Select Packages blows up to full-screen (setup-1.7.exe)

2009-09-17 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
Is there some reason why setup-1.7 has to blow up to full-screen when the Select Packages screen comes up? I prefer the friendlier 1.5 version. - Jim -- Jim Reisert AD1C, jjreis...@alum.mit.edu, http://www.ad1c.us -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ

Re: Select Packages blows up to full-screen (setup-1.7.exe)

2009-09-17 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C jjreis...@alum.mit.edu wrote: Is there some reason why setup-1.7 has to blow up to full-screen when the Select Packages screen comes up?  I prefer the friendlier 1.5 version. I forgot to mention, that the back/cancel etc. icons at the bottom

Re: Select Packages blows up to full-screen (setup-1.7.exe)

2009-09-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 09/17/2009 06:42 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: Is there some reason why setup-1.7 has to blow up to full-screen when the Select Packages screen comes up? I prefer the friendlier 1.5 version. Yes, it was changed so that you could easily see all the information in the packages listed

Re: Select Packages blows up to full-screen (setup-1.7.exe)

2009-09-17 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: On 09/17/2009 06:42 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: Is there some reason why setup-1.7 has to blow up to full-screen when the Select Packages screen comes up?  I prefer the friendlier 1.5 version. Yes

Re: Select Packages blows up to full-screen (setup-1.7.exe)

2009-09-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 06:50:39PM -0600, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: On 09/17/2009 06:42 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: Is there some reason why setup-1.7 has to blow up to full-screen when the Select Packages

256-color screen: test reports?

2009-09-15 Thread Andrew Schulman
Anyone who's been trying out the 256-color support in the current test release of screen, please let me know how that's working for you. Please report what terminal you're using (Cygwin, xterm, rxvt, MinTTY, PuTTYcyg, others?), whether you're able to get 256 colors, and whether there are any new

GNU screen 4.0.3-1 -- Spawns a screen.exe cmd window when launched

2009-09-14 Thread Joel Eidsath
When I launch screen by typing 'screen' at the basic Cygwin bash prompt, a screen.exe cmd window launches and stays open for the entire screen session. I only see this behavior with Windows 7. -- Joel Eidsath -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ

Re: GNU screen 4.0.3-1 -- Spawns a screen.exe cmd window when launched

2009-09-14 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/9/14 Joel Eidsath: When I launch screen by typing 'screen' at the basic Cygwin bash prompt, a screen.exe cmd window launches and stays open for the entire screen session. I only see this behavior with Windows 7. Cygwin 1.7 has a workaround for the Windows 7 bug that causes this. It won't

Re: Re: GNU screen 4.0.3-1 -- Spawns a screen.exe cmd window when launched

2009-09-14 Thread Joel Eidsath
The 1.7 beta works for me. Thank you. -- Joel Eidsath -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-09-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 12:59:50AM -0400, Dave Steenburgh wrote: On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 04:14:11PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: screen is difficult to debug, because it uses two communicating processes, one in the foreground to talk

Sorry [Re: [OT] Re: GNU screen hangs]

2009-09-02 Thread TV
I'm feeling a bit bad how things got out of hand, and I'm sorry for it. The etiquette of this list is unusually strict, I have never met anything like it, and I don't understand it. The trigger-happy banning behaviour really put me off the course. This clearly isn't a place for me, so I'm going

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-09-02 Thread Dave Steenburgh
/me returns to the original topic. I occasionally have trouble with screen as well, and as far as I can tell, it always happens when trying to create a new screen.  (To be clear, when I start screen the first time or when I press: ctrl-a c) So, it may be that screen itself is not the problem

Re: Sorry [Re: [OT] Re: GNU screen hangs]

2009-09-02 Thread Dave Korn
TV wrote: I'm feeling a bit bad how things got out of hand, and I'm sorry for it. The etiquette of this list is unusually strict, I have never met anything like it, and I don't understand it. The trigger-happy banning behaviour really put me off the course. This clearly isn't a place for

Re: Sorry [Re: [OT] Re: GNU screen hangs]

2009-09-02 Thread Andrew Schulman
I'm feeling a bit bad how things got out of hand, and I'm sorry for it. Accepted. Andrew. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: Sorry [Re: [OT] Re: GNU screen hangs]

