Clipboard mini-hangs with 6.7.0.0-4

2004-04-19 Thread Ed Avis
The clipboard hanging problem is not completely cured. I am often unable to paste text from X (in particular, xemacs) into Windows apps; the hourglass appears for a few seconds and nothing is pasted. Sometimes I cannot paste from Windows into X; I select some text and copy it to the Windows

Forked call

2004-04-19 Thread Darryl Scott
Hi! I can find no input to this problem in the cygwin docs etc. This problem does not occur if the Cygwin X server is used by the executables that are compiled in SFU. It only happens when the executables are Cygwin derived. From X app 1 I call a simple fork programme using a system call.

Re: libc

2004-04-19 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Darryl Scott wrote: Hi! I cannot find any reference to a problem with this in the Cygwin docs, redhat site etc. Libc has as a standard catgets. But catgets and catopen are absent from the cygwin implementation and gencat and nl_types are not to be found. So where can I find either the source

RE: Multiple monitors and repainting

2004-04-19 Thread david.martinez
That worked great, thanks! -Original Message- From: Earle F. Philhower, III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 4:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Multiple monitors and repainting David, Add -multiplemonitors to your XWin command line. --

running netscape fails to open

2004-04-19 Thread Yadin Y. Goldschmidt
I connect to a unix host using ssh -X hostname. When I issue the command xemacs or emacs it opens a window on my desktop. but when I issue the command netscape I get the following error: (76) unixs1 % netscape [1] 15126 (77) unixs1 % Warning: Cannot convert string KeyEscape,_Key_Cancel to type

Re: numlock

2004-04-19 Thread Thomas Chadwick
From: J S [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: numlock Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 09:36:37 + [snip] Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately our users' boxes are locked down (they're on XP) so they wouldn't be able to edit that file. I was really looking

Initial Comments From a Noob

2004-04-19 Thread Wilks, Dan
Noob alertHey all/Noob alert With that out of the way... Last Friday (4/15/04) I updated my Cygwin tools (longtime user) and installed (for the first time) all the Cygwin/X servers apps (setup/x11-base 6.7.0.0-7, cygcheck XFree86-xserv 4.3.0-68). I got up and running over a PuTTY-supplied ssh

Re: Forked call

2004-04-19 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Darryl Scott wrote: Hi! I can find no input to this problem in the cygwin docs etc. This problem does not occur if the Cygwin X server is used by the executables that are compiled in SFU. It only happens when the executables are Cygwin derived. From X app 1 I

Re: running netscape fails to open

2004-04-19 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Yadin Y. Goldschmidt wrote: I found the answer myself by reading previous posts, I have to use -Y instead of -X. Still why does xemacs works with -X and netscape doesn't? check the faq. it describes the difference between -Y and -X and google will point you to lot to read

XWin 6.7.0.0-4 hangs with -clipboard

2004-04-19 Thread Carl Holmberg
Hi, The hard-hangs of XWin using -clipboard are still present in the latest code (6.7.0.0-4 of xorg-x11-xwin). I have some strace info below, as well as the XWin.log, in case that might be useful. This is on a Win98SE system, updated to the latest Cygwin code (as of about 6 hours ago).

Re: Problem with xterm and cygxft-2.dll after update

2004-04-19 Thread Mark Arnold
Harold L Hunt II huntharo at msu.edu writes: You need the libXft and libXft2 packages. I'm not sure why libXft2 was not selected automatically. Harold Hi Harold, Thanks for the tip, after a little rummaging around I found the 2 packages and installed them and all is now back to

Typing bug in XWin.man

2004-04-19 Thread Rodrigo Medina
Hi all, I have found this in XWin.man: date (April 2004) the option is still not fully operativer; the bye Rodrigo Medina

RE: XWin -multiwindow menu problem (Was: XWinrc bugs)

2004-04-19 Thread Rodrigo Medina
Hi Earle, At Sun, 18 Apr 2004 22:35:12 -0700 Earle F. Philhower, III wrote: That's good troubleshooting, a patch that works around the W95 bug was committed to CVS. (Are you able to run the latest cygwin DLLs under W95 still? When I was running cygwin w/W95A+IE5.5sp2 under bochs I got nothing

Re: XWin -multiwindow menu problem (Was: XWinrc bugs)

2004-04-19 Thread Brian Chase
I've had some problems with XWin as well, here's what I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ export DISPLAY=:0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ Xwin -multiwindow -clipboard [1] 2068 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 6.7.0.0-4 Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] XWin was

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Re: How to use to connect to Linux X Windows?

2004-04-19 Thread Eric B.
Thanks for the link. Reading it prompted me to read the XDMCP Howto, which helped out significantly. I followed the instructions in the XDMCP howto, and managed to connect no problem from one computer. However, when I follow exactly the same setup steps for Cygwin on another computer, I am