Re: Mouse pointer disappears

2004-05-12 Thread Ed Avis
Wilks, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have noticed that the mouse pointer disappears when the window has focus. Do you happen to use remote desktop or anything like it? Yes, I occasionally remote desktop into the machine. -- Ed Avis [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X server window resizes after remote desktop, and can't resize back

2004-05-12 Thread Ed Avis
Ed Avis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I remote desktop'd into my XP machine using a smaller display size than the monitor connected locally. When I went back in front of the machine I found that the X server window had shrunk to roughly the size of the remote desktop screen, but had not grown back

Differnce between Xfree and Xorg

2004-05-12 Thread aroushdi
I am a little bit confused I see here that we have moved to Xorg distribution . I took a look at XFree.org and it seems they have Binaries for Cygwin till 4.4 . My question is Xfree going to be abandoned in favor of Xorg . What is the relation between the 2 . The reason I am asking because

Re: Differnce between Xfree and Xorg

2004-05-12 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 12 May 2004, aroushdi wrote: I am a little bit confused I see here that we have moved to Xorg distribution . I took a look at XFree.org and it seems they have Binaries for Cygwin till 4.4 . These binaries are likely to be very outdated. We moved to X.org because it was easier for

Tracking Down Disappearing Cursors

2004-05-12 Thread Wilks, Dan
After a bit of sleuthing I think I understand why the cursor is disappearing inside X windows after a remote desktop session. Unfortunately I don't understand enough of the motive of the current code in order to suggest a fix. It appears that there is some sort of misunderstanding between

RE: XWin.exe 6.7-4 clipboard on Win 2K server sp4 - prevents Wind ows cut/copy

2004-05-12 Thread Wilks, Dan
Jesse Burson wrote: I'm using XWin.exe 6.7-4 I am not able to cut or copy from Windows apps. Wait until the next version. Some Windows apps, Remote Desktop for one really mess up the Windows clipboard chain. You can see this using the old clipbrd.exe tool as well. Versions of XWin post -4

Using 6.7.0.0-8 Failure to connect to Linux

2004-05-12 Thread Crystal Martin
Hello! I was successfully using Cygwin to connect my Windows machine to my SuSE 9 until my Windows machine crashed about three weeks ago. Since then, I have not been able to reconnect the two computers. In the meantime, we have new Ethernet switches which I suspect may have triggered the

Re: Differnce between Xfree and Xorg

2004-05-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 12 May 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Wed, 12 May 2004, aroushdi wrote: I am a little bit confused I see here that we have moved to Xorg distribution . I took a look at XFree.org and it seems they have Binaries for Cygwin till 4.4 . These binaries are likely to be very

Re: Differnce between Xfree and Xorg

2004-05-12 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Thomas Dickey wrote: On Wed, 12 May 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Wed, 12 May 2004, aroushdi wrote: I am a little bit confused I see here that we have moved to Xorg distribution . I took a look at XFree.org and it seems they have Binaries for Cygwin till 4.4 . These binaries are likely

Mouse/keyboard emulation

2004-05-12 Thread Mark Vovchuk
I have been trying to use Cygwin, at least in part, as an X server on top of a Windows install to be able to execute programs from a UNIX server and have them appear locally. The application I have been specifically attempting to do so with is Eclipse (motif for HP-UX). Just about every other

Re: Mouse/keyboard emulation

2004-05-12 Thread Harold L Hunt II
in the Xterm I opened an ssh session by typing ssh -l username remote server name and then entered the password when prompted You mentioned ssh, you probably need to see A1 in the following FAQ entry: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-ssh-no-x11forwarding Harold

Re: Differnce between Xfree and Xorg

2004-05-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 12 May 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Thomas Dickey wrote: On Wed, 12 May 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Wed, 12 May 2004, aroushdi wrote: I am a little bit confused I see here that we have moved to Xorg distribution . I took a look at XFree.org and it seems they have

Startxwin starts a hung xterm

2004-05-12 Thread David Cabana
I just installed the latest cygwin-xfree (on 5/12/04) under Win XP. When I start Xwin via startxwin.bat, the x server seems to start up normally. The next line in the batch file, run xterm -sl 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms red -fg yellow -bg black -e /usr/bin/bash -l launches an xterm, which

RE: Mouse pointer disappears

2004-05-12 Thread Kris Thielemans
Wilks, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have noticed that the mouse pointer disappears when the window has focus. I occasionally get this on my laptop as well (running XP sp1 and latest cygwin+xorg). This happens in local xterms as well. It might have happened after doing some ssh -X

Weird multiwindow mode problem

2004-05-12 Thread Antony Baxter
Hello, This is probably unimportant, but I thought I'd mention it just the same... :) I have my Windows Taskbar at the top of the screen (instead of the bottom as it is by default). Running XWin -multiwindow, I open an xterm and move it right to the bottom of the screen. I open another window

Re: cygwin upgrade: where did XWin go?