2009-09-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 12:03:15PM +, TV wrote: I'm feeling a bit bad how things got out of hand, and I'm sorry for it. The etiquette of this list is unusually strict, I have never met anything like it, and I don't understand it. The trigger-happy banning behaviour really put me off the

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-09-02 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 09/02/2009 10:19 AM, Dave Steenburgh wrote: I should probably also point out that when I work with cygwin, I work almost exclusively with text-based programs. So, I rarely have a need for X, and I use a command prompt window. Is there a better terminal for those circumstances? There's

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-09-02 Thread Andrew Schulman
I occasionally have trouble with screen as well, and as far as I can tell, it always happens when trying to create a new screen.  (To be clear, when I start screen the first time or when I press: ctrl-a c) So, it may be that screen itself is not the problem in my case. Because this occurs

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-09-02 Thread Jeremy Bopp
Andrew Schulman wrote: Personally, I much prefer PuTTYcyg. rxvt and MinTTY are also popular, but they both require X. You might also like Poderosa (http://en.poderosa.org/). Actually, neither rxvt nor MinTTY require X. I use them both without X daily. I believe MinTTY is actually based on

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-09-02 Thread Andrew Schulman
Andrew Schulman wrote: Personally, I much prefer PuTTYcyg. rxvt and MinTTY are also popular, but they both require X. You might also like Poderosa (http://en.poderosa.org/). Actually, neither rxvt nor MinTTY require X. I use them both without X daily. I believe MinTTY is actually

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-09-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 04:14:11PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: screen is difficult to debug, because it uses two communicating processes, one in the foreground to talk to your terminal, and one in the background to talk to the processes in each window. That's not that hard to debug. You just

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-09-02 Thread Dave Steenburgh
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 04:14:11PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: screen is difficult to debug, because it uses two communicating processes, one in the foreground to talk to your terminal, and one in the background to talk to the processes

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-09-01 Thread TV
On 2009-08-31, Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com wrote: Apparently you don't know who I am. An even bigger pile of shit than this project. A project leader pretending to be an army sergeant with users rookies required to follow his ridiculous commands. I guess I'm

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-09-01 Thread Dave Korn
TV wrote: On 2009-08-31, Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com wrote: Apparently you don't know who I am. An even bigger pile of Don't kid yourself: it's you that's at fault, not the whole rest of the world. You've been rude and arrogant from your first post. It's

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-09-01 Thread TV
On 2009-09-01, Dave Korn da...@googlemail.com wrote: Don't kid yourself: it's you that's at fault, not the whole rest of the world. You've been rude and arrogant from your first post. Oh, this is must be a cultural thing about americans and their tanned tongues. Can't stay to the facts,

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-09-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 10:23:58AM +, TV wrote: On 2009-09-01, Dave Korn da...@googlemail.com wrote: Don't kid yourself: it's you that's at fault, not the whole rest of the world. You've been rude and arrogant from your first post. Oh, this is must be a cultural thing about americans and

[OT] Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-09-01 Thread Dave Korn
TV wrote: On 2009-09-01, Dave Korn wrote: Wow. You kind of quoted my email address, but then you went and changed it into some poor innocent bystander's account. Whoever that is won't be pleased with you. this space left blank for Tuomo to explain why that's the innocent bystander's

Re: [OT] Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-09-01 Thread One more time
Ah, censorship. The Official Truth will become the Truth, when the opposition is censored. On 2009-09-01, Dave Korn davek.spamt...@googlemail.com wrote: Nonsense, it's got nothing to do with the way you say it, it's the content of your message that nobody likes: self-regarding vanity,

Re: [OT] Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-09-01 Thread Dave Korn
One more time wrote: Ah, censorship. zOMG we is suppressing your freedumb of speach! O noes! Call for the WH-bulance! Seriously, that is the kind of pathetic nonsense spammers come out with. You clearly read the messages through some anti-tuomov glasses, as most of the FOSS herd

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-09-01 Thread Andrew DeFaria
TV wrote: Oh, this is must be a cultural thing about americans and their tanned tongues. Excuse me, I'm off to the tongue tanning salon... ;-) -- Andrew DeFaria http://defaria.com The gene pool sure could use a little chlorine. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-09-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 07:12:51AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: TV wrote: Oh, this is must be a cultural thing about americans and their tanned tongues. Excuse me, I'm off to the tongue tanning salon... ;-) Ok. I've got to stop drinking coffee while reading the cygwin list... cgf -- Problem

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: screen, now with 256-color support!

