New clipboard handling notes (XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-31)

2004-01-05 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Here are my notes that I put together to convince myself that the new clipboard handling was complete and would not cause infinite loops. Please examine the notes if you are interested in the new code or if you would like to double-check my logic for errors. Please review the steps and post to

Re: Fix to stop xwinclip from clobbering remote clipboard

2004-01-05 Thread Hr. Daniel Mikkelsen
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Øyvind Harboe wrote: > I'm going out on a limb here, as my experience with xfree86 is extremely > limited. Perhaps there is an option to achieve what I'm suggesting here. Did you ever find out of that strange unicode-problem when copying from OpenOffice? The "\x023" problem.

Re: Updated: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-31

2004-01-05 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> "Harold" == Harold L Hunt writes: Harold> 1) General - Everything up to the last three entries describes the Harold> new clipboard handling system that does not steal ownership of the X11 Harold> selection each time that something is selected; this seems to work Harold> fine,

Re: New clipboard handling notes (XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-31)

2004-01-05 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > Here are my notes that I put together to convince myself that the new > clipboard handling was complete and would not cause infinite loops. > Please examine the notes if you are interested in the new code or if you > would like to double-check my lo

where can I get instruction for installation the xemacs on cgwin threw startx

2004-01-05 Thread Dotan Barak

RE: Updated: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-31

2004-01-05 Thread Andrew Braverman
ect: Updated: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-31 > > > Announcement > > > The XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-31 package has been updated in the Cygwin > distribution. > > > Links > = > > Server source, direct link: > http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/devel/server/xwi

RE: Updated: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-31

2004-01-05 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Andrew Braverman wrote: > I just tried running this version and it crashes. I get a normal looking > stuff at the beginning of the XWin.log file and then get one line telling > me: > winClipboardWindowProc - WM_DRAWCLIPBOARD - Initializing - Returning. > Then I get 64K +

RE: Updated: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-31

2004-01-05 Thread Armbrust, Daniel C.
I just upgraded my install, and now it reports a missing dll file (cygcygipc-2.dll). Should the installer handle this automatically?

Re: Updated: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-31

2004-01-05 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> "Volker" == Volker Zell writes: Volker> Hi Harold Volker> You made my day The selection ownership problem really went away. Volker> I'm running the X version of XEmacs since half a day now and no Volker> problems with selection and copy/paste between X and Windows. A co

Re: where can I get instruction for installation the xemacs on cgwin threw startx

2004-01-05 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
See o http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-01/msg00015.html Ciao Volker

IPC not configured

2004-01-05 Thread Darryl Scott
Hi! I have recently been starting to use cygwin on a Windows 2003 server. The UNIX code has been ported using Interix, windows services for UNIX. This does not come with an X-server. The port has been very straightforward. The single user X applications work A-OK. I am having problems with t

Re: Fix to stop xwinclip from clobbering remote clipboard

2004-01-05 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Daniel, Hr. Daniel Mikkelsen wrote: On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Øyvind Harboe wrote: I'm going out on a limb here, as my experience with xfree86 is extremely limited. Perhaps there is an option to achieve what I'm suggesting here. Did you ever find out of that strange unicode-problem when copying fro

Re: Updated: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-31

2004-01-05 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Volker, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: "Harold" == Harold L Hunt writes: Harold> 1) General - Everything up to the last three entries describes the Harold> new clipboard handling system that does not steal ownership of the X11 Harold> selection each time that something is selected; this see

Re: New clipboard handling notes (XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-31)

2004-01-05 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Alexander, Good, thanks for reviewing the notes. Harold Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Here are my notes that I put together to convince myself that the new clipboard handling was complete and would not cause infinite loops. Please examine the notes if

Re: Updated: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-31

2004-01-05 Thread Harold L Hunt II
ww.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/devel/server/xwin-20040105-0 105.tar.bz2 (131 KiB) xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xwin (all files) diff against 4.3.0-29 (yes, the file has the wrong name, just live with it) source code: http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/devel/server/xwin-4.3.0-30-t o-4.3.0-31.diff (39 KiB) x

Re: Updated: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-31

2004-01-05 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Volker, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: "Volker" == Volker Zell writes: Volker> Hi Harold Volker> You made my day The selection ownership problem really went away. Volker> I'm running the X version of XEmacs since half a day now and no Volker> problems with selection and copy/paste

Re: Updated: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-31

2004-01-05 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Andrew Braverman wrote: I just tried running this version and it crashes. I get a normal looking stuff at the beginning of the XWin.log file and then get one line telling me: winClipboardWindowProc - WM_DRAWCLIPBOARD - Initializing - Returni

Re: Updated: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-31

2004-01-05 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Daniel, Armbrust, Daniel C. wrote: I just upgraded my install, and now it reports a missing dll file (cygcygipc-2.dll). Should the installer handle this automatically? You must have been going for a very long time before upgrading. Yes, the cygipc package is a dependency of the X packages, but

Re: IPC not configured

2004-01-05 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Darryl, Darryl Scott wrote: Hi! I have recently been starting to use cygwin on a Windows 2003 server. The UNIX code has been ported using Interix, windows services for UNIX. This does not come with an X-server. Okay, is your ported code in these examples still being run under Interix, or has

RE: Updated: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-31

2004-01-05 Thread Andrew Braverman
EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Harold L > >>Hunt II > >>Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 2:09 AM > >>To: cygxannounce > >>Subject: Updated: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-31 > >> > >> > >>Announcement > >>=

