Re: Rootless mode

Kensuke, Harold, I was just wondering whether it would be possible to create a test build of the X server with this multi-window mode. Obviously there are issues with it but I presume they only come up in multi-window mode? It would just be really nice to see it beginning to work - this is

Re: Cygwin GNOME 1.4 binary packages

Ian Harcombe wrote: Just to voice a quick vote of thanks to all involved in getting this working. I am now happily running Gnome 1.4 (with all the extra bits n bobs you've provided) under Cygwin on a Windows XP Professional laptop as my normal development environment at work. It is clean and

Re: Rootless mode

* David Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-12-12 10:03:53 +0200]: Kensuke, Harold, I was just wondering whether it would be possible to create a test build of the X server with this multi-window mode. Obviously there are issues with it but I presume they only come up in multi-window mode? It

RE: Cygwin GNOME 1.4 binary packages

At most it only seems to be a configuration problem, and not a bug. Like if it can't find your fonts? I'm no expert. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Fraser Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 3:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: xkbcomp.exe segfaults

Alexander Gottwald wrote: Compile xkbcomp from sources and run it in gdb. Ok. Should I download the X420src- .tgz files from ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.2.0/source/ and go on from there, or how should I proceed? Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german)

Re: Host Chooser Program?

Tim Thomson wrote: Yep, There are lots of them :) I even wrote one :) In the meantime, I've also written one. Mine is written in Python with wxPython. You can get it from http://message-center.info/stuff/xhc/ Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german)

Re: xkbcomp.exe segfaults

On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Alexander Skwar wrote: Compile xkbcomp from sources and run it in gdb. Ok. Should I download the X420src- .tgz files from ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.2.0/source/ and go on from there, or how should I proceed? I think the contributor's guide covers this

Re: Rootless mode

* Kensuke Matsuzaki [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-12-12 21:10:54 +0900]: To build XWin.exe, please read http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/cg/cygwin-xfree-cg.html I should have figured that out without being told, sorry. I'm now getting the source via CVS. There sure is a lot of it; I hope x86 is

X server window size

With the current version of XFree86 (XFree86-bin-4.2.0-2; XFree86-xserv-4.2.0-16) I am getting the following: I start a (xdm based) session on another (linux) X server, using a bat which does: start /B XWin -indirect linux This creates a window as large as if being maximized. Ok. If either

Re: Rootless mode

-multiwindow is not stable, so I thought binary is not needed. XWin.exe is here. http://peppermint.jp/products/asis/XWin.2002_12_09.exe.bz2 And libfreetype 2.1.1 is here. http://peppermint.jp/temp/libfreetype.tar.bz2 Kensuke Matsuzaki

Re: Host Chooser Program?

Hmm, weird. Haven't had that combination before :) Could you please post me (not the list) your Xwin.log, and your launchx.bat file that XLauncher creates from one of these 95 machines, after running XLauncher on it? Hopefully that will turn up something. This is not a problem of

Re: Multiwindow mode

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -multiwindow is not stable, so I thought binary is not needed. XWin.exe is here. http://peppermint.jp/products/asis/XWin.2002_12_09.exe.bz2 And libfreetype 2.1.1 is here. http://peppermint.jp/temp/libfreetype.tar.bz2 Kensuke Matsuzaki Thank you Kensuke! I have

Re: Rootless mode

Kensuke, Did you ever look into the bug I reported where a dragged window just keeps on repeating the dragging and never stops moving? Seems to be a problem with the message queue not being cleared properly. My email is in the list archives if you missed it. Harold Kensuke Matsuzaki wrote:

Re: Rootless mode

David, I have not released a test version because the version that Kensuke sent me didn't work at all. It just kept repeating the dragging of a window if you ever moved one. I sent a report to the list but he never responded. I didn't want to bug him about it for awhile in case he had seen

Re: Rootless mode

Please do not release your own test version. As I said, I am waiting for the repeating window movement to be looked into and possibly fixed. I do not wish to get lots of duplicate bug reports for such an obvious bug. If Kensuke says it doesn't happen with his version, then I will rebuild

Re: X server window size

Corneliu, Yes, I have seen a similar problem before. I have not yet had a chance to look into it and not that many people are complaining about it :) Harold Corneliu Rudeanu wrote: With the current version of XFree86 (XFree86-bin-4.2.0-2; XFree86-xserv-4.2.0-16) I am getting the following:

Re: Rootless mode

On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:22:45 -0500, Harold L Hunt II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David, I have not released a test version because the version that Kensuke sent me didn't work at all. It just kept repeating the dragging of a window if you ever moved one. I sent a report to the list but he

