Re: Using startx script without opening cygwin bash command window

2004-01-23 Thread Andrew Schulman
>> I don't know what options you have in your startx script, but I have a >> shortcut in my Windows startup folder with target >> >> C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\XWin.exe -multiwindow -clipboard -dpi 100 > > But that only works if the cygwin dlls are in your PATH. So, put them in. Then you can run

Custom Cygwin downloads (Was Re: win-ssh-askpass not working)

2004-01-23 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Steve Howie wrote: > [snip] > p.s. in order to roll out this great product to our faculty, staff and > students (many of whom are less than computer-savvy), is there a way of > packaging up set of packages (just the base, Xfree and a couple of misc. > packages such as setsid a

Re: Using startx script without opening cygwin bash command window

2004-01-23 Thread Holger Krull
I don't know what options you have in your startx script, but I have a shortcut in my Windows startup folder with target C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\XWin.exe -multiwindow -clipboard -dpi 100 But that only works if the cygwin dlls are in your PATH. I use D:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -l -c "xwin +kb -xkbmap

Re: Any WebBrowser for Cygwin?

2004-01-23 Thread Ralf Habacker
On Wednesday 21 January 2004 08:38, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > Hi > > > "Michael" == Michael Henke writes: > > Michael> I want to do X-Forwarding with my Windowx-XP-Box and am using > Cygwin SSHd. Michael> SSH is working very fine so far. All i need is a > browser (except textbrowser Michael>

Re: win-ssh-askpass not working.

2004-01-23 Thread Steve Howie
Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: IIUC, that's exactly what the "setsid" command is intended to accomplish. You can also try using bash's "disown" builtin. Great. This worked! #!/bin/bash export DISPLAY

Re: Using startx script without opening cygwin bash command window

2004-01-23 Thread Andrew Schulman
> My question is this... I currently open Cygwin's bash shell window and > type startx to start up my X server. (I use the windowless option to avoid > the ugly background.) But this leaves me with a bash shell that I don't > use. I use my X shell windows. Is there a way to start the X serv

Re: win-ssh-askpass not working.

2004-01-23 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > > IIUC, that's exactly what the "setsid" command is intended to accomplish. > You can also try using bash's "disown" builtin. Great. This worked! #!/bin/bash export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 export SSH_

Re: Any WebBrowser for Cygwin?

2004-01-23 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Michael schrieb: > I want to do X-Forwarding with my Windowx-XP-Box and am using Cygwin SSHd. > SSH is working very fine so far. All i need is a browser (except textbrowser > like lynx!) for www. > Is there any Webbrowser like Mozilla, Netscape or Opera available for the > cygwin-X-Server? Where t

Using startx script without opening cygwin bash command window

2004-01-23 Thread Wil Hunt
Hello all, I am currently using Cygwin/XFree86 and loving it. I've compiled IceWM and have been happily using that to make my life heaver here at work where we have a big messy mixture of Windows and Linux boxes. My question is this... I currently open Cygwin's bash shell window and type

Some thoughts on non-text formats in clipboard

2004-01-23 Thread Øyvind Harboe
One problem is data format conversion. Clearly it is not feasible to implement the conversion back and forth between X clipboard formats and Windows formats. There are too many formats and combinations. Here is what I do today: - Copy in e.g. OO under Linux - Paste into a new OO file under Linu