xterm.exe not reading XTerm file in app-defaults

2003-03-14 Thread Bryan Crader
I think i have run in to a similiar problem with XTerm not reading the app-defaults file. I've deleted the cygwin directory and reinstalled it several times, and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't load up the XTerm defaults file. I then noticed that in the directory: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app

Re: tablet PC input to XFree86?

2003-03-14 Thread Harold L Hunt II
JQ, You have tried it with the "-multiwindow" command-line parameter (be sure to remove any window manager from your startup script, such as "twm", etc.), right? I am sure that if you mailed me one of these devices I could figure it out for you :) Harold JQ Johnson wrote: Has anyone looked i

tablet PC input to XFree86?

2003-03-14 Thread JQ Johnson
Has anyone looked into issues of non-standard (Tablet PC) input for XFree86? Windows XP Tablet Edition, for instance, has a rather nicely integrated voice and handwriting input system that simulates keyboard input. Not surprisingly, it doesn't work with X applications: I can run an X application

Can't get windowmaker to work

2003-03-14 Thread GMane
When I run wmaker.inst I get messages like this: WINGs error: error reading from file '/home/robert/GNUstep/Defaults/WMGLOBAL': No error and MenuTextFont=-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*WINGs error: error reading from file '/home/robert/GNUstep/Defaults/WindowMaker' : No erro

Re: Font error running app using XDMCP/XWin.exe to Solaris 9 host

2003-03-14 Thread AWM
Has anyone connected to a Solaris-9 machine from cygwin/XFree86 on a W2K machine using the following method/command batch file? start XWin -query host1 -fp tcp/host1:7100 This works but seems to mung up the CDE window that appears between the display of the Solaris login box and the display of t

Re: CPU Usage 100% XWin <-> 'System'

2003-03-14 Thread Tino Lange
> See, your video driver can accelerate 'bit block transfers' (blits), > which takes a large load off the CPU and gives XWin a speed boost. ... just forgotten: Unfortunately I could not find an option for those 'blits' in my ATI setup panel. Tino

Re: CPU Usage 100% XWin <-> 'System'

2003-03-14 Thread Tino Lange
Harold, thanks for your fast and detailed reply! > Please respond to the mailing list with a description of your hardware. > I am interested to know what you have got XWin running on. Hmmm, my system is not bleeding edge, but it's also not too old - just a good workhorse :-) I'm using an AMD D

Re: CPU Usage 100% XWin <-> 'System'

2003-03-14 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Tino, Yes, the CPU usage is normal. XWin draws graphics using the CPU (it is not accelerated by the video card) and we then transfer blocks of our bitmap representing the screen to the screen, so XWin tends to take a lot of clock cycles compared to Exceed. Exceed draws graphics using GDI, wh

CPU Usage 100% XWin <-> 'System'

2003-03-14 Thread Tino Lange
Hi! Today I tried installing and using Cygwin XFree86 to connect to my Linux box with KDE via XDMCP. Great work, I could manage to set all up in just a few moments! Thanks a lot! But I realized that it's really a big task for my PC, with Exceed (old, v 6.02) I had about 8 MB Memory Usage and just

Re: Test server 79 and JSPager

2003-03-14 Thread Harold L Hunt II
I must speak up on this: I had nothing to do with these fixes :) Kensuke created this fix all on his own, as he usually does. I simply applied the patch. I don't want to take credit where it isn't due. :) Harold Raymond Kwong wrote: I echo the sentiment expressed by Ed. I reported also the pr

Re: Test server 79 and JSPager

2003-03-14 Thread Raymond Kwong
I echo the sentiment expressed by Ed. I reported also the problems that Ed referred to, especially when I was using the virtual desktop programs virtuawin and deskwin. The only virtual desktop program that I have used that did not exhibit the automatic focus switching phenomenon is multidesk. Wit

Re: xhost +IP?

2003-03-14 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Thor Johnson wrote: > I'm trying to get a telnet connection to a remote computer working. > Its an isolated LAN, and I need all the performance I can get, > otherwise I'd be using ssh -X (which works). > > I can't get xhost +192.0.3.242 to work: > $ xhost 192.0.3.242 > 192.0.3.242 being added to

Re: Font error running app using XDMCP/XWin.exe to Solaris 9 host

2003-03-14 Thread AWM
I am sure that I am running a font server on the Solais machine. When I connect to it from my cygwin/W2K machine, I can do a 'netstat -an' and see that the connection has been established on port 7100. I have tried to connect in the same way (ie: XDMCP w/-query) using a different commercially av

RE: xterm shows no color for color fonts

2003-03-14 Thread Haibing Ma
Thanks all. I finally solved the mystery. It could be that I might have an old xterm and there is wrong setting in my .Xdefaults that I set termName to vt100. Cheers. Haibing --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi. > > The original xterm did not support colour. Some operating systems > still ship wi

xhost +IP?