Re: Rootless mode

* Harold L Hunt II [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-12-12 11:24:25 -0500]: Please do not release your own test version. As I said, I am waiting for the repeating window movement to be looked into and possibly fixed. I do not wish to get lots of duplicate bug reports for such an obvious bug. If

Re: Rootless mode

Harold, I could not reproduce that bug, but now I found that this bug occur when Show window contents while dragging enabled. Maximizing a window never stop too. Matsuzaki Kensuke

Re: Rootless mode

Kensuke, Hmm... that sounds about right. Windows 2000 and Windows XP have that option on by default, I believe. Are you going to try to debug this? Harold Matsuzaki Kensuke [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Harold, I could not reproduce that bug, but now I found that this bug occur when Show

RE: Rootless mode

This may be obvious, but the difference between the two is that Windows sends you a bunch of messages when you're dragging the window when fulldrag is in effect... So it might be some message handler repositioning the window during one of those notifications... Maybe a WM_SIZE or

Re: Rootless mode

Harold L Hunt II wrote: David, I have not released a test version because the version that Kensuke sent me didn't work at all. It just kept repeating the dragging of a window if you ever moved one. I sent a report to the list but he never responded. I didn't want to bug him about it for

Re: Rootless mode -multiwindow bug

I was able to reproduce the -multiwindow moving bug on two Win2k machines, and Show window contents while dragging does not seem to have any effect on those machines. (I already had it switched off) Neither does disabling ActiveDesktop help.

Installation

I have got cygwin on a cd-rom because I use a 56K modem. I have read the FAQ s that are on the cd and tried every solution that is there but it will not install. Every time when the packeges should come in the sceen it says that there is nothing availeble. Should I first unzip every folder that is

Windows Manager

Hello! For default, when I execute the startxwin.bat file, the twm windows manager is loaded... How I can configure X to use the windows of my Windows system? I have any problems of fonts visualisation... How I can configure X so that use the server of fonts of the remote system? Thanks! Martín.

Email status flags

John, Whatever you are doing to your email to cause it to be flagged as important and needing followup, please stop. I sort the Cygwin/XFree86 email by the importance flag and I have a list of emails that I need to follow up on for the Cygwin/XFree86 project. Some flags in your email are

RE: Rootless mode

Looking at Kensuke's code, he uses an internal queue to store messages that need to be processed by child windows. For some reason this queue is not being properly reset when the messages are processed. Or, it could be as simple as returning the wrong value after processing these messages,

RE: Rootless mode

Other than the WM_PAINT message, I don't think Windows ever sends the same message again. On a WM_PAINT, if you do not mark validate the region by calling BeginPaint and EndPaint and return from processing the WM_PAINT, you WILL receive a WM_PAINT again. On the other hand, if you call GetMessage

Re: quandary with pthreads

I have attached a bunch of mutex testcases borrowed from the pthreads-win32 project. Thomas On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Thomas Pfaff wrote: Rob, thank you that you are willing to add my patches. FYI, the logic of the mutex stuff is running in pthreads-win32 about 1 1/2 years now unchanged

Re: Small security patches

Christopher Faylor wrote: Actually, if you can get away without using a constructor that would be best. Constructors are a noticeable part of cygwin's startup cost. - Is there a C++ way to initialize a constant class and have it in the .text section, as const int i = 1; would be? - If

What bash --login -i has done for my project?

My project runs well in cygwin's bash. But it fails in cmd.exe with the following error: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION at eip=00558706 eax= ebx=00691E64 ecx= edx= esi=00692140 edi=005BF220 ebp=0022F430 esp=0022F388

RE: ntsec and remote copy

Hi Pierre, thanks for your reply! That indeed turned out to be the case. The owner of the remote file has a SID that does not appear in your passwd file and thus it cannot be mapped to a uid. Cygwin then uses uid = -1 This also explains what you describe in your follow up message. Perhaps

Re: postgresql postmaster and LC_MESSAGES EN_US problem

Heitzso, On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 12:48:20PM -0500, Heitzso wrote: I just updated to current postgresql and got past the ipc-daemon upgrade problem (yes it's noted in the README) but then got snagged on the LC_MESSAGES EN_US setting in postgresql.conf. [snip] I would try the [EMAIL

Re: pipe improvements in snapshot

With the CVS tree build (1) below I do not experience this (1) 10-Dec-2002 7:10:38a6,683,847 cygwin-20021210.tar.gz (2) 12-Dec-2002 6:09:42a6,688,318 cygwin-20021212.tar.gz The times are EST and the tarballs are created by a script that does a CVS update, make, make tarball which takes ~20

Re: postgresql postmaster and LC_MESSAGES EN_US problem

Heitzso, On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 12:48:20PM -0500, Heitzso wrote: I got around this problem (??) by commenting out the 4 localization lines at the end of postgresql.conf in the data directory, but would greatly appreciate any suggestions as to what's south with my setup that would cause this.