2009-09-01 Thread Andrew Schulman
Andy Koppe andy.koppe at gmail.com writes: Andrew Schulman: Instructions for starting screen with 256 color support are in /usr/share/doc/screen/README.Cygwin. In brief, you have to invoke screen as TERM=screen-256color screen I don't think that's quite right. Screen needs

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: screen, now with 256-color support!

2009-09-01 Thread Andrew Schulman
TERM=xterm-256color screen -T screen-256color Instead of specifying -T screen-256color every time, one can just put 'term screen-256color' into .screenrc. I'll update the docs to show this when I make the release current. Is there any reason that I shouldn't put this command

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: screen, now with 256-color support!

2009-09-01 Thread Andy Koppe
Andrew Schulman: TERM=xterm-256color screen -T screen-256color Instead of specifying -T screen-256color every time, one can just put 'term screen-256color' into .screenrc.  I'll update the docs to show this when I make the release current. Is there any reason that I shouldn't put

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: screen, now with 256-color support!

2009-09-01 Thread Andrew Schulman
Andrew Schulman: TERM=xterm-256color screen -T screen-256color Instead of specifying -T screen-256color every time, one can just put 'term screen-256color' into .screenrc.  I'll update the docs to show this when I make the release current. Is there any reason that I shouldn't put

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-09-01 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 07:12:51AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: TV wrote: Oh, this is must be a cultural thing about americans and their tanned tongues. Excuse me, I'm off to the tongue tanning salon... ;-) Ok. I've got to stop drinking coffee while reading the

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-09-01 Thread Mark J. Reed
Andrew DeFaria wrote: Excuse me, I'm off to the tongue tanning salon...  ;-) Crazy Americans! Tanning one end while bleaching the other! What's going on in this country?! -- Mark J. Reed markjr...@gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: screen, now with 256-color support!

2009-09-01 Thread Andy Koppe
Andrew Schulman: Instead of specifying -T screen-256color every time, one can just put 'term screen-256color' into .screenrc.  I'll update the docs to show this when I make the release current. Is there any reason that I shouldn't put this command into the default /etc/screenrc file

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: screen, now with 256-color support!

2009-09-01 Thread Andrew Schulman
You're talking about setting e.g. TERM=xterm-256color in the environment by default, but I was asking whether it would cause any harm to put 'term screen-256color' into the default /etc/screenrc.  Know any reason that I shouldn't? Well, yes. 'term screen-256color' sets TERM=screen

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: screen, now with 256-color support!

2009-09-01 Thread Andy Koppe
'term screen-256color' sets TERM=screen-256color in the environment of programs running inside screen, hence any program or script that recognises screen but not screen-256color will no longer work as expected. Btw, a different approach to enabling 256 colour support by default, which doesn't

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-09-01 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Mark J. Reed wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: Excuse me, I'm off to the tongue tanning salon... Â ;-) Crazy Americans! Tanning one end while bleaching the other! What's going on in this country?! Here in America we treat both black and white equally! ;-) Now what was I supposed to be bleaching

Re: [RFU] screen

2009-08-31 Thread Andrew Schulman
Ping. Thanks, Andrew. # 1.5 B=http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin/1.5/screen/ wget \ ${B}/setup.hint \ ${B}/screen-4.0.3-3.tar.bz2 \ ${B}/screen-4.0.3-3-src.tar.bz2 # 1.7 B=http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin/screen/ wget \ ${B}/setup.hint \ ${B}/screen-4.0.3-4.tar.bz2

Re: [RFU] screen

2009-08-31 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 25/08/2009 15:29, Andrew Schulman wrote: I have a new release of screen, that supports 256-color terminals. The 256 color support hasn't been well tested yet, so I'm providing this as a test release in order to get reports from users. So, the setup.hint file will need to be updated. Your

Re: [RFU] screen

2009-08-31 Thread Andrew Schulman
. I did warn on the cygwin list that this is a test release, especially for 1.5, and that I'll need to see positive test reports before I move it to current. I believe that the screen executable in the 1.5 package was compiled against libncurses8, and I don't have a way to recompile it now, so let's