Re: Updated: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-31

2004-01-05 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Andrew Braverman wrote: I just tried running this version and it crashes. I get a normal looking stuff at the beginning of the XWin.log file and then get one line telling me: winClipboardWindowProc - WM_DRAWCLIPBOARD - Initializing - Returni

fatal IO error 104 on start

2004-01-05 Thread Greg Jewell
Hi All, I just installed cygwin on my work machine, but am unable to start the X server. Each time I try (using startx), I receive the following error: XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by perr) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. I

Re: fatal IO error 104 on start

2004-01-05 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Greg, Look at /tmp/XWin.log. Harold Greg Jewell wrote: Hi All, I just installed cygwin on my work machine, but am unable to start the X server. Each time I try (using startx), I receive the following error: XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by perr) on X server ":0.0" after

Re: Updated: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-31

2004-01-05 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Harold L Hunt II wrote: > I already had a fix in my code base for this last night. The problem is > that the server functions vectors are only setup once, but I keep > wrapping the function each time the server resets. I added an if > (serverGeneration == 1) to my local code last night, just aft

Re: Updated: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-31

2004-01-05 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> "Harold" == Harold L Hunt, writes: Harold> Hmm... that is not something I had seen before. Did an earlier entry Harold> in the XWin.log say anything about the clipboard manager shutting Harold> down? Want to bzip2 it and send XWin.log to me privately? Sorry, I'm reading this m

Re: Updated: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-31

2004-01-05 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Harold L Hunt II wrote: > > Noticed this too. It happend after sever reset. > > Here is a dumb question: if the clipboard client is attached, how did > you cause a server reset? good question. I've started a session and stopped the windowmanager. The log showed signs of another server generation.

RE: Updated: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-31

2004-01-05 Thread Armbrust, Daniel C.
Yeah, it had been a couple of months I usually try to avoid upgrading it unless there is a new feature I want (if its not broke) I had to track down three missing dll files, but now the cut and paste upgrades are working great. Thanks for your work yet again, Harold. This was about the

Please test XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-32

2004-01-05 Thread Harold L Hunt II
I posted a new release today with updates to the clipboard handling. Please test it and report your results if you can. I know that the new binary is on at least mirrors.kernel.org already. I can't tell if I broke something from the 4.3.0-31 release or not; emacs in X11 is not copying text fro

Re: XDMCP Problems - Possible fix, please try

2004-01-05 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Harold L Hunt II wrote: The XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-30 release may fix some problems with not getting a login screen when using XDMCP. See the change log for more information: http://xfree86.cygwin.com/devel/server/changelog.html Please try this new server and report on whether it allows you to g

RE: fatal IO error 104 on start

2004-01-05 Thread Greg Jewell
Thanks for the tip. Looking at the log file, it appears that this is the pertinent error message: Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' winDeinitClipboard - Noting shutdown in progress winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress Any ideas? I installed the default XFr

Re: New clipboard handling notes (XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-31)

2004-01-05 Thread Greg Freemyer
Is the eventual goal of XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-31 going to be to eliminate the need for xwinclip in xdmcp setups? Or this something totally different. (I only use X to login to remote boxes.) On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 02:40, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > Here are my notes that I put together to convince my

Re: XDMCP Problems - Possible fix, please try

2004-01-05 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Andrew, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Sorry for the delay. We were having problems with our router and general networking issues - not an nice environment to test things like remote X... Well I tried that too but it didn't work. The symptoms are exactly the same. For kicks I tried the following: Whil

Re: fatal IO error 104 on start

2004-01-05 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Follow these steps: 1) Open Cygwin bash shell. 2) In bash shell, run the following two commands: umount /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts umount -u /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts 3) Rerun Cygwin's setup.exe, select 'Reinstall' for any of the following packages that were already installed: XFree86-f100 XFree8

Re: New clipboard handling notes (XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-31)

2004-01-05 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Greg, Greg Freemyer wrote: Is the eventual goal of XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-31 going to be to eliminate the need for xwinclip in xdmcp setups? Or this something totally different. (I only use X to login to remote boxes.) The goal is to always allow the internal clipboard integration manager (-clipbo

Re: XDMCP Problems - Possible fix, please try

2004-01-05 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Harold L Hunt II wrote: Andrew, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Sorry for the delay. We were having problems with our router and general networking issues - not an nice environment to test things like remote X... Well I tried that too but it didn't work. The symptoms are exactly the same. For kicks I

Re: XDMCP Problems - Possible fix, please try

2004-01-05 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Andrew DeFaria wrote: I never thought of forcing people to try to make a connection on the actual box itself. I ran the same command on my linux box and confirmed that it does work. I then edited (for my display manager and distribution, this will be different for you) /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc, chan

Re: XDMCP Problems - Possible fix, please try

2004-01-05 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Harold L Hunt II wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: I never thought of forcing people to try to make a connection on the actual box itself. I ran the same command on my linux box and confirmed that it does work. I then edited (for my display manager and distribution, this will be different for you)

Re: XDMCP Problems - Possible fix, please try

2004-01-05 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Andrew, I think at this point you need to start looking at some SuSE docs to figoure out how to enable XDMCP on that distribution. This is not a problem with Cygwin/X... it is clearly a problem with the configuration of your SuSE box. I think that other mailing lists/websites/newsgroups woul

Clipboard progress

2004-01-05 Thread Harold L Hunt II
I don't have another release ready, so I wanted to update people on the progress I am making: 1) I talked with Keith Packard and found out that I can use XSetAuthorization to tell Xlib to use the cookie that I generated and installed within the server. This allows the integrated clipboard man