Re: postgres 7.3 postmaster: invalid value for option 'LC_MESSAGES':'en_US'

Jari, On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 10:27:43PM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote: $ env | grep LC_ LC_ALL=en_US See the following: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-12/msg00666.html Jason -- PGP/GPG Key: http://www.tishler.net/jason/pubkey.asc or key servers Fingerprint: 7A73 1405 7F2B E669

Re: pipe improvements in snapshot

not experience this (1) 10-Dec-2002 7:10:38a6,683,847 cygwin-20021210.tar.gz (2) 12-Dec-2002 6:09:42a6,688,318 cygwin-20021212.tar.gz The times are EST and the tarballs are created by a script that does a CVS update, make, make tarball which takes ~20 minutes so the CVS update time

Problems with GCC and C_INCLUDE_PATH

I'm having problems with GCC and the C_INCLUDE_PATH, if i add the path to the command line with -Iw:\source then all is ok, but if I add the same path to the environment variable and remove the -I from the command line it just will not see the header file, whats wrong?? I get the following error:

RE: postgresql postmaster and LC_MESSAGES EN_US problem

Just want to note that my LANG was not set when I ran initdb which left me with LC_MESSAGES=EN_US. I tried setting LANG=C in my environment and wiped my postgres data directory and re initdb'ed and still ended up with LC_MESSAGES=EN_US. I'm guessing there's another environment variable that

Re: sftp ssh chroot

I solved my problem regarding jailing users in cygwin. If anyone is interested, the patch for linux works fine for cygwin. Here are the steps: 1) Download http://chrootssh.sourceforge.net/patches/osshChroot-3.5.diff 2) Go to http://www.openssh.org/portable.html and get the sourcefile

Re: using MFC with cygwin

Hm, someone's been digging around in the email archives! ;-) Actually, that's good to see. While I won't argue the slight semantic differences pointed out here between what I said and this response, I believe we both agree it makes the same point, at least in the context of Cygwin. Anyone that

Re: postgresql postmaster and LC_MESSAGES EN_US problem

Heitzso, On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 09:34:37AM -0500, Heitzso wrote: I'm guessing there's another environment variable that initdb may be working with? Grepping initdb yields: $ fgrep LANG /usr/bin/initdb for var in PGLC_$arg PGLOCALE LC_ALL LC_$arg LANG; do Did you set any of the

Re: using MFC with cygwin

I believe Metrowerks CodeWarrior for Windows comes with MFC. http://www.metrowerks.com/ CodeWarrior is a much more standards-compliant compiler than VC++ and I think even more than g++, but it has a compatibility mode that allows it to compile a lot of broken VC++ code. Maybe if you ported

Re: problems with CPAN and cygwin 1.3.12

Hallo JoNO, At first, make sure that in your Cygwin environment are no paths in PATH with spaces like this: /cygdrive/c/Program Files/SecureCRT 3.0 Then check the permissions on your executables: $ ls -l /bin/perl should look like this: -rwxr-xr-x1 gerrit Domänen-14848 Dec 9

Re: Problems with GCC and C_INCLUDE_PATH

On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Allan Crook wrote: I'm having problems with GCC and the C_INCLUDE_PATH, if i add the path to the command line with -Iw:\source then all is ok, but if I add the same path to the environment variable and remove the -I from the command line it just will not see the header

URL correction

The correct URL for the; Cygwin GNOME 1.4 binary packages under NEWS is; http://sourceforge.net/projects/cygnome/ Have Fun Sterling -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation:

Re: Why No such file ... in path ? 1.3.17

Kun, I need to correct myself (since no one else did!)... At 19:30 2002-12-11, Randall R Schulz wrote: Kun, ... Include files required during C or C++ compilation are located via a separate search path maintained by the compiler and not driven by any environment variable, at least not in

Re: pipe improvements in snapshot

actually creating the Makefiles This project uses libtool With the CVS tree build (1) below I do not experience this (1) 10-Dec-2002 7:10:38a6,683,847 cygwin-20021210.tar.gz (2) 12-Dec-2002 6:09:42a6,688,318 cygwin-20021212.tar.gz The times are EST and the tarballs are created