2003-03-14 Thread Thor Johnson
I'm trying to get a telnet connection to a remote computer working. Its an isolated LAN, and I need all the performance I can get, otherwise I'd be using ssh -X (which works). I can't get xhost +192.0.3.242 to work: $ xhost 192.0.3.242 192.0.3.242 being added to access control list $ xhost access

RE: Script for use with linux font server and xsetroot

2003-03-14 Thread Colin Harrison
Hi > The cygwin tools include the gnu sleep command, to save some effort :) (in > sh-utils package in base) Woops I'd forgoten about the rest of Cygwin. I just use Xwin on its own on XP to remote access Linux boxes! http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-02/msg00073.html http://sources

Re: GLX

2003-03-14 Thread Alan Hourihane
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 03:09:20 +, Ed Llewellin wrote: > Dear All, > > I have an application that sits on an SGI machine which I access via > xfree86 on cygwin. When I try and open the application, I get a message > telling me that "extension GLX" is missing. I have cygwin's OpenGL > installe

Re: GLX

2003-03-14 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Ed, This problem has been discussed before. Search the mailing list archives through the link on the left of http://xfree86.cygwin.com/. I believe the problem is that SGI's GLX is unique in flavor. Harold Ed Llewellin wrote: Dear All, I have an application that sits on an SGI machine which I

GLX

2003-03-14 Thread Ed Llewellin
Dear All, I have an application that sits on an SGI machine which I access via xfree86 on cygwin. When I try and open the application, I get a message telling me that "extension GLX" is missing. I have cygwin's OpenGL installed but I am guessing that the GLX extension is not part of this distribut

New Donations Link - Alexander Gottwald

2003-03-14 Thread Harold L Hunt II
A new link has been added to the Donations page for Alexander Gottwald: http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~goal/xfree/donations.html Make hardware and monetary donations (via PayPal) for Alexander's developments which include XF86Config-file support, automatic non-U.S. keyboard layout detection for

Re: X -query does not work

2003-03-14 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Tomasz Rojek wrote: > > > Also I cannot connect to Solaris 8 machine, I started up xdm, but no > effect. > > > /usr/openwin/lib/xdm/xdm-config on this machine looks like this: > > > > > > DisplayManager.errorLogFile:/var/tmp/xdm-errors > > No such file or directory Is xd

Re: Test server 79 and JSpager

2003-03-14 Thread Brian E. Gallew
Brian E. Gallew wrote: I tried using JSPager for a while and really liked it, but it would occasionally start using 100% of the CPU for no apparent reason. Have you seen this problem? Sorry, all, that was supposed to only go to ed.

Re: Test server 79 and JSpager

2003-03-14 Thread Brian E. Gallew
ed wrote: The fixes that Kensuke put into Test Server 79 have fixed ongoing errors I've had with running xfree86 in multiwindow mode under virtual dekstop/pagers such as Nvidia's Nview and JSPager. These symptoms included I tried using JSPager for a while and really liked it, but it would occasion

Re: X -query does not work

2003-03-14 Thread Tomasz Rojek
> netstat -aup should bring up a line like these: > udp0 0 *:xdmcp *:* > or > udp0 0 *:177 *:* I tried: bash-2.03# netstat -an | grep 177 *.177 Idle so I assume that xdmcp connection are permitted, r

RE: Script for use with linux font server and xsetroot

2003-03-14 Thread Vince Hoffman
The cygwin tools include the gnu sleep command, to save some effort :) (in sh-utils package in base) > -Original Message- > From: Colin Harrison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 13 March 2003 20:51 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Script for use with linux font server and xsetroot >

Test server 79 and JSpager

2003-03-14 Thread ed
To All Whom It May Concern: The fixes that Kensuke put into Test Server 79 have fixed ongoing errors I've had with running xfree86 in multiwindow mode under virtual dekstop/pagers such as Nvidia's Nview and JSPager. These symptoms included but were not limited to parts of xterms not refreshing pro