Re: cygwin 1.5.3-1

2003-09-04 Thread Charles Wilson
Ralf -- What happens when you run your cygipc-based build of X11, but do not have the ipc-daemon running? You can't run KDE, of course, but does the Xserver itself still work properly? Can non-KDE X apps work? -- Chuck Harold L Hunt II wrote: Well, that makes it easy. SHM will not be suppo

exec wmaker & in /etc/xinit/xinitrc doesn't work

2003-09-04 Thread cygwin-xfree
Hi- I want to run WindowMaker rather than twm, so I edited /etc/xinit/xinitrc and replaced exec twm & with exec wmaker & then when I ran 'startx', WindowMaker started then immediately crashed. What am I missing here? Thanks for the help.

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2003-09-04 Thread sdudley
Hello, I have been forced to change my email address due to being bombarded by spam & viruses (I was receiving hundreds of bogus emails per day). Please resend your message to me at my new email address of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. If you didn't send me a

startx fails

2003-09-04 Thread Lung.Allen
I don't have any problems starting with startwin.bat and then send a remote display back to my cygwin system! I do have a problem running startx, here is what I get, any help will be useful. Warning: Cannot convert string "" to type XftFont XIO: fatal IO error 113 (Connection aborted) on X serv

Re: cygwin 1.5.3-1

2003-09-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Well, that makes it easy. SHM will not be supported by this new build. Harold Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 04:45:34PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote: I am not sure. How "automagically" is the IPC daemon installed? If it requires user intervention, then we cannot really h

Re: cygwin 1.5.3-1

2003-09-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 04:45:34PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote: >I am not sure. How "automagically" is the IPC daemon installed? If it >requires user intervention, then we cannot really have XShm in the >default install. You could make it a setup.hint dependency, of course, but that's only h

Re: Cygwin 1.5.3-1

2003-09-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
I am not sure. How "automagically" is the IPC daemon installed? If it requires user intervention, then we cannot really have XShm in the default install. Harold Alexander Gottwald wrote: Harold L Hunt II wrote: Regarding the recent release of Cygwin 1.5.3-1, here is what I am going to do:

Re: Cygwin 1.5.3-1

2003-09-04 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Harold L Hunt II wrote: > Regarding the recent release of Cygwin 1.5.3-1, here is what I am going > to do: After cygipc has been released too, should this build include support for XShm? bye ago NP: L'Âme Immortelle - Lake of tears -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ:

Re: large log file

2003-09-04 Thread maklouf
Harold, Ok I have tested it and it worked, the log file is not growing anymore, and I got this message at the end. winShadowUpdateDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt failure message maximum (10) reached. No more failure messages will be printed. Thank you. Maklouf Harold L Hunt II wrote: Maklouf,

Alt Gr special characters on german keyboard work only sometimes

2003-09-04 Thread Cygwin List
Hi, since the last update I have a very particular keyboard problem. The special characters reachable with the 'alt gr' key on the german keyboard like: {[]}\~|@ etc. work only sometimes. When pressed repeatedly they may work at one command at the prompt after hitting CR they don't work anymore

xterm hangs when connecting to Solaris 8 via ssh

2003-09-04 Thread Mickael Graham
Hi, I'm running the cygwin X server on my win2k machine. When I open a local xterm and attempt to connect to a Solaris 8 machine using ssh, the xterm and ssh session hang. I am able to use the same process to connect to a linux machine and it works without any problems. I can ssh from a bash pr

Re: Import of documentation into cvs

2003-09-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 11:31:09AM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote: >Right. I was wondering if that was what you were talking about. The >documentation was written in DocBook, so the sources are essential here. There is no reason why you couldn't check the sources into the cygwin-xfree repository

Re: Import of documentation into cvs

2003-09-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 05:07:57PM +0200, Alexander Gottwald wrote: >On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>Is there a problem with the right people not having access because that >>is easily rectified. > >I don't understand this. Everybody will at least have readonly access >to the docu

Re: Import of documentation into cvs

2003-09-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Right. I was wondering if that was what you were talking about. The documentation was written in DocBook, so the sources are essential here. Harold Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 11:01:08AM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote: I don't think it is in CVS. At least, if it is, I h

Re: Import of documentation into cvs

2003-09-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 11:01:08AM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote: >I don't think it is in CVS. At least, if it is, I have never used it >(qualification: never means long ago enough that I have since forgotten). There are certainly documents in CVS on the web site. I guess the sources to the doc

Re: Import of documentation into cvs

2003-09-04 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 11:38:25AM +0200, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > >I'm planning to import the faq, cg, and ug sources to the xoncygwin > >repository. Are there any opinions against this import? > > The documentation is already in CVS, right?

startx directly?

2003-09-04 Thread Dev
Hello all, Is it possible to startx with out opening cygwin on winXP?