Re: [RFU] screen

2009-08-31 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
that this is a test release, especially for 1.5, and that I'll need to see positive test reports before I move it to current. I believe that the screen executable in the 1.5 package was compiled against libncurses8, and I don't have a way to recompile it now, so let's leave the setup.hint as is. To me

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-08-31 Thread Andrew Schulman
... but GNU screen had been broken, making Cygwin again completely unusable, because screen is necessary with the primitive Windows window management. (Tabbed putty would help.) The more specific problem is that GNU screen has started having random hangs, locking up the entire terminal

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-08-31 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
available, including some to X, so of course I tried them. X wasn't fixed... but GNU screen had been broken, making Cygwin again completely unusable, because screen is necessary with the primitive Windows window management. (Tabbed putty would help.) The more specific problem is that GNU screen

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-08-31 Thread Andrew Schulman
I don't know how to reproduce it. It just sometimes happens. What terminal are you using? Not DOS by any chance? /usr/share/doc/screen/README.Cygwin warns that if you're using a DOS terminal, you must set CYGWIN=tty before starting your terminal, or you'll have problems resuming screen sessions

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-08-31 Thread Charles Wilson
Tuomo Valkonen wrote: There. (No attachments: using slrn.) Great! Now, every time someone searches the cygwin archives for 'xrdb', they'll find your message. I'm sure that will be quite helpful. If you can't send attachments using slrn, and this list specifically requests that cygcheck results

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-08-31 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-08-31, Charles Wilson cyg...@cwilson.fastmail.fm wrote: If you can't send attachments using slrn, and this list specifically requests that cygcheck results be sent as attachments, you had two choices: 1) deliberately send inline, ignoring list policy 2) use a different email

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-08-31 Thread Ken Brown
On 8/31/2009 12:14 PM, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: Potential app conflicts: ZoneAlarm Personal Firewall Have you ruled out BLODA? See http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-08-31 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-08-31, Ken Brown kbr...@cornell.edu wrote: Have you ruled out BLODA? See All I can say is that things used to work fine until a cygwin update less than a week ago, which did install new cygwin dlls. After that I have had screen hang a couple of times. -- Tuomo -- Problem reports

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-08-31 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-08-31, Andrew Schulman schulman.and...@epamail.epa.gov wrote: I don't know how to reproduce it. It just sometimes happens. What terminal are you using? Puttycyg, as I've already mentioned. -- Stop Gnomes and other pests! Purchase Windows today!

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-08-31 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-08-31, Tuomo Valkonen tuo...@iki.fi wrote: On 2009-08-31, Ken Brown kbr...@cornell.edu wrote: Have you ruled out BLODA? See All I can say is that things used to work fine until a cygwin update less than a week ago, which did install new cygwin dlls. After that I have had screen

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-08-31 Thread Ken Brown
On 8/31/2009 2:28 PM, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: On 2009-08-31, Ken Brown x...@xxx.xxx wrote: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR Have you ruled out BLODA? See All I can say is that things used to work fine until That's an interesting response. Aren't you interested in trying to see

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-08-31 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-08-31, Ken Brown kbr...@cornell.edu wrote: That's an interesting response. Aren't you interested in trying to see if your problems are caused by BLODA? Is it too much trouble to disable or uninstall ZoneAlarm to see if that helps? Don't have such a thing installed. Another

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-08-31 Thread Andrew Schulman
On 2009-08-31, Ken Brown kbr...@cornell.edu wrote: That's an interesting response. Aren't you interested in trying to see if your problems are caused by BLODA? Is it too much trouble to disable or uninstall ZoneAlarm to see if that helps? Don't have such a thing installed. Another

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: screen, now with 256-color support!

2009-08-31 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of the screen package (4.0.3-3 for Cygwin 1.5, 4.0.3-4 for Cygwin 1.7) is now available in the Cygwin distribution. screen is a terminal multiplexer and window manager that runs several separate 'screens' on a single physical character-based terminal. Each virtual terminal emulates

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-08-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 09:09:25PM +, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: On 2009-08-31, Ken Brown x...@xxx.xxx wrote: That's an interesting response. Aren't you interested in trying to see if your problems are caused by BLODA? Is it too much trouble to disable or uninstall ZoneAlarm to see if that

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-08-31 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-08-31, Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com wrote: It is very rude to ignore a request not to quote an email address. Please do not do this again. It's very rude to make such lame requests. What is it for? Spam? The address is glaring there bright in

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-08-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:22:43PM +, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: On 2009-08-31, Christopher Faylor wrote: It is very rude to ignore a request not to quote an email address. Please do not do this again. It's very rude to make such lame requests. What is it for? Spam? The address is glaring there

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: screen, now with 256-color support!

