Xoncygwin updates very slow at appearing

2003-09-19 Thread Colin Harrison
Hi, I checked out a HEAD xc tree from xoncywin and didn't find the new code in xc/programs/Xserver/Xext for enabling ipc. Is this because sourceforge is be a bit slow and I'm too impatient? Colin

Re: Xoncygwin updates very slow at appearing

2003-09-19 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Colin Harrison wrote: Hi, I checked out a HEAD xc tree from xoncywin and didn't find the new code in xc/programs/Xserver/Xext for enabling ipc. Is this because sourceforge is be a bit slow and I'm too impatient? It's in now. But cvsweb does not show it yet. They work

/usr/X11R6/bin/uxterm is missing from XFree86-bin-4.3.0-3

2003-09-19 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hey /usr/X11R6/bin/uxterm is missing from XFree86-bin-4.3.0-3 since XFree86-bin-4.3.0-2 Ciao Volker

Re: Xoncygwin updates very slow at appearing

2003-09-19 Thread Colin Harrison
Hi, I don't get it:- cvs log -r 1.2 shm.c cvspserver server: nothing known about 1.2 RCS file: /cvsroot/xoncygwin/xc/programs/Xserver/Xext/shm.c,v Working file: shm.c head: 1.1 branch: 1.1.1 locks: strict access list: symbolic names: XFIXES_BRANCH: 1.1.1.2.0.2 XFREE86_4_3_0:

Re: Xoncygwin updates very slow at appearing

2003-09-19 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Colin Harrison wrote: I'm coming from the UK to:- cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/xoncygwin login Something weird going on? Maybe the pserver uses the backup cvs too and the backup has not been updated. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: a beginners question

2003-09-19 Thread amr roushi
Alexander Gottwald wrote: amr roushi wrote: I am new in Xfree86 , I use many Xwin windows with the comman xwin :XX -query hostname . It works fine but the window gets a permanent nam Xfree86 PORTNUM is there a way to change this to display something meaningful such as the host name for example .

Re: a beginners question

2003-09-19 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, amr roushi wrote: Alexander Gottwald wrote: I've commited a patch which changes the title to Cygwin/XFree86 - host if the -query option is supplied. Otherwise it stays Cygwin/XFree86 - 0:0 Thank u Alex for the patch . How can we get it There is currently no binary

Re: Xoncygwin updates very slow at appearing

2003-09-19 Thread Harold L Hunt II
You know, they say that their backup for cvsweb is 24 hours old, but at this point it seems to be more like 5 weeks old. It seems to be very out of date lately. Harold Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Colin Harrison wrote: Hi, I checked out a HEAD xc tree from xoncywin and

Re: Xoncygwin updates very slow at appearing

2003-09-19 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Colin Harrison wrote: Hi, I don't get it:- cvs log -r 1.2 shm.c cvspserver server: nothing known about 1.2 RCS file: /cvsroot/xoncygwin/xc/programs/Xserver/Xext/shm.c,v Working file: shm.c head: 1.1 branch: 1.1.1 ^ locks: strict access list:

Re: Xoncygwin updates very slow at appearing

2003-09-19 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: You know, they say that their backup for cvsweb is 24 hours old, but at this point it seems to be more like 5 weeks old. It seems to be very out of date lately. The Synch with test 99 commits (which are 3 days old) are displayed via cvsweb.

Re: AW: IPC/SHM is now supported by default in xoncygwin HEAD CVS tree

2003-09-19 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Ralf, Ralf Habacker wrote: Hi Harold, I just checked in changes to the MIT-SHM (xc/programs/Xserver/Xext/shm.c) and XFree86Bigfont (xc/programs/Xserver/Xext/xf86bigfont.c) extensions that disable SHM support when the Cygwin IPC daemon is not running. This allows IPC/SHM support to be enabled

Re: Odd XDMCP problems (resolved)

2003-09-19 Thread Mike Campbell
Well I figured out what the problem was with my XDMCP connection. I had edited the /etc/profile file to set the DISPLAY environment variable dynamically using the host I was connecting from. The entry in the /etc/profile was this: export DISPLAY=${REMOTEHOST}:0.0 It seems that when an XDMCP

