starting
I see

"startxwin.bat

startxwin.bat - Use a MS-DOS batch file as the startup script. An
example startxwin.bat is included in X-startup-scripts, which is
extracted according to the instructions in the Section called Installing
Cygwin/X in Chapter 2. Run /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.bat by
double-clicking it in Windows Explorer.
startxwin.sh

startxwin.sh - Use an sh shell script as the startup script. An example
startxwin.sh is included in X-startup-scripts, which is extracted
according to the instructions in the Section called Installing Cygwin/X
in Chapter 2. Run /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh in a Cygwin shell:
"

However, there is no such .bat and no such .sh
Another method here is

startx - Use the standard X Window System startx script with its
attendant ~/.xinitrc configuration file. First you need to create
~/.xinitrc from the template in /etc/X11/xinit/:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
$ cp /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc ~/.xinitrc

However, in my system

"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc
$ ls
DIR_COLORSdefaults  networks preremove  protocols  skel
alternatives  group passwd   profileservices   termcap
bash.bashrc   hosts postinstall  profile.d  setup
"

i.e. even I do not have /etc/X11
Also, commands like xterm, ssh do not work.

What do I wrong or where can I find the right manual?

Please cc me, because I am not (yet) a list member.
Thanks for any info in advance

Janos




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run setup again and be sure to select the X11 packages

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Re: (n00b question) How does one activate the scrollbar in an xterm?

[Reid Thompson]

Soong, SylokeJ wrote:

I have not done this with cygwin-x before,
but I do it with my sun solaris.

Create .Xdefaults at home directory if does not already exists.
google or man xterm should tell you more.
Enter/append lines similar to these:

xterm*scrollBar: true
xterm*saveLines: 4000
xterm*cursorColor: Red
xterm*pointerColor: Blue
xterm*borderColor: Red

  

alternatively invoke the xterm with the pertinent command line parameters...

xterm --help
..


xterm -sb -sl 2500 -sr etc, etc, etc

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Re: xclipboard

[Reid Thompson]

David wrote:

Hi,

I have XWin 6.8.2.0-4 and am running on Windows2000
professional, starting it like this:

   XWin -multiplemonitors -clipboard -rootless -screen ...

And, I am runing fvwm2 as the window manager, and a couple
of xterms in it.

So, I left mouse click to highlight some text, and
hit CNTL-C to copy it and move to another window
and hit CNTL-V to paste it. 


Nothing happens. I also tried pasting into the native
windows application "Notepad" and still nothing.

I looked into the xclipboard man page, but there was
nothing there. I checked the web. Someone suggested I
should use -emulate3buttons.

I would like to be able to copy from one xterm to another.

Every window has the reverse video highlight capability.
However, I can't get beyond that.

Please help.

Thanks,

David





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if your mouse has a clickable scrollwheel, or any other button that can 
be identified as 'button3', click it.

i.e.
1. highlight text to copy ( ctrl-C is NOT require )
2. make 'paste into' window/Xapp the active window ( click on the 
window/Xapp you want to past into)
3) click the scroll button, or if emulate3buttons is on , click 
left/right buttons in quick sequence ( or click whatever other button 
your mouse has defined as button3
3a) to paste into a native WINDOWS app, select the app, ctrl-v, or right 
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Re: menu does not come up - Running rootless with an external window manager

[Reid Thompson]

Jack Tanner wrote:

Naru Takashima wrote:

I notice at the website x.cygwin.com, there is a
screenshot with openbox window manager?
Is that part of cgwin/X distribution or do I need to
purchase or download that from somewhere?


The Cygwin Setup program offers at least WindowMaker, fvwm, and 
openbox. No idea how well any of them work, but it's easy enough to 
test them out.



And what would I need to do to run an external window
manager?


You'd have to tell Xwin to run in rootless mode, and you'd have to run 
the appropriate external window manager, both in startxwin.bat.


These are all kind of basic questions; please look in 
manuals/FAQs/google.



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it's pretty easy to download the source for *box wm's and ./configure, 
make, make install ( at least in the past )


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Re: Remote client through telnet gives error 232

[Reid Thompson]

Simon Keen wrote:
I am trying to run remote clients on an X server using telnet, but am 
encountering an error. My setup is as follows:


 - runnning X server on Cygwin_NT-5.1 on a windows XP Professional
laptop. I initiate this by running the default "startxwin.bat" from the
directory "C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin";

 - in the bash shell that opens I enter "xhost +" to disable access
control;

 - I then telnet from my laptop to an HP-UX 11.0 server at IP
158.234.197.198, and login as root;

 - I run "export DISPLAY=158.234.197.171:0.0" (the IP of my laptop);

 - I run an application requiring an X window: "sam", which raises the
following error:

XIO:  fatal IO error 232 (Connection reset by peer) on X server
"158.234.197.171:0.0"
  after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.


 - I get the same error if I try to run "xterm" or "xclock";

 - As far as I know there is no port blocking between my laptop and
ther server. A trace route displays:

D:\>tracert 158.234.197.198

Tracing route to 158.234.197.198 over a maximum of 30 hops

  1 1 ms<1 ms<1 ms  158.234.197.198

Trace complete.

 - with the X server running, I am able to run local X window
applications, e.g. "xterm" or "xclock";

Any suggestions?

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is your XP firewall on?
If you login to the HP-UX box as a non-root user, does the same error occur?

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X server crashing -- winClipboardProc - Call to select () failed: -1. Bailing.

[Reid Thompson]

X windows had been stable for quite a while for me( in continuous use, 
days, sometimes weeks at at time).  Over the past couple of weeks it's 
begun crashing fairly regularly.  The XWin.log has these final 
statements in it:



winClipboardProc - Call to select () failed: -1.  Bailing.
winClipboardProc - XDestroyWindow succeeded.

winClipboardIOErrorHandler!


Anyone have any pointers to what may have changed/be causing this?

My startxwin.sh calls
 XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error &


cygcheck.out attached.


Thanks,
reid

Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics
Current System Time: Thu Mar 02 08:56:36 2006

Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2

Path:   C:\cygwin\usr\local\sbin
C:\cygwin\home\rthompso\bin
C:\cygwin\bin
C:\cygwin\lib\subversion\bin
C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin
C:\cygwin\bin
C:\cygwin\home\rthompso
C:\cygwin\usr\sbin
C:\cygwin\usr\local\pgsql\bin
C:\cygwin\usr\jikes\bin
C:\j2sdk1.4.2\bin
C:\ant-1.6.1\bin
C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin
C:\cygwin\opt\gnome2\bin
C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\bin
C:\cygwin\opt\kde3\lib
C:\cygwin\opt\qt\3.2\bin
C:\MyPrograms\ApacheSoftwareFoundation\Maven1.0.1\bin
C:\cygwin\opt\bin
C:\WINDOWS\system32

Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (nontsec)
UID: 11192(Reid.Thompson)
GID: 10513(Domain Users)
0(root)
544(Administrators)
545(Users)
1005(Debugger Users)
11215(all)
10512(Domain Admins)
10513(Domain Users)
10519(Enterprise Admins)
11371(Team - Internal Information Systems)
12853(Team - Telecom)

Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (ntsec)
UID: 11192(Reid.Thompson)
GID: 10513(Domain Users)
0(root)
544(Administrators)
545(Users)
1005(Debugger Users)
11215(all)
10512(Domain Admins)
10513(Domain Users)
10519(Enterprise Admins)
11371(Team - Internal Information Systems)
12853(Team - Telecom)

