Re: Error:Can't open display:

2003-09-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Lucy, On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Garcia, Lucy wrote: > I have been trying to get ddd working and I think my problem is with x, > however I am not sure. When I try to run ddd I get the following error. > Error:Can't open display: > So I tried numerous things and I finally think I got X running (because

Error:Can't open display:

2003-09-05 Thread Garcia, Lucy
I have been trying to get ddd working and I think my problem is with x, however I am not sure. When I try to run ddd I get the following error. Error:Can't open display: So I tried numerous things and I finally think I got X running (because I saw an X in my icon bar.) when I double clicked the de

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

2003-09-05 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Joel, I just posted a Test97 DEBUG release to: http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/shadow/XWin-Test97-DEBUG.exe.bz2 You seem pretty knowledgeable, so I assume that you know what to do in order to locate the place that XWin.exe is bombing. One caveat --- if you run this under gdb, be aware that t

Server Test Series - Test97 - DEBUG Release

2003-09-05 Thread Harold L Hunt II
A special release of Test97 (a.k.a XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-6) has been made available to help debug some of the stack dumps and access violations that people have been seeing. This release is only for you if you have a specific problem to debug and you have been asked by a developer to try this rel

cygwin 1.5.3-1 and xfree devel

2003-09-05 Thread Brian Ford
When compiled under cygwin 1.5.3-1, the following hello world Motif program gets a SEGV in XtVaAppInitialize. Harold, what's your time table for a 1.5.3 built Xfree so I can test and update lesstif? Thanks. #include #include XtAppContext context; XmStringCharSet char_set=XmSTRING_DEFAULT_CHAR

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

2003-09-05 Thread Joel Rosi-Schwartz
Harold L Hunt II wrote: Joel, The next step is to have you run a debug build of XWin.exe. We should be able to locate the offending line of code, so long as it is a problem internal to XWin.exe and not in an external library (it almost never is). I am creating a debug build of XWin.exe for y

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

2003-09-05 Thread Andrew Markebo
Hi! Many thoughts.. hmm not nothing like KDE loads something that wants features that only can be found on linux, not on the cygwin xfree? /Andy -- The eye of the linker rests on the libs! Please note, new email, @telia.com -> @comhem.se

Re: Import of documentation into cvs

2003-09-05 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Harold L Hunt II wrote: > I am sorry, I just checked and the most recent version of the source > (0.9.8) was already on the web: Good. Then there will be no problems with merging my changes into a newer version. bye ago NP: Deine Lakaien - Love me to the end -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://w

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

2003-09-05 Thread Thomas Chadwick
If you've never run wmaker before, you need to run /usr/X11R6/bin/wmaker.inst to configure your account. If there's no wmaker.inst, then you don't have the WindowMaker package installed. It's one of the packages available in the Cygwin Setup program. From: cygwin-xfree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Repl

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

2003-09-05 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Joel, The next step is to have you run a debug build of XWin.exe. We should be able to locate the offending line of code, so long as it is a problem internal to XWin.exe and not in an external library (it almost never is). I am creating a debug build of XWin.exe for you to try now. I really

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

2003-09-05 Thread Joel Rosi-Schwartz
Harold, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Joel, Okay, I have a couple more easy things to try that might have an effect: 1) Use "-fullscreen" to run in a full screen window... you may be seeing the results of some sort of image scaling problem. Running in full screen gives you a standard aspect ratio

Re: Import of documentation into cvs

2003-09-05 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Alexander, I am sorry, I just checked and the most recent version of the source (0.9.8) was already on the web: http://xfree86.cygwin.com/devel/documentation/changelog.html I have not made any updates since then. Harold Alexander Gottwald wrote: Harold L Hunt II wrote: Alexander, Yeah, th

Re: Import of documentation into cvs

2003-09-05 Thread Alexander Gottwald
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? When can you send me the sources? I've updates for the frequently asked question on keyboardlay

Re: Help for french keyboard

2003-09-05 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Jacques-Philippe Dupré wrote: > Please help me to install the french keyboard (pc105) for xinit.exe (all > users) step by step : Can you send me /tmp/XWin.log please? bye ago NP: Apoptygma Berzerk - Mourn (Lhrmx) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723

Re: Help for french keyboard

2003-09-05 Thread Cygwin List
Hi Jacques-Philippe, > - on xinit or xwin, I get only the US keyboard qwerty you could try to install the 'XF86Config-4' config file in the '/etc/X11' directory. The file itself is pretty good documented. see: http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~goal/xfree/XF86Config.bz2 You probably have to put in sth

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

2003-09-05 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Joel, Okay, I have a couple more easy things to try that might have an effect: 1) Use "-fullscreen" to run in a full screen window... you may be seeing the results of some sort of image scaling problem. Running in full screen gives you a standard aspect ratio screen, so it might aleviate the

Re: cygwin 1.5.3-1

2003-09-05 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Ralf, Ralf Habacker wrote: Hi all, The appended patch implemented this support for the xfree server. I've found that the XFree86-Bigfont extension is also shm related, which is fixed by the appended patch. As I have looked into this code I was wondering about the extension initialisation code,

Re: cygwin 1.5.3-1

2003-09-05 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Ralf, Could you try moving the CheckForRunningIPCDaemon function to hw/xwin/winshm.c/winCheckForRunningIPCDaemon ? I am just thinking that the patch is more likely to get included if it doesn't clutter extension files with Cygwin-specific stuff. Harold Ralf Habacker wrote: Ralf -- What hap

Help for french keyboard

2003-09-05 Thread Jacques-Philippe Dupré
French keyboard on Windows 98 With Cygwin and XFree86 for X window === I kwow Windows 9x quite well, but I am new in Cygwin and Unix, and I have problems with my french generic keyboard (105 keys) - Cygwin, xinit or xwin seem working correctly - on Cygwin alone, I get azerty ke

RE: cygwin 1.5.3-1

2003-09-05 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi all, > > The appended patch implemented this support for the xfree server. I've found that the XFree86-Bigfont extension is also shm related, which is fixed by the appended patch. As I have looked into this code I was wondering about the extension initialisation code, which doesn't work as exp

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

2003-09-05 Thread Joel Rosi-Schwartz
Harold, I tried both and the behaviour prevails. Just to make sure we are on the same page, I would like to reiterate that the problem only occurs when I log into pre-existing kde configurations. If I log in under a clean kde environment all is fine. It appears to be something that I configure

RE: cygwin 1.5.3-1

2003-09-05 Thread Ralf Habacker
> 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? > Xfre has build in support for disabling XIT-SHM support in cases the kern