2009-08-31 Thread Andy Koppe
Andrew Schulman: Instructions for starting screen with 256 color support are in /usr/share/doc/screen/README.Cygwin.  In brief, you have to invoke screen as TERM=screen-256color screen I don't think that's quite right. Screen needs to be told what terminal it is itself running in. This means

default encoding (was: Re: GNU screen hangs)

2009-08-30 Thread Andy Koppe
Tuomo Valkonen: Firstly Xlib/libc communication seems to be broken/unimplemented. This has frequently been a problem on Linux too, Xlib not being aware of libc locales. (Xlib usually won't work without the .encoding part in LC_CTYPE, which frequently isn't there, as libc seemingly can get

Re: default encoding (was: Re: GNU screen hangs)

2009-08-30 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-08-30, Andy Koppe andy.ko...@gmail.com wrote: If a locale is specified without an encoding, Cygwin 1.7 uses the Windows system's default ANSI codepage, i.e. CP1252 or such like. Presumably X implements the encodings itself rather than use setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ) and rely on the standard

Re: default encoding (was: Re: GNU screen hangs)

2009-08-30 Thread Andy Koppe
Tuomo Valkonen: I have LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8, of course. And still Xlib fails. Oh well. Someone more knowledgeable about X will need to step in here. I think the Python interpreter should call setlocale, instead of having Python programs themselves do it, because it is half-an-OS and does

GNU screen hangs

2009-08-29 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
screen had been broken, making Cygwin again completely unusable, because screen is necessary with the primitive Windows window management. (Tabbed putty would help.) The more specific problem is that GNU screen has started having random hangs, locking up the entire terminal. The hung screen

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-08-29 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/8/29 Tuomo Valkonen: Cygwin (1.7 -- 1.5 is useless due to non-existent locale/UTF-8 support, although 1.7 doesn't shine in that either) Any specific problems regarding the latter? Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-08-29 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-08-29, Andy Koppe andy.ko...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/8/29 Tuomo Valkonen: Cygwin (1.7 -- 1.5 is useless due to non-existent locale/UTF-8 support, although 1.7 doesn't shine in that either) Any specific problems regarding the latter? A couple. Firstly Xlib/libc communication seems to

[RFU] screen

2009-08-25 Thread Andrew Schulman
I have a new release of screen, that supports 256-color terminals. The 256 color support hasn't been well tested yet, so I'm providing this as a test release in order to get reports from users. So, the setup.hint file will need to be updated. Please upload, for 1.5 and 1.7. Thanks, Andrew

Re: 256 color screen

2009-08-25 Thread Schulman . Andrew
for screen? Did that ever get pushed into the main cygwin? I can't get 256 colors working under screen and I'm also having trouble compiling my own (and it looks like the old links in that email are no longer around, either). Sorry it took me a while to get back to this. No, I got hung up

Dual Screen XDMCP Session

2009-08-06 Thread Steven Maddox
miniature X servers that can tunnel over SSH... I was thinking maybe make a local xorg.conf on the Windows box and set up two screens with Xinerama or something like that. This is the closest I got with Xming... xming :0 -query 10.60.20.165 -clipboard -screen 0 @1 -screen 1 @2 This makes two seperate

Re: Dual Screen XDMCP Session

2009-08-06 Thread Jon TURNEY
with Xming... xming :0 -query 10.60.20.165 -clipboard -screen 0 @1 -screen 1 @2 This makes two seperate screens (like if Xinerama is turned off, and you get two GNOME panels)... and they arn't full screen either just maximized (can't seem to use the option -fullscreen when specifying two screens

screen and popup console on Windows 7

2009-07-05 Thread Sylvain Pasche
Hi, I saw the recent thread about the unwanted console windows appearing with MinTTY on Win7. I just wanted to mention that I see a similar issue with screen in the same environment (Win7 RC 64-bit, Cygwin 1.7, screen 4.0.3-1): Each new screen window that is opened creates a persistent

