Re: Cygwin Xstart problems also

2002-06-12 Thread Franz Wolfhagen
You missed the point of installing using the Unix text type which ensures that you are mounting the font directory in binary mode. The URL is http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-xfree-faq.html#q-error-font-eof Please remember to answer to the mialinglist instead of me directly Med ve

RE: [PATCH] RE: Ghost cursors (was: RE: alt-tab: client window receives tab / pressing both...)

2002-06-12 Thread Harold Hunt
Stuart, Naturally, now that I have applied the -lesspointer patch I have remembered why we switched away from hiding the Windows mouse cursor when we were inactive. The reason goes like this: 1) User has a Cygwin/XFree86 window that is away from the task bar. 2) User activates the Cygwin/XFree

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 58

2002-06-12 Thread Harold Hunt
Chris, > Why not just install the latest server test packages in the normal > cygwin place but mark it as "test" in setup.hint? > I don't recall this being suggested before. Apologies if this has already > been discussed. Oh, I'm aware that that functionality is there... but I have been trying

RE: [PATCH] RE: Ghost cursors (was: RE: alt-tab: client window receives tab / pressing both...)

2002-06-12 Thread Harold Hunt
Stuart, Excellent. I've applied this to Server Test Series - Test 58, which I have just released. I don't think it's necessary to change the logic in the WM_ACTIVATEAPP message, cause we're going to want to reshow (on inactivation) the cursor regardless of whether we are hiding when we are over

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 58

2002-06-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 01:29:42AM -0400, Harold Hunt wrote: >I just posted Test 58 to the server development page: >http://xfree86.cygwin.com/devel/shadow/ Harold, Why not just install the latest server test packages in the normal cygwin place but mark it as "test" in setup.hint? Then you can d

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 58

2002-06-12 Thread Harold Hunt
Links: I just posted Test 58 to the server development page: http://xfree86.cygwin.com/devel/shadow/ You can install the Test 58 package via setup.exe by pointing setup.exe to the cygwin/xfree/testing/ directory on your favorite mirror. For example, you could point setup.exe at: http://archive.p

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] xwinclip Test 04 (Cygwin/XFree86 and Windows clipboard integration)

2002-06-12 Thread Eugene Rosenzweig
Explanation and fix for the ms-tnef attachments: http://help.netscape.com/kb/consumer/19981102-1.html - Original Message - From: "Brian Gallew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 11:20 PM Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] xwinclip Tes

gtk with cygwin

2002-06-12 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
Hi there, looking on cygwin.com/packages show there isn't a package for gtk. 1/ does it compile for now ? 2/ if ok, why haven't we a package for that ? I looked on cygwin & cygwin-xfree archives and didn't find a thread on it. ___ Do You Y

Re: KeyboardTestLayout - See if we can get an automatic translation of scan codes

2002-06-12 Thread Munehiro Matsuda
Hello Harold and All, Here's the output from Japanese keyboard. I hope it helps, Thank you, Haro =--- _ _Munehiro (haro) Matsuda -|- /_\ |_|_| Kubota Graphics Technology Inc. /|\ |_| |_|_| 2-8-8 Shinjuku,

Re: [PATCH] RE: Ghost cursors (was: RE: alt-tab: client window receiv es tab / pressing both...)

2002-06-12 Thread Jehan
Stuart Adamson wrote: > The magic command line argument is -hidewindowspointerwheninactive. > Somebody might > be able to come up with a slightly nicer name ;) What about "-noghostcursor" ? That's not very self-explanatory but if the man page and the help parameter give enough explanation, it

[PATCH] RE: Ghost cursors (was: RE: alt-tab: client window receives tab / pressing both...)

2002-06-12 Thread Stuart Adamson
Okay - attached is a patch which does this. I've tested it with and without the -nodecoration flag (the windows mouse pointer still appears when you're over the windows title bar). Added an entry to the man page as well. The magic command line argument is -hidewindowspointerwheninactive. Someb

Error: can't load javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalLookAndFeel

2002-06-12 Thread frederic bregier
Hi, I found an error that already appears in previous mails in this mailing list, but no answear as far as I know. I run Xfree (up2date) on a W2000 PC to connect through XDMCP to an AIX system. I need to run a java program (for those who know what it is, this is the FastTmanager). I get the

Question about running interactive program in xterm session

2002-06-12 Thread Milind Potdar
Environment - --- NT 4.0 xterm version 4.2.0(165) What I am trying to do -- Run isql ( interactive sql ) When you run isql interactively, you get a prompt 1> Behaviour - If I open xterm session & try to run isql, all the prompts from isql "do not" come

Re: alt-tab: client window receives tab / pressing both shift-key s = caps-lock

2002-06-12 Thread Jehan Bing
>>(sort of ghost cursors). > > You know - this never bothered me until you mentioned it - now I keep > seeing it and it's really annoying ;( Are you / have you fixed this > or shall I? (I'm currently running Test 57). I did but without configuration so Harold removed that part from the

RE: xwinclip-test04

2002-06-12 Thread Harold Hunt
Gerard, How long is awhile? 20 seconds or 30 minutes? If it dumps core after 20 seconds then it is because XWin.exe is taking too long to launch so OpenDisplay fails. Test05 fixes that problem. Harold > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behal

[ANNOUNCEMENT] xwinclip Test 05 (Cygwin/XFree86 and Windows clipboard integration)

2002-06-12 Thread Harold Hunt
/xwinclip/xwinclip-20020612-1316.tar.bz2 (8 KB) Changes: 1) xwinclip.c - Break this single source file into xwinclip.c, textconv.c, textconv.h, wndproc.c, wndproc.h, xevents.c, and xevents.h. (Harold Hunt) 2) xwinclip.c - Pause and loop to retry, after a delay, if we fail while opening the

Updated on sourceware: XFree86-xserv-4.2.0-5

2002-06-12 Thread Harold Hunt
The XFree86-xserv-4.2.0-5 package has been updated in the Cygwin distribution. This is a synchronization with all the fixes that have been applied Server Test Series - Test 57. These fixes are listed below: 1) winwndproc.c - Call DefWindowProc after processing WM_NCMOUSEMOVE messages. This sh

Ghost cursors (was: RE: alt-tab: client window receives tab / pressing both...)