SysDir: C:\WINDOWS\system32
WinDir: C:\WINDOWS

LIBRARY_PATH = '/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:/lib:/usr/local/pgsql/lib'
LD_LIBRARY_PATH = '/usr/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib'
TCL_LIBRARY = 'c:\ruby\tcl\lib\tcl8.3'
GCC_EXEC_PREFIX = '/usr/lib'
C_INCLUDE_PATH = '/usr/include'
PWD = '/home/rthompso'
CYGWIN = 'server binmode tty ntsec'
HOME = '/home/rthompso'

Use '-r' to scan registry

a:  fd N/AN/A
c:  hd  NTFS 76285Mb  82% CP CS UN PA FC 
d:  cd N/AN/A
e:  cd N/AN/A
s:  net NTFS271802Mb  15% CP CS UN PA FC Ateb Shared
u:  net NTFS271802Mb  18% CP CS UN PA FC User Store
w:  net NTFS  1011Mb  92% CP CSPArthompso
y:  net NTFS  1011Mb  73% CP CSPArthompso
z:  net NFS  16995Mb  30% CP 

.  /cygdrive user
binmode,cygdrive
C:\cygwin  / system  binmode
A: /Asystem  
binmode,exec
C:\cygwin\bin  /bin  system  binmode
C: /Csystem  
binmode,exec
\cygdrive\x/C/synxnetsystem  binmode
C:\cygwin\lib  /lib  system  binmode
U: /Usystem  
binmode,exec
C:\cygwin\bin  /usr/bin  system  binmode
C:\cygwin\lib  /usr/lib  system  binmode
C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts  /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts  system  binmode
.  /cygdrive system  
binmode,cygdrive

Found: C:\cygwin\bin\awk.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cat.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cp.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cpp.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\crontab.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\find.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\gcc.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\gdb.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\grep.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\kill.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\ld.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\make.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\mv.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\patch.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\rm.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\sed.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\ssh.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\tar.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\test.exe
Not Found: vi
Found: C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin\vim.exe

   20k 2003/08/21 C:\cygwin\home\rthompso\cyg.dll
   28k 2003/08/21 C:\cygwin\home\rthompso\cygmydll.dll
   25k 2005/08/15 C:\cygwin\bin\cygao-2.dll
   91k 2005/11/11 C:\cygwin\bin\cygapr-0-0.dll
   67k 2005/11/11 C:\cygwin\bin\cygaprutil-0-0.dll
   52k 2005/11/10 C:\cygwin\bin\cygart_lgpl-2.dll
   76k 2005/07/30 C:\cygwin\bin\cygart_lgpl_2-2.dll
  113k 2005/07/16 C:\cygwin\bin\cygatk-1.0-0.dll
  204k 2004/10/28 C:\cygwin\bin\cygatkmm-1.0-1.dll
  237k 2004/11/04 C:\cygwin\bin\cygatkmm-1.6-1.dll
  145k 2004/09/02 C:\cygwin\bin\cyg

Re: Windows programs in Cygwin/X ?

[Reid Thompson]

Doug Bohl wrote:

After much turmoil, I've managed to get a number of window managers
running in Cygwin/X.  What I'm wondering is this:  Is it at all
possible to allow my windows programs to be managed by my Cygwin/X
window manager?  Presently, if I'm in -fullscreen mode and I'm running
some X programs, I'd have to alt+tab out of X and into explorer.

If this isn't possible, what would I have to do to make it possible? 
Maybe write an X program to 'trap' the window of a Windows program

into an invisible X window.  Or something like that.

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there a various ways to run the X server in cygwin.
Read the comments in and then try altering /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh 
to meet your needs.  For example


---snip---

XWin -rootless -clipboard -silent-dup-error &


# Startup an xterm, using bash as the shell.

xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l &
rxvt -e /usr/bin/bash -l &


#
# Startup the twm window manager.
# WARNING: Do not use an external window manager in conjunction with
# the ``-multiwindow'' command-line parameter for XWin.  Doing so
# would start two window managers, which is never supposed to happen.
#

# twm & 
wmaker & 
-snip




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Re: XTerm problem- xinit

[Reid Thompson]

Afro_PL wrote:

Hello there.
I have little problem when in XTerm i write "xinit":
"A fatal error has ocurred and Cygwin/X will now exit.
Please open /tmp/Xwin.log for more information.

Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
Release: 6.8.2.0-4
Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
XWin was started with the following command-line

X :0"

What I should do?

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don't type xinit in an xterm -- if you have an xterm running -- they you 
already have X started -- attempting to start it again results in the 
above message


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Re: web browser for cgywin

[Reid Thompson]

Charles Li wrote:


Can someone recommend a decent, and easy to build, web
browser for cgywinX?

Thanks.




   
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dillo  graphical, small fast missing some features
links  text
elinks text
links2   http://links.twibright.com/  graphical -- your best bet

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Re: X-Query (imp & urgent)

[Reid Thompson]

Alec stewart wrote:


Hello All,
I have installed g++ for Windows on my System and was trying to build
a project on the same. It is like this that when I disable the GUI
portion from my project my project builds very fine and executable
works fine also but when I want to enable the GUI portion also there
are a few errors.

1)
Portion for enabling or disabling GUI is like
#define NO_GRAPHICS /* comment or uncomment this line*/ --line 1
#ifndef NO_GRAPHICS

#include 
#include 

//#include  //line---2
#include 

#endif

Here if I comment line line 1 it first gives the compilation error
itself for not being able to find Xos.h
Query #1
So first thing I want to know is why  Xos.h is not available with g++
for Windows and or what is the alternative for that.


However If i comment this line 2 there comes a linker errror with a
lot of messages..but all similar to
undefined reference to XSetFont
undefined reference to XCreateWindow

basically all related to XWindow APIs..but all of them have been
declared as extern in other include files of X11 folder.
So my second query is
how can i specify my lib include directory in cygwin through windows
i.e. with which option -ldirectory or what.

when i speciifed -ldirectory d:\cygwin\lib it says that it can not
find the path 
so what is equivalent in terms of /usr/lib ..or like .what 


those interested my makefiles ..here is partial but only useful
section ..

$makefile

CC = gcc

#SunOS lines below.
#LIB_DIR = -L/usr/lib/X11R5
#LIB = -static -lX11 -lm
#X11_INCLUDE = -I/usr/include

# On many non-Solaris machines, use LIB_DIR = -L/usr/lib/X11R5

LIB_DIR = -L/usr/openwin/lib


# Sometimes get errors under Solaris if you don't use the -R option
# to (I think) put info about where the shared object libraries are
# right into the binary.  Shouldn't be necessary, but it is on our 
machines.


LIB = -lX11 -lm -R/usr/openwin/lib

X11_INCLUDE = -I/usr/openwin/include

# Overly strict flags line below.  Lots of useless warnings, but can
# let you look for redudant declarations.
# To avoid redundant declarations here I use -D__STDC instead of
# -D__USE_FIXED_PROTOTYPES, but that means some prototypes are missing.

#FLAGS = -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-qual -Wstrict-prototypes -O
-D__STDC__ -ansi -pedantic -Wredundant-decls -Wmissing-prototypes
-Wshadow -Wcast-align -D_POSIX_SOURCE

#Flags to be passed to the compiler.  First is for strict warnings,
#second for interactive debugging and third for optimization.

