Re: XWin: necessary internet access?

2003-09-29 Thread jeb
Fergus, I'm not sure iif it will help but theres a tool called dependency walker that shows all the files a program (or dll) depends on, and then their subdependencies, etc. http://www.dependencywalker.com/ Jeremy

Re: Xfree86 is slow! with software like MATLAB

2003-09-29 Thread Holger Vogt
Hi all, Another reply to Harold's question: So, are the fast apps non-OpenGL and the slow apps OpenGL? Thae layout editor MAGIC, compiled with Cygwin (http://bach.ece.jhu.edu/~tim/programs/magic/windows/windows.html) and using OpenGL is totally slow (unusable) in -multiwindow mode, but o.k.

Re: XWin: necessary internet access?

2003-09-29 Thread Holger Vogt
Fergus, I am running Cygwin Xfree on a computer which has never seen a regular Cygwin installation (Windows NT4). It takes about 10MB disk space. All binaries (*.exe; *.dll) are in a directory D:\xfree\bin (8,1 MB). I have set a path to that directory in xfree_start.bat. Besides that you need

Re: XWin: necessary internet access?

2003-09-29 Thread Holger Vogt
Fergus, just to add: C:\tmp will be the place you fing Xwin.log. Regards Holger

wmaker install error

2003-09-29 Thread kaio
when trying to install from bash prompt (command is wmaker) i get an error related with my home name, that contains a space: example: home: the homedir error is cannot find /home/the - name is truncated at space!

Re: XWin: necessary internet access?

2003-09-29 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fergus, I'm not sure iif it will help but theres a tool called dependency walker that shows all the files a program (or dll) depends on, and then their subdependencies, etc. http://www.dependencywalker.com/ Jeremy Whatever happened to good

xset add to font path kills Xserver

2003-09-29 Thread Benn Schreiber
I just upgraded my system to the latest XFree (4.3.0-4, I believe). In my startxwin I had an xset fp+ to add the truetype fonts directory to the font path (which I never got working...perhaps this is a hint, but...) With the latest bits the Xserver core dumps shortly after the xset fp+ happens.

Re: XFree86-bin-icons

2003-09-29 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Mark, Please don't send personal e-mail on Cygwin issues unless specifically requested. Also, please make sure your mailer honors the Reply-To: header. I'm forwarding this reply to the appropriate list. More inline below. On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Mark Anderson wrote: Igor; I am writing to you

clipboard sharing with XDM

2003-09-29 Thread amr roushi
I am trying to share the clip board of X and of Win2K . I start the session with xwin :portno -query hostname -clipboard I cannot share the clipboard using the different methods ie highlighting , Control Insert . I tried xwinclip but it dies after 3 tries . I did xhosts + on the host for the

Re: XFree86-bin-icons

2003-09-29 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Igor, You wrote the original message in this thread, correct? Was it sent to cygwin-xfree, cygwin, or cygwin-apps? I am asking only because I can't find a log of it anywhere... was it eaten by the mail server? Actually, there is another bug in XFree86-bin-icons, that is, it doesn't usually

Re: XFree86-bin-icons

2003-09-29 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Harold, Well, the original (that Mark quoted) was on the cygwin@ list, namely http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-09/msg00582.html. FWIW, you can force the order of execution of the XFree86-bin-icons.sh postinstall script by making the package dependent on XFree86-bin and others, but that would

Updated: XFree86-bin-icons-4.3.0-4

2003-09-29 Thread Harold L Hunt II
The XFree86-bin-icons-4.3.0-4 package has been updated in the Cygwin distribution. Changes: 1) Prevent error on deletion of top folder by passing -mindepth 1 to find. This stops find from trying to delete the top folder, which we do in a final step. The reasoning for this is that find holds a

Re: XFree86-bin-icons

2003-09-29 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Harold, I have suggested to the original poster to follow up on cygwin-xfree; apparently he never did. You can ignore the No package message -- when I inserted the postinstall progress page into setup, setup tried to keep track of the postinstall scripts in the newly installed packages, and run

RE: xset add to font path kills Xserver

2003-09-29 Thread Richardson, Anthony
Benn Schreiber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Have you successfully added truetype fonts to your font path? If so, how? I have. You need an XF86Config file in /etc/X11. There is a link to an example XF86Config file in the cygwin/xfree FAQ or User Guide (I can't get to the site right now to

abaqus on cygwin

2003-09-29 Thread Kevin Van Workum
Has anyone got ABAQUS to use the cygwin x-server? How did you set it up to use X11 instead of Exeed? Kevin Van Workum, PhD National Institute of Standards and Technology Polymers Division 224/B228

Re: abaqus on cygwin

2003-09-29 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Kevin, For starters, how are you connecting to ABAQUS with Exceed? Are you using ssh to connect to a remote machine, then launching ABAQUS from that command-prompt? Are you using XDMCP to get a graphical login session on the remote machine, then clicking an icon to start ABAQUS? Note that

Re: xset add to font path kills Xserver

2003-09-29 Thread Thomas Chadwick
I have TrueType fonts working. In fact, they've worked for over a year since I first set them up, and I haven't had to do anything to keep them working since first setting it up. Unfortunately, it's been so long, I can't remember exactly what I went through to get it setup. All I can tell

Re: xset add to font path kills Xserver

2003-09-29 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Did you have to run ttmkfdir (or whatever it is called) at any point? Harold Thomas Chadwick wrote: I have TrueType fonts working. In fact, they've worked for over a year since I first set them up, and I haven't had to do anything to keep them working since first setting it up.

Re: xset add to font path kills Xserver

2003-09-29 Thread Benn Schreiber
Did you have to run ttmkfdir (or whatever it is called) at any point? Harold Yes, I have run both ttmkfdir and mkfontdir in the directory. Interestingly, if I do the xset after the window manager is up (as best I can correlate it), it works fine. But, if I do it in startxwin, the font element

FW: Re: xset add to font path kills Xserver

2003-09-29 Thread Benn Schreiber
Got it. Need to run ttmkfdir BEFORE mkfontdir (doh). I'm going back to bed. Thanks for the kick in the right direction. Benn -Original Message- From: Benn Schreiber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 3:20 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: xset add to font

RE: Updated: xfig-3.2.4-2

2003-09-29 Thread Billinghurst, David (CALCRTS)
From: Harold L Hunt II Sent: Sunday, 28 September 2003 10:58 AM To: cygx; cygxannounce Subject: Updated: xfig-3.2.4-2 The xfig-3.2.4-2 package has been updated in the Cygwin distribution. Changes: 1) Fig - Change the start command for HTML and PDF files (allows help files to be

Re: XFree86-bin-icons

2003-09-29 Thread Harold L Hunt II
[Discussion on this issue is now taking place where it should have in the first place: cygwin-xfree. Please follow the cygwin-xfree mailing list for further posts.] Igor, Okay, that explains why I couldn't find the message in cygwin-xfree. I really wish someone would have redirected the

Re: Setup 2.358 Hangs During Post-Install Script

2003-09-29 Thread Jerry James
Igor wrote: The XFree86-bin-icons package is buggy. It's basically a postinstall script that tries to create icons for the X programs that are installed on your machine. The problem is that it tries to create them in the Start Menu for All Users without checking whether the current user can

Re: Setup 2.358 Hangs During Post-Install Script

2003-09-29 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Jerry, Jerry James wrote: Igor wrote: The XFree86-bin-icons package is buggy. It's basically a postinstall script that tries to create icons for the X programs that are installed on your machine. The problem is that it tries to create them in the Start Menu for All Users without checking