2002-06-12 Thread Harold Hunt
> > (sort of ghost cursors). > > You know - this never bothered me until you mentioned it - now I keep > seeing it and it's really annoying ;( Are you / have you fixed this > or shall I? (I'm currently running Test 57). However this gets fixed, just make sure that the behavior is configurabl

RE: alt-tab: client window receives tab / pressing both shift-key s = caps-lock

2002-06-12 Thread Stuart Adamson
> thanks). I thought > > you had found out about phantom key release messages? I > have to scan the > > mailing list in a hurry, there is other work to do. > > I just wanted to make it clear. I didn't want to steal any > credit. But > thanks for the thought :) The phantom key release fix wa

Re: alt-tab: client window receives tab / pressing both shift-key s = caps-lock

2002-06-12 Thread Jehan
Pille Geert (bkarnd) wrote: > So I gave undue credit, ah well, it won't make up for all the times people > receive "stank voor dank" (hard to translate: sh*t for thanks). I thought > you had found out about phantom key release messages? I have to scan the > mailing list in a hurry, there is othe

RE: Slow application launch in Outlook with xwinclip.exe running

2002-06-12 Thread Harold L Hunt
Gerard, I've been able to copy both directions. Have you tried a simple copy operation in X, like selecting text with the mouse in an xterm? (Notice that the selected text will immediately be unselected... that is xwinclip grabbing the text and copying it to the Windows clipboard) Harold "Pil

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] xwinclip Test 04 (Cygwin/XFree86 and Windows clipboard integration)

2002-06-12 Thread Brian Gallew
Harold L Hunt said: > Eric Peabody's messages are getting bounced by the list server. > Apparently his mail server is changing the format of the message > somehow. Anyway, his reply is below. Most likely he's using MS Outlook and/or MS Exchange. They're famouns for adding ms-tnef bits to messag

Re: Trivial Feature Request: beep()

2002-06-12 Thread Brian Gallew
Harold L Hunt said: > Okay. Do you have a sound-card or just a pc speaker on the machine > that you use Cygwin/XFree86 on? Sound card (well, Crystal Audio built-in, it's a laptop). > If you've got a sound card and you have your Windows sounds > configured so that no sound is played for the Defa

xwinclip-test04

2002-06-12 Thread Pille Geert (bkarnd)
cuts and pastes both ways when not running fullscreen. performance problem remains solved. xwinclip-test04 dumpes core when XWin runs fullscreen, but only after a while. Here ends our transmission. Gerard. === This email is confidential and intended solely for the

RE: Slow application launch in Outlook with xwinclip.exe running

2002-06-12 Thread Pille Geert (bkarnd)
Performance problem solved, but copies only from windoze to XWin (probably that is why it's only 8K as to the 30K original). Tested running XWin fullscreen. -Original Message- From: Harold Hunt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: dinsdag 11 juni 2002 2:25 To: Eric Peabody; [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: alt-tab: client window receives tab / pressing both shift-key s = caps-lock

2002-06-12 Thread Pille Geert (bkarnd)
Please call me Geert or Gerard, only my friends call me by my surname ;-) I prefer using XWin fullscreen if I need pseudocolor, to running Windows 8 bit. And I only need it rarely, just for one Oracle product (reports). Anyway, for that purpose I've confiscated an old portable and I'm putting Re

Re: KeyboardTestLayout - See if we can get an automatic translation of scan codes

2002-06-12 Thread Volker Quetschke
Hi Harold! >>Atached you find the log for some keys on a german keyboard. > > Thanks. That pretty much answers my question. Unfortunatly, it did not > give me the answer I was looking for. > > Does anyone else find it interesting that a Win32 API function that returns > the name of a key

RE: alt-tab: client window receives tab / pressing both shift-key s = caps-lock

2002-06-12 Thread Pille Geert (bkarnd)
So I gave undue credit, ah well, it won't make up for all the times people receive "stank voor dank" (hard to translate: sh*t for thanks). I thought you had found out about phantom key release messages? I have to scan the mailing list in a hurry, there is other work to do. I don't know enough a

RE: KeyboardTestLayout - See if we can get an automatic translati on ofscan codes

2002-06-12 Thread Franz Wolfhagen
I do not get any TeX sequencenses in any keys for my danish Thinkpad keyboard. There allthough some specific things I observed : No multi-press detected ie. all keypresses are detected as seperate events. AltGr is recorded as CTRL key plus AltGR Sometimes Shift and AltGr seems not to be caught

Re: KeyboardTestLayout - See if we can get an automatic translation of scan code

2002-06-12 Thread Francis VIVAT
Same test on my French keyboard, same result : just on key is different, the right shift. Thanks for your non-US consideration, Harold :-) CU . \)|(/ . (o o) . /-ooO(_)Ooo-\ .(_| Francis VIVA

RE: KeyboardTestLayout - See if we can get an automatic translation of scan codes

2002-06-12 Thread Schaible, Jorg
>From: Harold Hunt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Does anyone else find it interesting that a Win32 API function >that returns >the name of a key returns the TeX sequence for creating >certain non-U.S. >characters? It seems some MS tech folk do not trust WinWord also writing their documentations .