#-D_POSIX_SOURCE stops extra declarations from being included in math.h
#and causing -Wshadow to complain about conflicts with y1 in math.h
#(Bessel function 1 of the second kind)

WARN_FLAGS = -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-qual -Wstrict-prototypes -O
-D__USE_FIXED_PROTOTYPES__ -ansi -pedantic -Wmissing-prototypes
-Wshadow -Wcast-align -D_POSIX_SOURCE
DEBUG_FLAGS = -g
OPT_FLAGS = -O3

#FLAGS = $(WARN_FLAGS)
#FLAGS = $(DEBUG_FLAGS)
FLAGS = $(OPT_FLAGS)

#Uncomment line below if X Windows isn't installed on your system.
#FLAGS = $(OPT_FLAGS) -DNO_GRAPHICS

#Useful flags on HP machines
#DEBUG_FLAGS = -Aa -g
#OPT_FLAGS = -Aa +O3

EXE = vpr

OBJ = main.o util.o read_netlist.o print_netlist.o check_netlist.o
read_arch.o place_and_route.o place.o route_common.o route_timing.o
route_tree_timing.o route_breadth_first.o draw.o graphics.o stats.o
segment_stats.o rr_graph.o rr_graph2.o rr_graph_sbox.o rr_graph_util.o
rr_graph_timing_params.o rr_graph_indexed_data.o rr_graph_area.o
check_rr_graph.o check_route.o hash.o heapsort.o read_place.o
net_delay.o path_delay.o path_delay2.o vpr_utils.o
timing_place_lookup.o timing_place.o

SRC = main.c util.c read_netlist.c print_netlist.c check_netlist.c
read_arch.c place_and_route.c place.c route_common.c route_timing.c
route_tree_timing.c route_breadth_first.c draw.c graphics.c stats.c
segment_stats.c rr_graph.c rr_graph2.c rr_graph_sbox.c rr_graph_util.c
rr_graph_timing_params.c rr_graph_indexed_data.c rr_graph_area.c
check_rr_graph.c check_route.c hash.c heapsort.c read_place.c
net_delay.c path_delay.c path_delay2.c test_h.c vpr_utils.c
timing_place_lookup.c timing_place.c

H = util.h vpr_types.h globals.h graphics.h read_netlist.h
print_netlist.h check_netlist.h read_arch.h stats.h segment_stats.h
draw.h place_and_route.h place.h route_export.h route_common.h
route_timing.h route_tree_timing.h route_breadth_first.h rr_graph.h
rr_graph2.h rr_graph_sbox.h rr_graph_util.h rr_graph_timing_params.h
rr_graph_indexed_data.h rr_graph_area.h check_rr_graph.h check_route.h
hash.h heapsort.h read_place.h path_delay.h path_delay2.h net_delay.h
vpr_utils.h timing_place_lookup.h timing_place.h


# I haven't been able to make -static work under Solaris.  Use shared
# libraries all the time.

# Add purify before $(CC) in the link line below to run purify on VPR.

$(EXE): $(OBJ) test_h.o
$(CC) $(FLAGS) $(OBJ) -o $(EXE) $(LIB_DIR) $(LIB)

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RE: dillo on cygwinX

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Charles Li wrote:
> I have installed dillo cygwinX.  When I try to access
> yahoo mail, I get "Cant start dpid daemon" after I put
> in username and password.  I read about stopping the
> dpid after upgrade, but it did not help.
> 
> What else can I do?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
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1) debug the code
2) report the bug to the dillo bug list

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Re: I can not get cygwin to work on my PC

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And what did /tmp/XWin.log say?

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RE: how to install dillo on cygwinX

[Reid Thompson]

Charles Li wrote:
> Hi,
> I would like to install dillo browser on cygwinx.  Is
> there a document one of you can point me to?  Or a
> general page for installing softwares on cygwinX.
> On the download site, it has:
> Debian, GNU-Darwin, Slackware and RPMs
> 
> Which one should I use?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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neither -- download the source tarball and then

untar it
cd into the created dir hierarchy
run ./configure --help and see if there are any specific configure
params you want to pass 

run ./configure ( with any params you want)
run make
run make install

for the quick build..

just run
./configure
make && make install

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RE: xterm pointer color

[Reid Thompson]

Jack Tanner wrote:
> startxwin.bat invokes xterm with the -ms red switch, which sets the
> (mouse) pointer color to red. Is it possible to specify the
> same value
> using a resource in .Xdefaults?
> 
> $ xterm -version
> Cygwin 6.8.2.0(202)

Rxvt.cursorColor:red
xterm.cursorColor:red

or
*.cursorColor:red

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RE: Problems at Cygwin launch

[Reid Thompson]

Lazzari, Catherine wrote:

Note the following in the log file...

winCheckDisplayNumber - Cygwin/X is already running on display 0

Fatal server error:
InitOutput - Duplicate invocation on display number: 0.  Exiting.


If you check the task managers process list, is Xwin already running?
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RE: Cygwin X file structure

[Reid Thompson]

Andy Little wrote:
> Hi to the Folks at Cygwin-X,
> 
>   I am trying to get XWindows running on my WinXP box
> using Cygwin. I am
> hoping to write some C++ applications using it.
>   I am however totally confused by what to do after
> building the XWindows
> sources.
> 
>   1) Should I copy the lib files in my
> my_build_dir/exports/lib directory to
> usr/X11/lib/ ?
>   2) How do I get gcc to automatically use the library
> files I have created?

3) Is there a tutorial on writing simple XWindows applications?
> 
> regards
> Andy Little


http://www.google.com/search?q=gtk+tutorial&sourceid=mozilla-search&star
t=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:off
icial

http://www.google.com/search?q=X+windows+tutorial&sourceid=mozilla-searc
h&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-
US:official

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Re: Running X Server

[Reid Thompson]

Shah Sharif wrote:


Hi,
I was trying to run X server after my I have intalled
the cygwin.
I have chosen to install 'all' the packages.

In order to run the X server I have typed in the
following command:

/usr/X11R6/bin/startx


use /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh

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RE: Basic question X - whatever

[Reid Thompson]

Herbert Eppel wrote:
> On 28.09.2005 18:04 UK Time, Soong, SylokeJ wrote:
>> With the clipboard enabled, do you know how to highlight, copy &
>> paste 
> 
> Nice subject line - I'm not really sure why I started this "Basic
> Question no." nonsense - it was bound to lead to confusion, sorry!
> 
>> between win/xp and cygwin? I think that is his intent.
>> 
>> Microsoft(which you know):
>> copy is by selecting then ctrl-c or menu-copy.
>> paste is by ctrl-v or menu-paste.
>> 
>> Motif & cygwin:
>> Selecting text would spontaneously
>> (some people might prefer the term, automatically)
>> copy into clipboard.
>> Paste is by middle button click.
> 
> Thanks for explain this. It's embarrassing, but I wasn't aware of the
> different behaviour :-[ 
> 
>> 
>> e.g. copying from MS to Cyg:
>> copy text from MS win, move cursor to cyg window and press/release
>> middle button. Conversely from cyg to MS:
>> select text at cyg win, move mouse to MS win and ctrl-v.
>> Voila!
>> 
>> However, if you don't have a middle mouse button, or you had mapped
>> that button to do something else, you could use -emulate3buttons
>> option which would require you to press both mouse buttons together
>> to emulate the middle button.
> 
> I do have the scroll wheel button assigned to double click,
> and I would
> like to keep that setting, which raises the question of where exactly
> I would have to specify -emulate3buttons (is it simply another command
> line option after startx?) and what you mean by "both mouse
> buttons" -
> do you mean left and right?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Herbert Eppel
> --
> www.HETranslation.co.uk

you pass it as a parameter to your X startup ( ala -clipboard
-multiwindow )

-emulate3buttons [timeout]
Emulate 3 button mouse with an optional timeout in
milliseconds.

