success with icewm 1.2.6 on Win2k

2003-03-06 Thread David Turland
Hi, This may be old news but I searched the cygwin-xfree archives and found nothing... Anyway, I have just successfully built and installed IceWM 1.2.6 on Win2K. Surprisingly painless which is why I assume its old news :) However the http://xfree86.cygwin.com/ported-software.html page still

Problem with fresh install

2003-03-06 Thread Joe Fair
Greetings, I am a cygwin newbie, but I've used some other unixes. My problem is that when I start up startxwin.bat, the window opens with a checkered backgroud but nothing else happens. When I set my display to localhost:0.0 and start xterm or twm from the command line, I get a

Application Problem: InsightII

2003-03-06 Thread Uli Horn
Hi I have an molecular modelling application developed by Accelrys called insightII which runs on an SGI. I would like to view it remotely on a PC using the X Windows System. I have tested it using eXceed 3D (MS Windows remote X Windows package) and it seems to function properly but when I use

Re: Application Problem: InsightII

2003-03-06 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
if it needs Motif, try to use lesstif (available with the cygwin installer) From what I can see it uses Opengl and the glx libraries but the application might also require Motif. My questions are: 1. If the XFree86 module is loaded does this mean that glx is also loaded? 2. Is the Motif

Re: 4.2.0-26 multiwindow bug: closing apps causes repeated keystrokes

2003-03-06 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Pablo Halpern wrote: [snip] P.P.S. Is there some way other than running cygwin setup that I can determine the version of my XWin.exe program? cygcheck -c | grep XFree This will only determine the version of the XFree package, not the XWin.exe program (though they are

XWin.exe version information

2003-03-06 Thread Pablo Halpern
At 11:54 AM 3/6/2003 -0500, you wrote: On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Pablo Halpern wrote: [snip] P.P.S. Is there some way other than running cygwin setup that I can determine the version of my XWin.exe program? cygcheck -c | grep XFree This will only determine the version of the XFree package, not the

compiling Motif (Lesstif) program

2003-03-06 Thread Klaus . Moschner
Hi, I just try learning X and Motif. I have a very simple program: ---snip--- #include X11/Intrinsic.h #include Xm/Xm.h #include Xm/Label.h main(int argc, char *argv[]) { Widget toplevel, msg; Arg al[10]; int ac; toplevel=XtInitialize(argv[0],,NULL,0,argc,argv); ac=0;

Re: Application Problem: InsightII

2003-03-06 Thread Andrew Markebo
| My questions are: | 1. If the XFree86 module is loaded does this mean that glx is also | loaded? If my memory don't fail me, the glx-module or whatever is not ported to cygwin.. yet.. It can be found in some X-servers on the linux-end, most often distributed by those who made the graphics

Re: XWin hangs when accessing font server

2003-03-06 Thread Cary Jamison
Alexander Gottwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Martin Buck wrote: xset fp+ tcp/fonts:7100 As soon as the xset commands runs, XWin locks up and consumes 100% CPU time. The same happens if I don't use XDMCP and only start XWin and a single xterm in

Re: compiling Motif (Lesstif) program

2003-03-06 Thread Andrew Markebo
/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi, | | I just try learning X and Motif. | I have a very simple program: | | ---snip--- [... my snip ...] | ---snip--- | and try to compile it using: | gcc -o simple simple.c -I /usr/X11R6/include/ -L /usr/X11R6/lib/ -lXm -lXt | -lX11 Could it be a missing -lSM before

Re: Running GIMP under Cygwin (not Win32!)??

2003-03-06 Thread Rui-Tao Dong
1.2.1 compiles more or less out of the box and runs fine w/ most of the plugins. However, it is very very slow. My 200MHz PPro Linux box w/256MB memory and a remote display runs much snappier than the 2GHz P4 W2k box w/1GMB Memory running CYGWIN_NT-5.0 1.3.12 with local XFree. --

Re: xwinclip not working with xdm

2003-03-06 Thread J S
Does anyone else here use xdm? Could you test this out and let me know if your xwinclip works on it? Thanks, JS. Nope, never seen that before. J S wrote: Hi, When I run xdm to an AIX box (either with -clipboard or xwinclip standalone) I'm unable to select text to copy. The highlight won't