2004-05-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 06:14:49PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Allen H. Nugent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] At 03:14 PM 12/05/04, Peng Yu wrote: You can run startxwin. Umm, no, I can't: it gives BASH: startxwin: command not found. To reiterate, I was able to use

Re: [Patch]: tty's on Terminal Services

2004-05-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 11 21:50, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: By the way, while checking the names with sysinternals I noticed there were a lot of mtinfo handles, all mapping the same name. They accumulate with each process generation. Thanks for the hint. I've fixed it. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen

RE: Where is the manual for export(bash)

2004-05-12 Thread Stephan Mueller
Alternatively, you can do man bash, search for export (/export) then skip to the next occurrence (n) a few times until you find the main entry. Resulting text is much the same as in 'help export', but it's sometimes nice to see the text in context in the man page, and it's always nice to have

Re: The rxvt.1 manpage of the rxvt-2.7.10-4 package.

2004-05-12 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
you wrote: The rxvt manpage cannot be correctly formatted because the nroff file doc/rxvt.1 contains some left-over yodl bits. I suspect that the yold2man-post program was not invoked to remove the yodl stuff. Here is a way to fix this. First, you need to build the yodl software under

RE: Executable links?

2004-05-12 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of chris Sent: 11 May 2004 21:21 4) Replace links to executables with a very small executable which does the linking process. I've been experimenting a little with this and it doesn't seem like a bad idea, except a) it involves

RE: The rxvt.1 manpage of the rxvt-2.7.10-4 package.

2004-05-12 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Gerrit P. Haase Sent: 12 May 2004 08:58 Anyway, the original configure script was expecting the OSTYPE to be cygwin32. That was why it was not possible to build yodl out of the box. After applying the above patch, follow the

Re: How to start windows version gvim for cygwin correctly?

2004-05-12 Thread Luc Hermitte
Hello, * On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 09:30:15PM -0700, Peng Yu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for you script. I don't change $HOME, $VIM, $VIMRUNTIME in cygwin, because I'm afraid there are some potential conflicts. Do I have to worry about that. Nope. I don't think so. In the properties of

RE: How to start windows version gvim for cygwin correctly?

2004-05-12 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Luc Hermitte Sent: 12 May 2004 12:58 BTW, what's the best place to store cyg-wrapper.sh . I store it to /usr/bin. Is /bin better? Wherever you want. I suspect that you don't know how right you are. In any standard cygwin

Re: Shutdown doesn't seem to work when invoked from ssh session

2004-05-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 11 17:47, Krzysztof Duleba wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 10 07:33, Egerton, James wrote: I've tried using the Cygwin shutdown-1.4 from an ssh session and it doesn't seem to do anything. The call to ExitWindowsEx doesn't appear to fail, but nothing happens after the

Re: bash: tab completion failure from (but not at) /

2004-05-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 11 07:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just lately (all recent snapshots including 20040510) I'm noticing a failure with tab completion for pathnames beginning /. Thus, I would expect, and in the past have achieved ls /hoTAB ls /home/ or md5sum /usTABlocTAB

Problems with sshd - zombie processes left

2004-05-12 Thread Cary Lewis
I am having problems with Cygwin ssh, specifically sshd.   I am logging in automatically from a Sco Unix box, and running a bash script.   If the unix process that is running ssh is killed, ssh exits cleanly on the unix machine, but whatever is running on the windows machine keeps running and

RE: bash: tab completion failure from (but not at) /

2004-05-12 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen Sent: 12 May 2004 15:09 In bash, the path / is accidentally converted to // before it tries to call opendir() on it. On any other POSIX system, that doesn't matter since // has no special meaning. On Cygwin

Re: bash: tab completion failure from (but not at) /

2004-05-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 12 16:17, Dave Korn wrote: I reckon you could quote http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap04.html#tag_0 4_11 to support the claim that what bash is doing is actually an invalid transformation and should be considered a bug. That page says A pathname

Re: How to start windows version gvim for cygwin correctly?

2004-05-12 Thread Peng Yu
Why gvim always change the access permission of the file it edit? It always adds the x permission to the file. Is there anyway to forbit gvim do this? - Original Message - From: Luc Hermitte [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Peng Yu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 12,

Re: How to start windows version gvim for cygwin correctly?

2004-05-12 Thread Larry Hall
At 12:00 PM 5/12/2004, you wrote: Why gvim always change the access permission of the file it edit? It always adds the x permission to the file. Is there anyway to forbit gvim do this? Let me remind you again that gvim is not a Cygwin package and therefore discussion of its functionality is

Re: bash: tab completion failure from (but not at) /

2004-05-12 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 05:43:32PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 12 16:17, Dave Korn wrote: I reckon you could quote http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap04.html#tag_0 4_11 to support the claim that what bash is doing is actually an invalid

Re: cygpath

2004-05-12 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
--- Dave Yost wrote: Thanks for cygpath and whaterver you do for cygwin! Dave, While I have submitted a couple patches to cygpath, a lot of people have put work into it and I certainly can't take credit for the whole thing! Several of these people and other knowledgable cygwin users are on the

Re: Behaviour of 'find' under 'bash'