$ Xwin --help
use: X [:] [option]
-a #   mouse acceleration (pixels)
-acdisable access control restrictions
-audit int set audit trail level
-auth file select authorization file
bc enable bug compatibility
-brcreate root window with black background
+bsenable any backing store support
-bsdisable any backing store support
-c turns off key-click
c #key-click volume (0-100)
-cc intdefault color visual class
-co file   color database file
-core  generate core dump on fatal error
-dpi int   screen resolution in dots per inch
-deferglyphs [none|all|16] defer loading of [no|all|16-bit] glyphs
-f #   bell base (0-100)
-fc string cursor font
-fn string default font name
-fp string default font path
-help  prints message with these options
-I ignore all remaining arguments
-ld intlimit data space to N Kb
-lf intlimit number of open files to N
-ls intlimit stack space to N Kb
-logo  enable logo in screen saver
nologo disable logo in screen saver
-nolisten string   don't listen on protocol
-noreset   don't reset after last client exists
-reset reset after last client exists
-p #   screen-saver pattern duration (minutes)
-pnaccept failure to listen on all ports
-nopn  reject failure to listen on all ports
-r turns off auto-repeat
r  turns on auto-repeat 
-render [default|mono|gray|color] set render color alloc policy
-s #   screen-saver timeout (minutes)
-sp file   security policy file
-sudisable any save under support
-t #   mouse threshold (pixels)
-terminate terminate at server reset
-to #  connection time out
-tst   disable testing extensions
ttyxx  server started from init on /dev/ttyxx
v  video blanking for screen-saver
-v screen-saver without video blanking
-wmWhenMapped default backing-store
-x string  loads named extension at init time 
-maxbigreqsize set maximal bigrequest size 
+extension nameEnable extension
-extension nameDisable extension
-query host-name   contact named host for XDMCP
-broadcast broadcast for XDMCP
-indirect host-namecontact named host for indirect XDMCP
-port port-num UDP port number to send messages to
-from local-addressspecify the local address to connect from
-once  Terminate server after one session
-class display-class   specify display class to send in manage
-cookie xdm-auth-bits  specify the magic cookie for XDMCP
-displayID display-id  manufacturer display ID for request
The X Keyboard Extension adds the following arguments:
-kb  

RE: Basic question 3 - system tray icon

[Reid Thompson]

Herbert Eppel wrote:
> On 28.09.2005 17:45 UK Time, Reid Thompson wrote:
> 
>>>> highlight with left mouse button, paste with
>>>> middlebutton/scrollwheel 
>>> 
>>> Highlight what?
>>> 
>>> Are we talking about the same thing, or are you referring to my
>>> "Basic question 2"???
> 
>> 
>> sorry -- meant to post that to the copy and paste question
> 
> The plot thickens - "Soong, SylokeJ" thought you were referring to my
> question 4!? 
> 
> Anyway, I'm still not sure what exactly you meant by "highlight with
> left mouse button, paste with middlebutton/scrollwheel" -
> would you care
> to elaborate?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Herbert Eppel
> --
> www.HETranslation.co.uk

my mouse has two buttons + a scrool wheel that can be clicked.  clicking
the scroll wheel acts the same as clicking the middle mouse button of a
three button mouse.
so, i can highlight any text with the left mouse button ( or other means
), and then click with the the scroll button to paste into any other
application.  if you don't have a three button mouse, and don't have a
scroll wheel that clicks, you can try clicking right and left mouse
buttons very quickly one after the other -- on many systems this is
configured to emulate the button 3 click.

I highly recommend downloading rxvt and configuring it as your terminal
-- it is orders of magnitude better than cmd.exe in my opinion.

reid

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RE: Basic question 3 - system tray icon

[Reid Thompson]

Soong, SylokeJ wrote:
> No. He is telling you how to shut down with a single click
> rather than my right clicking and selecting "Exit". Which is
> answering your question 4. 
> 
> Also about your question 2, as someone else recommended,
> you should consider running either
> startxwin.bat or startxwin.sh.
> But doing that, whatever you wrote in ~/.xinitrc would
> no longer be effective because either of these startup
> files would not call .xinitrc .
> 
> I prefer the bat file because I would need to first
> start cygwin bash in a win/xp cmd window to allow me to
> run the sh file, thereby leaving a win/xp cmd window around
> annoying you more than the X icon would.

this is not an issue -- run setup and download rxvt
configure a shortcut with rxvt exec'ing a bash shell ( passing whatever
params to rxvt and bash that you wish)
  Target:   C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -fn "lucida console-13-bold" -e
c:\cygwin\bin\bash
use the shortcut to open a bash shell prompt and enter
$ nohup startxwin.sh &

you should then be able to exit the rxvt shell window w/o X dying.
> 
> The bat file is not unix and you might be more familiar
> with it.
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Herbert Eppel
> Sent: Wed,
> September 28, 2005 12:08 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Basic question 3 - system tray icon
> 
> 
> On 28.09.2005 16:48 UK Time, Reid Thompson wrote:
>> Herbert Eppel wrote:
>> 
>>> Can the cygwin X server be prevented from placing an icon in the
>>> Windows system tray? 
>>> 
>>> Thank you.
> 
> 
>> 
>> 
>> highlight with left mouse button, paste with middlebutton/scrollwheel
> 
> Highlight what?
> 
> Are we talking about the same thing, or are you referring to my "Basic
> question 2"???
> 
> Regards
> 
> Herbert Eppel
> --
> www.HETranslation.co.uk
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RE: Basic question 3 - system tray icon

[Reid Thompson]

Herbert Eppel wrote:
> On 28.09.2005 16:48 UK Time, Reid Thompson wrote:
>> Herbert Eppel wrote:
>> 
>>> Can the cygwin X server be prevented from placing an icon in the
>>> Windows system tray? 
>>> 
>>> Thank you.
> 
> 
>> 
>> 
>> highlight with left mouse button, paste with middlebutton/scrollwheel
> 
> Highlight what?
> 
> Are we talking about the same thing, or are you referring to my "Basic
> question 2"???
> 
> Regards
> 
> Herbert Eppel
> --
> www.HETranslation.co.uk

sorry -- meant to post that to the copy and paste question

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RE: Basic question 2 - Copy from Windows and paste to cygwin or X

[Reid Thompson]

Reid Thompson wrote:
> Herbert Eppel wrote:
>> On 28.09.2005 13:43 UK Time, Soong, SylokeJ wrote:
>>> I am already doing that (-clipboard), among others:
>>> 
>>> run XWin -screen 0 1750 1350 -multiplemonitors -emulate3buttons
>>> -scrollbars -clipboard -silent-dup-error
>> 
>> Thanks, but would you mind elaborating a little?
>> 
>> As I explained in a previous message, it's been a few years since I
>> used Unix when I worked at University and my Unix knowledge has never
>> been brilliant and has become even rustier since then...
>> 
>> I start my X environment with the following command:
>> 
>> startx -- -screen 0 1200 900
>> 
>> where would -clipoard fit in, and what does it actually do?
>> 
>> Thank you.
>> 
>> Herbert Eppel
>> --
>> www.HETranslation.co.uk
> 
> use startxwin.bat from cmd.exe or starxwin.sh if in a bash
> prompt to start X-windows -- you can look at both of the files to see
> what they do -- they are startup scripts for X.
> 
> reid

these files are in /usr//X11R6/bin

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RE: Basic question 2 - Copy from Windows and paste to cygwin or X

[Reid Thompson]

Herbert Eppel wrote:
> On 28.09.2005 13:43 UK Time, Soong, SylokeJ wrote:
>> I am already doing that (-clipboard), among others:
>> 
>> run XWin -screen 0 1750 1350 -multiplemonitors -emulate3buttons
>> -scrollbars -clipboard -silent-dup-error
> 
> Thanks, but would you mind elaborating a little?
> 
> As I explained in a previous message, it's been a few years
> since I used
> Unix when I worked at University and my Unix knowledge has never been
> brilliant and has become even rustier since then...
> 
> I start my X environment with the following command:
> 
> startx -- -screen 0 1200 900
> 
> where would -clipoard fit in, and what does it actually do?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Herbert Eppel
> --
> www.HETranslation.co.uk

use startxwin.bat from cmd.exe or starxwin.sh if in a bash prompt to
start X-windows -- you can look at both of the files to see what they do
-- they are startup scripts for X.