Re: screen and popup console on Windows 7

2009-07-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 06:15:51PM +0200, Sylvain Pasche wrote: I saw the recent thread about the unwanted console windows appearing with MinTTY on Win7. I just wanted to mention that I see a similar issue with screen in the same environment (Win7 RC 64-bit, Cygwin 1.7, screen 4.0.3-1): Each new

Re: screen and popup console on Windows 7

2009-07-05 Thread Sylvain Pasche
On 7/5/2009 7:37 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: I'd appreciate it if you would test this and let everyone know. You have the power: http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Tried with the 2009-07-04 snapshot, and the issue is gone :-). No more console windows are opened when launching screen and I

Re: screen and popup console on Windows 7

2009-07-05 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/7/5 Sylvain Pasche: (by the way, I recently discovered MinTTY and I'm pretty impressed. MinTTY + screen offers a very nice multiple-tab environment on Cygwin). Thanks! Btw, you can enable browser-style tab switching with (Shift+)Ctrl+Tab by mapping MinTTY's keycodes for those in .screenrc

[PATCH] Change setup.exe local directory screen description depending on install type

2009-05-11 Thread Thrall, Bryan
setup.exe's current local directory screen doesn't accurately describe the purpose of the local directory when the user is installing from a local mirror (rather than downloading or download-and-installing), which can be confusing. The attached patch changes the description based on what

Re: [PATCH] Change setup.exe local directory screen description depending on install type

2009-05-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:50:41AM -0500, Thrall, Bryan wrote: 2009-05-11 Bryan Thrall bryan.thr...@flightsafety.com * localdir.cc (load_dialog): Choose description string based on install type. * res.rc (IDD_LOCAL_DIR): Replace static description text with IDC_LOCAL_DIR_DESC.

Re: DOS programs under screen

2009-05-01 Thread Andy Koppe
of screen. As far as I can see, recreating the raw output from the cooked one isn't possible in general. This article has more on this: http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/capture-console-win32.html Andy -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports

Re: DOS programs under screen

2009-05-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
need to be sent to the pty to be displayed by the likes of screen. If you can get the character cell contents and attributes and you can push data into the consoles input buffer then, AFAIK, that's really all you need to create a pty. You can see that Console is doing something like that because

Re: DOS programs under screen

2009-05-01 Thread Barry Kelly
as it came from the console app would need to be sent to the pty to be displayed by the likes of screen. As far as I can see, recreating the raw output from the cooked one isn't possible in general. You could intercept the calls to the console APIs by finding out where the imports resolve to using

Re: DOS programs under screen

2009-05-01 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/5/1 Barry Kelly: ReadConsoleOutput() on the hidden console only gives you the cooked output in terms of character cell contents and attributes, whereas the raw output as it came from the console app would need to be sent to the pty to be displayed by the likes of screen. As far as I can

Re: DOS programs under screen

2009-04-21 Thread Andrew Schulman
I could imagine some kind of a DOS-to-Unix terminal wrapper program, but I've never seen one and have no idea how it would work. ...and if one was possible why wouldn't the techniques that it incorporates be part of cygwin? Laziness on your part? hahahahahaha -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: DOS programs under screen

2009-04-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 06:39:27AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: I could imagine some kind of a DOS-to-Unix terminal wrapper program, but I've never seen one and have no idea how it would work. ...and if one was possible why wouldn't the techniques that it incorporates be part of cygwin?

Re: DOS programs under screen

2009-04-21 Thread Andy Koppe
Maybe someone knows a solution to this, but I don't.  Although I maintain screen for Cygwin, I know almost nothing of the details of how terminals work.  I could imagine some kind of a DOS-to-Unix terminal wrapper program, but I've never seen one and have no idea how it would work

Re: DOS programs under screen

2009-04-21 Thread Barry Kelly
Andrew Schulman wrote: In general, non-cygwin programs can't be run reliably inside of an application that uses cygwin PTYs, including xterm, rxvt, and screen. Maybe someone knows a solution to this, but I don't. Although I maintain screen for Cygwin, I know almost nothing

Re: DOS programs under screen

2009-04-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 06:46:05PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: Andrew Schulman wrote: Maybe someone knows a solution to this, but I don't. ?Although I maintain screen for Cygwin, I know almost nothing of the details of how terminals work. ?I could imagine some kind of a DOS-to-Unix terminal wrapper