Re: right-click problem

2003-09-19 Thread Harold L Hunt II
You're gonna have to specify which application causes trouble and/or what type of operating system it is running on. I assume that this is a problem with a remote application since we have seen reports of this before. So, I guess you should search the mailing list archives as well. Harold J

New IceWM package

2003-09-19 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
Since the 2 IceWM ports listed at http://xfree86.cygwin.com/ported-software.html aren't that new (and probably require XFree86-lib-compat), and unfortunately nobody else seems to distribute their binaries (I couldn't find others on the mailing-list archives and Google), I decided to package

xedit crash on startup backtrace

2003-09-19 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Well, I built a debug version of XFree86 and managed to get a backtrace from the xedit crash: (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/X11R6/bin/xedit.exe Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x004201c9 in Lisp__New (car=0x100917d8, cdr=0x1) at lisp.c:2632 2632objseg.freeobj =

Re: right-click problem

2003-09-19 Thread Thomas Chadwick
Try turning off Num Lock and/or Caps Lock and see if that makes a difference. From: J S [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: right-click problem Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:34:16 + Checked the archives but haven't had much luck so far. The

/etc/profile - futile try to predict order of execution (Please inform maintainer of 00xfree.sh)

2003-09-19 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)
While looking for the reason why less has stopped understanding the BACKSPACE key (and a bunch of others) I stumbled over the following. I'm sending this just to INFORM about it. I'm NOT on the xfree list. I'm NOT interested of participating in more discussions on this subject. $ head -63

Re: /etc/profile - futile try to predict order of execution (Please inform maintainer of 00xfree.sh)

2003-09-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 04:59:07PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Speaking of your machine, could this be because you're using Win98? (Checking) Bingo! Somehow, on Win98 find traverses files in unsorted order, i.e., the order they were created. Which is acceptable behavior, as I'm sure you

Re: /etc/profile - futile try to predict order of execution (Please inform maintainer of 00xfree.sh)

2003-09-19 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 04:59:07PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Speaking of your machine, could this be because you're using Win98? (Checking) Bingo! Somehow, on Win98 find traverses files in unsorted order, i.e., the order they were created.

Username with white spaces

2003-09-19 Thread Tran Hong Quang
Dear all, When I install windowmaker, I got error since my windowsXP 's username contains some white spaces. `$HOME' gives me: /cygwin/c/Documents And the problem comes from that. `wmaker' cant find this, because it actually doesn't exist. $HOME should return /cygwin/c/Documents and Settings/my

Re: Xoncygwin updates very slow at appearing

2003-09-19 Thread Colin Harrison
Hi, There she blows 1.2 appears as a miracle on snailforge.com. Now what did I want to do? I've lost too many brain cells waiting. Colin

Re: Xoncygwin updates very slow at appearing

2003-09-19 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Colin, Just checkout the default branch as per the instructions on the snailforge CVS page for xoncygwin. After that, you'll want to follow the instructions from the Contributor's Guide to bootstrap lndir, then use lndir to build in a separate directory, as the instructions describe.

Re: BaseDisplay::BaseDisplay: connection to X server failed.

2003-09-19 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Unless you really know what you are doing, please use startxwin.bat to start Cygwin/XFree86: http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using.html#using-starting-bat Harold modesty wrote: All members of Cygwin-XFree mailing list, I tried the following commands but X server shutdown with error. ~# cp

Broken build in latest XFree86 CVS - Cygwin lacks sockaddr_storage

2003-09-19 Thread Harold L Hunt II
A new file was added, called xc/programs/xdm/prngc.c. This new file uses sockaddr_storage, which is not defined on Cygwin. I sent an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to see if they have any ideas as to how to fix this on platforms that do not have sockaddr_storage. Any ideas here on how to work

Re: /etc/profile - futile try to predict order of execution (Please inform maintainer of 00xfree.sh)

2003-09-19 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: While looking for the reason why less has stopped understanding the BACKSPACE key (and a bunch of others) I stumbled over the following. I'm sending this just to INFORM about it. I'm NOT on the xfree list. I'm NOT interested of

Re: /etc/profile - futile try to predict order of execution (Please inform maintainer of 00xfree.sh)

2003-09-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 05:23:40PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 04:59:07PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Speaking of your machine, could this be because you're using Win98? (Checking) Bingo! Somehow, on Win98 find