SSH X forwarding not working

2003-03-06 Thread Chris Horn
Greetings. I've looked over the mailing list, but haven't been able to find out why using ssh -X remote-host wouldn't actually let you run X apps on the distant machine (to display locally). I'm using the absolute latest and greatest Cygwin XFree86 (fetched yesterday). Any help would be

Re: SSH X forwarding not working

2003-03-06 Thread Anton Vaaranmaa
Viestissä Torstai 6. Maaliskuuta 2003 23:04, Chris Horn kirjoitti: Greetings. I've looked over the mailing list, but haven't been able to find out why using ssh -X remote-host Have you configured the remote end to accept X forwarding in /etc/ssh/sshd_config? -- /(anton)

Re: SSH X forwarding not working

2003-03-06 Thread Andrew Markebo
/ Chris Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Greetings. I've looked over the mailing list, but haven't been able | to find out why using | | ssh -X remote-host Try to throw on one or two -v's to check what ssh thinks. From where do you do ssh -X remote-host, and what is the value of the variable

Re: SSH X forwarding not working

2003-03-06 Thread Chris Horn
At the other end, /etc/ssh/sshd_config now has the line X11Forwarding yes Still no go. When I connect, the DISPLAY value on the remote box appears null. When I'm local, it's localhost:0.0 The error I receive when trying to run apps is Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: When I used xhost and

Re: xwinclip not working with xdm

2003-03-06 Thread Alexander Gottwald
J S wrote: Does anyone else here use xdm? Could you test this out and let me know if your xwinclip works on it? I'm using XWin with wdm. I don't need winclip very often so I only start it when I really need it. I've seen no problems (beside that the selection immediatly disappears after I

Re: SSH X forwarding not working

2003-03-06 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Chris, Okay, so you had X11Forwarding disabled before. What have you done to make sshd re-read its configuration file? Specifically restarted sshd? Restarted the entire machine? What? I suspect that sshd happily thinks that X11Forwarding is still disabled. Harold Chris Horn wrote: At

Re: SSH X forwarding not working

2003-03-06 Thread Andrew Markebo
Hmm looked through the mail again and saw: | ssh -x remote-host Have you tried ssh -X, capital X, using small x disables ssh forwarding. Meanwhile: / Chris Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | At the other end, /etc/ssh/sshd_config now has the line X11Forwarding yes | | Still no go. | | When I

Re: SSH X forwarding not working

2003-03-06 Thread Chris Horn
I had restarted sshd. At 04:45 PM Thursday 3/6/2003, you wrote: Chris, Okay, so you had X11Forwarding disabled before. What have you done to make sshd re-read its configuration file? Specifically restarted sshd? Restarted the entire machine? What? I suspect that sshd happily thinks that

Re: xwinclip not working with xdm

2003-03-06 Thread J S
J S wrote: Does anyone else here use xdm? Could you test this out and let me know if your xwinclip works on it? I'm using XWin with wdm. I don't need winclip very often so I only start it when I really need it. I've seen no problems (beside that the selection immediatly disappears after

Re: SSH X forwarding not working

2003-03-06 Thread Chris Horn
At 04:50 PM Thursday 3/6/2003, you wrote: Hmm looked through the mail again and saw: | ssh -x remote-host Have you tried ssh -X, capital X, using small x disables ssh forwarding. Sorry, sloppy typing. I've been using -X, the text in this email was a typo. Meanwhile: / Chris Horn [EMAIL

another thing

2003-03-06 Thread Chris Horn
Seeing as I don't have that clip thing, here's some paraphrased debug messages: Warning: No xauth data; using fake auth data for X11 forwarding debug1: Requesting X11 fwd w/ auth spoofing debug1: channel request 0: x11-req debug1: Remote: No xauth program; cannot forward with spoofing. Does that

XDM to linux box questions

2003-03-06 Thread Andrew Sarangan
Hi I am using cygwin/XFree86 on a Win2k computer to communicate with my linux box (Slackware version). I successfully configured both systems so that I was able to log in via XDM into my linux box. However, recently this has stopped working. My XDM queries now go unanswered. I suspect that this

4.2.0-26 multiwindow bug: closing apps causes repeated keystrokes

2003-03-06 Thread Pablo Halpern
I've been using -multiwindow -clipboard for a few weeks now. I LOVE IT! Cygwin/Xfree86 is almost as good as Exceed now. Despite being experimental I've found both features to be fairly stable. Kudos to the developers. I want to report a reproducible problem when using the keyboard to close