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RE: Basic question 3 - system tray icon

[Reid Thompson]

Herbert Eppel wrote:
> Can the cygwin X server be prevented from placing an icon in the
> Windows system tray?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Herbert Eppel
> --
> www.HETranslation.co.uk

highlight with left mouse button, paste with middlebutton/scrollwheel

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Re: could not find /tmp

[Reid Thompson]

dorth wrote:




hi all,

how to resolve this error, please advise, thank you

bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!
bash-2.05b$


creating /tmp should resolve it.




mkdir /tmp

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RE: My attempt to use Cygwin seems doomed to failure in spite of...

[Reid Thompson]

John Ormerod wrote:
> ... all the willing help I've received - esp from Reid. I do
> appreciate you all taking the time to give me info and clues etc.
> 
> My conclusion is there is something on my system that
> prevents Xwin.exe and / or xterm.exe from completely initialising.
> 
> I've removed most of the original text of this apend, as
> while I was closing down my stuff, I spotted something!
> 
> From FAQ
> 
> <<
> 
> 7.6. Why does Cygwin/X freeze right after startup?
> 
> Zone Alarm 5 is known to break Cygwin/X. As a result you'll
> see this line (or a similar) as last output in /tmp/XWin.log
> 
> Rules = "xorg" Model = "pc101" Layout = "us" Variant = "(null)"
> Options = "(null)" 
> 
> Disabling Zone Alarm will not solve this problem. You can
> only uninstall Zone Alarm 5 and switch to an earlier version
> (4.5 is known to work) or use a different personal firewall.
> 
>>> 
> 
> I found this, but it is NOT in the xwin.log. By chance this
> time, I had started xwin.exe in a cmd prompt and I could see
> the stdout messages. These are pretty much what's in the log,
> except for the last line!
> 
> ==> Rules = "xorg" Model = "pc105" Layout = "gb" Variant = "(null)"
> Options = "(null)" 
> 
> So, I guess that's it - it's ZA, bless it. I can't not use
> it, so I guess I can't use Cygwin. Shame, I was getting quite
> fond of it.
> 
> As a long shot, I'll see if I can find the ZA forum and ask / search.
> 
> BTW, I discovered what is making cygwin run slowly - it is
> vsmon.exe that runs when ZoneAlarm anti-virus checking is on
> (it usually is) - as soon as any X-component starts the cpu
> consumption for vsmon rockets.
> 
> Thanks again everyone
> 
> --
> --
> ---
> 
> John Ormerod
> 
> erebor limited

Sorry to hear that...

I use http://www.free-av.com/ as my anti-virus -- no problems with
cygwin or cygwin/X.  and i use my modem/router's configuration to not
expose my PC to the internet, rather than running a PC firewall.

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RE: Page Up and Page Down

[Reid Thompson]

Mike Hicks wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I have what appears to be a plain US 104-key keyboard
> manufactured by/for Compaq.  Using xterm, when I press the Pg
> Up key on the number keypad, I get the character sequence
> ^[[5~ and I get ^[[6~ for Pg Dn (^[ is actually a single
> character, escape).  However, the Page Up and Page Down keys
> in that middle section between the number pad and main
> keyboard area produce different sequences, ^[Or and ^[Ou
> respectively.  On my Linux box at home, I believe xterm
> always produces ^[[5~ and ^[[6~
> 
> I also use PuTTYcyg [http://gecko.gc.maricopa.edu/~medgar/puttycyg/]
> to use the Cygwin command line (since the Windows Command
> Prompt window royally sucks).  It produces ^[[5~ and ^[[6~
> for everything.
> 
> (By the way, if you're at a command prompt, you can see what
> the shell is seeing by typing ^V prior to pressig the key.)
> 
> Anyway, I've looked through the app-defaults for xterm, and
> haven't found anything obvious, so this must be hidden
> somewhere else.  I'm not aware of anything I might have
> changed to cause this to happen.
> It is problematic, since vim expects the sequence produced by
> the keypad buttons, rather than the ones produced by the middle keys.
> TERM is set to 'xterm' in both xterm and PuTTYcyg.
> 
> --
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if nothing else, remap the sequences in your .[g]vimrc file(s).

Also, use setup to download rxvt and see if that provides you a better
'terminal' 

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RE: persistent DISPLAY variable

[Reid Thompson]

does COMPUTERNAME in your windows env show oldhostname or newhostname?

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RE: persistent DISPLAY variable

[Reid Thompson]

Bob B wrote:

does your queried host explicitely set your display to your oldhostname

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RE: Can't display remote clients

[Reid Thompson]

Soong, SylokeJ wrote:
> When I first downloaded and installed cygwin
> my ulterior motive was - "if there are free
> complex stuffs like FTP servers, J2EE servers,
> Java IDEs, etc, there must be a free piece of
> software for X/Win on Windows." My ulterior
> was, where I would prove to those charging an
> arm and some toes and yet would not do a proper
> job in what they sell.

when it's all said and done it's pretty simple,
go to www.cygwin.com, run setup to install base packages.  Run setup
again to install X packages.
I think that the pages http://x.cygwin.com/ and www.cygwin.com and
http://cygwin.com/docs.html provide pretty straightforward instructions.




Downloading and Installing

Install
Cygwin/X
now

Cygwin/X is installed via Cygwin's setup.exe and the installation
process is documented in the Cygwin/X User's Guide. Whether or not you
already have Cygwin installed, you can add Cygwin/X to your installation
by downloading the latest setup.exe, running setup, and selecting the
'xorg-x11-base' package from the 'X11' category.

Using Cygwin/X is documented in a step-by-step manner, with lots of
pictures and examples, in the Cygwin/X User's Guide. Please notice,
however, that Cygwin/X contains many general-purpose programs,
libraries, and functions that are part of all X distributions. It is
therefore beyond the scope of the Cygwin/X User's Guide to document all
of these X Window System components. To find documentation, for example,
for setxkbmap one should consult the generic X documentation such as the
SETXKBMAP(1) manual page. You could always, of course, do a Google
search for setxkbmap, which finds the manual page mentioned above.


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RE: Can't display remote clients

[Reid Thompson]

John Ormerod wrote:
you have to give permissions for remotes hosts to open apps on your
server.

in a cygwin bash prompt enter 
$ xhost +

note that this will give 'everyone' permissions to open a window on your
server.

you could do
$ xhost ip-addr-of-machine-you-want-to-allow-to-open-apps

or man xhost to see more info.


It should not take more than a few seconds to open a cygwin bash prompt.
If i dbl-click on cygwin-bat, it takes about 3 secs for a bash prompt
window to be ready for use.  2+ghz intel, with 1GB ram.  same with my
home machine 2500XP athlon with 512MB ram.  ( i normally open a bash
session in rxvt ( can't stand cmd.exe ), and it also takes ~3 secs to be
ready )

My suggestion is this.
make sure no cygwin processes are running ( ps -ef )
return to www.cygwin.com, re-run setup for cygwin, selecting to
re-install all of the non-X applications that you have installed.  When
that has completed, re-run setup again, selecting to re-install all of
the X applications that you have installed.

go ahead and reboot. ( shouldn't be necessary, but lets do so anyway)

dbl-click on c:\cygwin\cygwin.bat

Make sure that /usr/X11R6/bin is in your PATH.
$ echo $PATH  ( if not in there, export PATH=$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin)( you
can add this to your .bashrc or .bash_profile if needed)

Make sure the display is set correctly:

$ env |grep DISPLAY  ( what does this show )

Mine:
$ env |grep DISP
DISPLAY=:0

run
$ startxwin.sh &   

open another bash shell via cygwin.bat
run
$ xterm 



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Re: Is my X Server not fully started? (Rel: 6.8.2.0-4)

[Reid Thompson]

Try the following.