Re: Import of documentation into cvs

2003-09-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
I don't think it is in CVS. At least, if it is, I have never used it (qualification: never means long ago enough that I have since forgotten). Harold Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 11:38:25AM +0200, Alexander Gottwald wrote: I'm planning to import the faq, cg, and ug source

startxwin.bat

2003-09-04 Thread Harsh Vardhan
Hi, After installing cygwin and xfree86 on my windows2k mahcine, I started the xserver using startxwin.bat under CYGWIN/usr/X11R6/bin. This starts the xserver and an xterm window pops up on my screen. After this, if I follow the following window resize operations 1. Maximize the window 2. Min

Re: Import of documentation into cvs

2003-09-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 11:38:25AM +0200, Alexander Gottwald wrote: >I'm planning to import the faq, cg, and ug sources to the xoncygwin >repository. Are there any opinions against this import? The documentation is already in CVS, right? Is there a problem with the right people not having acces

Re: ssh/X with two hops

2003-09-04 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Ehud Karni wrote: > 1. It allows you to run anything on your office machine and see it on >your home machine - not just X11 applications. > 2. It is stateless - if the communication fails for any reason, you >can reconnect and resume your work (like `screen' for ttys).

Re: ssh/X with two hops

2003-09-04 Thread Ehud Karni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 20:49:47 -0600, Robert Mecklenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > AG> Most likely X11Forwarding is disabled on that host. > AG> > AG> check /etc/ssh/sshd_config for an entry > AG> X11Forwarding yes > > That's it! Works perfectly. T

Re: Xwin stackdump while logging into RH8 with KDE as window manager

2003-09-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Joel, Okay, on the off chance that something strange is happening, please try changing the "-from `hostname`" to "-from %my_ip_address%". Also, try leaving off the -from altogether if you only have one network interface in your computer. Harold Joel Rosi-Schwartz wrote: Harold, Gave it a s

Re: Xwin stackdump while logging into RH8 with KDE as window manager

2003-09-04 Thread Joel Rosi-Schwartz
Harold, Gave it a shot but it still core dumps. Thanks for the idea though. - joel Harold L Hunt II wrote: Joel, We had some problems a long while back with 24 and 32 bit color and KDE. Try dropping your Windows color depth to 16 bits per pixel and report your results. Thanks for testing,

Re: Import of documentation into cvs

2003-09-04 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > Alexander, > > Yeah, the major problem would be (I think) that the most recent source > post is not the most recent source. I take it you would like the most > recent source? Of course. I'm planning to update some sections about XF86Config, ssh an

Re: Xwin stackdump while logging into RH8 with KDE as window manager

2003-09-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Joel, We had some problems a long while back with 24 and 32 bit color and KDE. Try dropping your Windows color depth to 16 bits per pixel and report your results. Thanks for testing, Harold Joel Rosi-Schwartz wrote: Andrew Markebo wrote: What happens if you pick away the export DISPLAY?

Re: Import of documentation into cvs

2003-09-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Alexander, Yeah, the major problem would be (I think) that the most recent source post is not the most recent source. I take it you would like the most recent source? Harold Alexander Gottwald wrote: Hi, I'm planning to import the faq, cg, and ug sources to the xoncygwin repository. Are the

Re: Xwin stackdump while logging into RH8 with KDE as window manager

2003-09-04 Thread Joel Rosi-Schwartz
Andrew Markebo wrote: What happens if you pick away the export DISPLAY? No effect, it behaves the same either way. The thing is that it all works fine if the kde environment of the user logging in is virgin. Something in the KDE environment that has been configured at some point in the pa

ssh hangs with solaris 8

2003-09-04 Thread tulitanssi
Hi, I have a problem with establishing an ssl connection to solaris 8. From a local xterm window, command xterm -sb -rightbar -e ssh -X just hangs after accepting the password and giving the usual warning about fake authentication data. Strange is that this problem occurs with -multiwindow m

Re: Xwin stackdump while logging into RH8 with KDE as window manager

2003-09-04 Thread Joel Rosi-Schwartz
I do not understand why, but both times that I attached my startX file it seems be unreadable. Here are the contents: export PATH="/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH" export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 cd c:/tmp nohup /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin -query athena -from `hostname` 2>/dev/null& # I have also tried the following #

Re: Xwin stackdump while logging into RH8 with KDE as window manager

2003-09-04 Thread Joel Rosi-Schwartz
Andrew Markebo wrote: Maybe throw an eye at the log in /tmp also? Hmm...thought I did. Is it not XWin.log? [...] | | Please attach your startxwin.sh file for examination. Okay I have but note that I do not use it. I start up the server with the attached startX command. - joel startX Des

Import of documentation into cvs

2003-09-04 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Hi, I'm planning to import the faq, cg, and ug sources to the xoncygwin repository. Are there any opinions against this import? bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723

Re: Xwin stackdump while logging into RH8 with KDE as windowmanager

2003-09-04 Thread Andrew Markebo
Maybe throw an eye at the log in /tmp also? [...] | | Please attach your startxwin.sh file for examination. /Andy -- The Devil is so clever that he makes you think he doesn't exist. Please note, new email, @telia.com -> @comhem.se

Re: Multiple Monitors on XP

2003-09-04 Thread Ian MacKinnon
(I'm not subscribed to the list, so I'm not doing a proper reply) Igor suggested the -multiplemonitors option and that worked Thanks