x apps cant start from bash

2002-10-04 Thread Rupert Brooks
Hi - having a strange problem here. Just installed a fresh install of Cygwin / Xfree. startxwin.bat works, and an xterm appears. From that xterm I can start other xapps and they work. BUT, from another cygwin bash shell, started independently, I get the following error xterm XT error: Can't o

RE: right 1/4 of XWin.exe window displays white bar instead of graphics on wide display

2002-10-04 Thread Harold Hunt
Could you send in a link to a screenshot of this? Or, personally email me a PNG of this and I will post a link to it. Do not send the graphic to the mailing list, as most users do not want to download a large image from the mailing list. Harold > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTE

RE: SSH Notes

2002-10-04 Thread John Morrison
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > SuSE has a similar thing in their default .profile Is that /etc/profile or ~/.bash_profile? > if test -z "$DISPLAY" -a "$TERM" = "xterm" -a -x /usr/bin/who ; then > WHOAMI="`/usr/bin/who am i`" > _DISPLAY="`expr "$WHOAMI" : '.*(\([^\.][^\.

right 1/4 of XWin.exe window displays white bar instead of graphics on wide display

2002-10-04 Thread GOULDEY,ANDREW (HP-FtCollins,ex1)
Hi, I am trying to use Cygwin/XFree86 as an X server on my PC so that I can remote-display my hpux box. When I start up X, I get a window that fills my entire screen, but I only see the cursor and thatch background pattern on the left 3/4 of the window; the right 1/4 of the window is white, and

Re: SSH Notes

2002-10-04 Thread David Fraser
Thomas Chadwick wrote: >> What to Fix >> === >> >> ssh should assume ``DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0'' when the DISPLAY variable >> is not set on the Cygwin host. I am not sure why this is not >> currently the case. I can only guess that the lack of this >> assumption is either do to 1) a wh

Re: SSH Notes

2002-10-04 Thread Thomas Chadwick
>From: Harold L Hunt II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: SSH Notes >Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 19:16:42 -0400 [snip] >At the very least, we should patch the Cygwin release of openssh to assume >that DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 when DISPLAY is not defined i

RE: SSH Notes

2002-10-04 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Harold Hunt wrote: > That doesn't make any sense. ssh picks up the DISPLAY value on your Cygwin > host because it needs to know where to direct the data that comes in over > the X11 tunnel. So, a DISPLAY of 127.0.0.1 on your Cygwin host can only > cause ssh to try to connect to the X Server on y

Re: SSH Notes

2002-10-04 Thread Thomas Chadwick
>From: Harold L Hunt II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: SSH Notes >Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 19:16:42 -0400 > >X11 tunnelling via SSH has always been somewhat of a mystery to me and to >most other Cygwin/XFree86 users. I knew that the instructions t

RE: SSH Notes

2002-10-04 Thread Harold Hunt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alexander Gottwald > Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 5:57 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: SSH Notes > > > Harold L Hunt II wrote: > > > ssh should assume ``DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0'' when the DI

nedit-5.3, Cygwin

2002-10-04 Thread Hans Werner Strube
For building nedit-5.3 (or 5.1.1) in Cygwin 1.3.12 with XFree86 4.2.0 and lesstif 0.93.18, change /usr/X11R6.4/ to /usr/X11R6/ in makefiles/Makefile.cygwin, lines 10 and 12 (or 5 and 7 in nedit-5.1.1). ([EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am not subscribed to this mailing list)

Re: SSH Notes

2002-10-04 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Harold L Hunt II wrote: > ssh should assume ``DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0'' when the DISPLAY variable is > not set on the Cygwin host. I am not sure why this is not currently the > case. I can only guess that the lack of this assumption is either do to > 1) a whiny security geek on the openssh pro