Open a cygwin bash shell, using cygwin.bat.
make sure that X is not running,,,
$ ps -ef | grep X
should not list Xwin

from the command line call

$ startxwin.sh

what does this result in?

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RE: Is my X Servier not fully started (Rel: 6.8.2.0-4)

[Reid Thompson]

John Ormerod wrote:
> Hello
> I've been struggling all day in what is a new world for me. I
> need to have GUI access to a Linux system that runs in a

did you comment out this line from your .bat file?
If you did, uncomment it.

run xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l



...snip
REM Startup the X Server with the integrated Windows-based window
manager.
REM WARNING: Do not use 'xwinclip' in conjunction with the
``-clipboard''
REM command-line parameter for XWin.  Doing so would start two clipboard
REM managers, which is never supposed to happen.

run XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error


REM Startup an xterm, using bash as the shell.

run xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l


..snip


I believe the context menu you are referring to is controlled by a
.XWinrc file in your home directory

$ cat .XWinrc
# XWin Server Resource File - EXAMPLE
# Earle F. Philhower, III

# Place in ~/.XWinrc or in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/system.XWinrc

# Keywords are case insensitive, comments legal pretty much anywhere
# you can have an end-of-line

# Comments begin with "#" or "//" and go to the end-of-line

# Paths to commands are **cygwin** based (i.e. /usr/local/bin/xcalc)

# Paths to icons are **WINDOWS** based (i.e. c:\windows\icons)

# Menus are defined as...
# MENU  {
#EXEC
#   ^^ This command will have any
"%display%"
#  string replaced with the proper
display
#  variable (i.e. 127.0.0.1:.0)
#  orMENU
#  orALWAYSONTOP
# ^^ Sets the window to display above all others
#  orRELOAD
# ^^ Causes ~/.XWinrc or the system.XWinrc file
#to be reloaded and icons and menus
regenerated
#  or   SEPARATOR
#   ...
# }

# Set the taskmar menu with
# ROOTMENU 

# If you want a menu to be applied to all popup window's system menu
# DEFAULTSYSMENU  

# To choose a specific menu for a specific WM_CLASS or WM_NAME use ...
# SYSMENU {
#

#   ...
# }

# To define where ICO files live (** Windows path**)
# ICONDIRECTORY 

# To define a replacement for the standard X icon for apps w/o specified
icons
# DEFAULTICON   

# To define substitute icons on a per-window basis use...
# ICONS {
#
#   ...
# }
# In the case where multiple matches occur, the first listed in the
ICONS
# section will be chosen.

# DEBUG  prints out the string to the XWin.log file

// Below are just some silly menus to demonstrate writing your
// own configuration file.

// Make some menus...
menu apps {
rxvt-green_on_blackexec"rxvt -sl 2000 -sb -sr -cr red
-geometry 80x40+200+100 -fg green -bg black -e /usr/bin/bash"
rxvt-yellow_on_blackexec"rxvt -sl 2000 -sb -sr -cr red
-geometry 80x
40+200+100 -fg yellow -bg black -e /usr/bin/bash"
"Emacs" exec"emacs"
xterm   exec"xterm"
notepad execnotepad
}

menu root {
// Comments fit here, too...
"Reload .XWinrc"RELOAD
"Applications"  menuapps
SEParATOR
}

menu aot {
Separator
"Always on Top" alwaysontop
}

menu xtermspecial {
"Emacs" exec"emacs"
"Always on Top" alwaysontop
SepArAtor
}

RootMenu root

DefaultSysMenu aot atend

SysMenu {
"xterm" xtermspecial atstart
}

# IconDirectory "c:\winnt\"

# DefaultIcon   "reinstall.ico"

# Icons {
#   "xterm" "uninstall.ico"
# }

DEBUG "Done parsing the configuration file..."



reid

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Re: error in running startx

[Reid Thompson]

Johan Grönqvist wrote:


I get exactly the same error message when I try to start X while already
having X running. My guess is therefore that you have already started x
successfully, but you do not know it. Try starting xterm instead and see
if it works.

You may have to set a DISPLAY variable for that to work. I think the
script startxwin is closer to what you want, but I am not the expert.

/ johan


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you are correct -- use either startxwin.bat, or (startxwin.sh if running 
cygwin).



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RE: setup PATH variable by PATH=%PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin

[Reid Thompson]

Mark Paulus wrote:
> The statement should read:
> PATH=%PATH%:/usr/X11R6/bin
> 
> Note the trailing % on PATH.  That is a "Windowism".

yep -- that's a typo -- 
  $ PATH=%PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin 
should be 
  $ PATH=$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin

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RE: setup PATH variable by PATH=%PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin

[Reid Thompson]

Mark Paulus wrote:
> The statement should read:
> PATH=%PATH%:/usr/X11R6/bin
> 
> Note the trailing % on PATH.  That is a "Windowism".
> 
> On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 12:33:23 -0400 (EDT), PoWah Wong wrote:
> 
>> I want to setup my PATH variable by following the
>> instructions of "Chapter 4. Using Cygwin/X, section
>> startx" at http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using.html.
> 
>> After doing
>> PATH=%PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin
>> my original path is lost.
> 

Actually, i think that if you're in a cygwin bash terminal you have to
use $PATH rather than %PATH%.

reid

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Re: Remote login, then nothing happens

[Reid Thompson]

Andy Schmidgall wrote:




Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

>>(and then a bunch of options)
>>
>>   
>>

>>>cygwin-prompt> DISPLAY=:0 ssh -Y [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>do you then get a
>>>Password:
>>>prompt?
>>>
>>>If you do, and you enter your linux password, do you then get a prompt
>>>on your linux box? If not, this question is probably not related to X
>>>at all. Contact e.g. another cygwin list.
>>> 
>>>

>>I get a password prompt, but after entering my password, nothing else
>>happens. I do not get a command prompt after entering my password.
>>   
>>

>
>Does the same happen if you run "ssh -x" (note the lowercase) without
>DISPLAY= and -Y?  If so, you may indeed have a general ssh issue -- 
try to

>get a working prompt first, and then set up X forwarding.
>
> 
>

ssh -x (lowercase) works just fine. I enter my password and immediately
receive a command prompt.

>One more place to check is your startup scripts on the remote machine.
>Do they change the value of DISPLAY (they shouldn't -- it should be left
>at whatever ssh sets it to)?  Do they try to launch an X client if 
DISPLAY

>is set (that could be what's causing the apparent "hang")?
>   Igor
>[*] Well, there are more configuration options to check, but the two
>things above are required regardless of the configuration.
> 
>

I don't see any scripts that would change the DISPLAY variable on the
server. Also, if I ssh directly in to the server, "echo $DISPLAY" shows
that the variable is empty. Should this have a value?

If I kill the shell process on my windows machine, the xterm throws an
error: "Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11
forwarding." and then logs me in to the server with a text command
prompt. I'm not sure if this is important or anything.

Thanks for the help so far.