Script Doesn't Work Correctly with Cron

I have a script that works when I run it from the command line, but when it is executed with cron, it produces a null file. I am sure that cron is executing it because it creates the file. It is just not populated. Here is the script. I want to query an Oracle database every couple of minutes,

GCC Include Paths

Help, We're trying to make GCC automatically search for required header files, unforunately if we use the C_INCLUDE_PATH environment variable or -I you need to enter every single search directory. For our current project this results in a line over 2000chars long (too long for windows or GCC to

Re: Script Doesn't Work Correctly with Cron

On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Buck Turgidson wrote: I have a script that works when I run it from the command line, but when it is executed with cron, it produces a null file. I am sure that cron is executing it because it creates the file. It is just not populated. Here is the script. I want to

RE: GCC Include Paths

Yes, we have faced a similar problem. The problem is with the windows command shell which limits a line to 2048 characters. I don't know how to make that problem go away. But you shouldn't get the same problem from a cygwin shell. Thanks, Vijay -Original Message- From: Allan Crook

RE: GCC Include Paths

Vijay, Allan, Cygwin is similarly limited. All Unix / POSIX systems have such a limit, but Cygwin's limit is much smaller than the typical limit on a Unix (-like) system. I don't know it for a fact, but I'm pretty sure this limit is not imposed by Cygwin itself (why would it?) but is a Windows

RE: GCC Include Paths

Randall, I just tried out a line with 2 characters and it works fine on bash as an input to GCC. At this point I gave up trying to increase the length to find out the limit. Whatever the bash limit is, it is definitely greater than a windows shell. Of course, if you are invoking a bat file

The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000022) -- cause and cure

I think this is unrelated to previous messages on this list with a similar subject. Instead, it pertains to a problem that I encountered and solved myself; I thought it might benefit others to hear about it, so here it is. The symptom is that I was trying to start a non-Cygwin program that I'd

RE: GCC Include Paths

Vijay, I guess I was misled by this: /usr/include/limits.h:#define _POSIX_ARG_MAX 4096 /usr/include/sys/syslimits.h:#define ARG_MAX 65536 /* max bytes for an exec function */ Furthermore, /usr/include/limits.h bears a Red Hat copyright and is specifically marked as a part of Cygwin, while

Re: /tmp

Soren A wrote: [...] you can nenver tell another person what they should like in a shell. Well (sorry for OT drift), the main thing was the case-insensitive filename completion, which is invaluable on Windows. I need to look at the tcsh source and see if it is implemented within an #ifdef

Re: GCC Include Paths

Vijay Sampath wrote: I just tried out a line with 2 characters and it works fine on bash as an input to GCC. I think that direct Cygwin-to-Cygwin invocation has a higher limit. If you're calling a Cygwin program from a non-Cygwin program (e.g. CMD.EXE), you're still stuck with Windows

Re: Rsync performance increase through buffering (cygwin/ssh solution?)

Below is a description of a buffering speed improvement. The original message with complete patch for performance can be found here: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=enlr=ie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8newwindow=1selm=at1i0e%241tj3%241%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw This may explain the horrendous performance of

Re: completion-ignore-case (was: /tmp)

On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:07:37 -0800 Shankar Unni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Soren A wrote: [...] you can nenver tell another person what they should like in a shell. Well (sorry for OT drift), the main thing was the case-insensitive filename completion, which is invaluable on Windows.

Re: completion-ignore-case (was: /tmp)

Michael A Chase wrote: # Ignore case while completing set completion-ignore-case on Hmm. Thanks! Now that I RTFM more closely, I also see set complete=enhance. Is there a difference? The latter seems to work as I'd expect it to, so I'm now beginning my Big Move To Cygwin Tcsh :-/.

Re: completion-ignore-case (was: /tmp)

On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:12:56 -0800 Shankar Unni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael A Chase wrote: # Ignore case while completing set completion-ignore-case on Hmm. Thanks! Now that I RTFM more closely, I also see set complete=enhance. Is there a difference? The latter seems to work

Re: problems with CPAN and cygwin 1.3.12

Hallo JoNO, Please keep replies to the list, others may help debugging your problem too! --- Gerrit P. Haase [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo JoNO, At first, make sure that in your Cygwin environment are no paths in PATH with spaces like this: /cygdrive/c/Program

Re: Shell script wont run with cron, but it works ok in the command line.