2004-05-12 Thread Kaz Kylheku
On Wed, 12 May 2004, Song Ken Vern-E11804 wrote: Hi, The find command seems to be behaving differently depending on the content of the current directory. Isn't that sort of a design requirement for a search tool? ;) drwxr-xr-x+ 4 Administ 4096 May 12 08:41 ./

RE: cygpath

2004-05-12 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Joshua Daniel Franklin Sent: 12 May 2004 17:22 It would be cool if cygpath had an option to resolve any symlinks and shortcuts in the path. Yes, it would. Patches thankfully accepted. :) Don't you mean Patches gratefully

wildcard in Makefile giving wrong output

2004-05-12 Thread Nitin Gupta
Cygwin version: 05/12/04 (everything new) CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.9(0.112/4/2) 2004-03-18 23:05 = cat Makefile WORKSPACE=$(shell pwd) test: @echo $(wildcard $(WORKSPACE)/ph*/*.cx) = Directory structure Makefile phase1/ phase3/ phase1/main.cx phase1/phase1.hx phase3/p123.cx

fortune strfile [autarkic or not]

2004-05-12 Thread svartsjel
Hi. Recently, I asked if it was feasible or not to run Cygwin’s fortune separated on any Win32 system. Christopher Faylor was not amused about my question due to a misunderstanding, sorry for that. First, it’s not my aim to cherry pick (as to quote Brian Dessent) integral parts of the Cygwin

Re: cygpath

2004-05-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 09:21:36AM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: It would be cool if cygpath had an option to resolve any symlinks and shortcuts in the path. Yes, it would. Patches thankfully accepted. :) I don't see this as a function of cygpath. cygpath is for performing operations

Re: building Python numarray

2004-05-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 09:02:24PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote: james pentland schrieb: $ c++ -v ... gcc version 3.3.1 (cygming special) ^^^ This looks like another problem. How about installing gcc or asking in the correct list. Huh? Why is cygming a problem? This is

gzip bug?

2004-05-12 Thread Dave Yost
Z% tar cf - /usr/include /usr/i?86*/include | gzip cygwin-include.tgz tar: Removing leading `/' from member names Z% gunzip cygwin-include.tgz | tar tf - ,list tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers gunzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error

Re: cygpath

2004-05-12 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 12 May 2004, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: --- Dave Yost wrote: [snip] I have a small problem. I have a path ../foo:../bar When I use the --path argument, cygpath insists on converting the relative paths into absolute paths. I wish it wouldn't do that. But I can understand

Re: gzip bug?

2004-05-12 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 12 May 2004, Dave Yost wrote: Z% tar cf - /usr/include /usr/i?86*/include | gzip cygwin-include.tgz tar: Removing leading `/' from member names Z% gunzip cygwin-include.tgz | tar tf - ,list tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers gunzip:

Re: building Python numarray

2004-05-12 Thread Reini Urban
Christopher Faylor schrieb: On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 09:02:24PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote: james pentland schrieb: $ c++ -v ... gcc version 3.3.1 (cygming special) ^^^ This looks like another problem. How about installing gcc or asking in the correct list. Huh? Why is

Network Shares Not Accessible Via ssh

2004-05-12 Thread Jack Polimer
When I am on my local Windoze machine using cygwin I can see my network shares, i.e., cd \\r:. However, when I ssh to that machine, I only have access to the local drives... Any suggestions on how I can access the network stuff when I ssh? Thanks.

Re: cygwin upgrade: where did XWin go?

2004-05-12 Thread Allen H. Nugent
At 03:14 PM 12/05/04, Peng Yu wrote: You can run startxwin. Umm, no, I can't: it gives BASH: startxwin: command not found. To reiterate, I was able to use startxwin.bat or startxwin.sh to run Xwin, until I upgraded cygwin; now, the Xwin system seems to be gone. Does Setup normally uninstall

Re: cygwin upgrade: where did XWin go?

2004-05-12 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Allen H. Nugent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] At 03:14 PM 12/05/04, Peng Yu wrote: You can run startxwin. Umm, no, I can't: it gives BASH: startxwin: command not found. To reiterate, I was able to use startxwin.bat or startxwin.sh to run Xwin, until I upgraded

Re: cygwin upgrade: where did XWin go?

2004-05-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 06:14:49PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Allen H. Nugent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] At 03:14 PM 12/05/04, Peng Yu wrote: You can run startxwin. Umm, no, I can't: it gives BASH: startxwin: command not found. To reiterate, I was able to use

[FAQ alert] Re: Network Shares Not Accessible Via ssh

2004-05-12 Thread Larry Hall
At 06:29 PM 5/12/2004, you wrote: When I am on my local Windoze machine using cygwin I can see my network shares, i.e., cd \\r:. However, when I ssh to that machine, I only have access to the local drives... Any suggestions on how I can access the network stuff when I ssh? Sigh. Have you

Re: AW: Inaccessible remote volumes when logged in via ssh

2004-05-12 Thread Larry Hall
At 09:01 AM 5/11/2004, you wrote: I am logging in using password (i already heard of troubles using publickey, altough i can log in as normal user using public key) The volume is mounted using the explorer menu (extra - connect drive, i dont know if thats correct because i have a german version),