-Andy

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you have to use a capital X -- minor case x disables x forwarding -- see 
man ssh


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Re: C lueless why X86... wont start

[Reid Thompson]

Rob wrote:


Here is my XWin error message.  I have searched archives and FAQ's and
have found nothing on this.  Perhaps I missed something.  All I get is
and xterm window.  No Windowmaker.  I understand that -multiwindow is
not to be used with an externer window manager but I cannot find the
source of this anywhere on my system.

Save the following as   /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwinwmaker.sh and then 
execute it.  Then read it, and make changes to suit your needs.


#! /bin/sh
export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
export PATH=/usr/X11R6/bin:"$PATH"
export XAPPLRESDIR=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults
export XCMSDB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Xcms.txt
export XKEYSYMDB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB
export XNLSPATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale

# Cleanup from last run.
rm -rf /tmp/.X11-unix


# The error "Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'" is
# caused by using a DOS mode mount for the mount that the Cygwin/X
# fonts are accessed through.  See the Cygwin/X FAQ for more
# information:
# http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-error-font-eof


# Brief descriptions of XWin-specific options:
#
# -screen scr_num [width height]
#  Enable screen scr_num and optionally specify a width and
#  height for that screen.
#  Most importantly, any parameters specified before the first -screen
#  parameter apply to all screens.  Any options after the first -screen
#  parameter apply only to the screen that precedes the parameter.
#  Example:
#  XWin -fullscreen -screen 0 -screen 1 -depth 8 -screen 2
#  All screens will be fullscreen, but screen 2 will be depth 8, while
#  screens 0 and 1 will be the default depth (whatever depth Windows
#  is currently running at).
# -multiwindow
#  Start an integrated Windows-based window manager.  Not to be used
#  with -rootless nor -fullscreen.
# -rootless
#  Use a transparent root window with an external window manager
#  (such as twm).  Not to be used with -multiwindow nor
#  with -fullscreen.
# -fullscreen
#  Use a window as large as possible on the primary monitor.
# -multiplemonitors
#  Create a root window that covers all monitors on a
#  system with multiple monitors.
# -clipboard
#  Enable the integrated version of xwinclip.  Do not use in
#  conjunction with the xwinclip program.
# -depth bits_per_pixel
#  Specify the screen depth to run at (in bits per pixel) using a
#  DirectDraw-based engine in conjunction with the -fullscreen
#  option, ignored if the -fullscreen option is not specified.
#  By default, you will be using a DirectDraw based engine on any
#  system that supports it.
# -unixkill
#  Trap Ctrl+Alt+Backspace as a server shutdown key combination.
# -nounixkill
#  Disable Ctrl+Alt+Backspace as a server shutdown key combination 
(default).

#  Example:
#  XWin -unixkill -screen 0 -screen 1 -screen 2 -nounixkill
#  Screens 0 and 1 will allow Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, but screen 2 will not.
# -winkill
#  Trap Alt+F4 as a server shutdown key combination (default).
# -nowinkill
#  Disable Alt+F4 as a server shutdown key combination.
# -scrollbars
#  Enable resizing of the server display window.  Do not use in 
conjunction

#  with -multiwindow nor with -rootless.
# -nodecoration
#  Draw the server root window without a title bar or border.
#  Do not use with -mutliwindow nor with -rootless.
# -lesspointer
#  Hide the Windows mouse cursor anytime it is over any part of the
#  window, even if Cygwin/X is not the window with the focus.
# -refresh rate_in_Hz
#  Specify a refresh rate to use when used with the -fullscreen option.
# -trayicon
#  Enable the tray icon (default).
# -notrayicon
#  Disable the tray icon.
#  Example:
#  XWin -notrayicon -screen 0 -screen 1 -screen 2 -trayicon
#  Screens 0 and 1 will not have tray icons, but screen 2 will.
# -emulate3buttons [timeout]
#  Emulate 3 button mouse with an optional timeout in milliseconds.
# -xf86config
#  Specify an XF86Config-style configuration file.
# -keyboard
#  Specify a keyboard device from the configuration file.


#
# Startup the programs
#


# Startup the X Server with the integrated Windows-based window manager.
# WARNING: Do not use 'xwinclip' in conjunction with the ``-clipboard''
# command-line parameter for XWin.  Doing so would start two clipboard
# managers, which is never supposed to happen.

XWin -clipboard -silent-dup-error &


# Startup an xterm, using bash as the shell.  Add xterm parameters ( -sb 
-sl 2500 -fg turquoise -bg black )...


xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l &


#
# Startup the twm window manager.
# WARNING: Do not use an external window manager in conjunction with
# the ``-multiwindow'' command-line parameter for XWin.  Doing so
# would start two window managers, which is never supposed to happen.
#

# twm & 
wmaker &



# Set a background color.  Only needed when not using -multwindow for XWin.

xsetr

Re: Starting Xwin - Shell Window Remains

[Reid Thompson]

As info
I start X by
   using a shortcut to open an rxvt window running bash ( see below for 
contents of shortcut & scripts ). 
   (If you do not have rxvt, use setup to get it, it is 
unbelievable to me that with billions of dollars MS cannot include a 
decent command prompt.)

   Then, in the rxvt window I type
  startxscript &

After this I can exit the rxvt window used to start X with no problems.

I have a desktop shortcut that has a target of:

C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -sr -sl 2500  -geometry 80x25 -sb -fg grey -bg 
grey15 -fn "lucida console-13-bold" -e c:/cygwin/bin/bash --rcfile 
/home/rthompso/.bashrc


and a start in value of:

c:\cygwin\home\rthompso

$HOME/bin is part of my path.
I have $HOME/bin/startxscript that contains:

$ cat startxscript
#!/bin/bash
/usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh

My /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh contains ( slight mods from the 
downloaded script ):


#! /bin/sh
export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
export PATH=/usr/X11R6/bin:"$PATH"
export XAPPLRESDIR=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults
export XCMSDB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Xcms.txt
export XKEYSYMDB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB
export XNLSPATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale

# Cleanup from last run.
rm -rf /tmp/.X11-unix


# The error "Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'" is
# caused by using a DOS mode mount for the mount that the Cygwin/X
# fonts are accessed through.  See the Cygwin/X FAQ for more
# information:
# http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-error-font-eof


# Brief descriptions of XWin-specific options:
#
# -screen scr_num [width height]
#  Enable screen scr_num and optionally specify a width and
#  height for that screen.
#  Most importantly, any parameters specified before the first -screen
#  parameter apply to all screens.  Any options after the first -screen
#  parameter apply only to the screen that precedes the parameter.
#  Example:
#  XWin -fullscreen -screen 0 -screen 1 -depth 8 -screen 2
#  All screens will be fullscreen, but screen 2 will be depth 8, while
#  screens 0 and 1 will be the default depth (whatever depth Windows
#  is currently running at).
# -multiwindow
#  Start an integrated Windows-based window manager.  Not to be used
#  with -rootless nor -fullscreen.
# -rootless
#  Use a transparent root window with an external window manager
#  (such as twm).  Not to be used with -multiwindow nor
#  with -fullscreen.
# -fullscreen
#  Use a window as large as possible on the primary monitor.
# -multiplemonitors
#  Create a root window that covers all monitors on a
#  system with multiple monitors.
# -clipboard
#  Enable the integrated version of xwinclip.  Do not use in
#  conjunction with the xwinclip program.
# -depth bits_per_pixel
#  Specify the screen depth to run at (in bits per pixel) using a
#  DirectDraw-based engine in conjunction with the -fullscreen
#  option, ignored if the -fullscreen option is not specified.
#  By default, you will be using a DirectDraw based engine on any
#  system that supports it.
# -unixkill
#  Trap Ctrl+Alt+Backspace as a server shutdown key combination.
# -nounixkill
#  Disable Ctrl+Alt+Backspace as a server shutdown key combination 
(default).