Re: GNU screen doesn't initialize

2009-04-21 Thread Andrew Schulman
Since several days I try to debug GNU screen within Windows XP's cygwin environment - without any success. I see the start screen, which reminds me of the license stoff, skip that, and the Terminal-screen stays black. Marius, did you ever solve this problem? What terminal are you using: DOS

Re: DOS programs under screen

2009-04-20 Thread Andrew Schulman
wondering, we are running a server program that has a DOS interface. It does not work under screen. This program is very similar to the DOS edit program which also does NOT work under screen. So, my question would be, what is required to fix screen so it will work with the DOS edit program

Re: DOS programs under screen

2009-04-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
. Do you know where I might direct the request? In case your wondering, we are running a server program that has a DOS interface. It does not work under screen. This program is very similar to the DOS edit program which also does NOT work under screen. So, my question would be, what

DOS programs under screen

2009-04-08 Thread James Calfee
We need to run a DOS program as a service. The program provides valuable information in the DOS window in an interactive ASCII color interface but does not provide any method to connect to this interface if started as a service. One solution is to run this program under screen. Unfortunately

Re: DOS programs under screen

2009-04-08 Thread William Sutton
: We need to run a DOS program as a service. The program provides valuable information in the DOS window in an interactive ASCII color interface but does not provide any method to connect to this interface if started as a service. One solution is to run this program under screen. Unfortunately

RE: DOS programs under screen

2009-04-08 Thread James Calfee
need edit to work. I'm just trying to provide a program that can be used to test the DOS graphical interface under screen. edit re-sizes the DOS window. The server does not do this. You may know of another DOS interface that could be used to test this. -Original Message- From: William

Re: DOS programs under screen

2009-04-08 Thread Matt Wozniski
else.  The session is hung and I can not see the interface. I don't actually need edit to work.  I'm just trying to provide a program that can be used to test the DOS graphical interface under screen.  edit re-sizes the DOS window.   The server does not do this. You may know of another DOS

GNU screen doesn't initialize

2009-04-02 Thread wishi
Hi! Since several days I try to debug GNU screen within Windows XP's cygwin environment - without any success. I see the start screen, which reminds me of the license stoff, skip that, and the Terminal-screen stays black. It seems the build the cygwin setup uses is broken? I tryed three times

Re: GNU screen doesn't initialize

2009-04-02 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* wishi (Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:10:41 +0200) Since several days I try to debug GNU screen within Windows XP's cygwin environment - without any success. I see the start screen, which reminds me of the license stoff, skip that, and the Terminal-screen stays black. Yes, sure what do you expect

Re: GNU screen doesn't initialize

2009-04-02 Thread Andrew Schulman
Since several days I try to debug GNU screen within Windows XP's cygwin environment - without any success. I see the start screen, which reminds me of the license stoff, skip that, and the Terminal-screen stays black. You mean completely black? No command prompt? Without any customization

Re: GNU screen doesn't initialize

2009-04-02 Thread René Berber
Andrew Schulman wrote: Since several days I try to debug GNU screen within Windows XP's cygwin environment - without any success. I see the start screen, which reminds me of the license stoff, skip that, and the Terminal-screen stays black. You mean completely black? No command prompt

Re: GNU screen doesn't initialize

2009-04-02 Thread Andrew Schulman
Since several days I try to debug GNU screen within Windows XP's cygwin environment - without any success. I see the start screen, which reminds me of the license stoff, skip that, and the Terminal-screen stays black. You mean completely black? No command prompt? Without any

Re: SSH/SCREEN/REATTACH bug

2009-03-02 Thread eval
Hello Andrew I just did a quick test so far but it doesn't seem to work correctly. The behaviour changed to the following: I open a screen session - and disconnect (not detach!) from the ssh session. I come back with screen -DRR and I get my old screen. That's *good* and how I want

Re: SSH/SCREEN/REATTACH bug

2009-02-27 Thread Andrew Schulman
screen hangs when attempting to reattach to a session that wasn't manually detached but instead the ssh connection to the server where screen is running was closed. i can neither screen -list nor screen -D -RR to get back into the session. for both calls screen will wait forever

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