mintty-colors: changing colors in mintty on the fly

2016-05-28 Thread Joakim Karlsson
As a weekend project, I put together mintty-colors [1], which is a python package for changing color schemes in mintty on the fly. I don't know if there already is such a function packaged in cygwin, this was really just recreational. But if someone else finds it useful - great! /Joakim [1] http

Re: [nfs-server] Hazardous changes introduced in 2.3-6

2016-05-28 Thread jcwilson . cygwin
>That's your and only your mistake. >I hope you've learned from it and will not repeat the same mistake >again. Thank you for your reply. I'm looking into alternative ways of configuring my share but haven't had much luck with any other option. Consider my use case: I wish to only share the cont

Re: cygwin python os.stat gives wrong ctime

2016-05-28 Thread Eliot Moss
On 5/28/2016 9:39 PM, Mitch Deoudes wrote: According to the python docs, os.stat() gives the following for st_ctime: "|st_ctime| - platform dependent; time of most recent metadata change on Unix, or the time of creation on Windows" cygwin emulates posix, so you should expect a posix-like

cygwin python os.stat gives wrong ctime

2016-05-28 Thread Mitch Deoudes
According to the python docs, os.stat() gives the following for st_ctime: "|st_ctime| - platform dependent; time of most recent metadata change on Unix, or the time of creation on Windows" To reproduce: 1) touch foo 2) wait a minute 3) touch foo 4) use python's os.stat() on

Re: [nfs-server] Hazardous changes introduced in 2.3-6

2016-05-28 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, jcwilson.cyg...@nym.hush.com! > I had installed the 3 cygrunsrv services (portmap, rpc.nfsd, rpc.mountd) to > use my login account as the services' user. That's your and only your mistake. I hope you've learned from it and will not repeat the same mistake again. -- With best regards

Re: Suggestion to move Cygwin documentation to more version neutral path...

2016-05-28 Thread Hans-Bernhard Bröker
Am 28.05.2016 um 23:22 schrieb Oleksandr Gavenko: I search for bundled docs to set up sshd and some mount points and surprised that it placed on path: /usr/share/doc/cygwin-2.5.1/html/cygwin-ug-net As far as I know current Cygwin version is 1.7. That knowledge is rather inaccurate. Can we

Re: Is it possible to hide emacs-w32 console window?

2016-05-28 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/28/2016 5:08 PM, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote: emacs-w32 starts console window and that useless window disturbs during task switching (by Alt+TAB) and take space on TaskBar. Is it possible to hide emacs-w32 console window? Sorry, I don't know what console window you're talking about. Exactly

[nfs-server] Hazardous changes introduced in 2.3-6

2016-05-28 Thread jcwilson . cygwin
I have been using the 32-bit version nfs-server 2.3-5 package successfully for the past few months to share my Cygwin filesystem with a locally hosted VirtualBox VM. So I was pleased to see that the nfs-server package had finally made it into the 64-bit Cygwin release. However, there was an unex

Suggestion to move Cygwin documentation to more version neutral path...

2016-05-28 Thread Oleksandr Gavenko
I search for bundled docs to set up sshd and some mount points and surprised that it placed on path: /usr/share/doc/cygwin-2.5.1/html/cygwin-ug-net As far as I know current Cygwin version is 1.7. With "cygwin-2.5.1" part I begin to doubt if docs is up-to-date. So I consult online docs because

Is it possible to hide emacs-w32 console window?

2016-05-28 Thread Oleksandr Gavenko
emacs-w32 starts console window and that useless window disturbs during task switching (by Alt+TAB) and take space on TaskBar. Is it possible to hide emacs-w32 console window? == TL;TR === I uses native Emacs for long time but now emacs-w32 pac

Re: xpdf relocation error

2016-05-28 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/28/2016 6:04 AM, Jaakov Jaakov wrote: I selected xpdf only, and put everything else into "keep", but after my choice setup also strongly suggested perl-Lingua-Translit as "required by biber", though both biber and perl-Lingua-Translit were explicitly set to "keep". This is counterintutitive.

Re: xpdf relocation error

2016-05-28 Thread Jaakov Jaakov
Ken Brown wrote: --- You can get my build of xpdf-3.04-1 from my personal Cygwin repository: http://www.sanibeltranquility.com/cygwin/ There are instructions there. Be careful what you install. I have a lot of updated packages there for my own use and/or testing. As far as I know, they all w