#  Example:
#  XWin -unixkill -screen 0 -screen 1 -screen 2 -nounixkill
#  Screens 0 and 1 will allow Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, but screen 2 will not.
# -winkill
#  Trap Alt+F4 as a server shutdown key combination (default).
# -nowinkill
#  Disable Alt+F4 as a server shutdown key combination.
# -scrollbars
#  Enable resizing of the server display window.  Do not use in 
conjunction

#  with -multiwindow nor with -rootless.
# -nodecoration
#  Draw the server root window without a title bar or border.
#  Do not use with -mutliwindow nor with -rootless.
# -lesspointer
#  Hide the Windows mouse cursor anytime it is over any part of the
#  window, even if Cygwin/X is not the window with the focus.
# -refresh rate_in_Hz
#  Specify a refresh rate to use when used with the -fullscreen option.
# -trayicon
#  Enable the tray icon (default).
# -notrayicon
#  Disable the tray icon.
#  Example:
#  XWin -notrayicon -screen 0 -screen 1 -screen 2 -trayicon
#  Screens 0 and 1 will not have tray icons, but screen 2 will.
# -emulate3buttons [timeout]
#  Emulate 3 button mouse with an optional timeout in milliseconds.
# -xf86config
#  Specify an XF86Config-style configuration file.
# -keyboard
#  Specify a keyboard device from the configuration file.


#
# Startup the programs
#


# Startup the X Server with the integrated Windows-based window manager.
# WARNING: Do not use 'xwinclip' in conjunction with the ``-clipboard''
# command-line parameter for XWin.  Doing so would start two clipboard
# managers, which is never supposed to happen.

XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error &


# Startup an xterm, using bash as the s

RE: Initial run of BASH doesn't initialize home directory

[Reid Thompson]

Tom Smith wrote:
> With all due respect, Igor, I think you missed my point.
> 
> The point is this:
> 
> 1) I ran the Cygwin "setup.exe" and the Cygwin/X "setup.exe"
> (a distinction made by the cygwin.com web site itself) on the
> same computer.

It's the same installer, just linked to different pages with different
text.

> 2) The Cygwin/X installation gave me grief as mentioned in my initial
> post. 3) The Cygwin installation gave me no grief and worked
> perfectly. 

Run the installer once selecting all the non-X stuff you want.
Setup your environment like you want it.
Run the installer again, selecting all the X stuff you want.

> 
> Therefore, my conclusion was that there's something different
> between the two installation routines--is this not a rational
> conclusion? 
> 
> I apologize for not including the output of "cygcheck -svr".
> I no longer have Cygwin/X installed so this will have to wait
> until tomorrow.
> 
> Based on what I mentioned above, is this still something I
> should take to the Cygwin list?


reid

RE: Problems running OpenGL program on Cygwin

[Reid Thompson]

Larry Griffith wrote:
> Dear List Members,
> 
> I'm a newbie to Cygwin who is trying to learn how to run
> an OpenGL program under Cygwin-X.  I used a standard program
> written by SGI (called cube.c) that I know runs correctly
> under Solaris 9, using gcc and the Mesa library, so I don't
> think the program itself is the problem.
> 
> I ran xinit to get a bash shell, cd'd to the proper directory,
> and ran the
> following command:
> 
> gcc cube.c -o cube -I/usr/X11R6/include -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lglut -lGLU
> -lGL -lX11 
> 
> which compiles correctly (thanks to some assistance from your mailing
> list archives). 
> 
> When I type
> 
> ./cube
> 
> I get a black rectangle with no picture (and in particular no
> cube) and no error messages.  I can click the shell window and press
> CTRL-C to get out. 
> 
> I've checked the FAQ, the user guide, and the archives (which
> did give me some help), but I can't get past this point.  As
> already mentioned, I know this program works on
> Solaris/gcc/Mesa, so I'm wondering if there is a problem with
> my cygwin installation, libraries, or commands.
> 
> I'm running the latest version of the Cygwin system as far as
> I can tell on Windows XP SP2.

as info - i dl'd cube.c, pasted your compile command above, called
./cube -- all worked as expected.
do you have any cygwin precompiled x binaries available ( xclock??? ),
if you call xclock, what is the result?

reid

RE: Cygwin x windows working fine for 5 of our Solaris 2.8 boxes, but can't get CDE login screen up for one other box - can anyone help

[Reid Thompson]

Griffey Matthew wrote:
>  <>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am getting the attached log file produced in the Cygwin/tmp
> directory on my PC when i try to run x against one of our
> Solaris 2.8 boxes - although it
> can connect fine to the other similar Solaris boxes.   It opens a
> window but doesn't get as far as the login box - just has a black and
> white fuzz on the screen. 
> 
> Any ideas please?
> 
> Many Thanks
> Matt Griffey.

did you give the solaris box in question permission to connect to the
cygwin xserver?

reid

RE: Changing colours of XTerm

[Reid Thompson]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have begun to use Cygwin on Windows and I have tried every
> technique I could find on the web for changing from the
> default black-on-white colours of Xterm (and perhaps other X
> applications) to something that's easier to look at. None of
> the techniques worked.
> 
> I tried, among other things, changing XResources and
> uncommenting the lines in XTerm-color that XTerm-color told
> me to uncomment if I wanted to change colours. Does anyone
> know for sure how to change colours IN CYGWIN, because the
> general UNIX techniques don't seem to be working?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Liam.
> 
> 
> _
> eircom broadband is now up to four times faster than before.
> Phone 1850 73 00 73 or visit http://home.eircom.net/broadbandoffer

configuration using .Xdefaults works fine for me.

If that doesn't work, you can always setup a script/shortcut and
explicitly set -fg and -bg

reid

RE: Mouse button copy/paste not working

[Reid Thompson]

Charles Packer wrote:
> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> 
>> See  (please
>> read 
>> 
>> the whole section).
>>  Igor
>> 
>> 
> Typical Unix-head response ("Read the whole book..."). There
> is nothing
> in the FAQ that deals with this problem. However, perusing
> the Cygwin/X
> installation instructions, under the section on logging on to remote
> clients, I noticed the suggested ssh command: ssh -Y -l username
> hostdomain. I checked to see what our PC guy had set me up with under
> the alias he had given me: ssh -X -l myname $1. Changing -X
> to -Y made
> all the difference and solved the problem. Returning to the
> FAQ, there
> is a question "X forwarding does not work does not work with OpenSSH
> under Cygwin" in which the answer I needed is embedded as an
> afterthought. Suggestion: Add to the FAQ a question specifically
> mentioning the symptoms I described.

What browser are you using -- when i clicked on the link provided, my
browser opened up with the following at the top of the browser page(i.e.
my browser opened with the page scrolled to the correct location):

5. Remote connections

5.1. X11Forwarding does not work with OpenSSH under Cygwin

A1:

OpenSSH 3.8 enables untrusted X11 forwarding by default when connecting
to an ssh server that supports untrusted X11Forwarding. Most ssh servers
for GNU/Linux are versions of OpenSSH that do support untrusted
X11Forwarding, so using OpenSSH 3.8 from Cygwin will result in a
connection that uses untrusted X11Forwarding by default. You will
quickly notice that this is the case if most of your X applications are
now killed when you try to copy and paste or if xdpyinfo returns only a
fraction of the supported extensions that it does if run locally.

It is easiest to just override untrusted X11Forwarding by passing -Y to
ssh in place of -X. The -Y does the same thing as -X, but it enables
trusted X11Forwarding for the current connection.


Which is exactly the answer you were looking for

reid