How can I make the mv, and rm commands excecutable by system? where I can add the path to this commands for System??? This is the hint I have been looking for since Dec 07 thanks in advance! Eric. Re: Script Doesn't Work Correctly with Cron From: Igor Pechtchanski pechtcha at cs dot nyu

Re: Shell script wont run with cron, but it works ok in the command line.

Try adding c:\cygwin\bin to your *system* (not user) PATH environment variable (in the Control Panel System applet select the Advanced tab, then Environment Variables, and change the System PATH variable to contain the above). If you have any other POSIX-compliant toolset installed and in your

Re: Installation

Actually, I'm not sure if there is a proper list for this. This list can't really answer questions about someone else's distribution, assuming that's the source of the problem. This list can help you determine if the CD is the source of the problem (or if it's just user error). However, we

Re: MS_types and addr_t name polution

Elfyn McBratney wrote: Hi, The addr_t type is used in memory managment (memory addresses??) in /usr/include/sys/mman.h. If you plan on using this (or is already on the code, mman.h i mean) you may have problems. What is the type of your addr_t? is it type char of * (pointer)? Actually,

Emacs: completion of buffer names ignores case

I'm using emacs-21.2-10. I frequently want to switch to the buffer named `*shell*', so I type C-x b * s h e SPC RET expecting that, since `*shell*' is the only buffer whose name begins with `*she', the SPC will cause its complete name (`*shell*') to appear in the minibuffer, and the

[ANN] Re: cyg-wrapper.sh

Hello Matt, * On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 09:38:02AM -0700, Matt Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luc, you might consider adding an option to unset the PWD environment variable (or convert it to a Windows path). That's done. I haven't done any test with perforce, so, let me know. The two new

LaPack++ help

Hello! Hope you are doing well. My name is Huma Babak, I have been researching for school about the LaPack++ package and I got your name as someone who has used LaPack++ package. Can you please tell me your experience with this package? Positives and Negative, more focused on the negatives.

Re: Installation

Wrong list, redirected. Igor On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, d. dorst wrote: I have got cygwin on a cd-rom because I use a 56K modem. I have read the FAQ s that are on the cd and tried every solution that is there but it will not install. Every time when the packeges should come in the sceen it

Broken Link on the ported page.

Hello, The link to the rpm package on http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ported.html is broken. Does anyone have that file or know if it's posted on another site somewhere? Thanks in advance. Adam -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

Re: Shell script wont run with cron, but it works ok in the command line.

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Try adding c:\cygwin\bin to your *system* (not user) PATH environment variable (in the Control Panel System applet select the Advanced tab, then Environment Variables, and change the System PATH variable to contain the above). If you have any other POSIX-compliant

Re: Individual vs. list-only replies (Was Re: Force bash to startas administrator)

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Andrew, I would like to point out that most people on this list are busy people, As am I. and that the most convenient way to reply is the one that takes the least effort on their part. In my software I simply hit reply instead of reply all. Either button is as

Re: Individual vs. list-only replies (Was Re: Force bash to startas administrator)

On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 13:50, Andrew DeFaria wrote: But the issue is not only are people who reply busy but so are the readers. With your software's defaults I get a message in my email AND see it and have to skip it later when I read the list. Thus it is more work for me, hence the

Re: pipe improvements in snapshot

actually creating the Makefiles This project uses libtool With the CVS tree build (1) below I do not experience this (1) 10-Dec-2002 7:10:38a6,683,847 cygwin-20021210.tar.gz (2) 12-Dec-2002 6:09:42a6,688,318 cygwin-20021212.tar.gz The times are EST and the tarballs

Re: Broken Link on the ported page.

On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 06:25:40PM -0800, Adam Jurevicius wrote: The link to the rpm package on http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ported.html is broken. Does anyone have that file or know if it's posted on another site somewhere? It's not broken right now, at least. cgf -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Individual vs. list-only replies (Was Re: Force bash to start as administrator)

On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 06:50:13PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: P.S. Also note that, even with your current setup, you can get a double copy only if someone replies to a message that you posted. Again, when others respond I do not get an additional email copy of it. Just with some people.

Some inquiries about Cygwin?

Dear Sir: I am interested in Cygwin. May I have the following inquiries? 1. Can I install and use RedHat's RPM in Cygwin in order to install others packages like uClinux? 2. Can I install uClinux in Cygwin to cross-compile it? 3. Can I install cross-compiler like GNU toolchain for ARM7 (like

Changing to another user in cygwin -- login?

Hi, I have postgres installed and running as a service under user postgres. Now I want to run the createdb, etc scritps as user postgres to create a new database. I have tried 'login postgres' from a bash shell, but this is the result: $ login postgres Password: Login incorrect login: I know