Re: Cygwin alongside WSL

2017-11-01 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-10-31 12:11, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Am 27.10.2017 um 00:10 schrieb Thomas Wolff: >> Am 26.10.2017 um 18:13 schrieb Brian Inglis: >>> On 2017-10-25 15:18, Thomas Wolff wrote: Am 25.10.2017 um 20:30 schrieb Brian Inglis: > On 2017-10-25 11:27, Brian Inglis wrote: >> On 2017-10-25

Re: Can I change the windows icon from command line?

2017-11-01 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-11-01 15:10, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Am 01.11.2017 um 22:05 schrieb b...@theworld.com: >> A trivial little shell script I use for setting xterm title/icon via escape >> sequences: >> ... > That sequence is setting the icon *label*, not the icon. Mintty cannot support > it because there is no

Re: Proper way to run emacs from desktop

2017-11-01 Thread David Karr
On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 12:57 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > On 11/1/2017 1:08 PM, David Karr wrote: >> >> I install Cygwin every couple of years and then use it continuously >> without updates between those installations. I installed it on a new >> laptop today, and I'm trying to

Re: Can I change the windows icon from command line?

2017-11-01 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 01.11.2017 um 22:05 schrieb b...@theworld.com: A trivial little shell script I use for setting xterm title/icon via escape sequences: ... That sequence is setting the icon *label*, not the icon. Mintty cannot support it because there is no corresponding Windows function. Thomas -- Problem

Re: Can I change the windows icon from command line?

2017-11-01 Thread bzs
A trivial little shell script I use for setting xterm title/icon via escape sequences: xtlabel Description: xtlabel -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die| b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1 617-STD-WRLD | 800-THE-WRLD

Re: Can I change the windows icon from command line?

2017-11-01 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 01.11.2017 um 07:08 schrieb Brian Inglis: On 2017-10-31 20:41, P RC wrote: Is it possible to change the current Cygwin window's icon from command line? I used to ssh to multiple servers from cygwin tabs within ConEmu. Changing icon will be greatly helpful to make sure which machine I am on

[setup topic/libsolv] Crash after incomplete download

2017-11-01 Thread Ken Brown
If there is a download failure and the user clicks Yes in response to "Download Incomplete. Try again?", then setup will crash. The crash occurs at PickView.cc:447 because i->source() is NULL. I haven't yet analyzed this in further detail, but the crux of the issue seems to be that we call

Re: [PATCH cygport] Add a command to make a test release

2017-11-01 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On 2017-10-03 14:51, Jon Turney wrote: > This patch (originally by Achim Gratz) adds a mechanism for generating > packages marked as 'test' as described in [1]. > > I'm not committed to any of the details, but I would like to get > something with this functionality in, so tell me how you'd like

Re: Proper way to run emacs from desktop

2017-11-01 Thread Ken Brown
On 11/1/2017 1:08 PM, David Karr wrote: I install Cygwin every couple of years and then use it continuously without updates between those installations. I installed it on a new laptop today, and I'm trying to work through issues. The current issue is running Emacs from the desktop. I had a

Solution to terrible performance in Cygwin under VPN

2017-11-01 Thread Chuck Wilde
We did some debugging, and we eventually traced the problem down to using Cygwin downloaded by use...@oncorems.com after our userid was updated to use...@neotech.com. Something must be cached somewhere, and the discrepancy

Proper way to run emacs from desktop

2017-11-01 Thread David Karr
I install Cygwin every couple of years and then use it continuously without updates between those installations. I installed it on a new laptop today, and I'm trying to work through issues. The current issue is running Emacs from the desktop. I had a shortcut working for a long time that does

Re: ada gnat import library missing ?

2017-11-01 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 31/10/2017 00:17, JonY wrote: -2 with the appropriate import libraries should be coming along by the end of the week if all goes well. It is up but I see the same $ ./hello.exe -bash: ./hello.exe: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error Does it work for you ? Marco -- Problem

[ANNOUNCEMENT] ghostscript 9.21-1

2017-11-01 Thread Ken Brown
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * ghostscript-9.21-1 * libgs9-9.21-1 * libgs-devel-9.21-1 GNU Ghostscript is a PostScript interpreter capable of converting PS files into a number of printer output formats. Ghostscript can also render PS files into a number

ghostscript 9.21-1

2017-11-01 Thread Ken Brown
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * ghostscript-9.21-1 * libgs9-9.21-1 * libgs-devel-9.21-1 GNU Ghostscript is a PostScript interpreter capable of converting PS files into a number of printer output formats. Ghostscript can also render PS files into a number

Cygwin on Win10 much slower than Win7

2017-11-01 Thread Nellis, Kenneth
Since migrating from a Windows 7 laptop to one with Windows 10, I've noticed a significant speed decrease in opening a mintty/bash window from about 0.5s to 3.5s. I've narrowed it down to two bottlenecks in .bash_profile: to "cygpath" and "source". Each invocation of cygpath on Win10 takes

Re: cygwin x86_64: mingw64-g++ 6.4.0 (both i686 and x86_64) issue (bug?) with reinterpret_cast

2017-11-01 Thread Csaba Raduly
On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Paolo ZAMBOTTI wrote: > Hi Csaba, > Please don't top-post (at least in this mailing list). > Ok, then the issue are "my" lines of code and the error messages from g++ > were not completely clear (and they was confusing me a little bit)... > But I'm still not

[ANNOUNCEMENT] urw-base35-fonts 20170801-1

2017-11-01 Thread Ken Brown
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * urw-base35-fonts-20170801-1 This package, which used to be called "ghostscript-fonts-std", contains the 35 fonts in the PostScript Level 2 Core Font Set. These fonts are used by ghostscript. This is an update to the latest

urw-base35-fonts 20170801-1

2017-11-01 Thread Ken Brown
The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * urw-base35-fonts-20170801-1 This package, which used to be called "ghostscript-fonts-std", contains the 35 fonts in the PostScript Level 2 Core Font Set. These fonts are used by ghostscript. This is an update to the latest

Re: Changes on sourceware for ghostscript fonts

2017-11-01 Thread Jon Turney
On 01/11/2017 12:29, Ken Brown wrote: I would like to rename ghostscript-fonts-std to urw-base35-fonts for consistency with Fedora.  (Debian is similar.)  If this is OK, we'll need a new directory urw-base35-fonts under noarch, and the about-to-become obsolete ghostscript-fonts-std directory

Changes on sourceware for ghostscript fonts

2017-11-01 Thread Ken Brown
I would like to rename ghostscript-fonts-std to urw-base35-fonts for consistency with Fedora. (Debian is similar.) If this is OK, we'll need a new directory urw-base35-fonts under noarch, and the about-to-become obsolete ghostscript-fonts-std directory needs to be moved into it. The

Re: Can I change the windows icon from command line?

2017-11-01 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2017-10-31 20:41, P RC wrote: > Is it possible to change the current Cygwin window's icon from command line? > I used to ssh to multiple servers from cygwin tabs within ConEmu. > Changing icon will be greatly helpful to make sure which machine I am on at > the first glance at the tabs. As far