running xterm in cygwin

2004-09-24 Thread Leow Wee Kheng
Hi, I installed Cygwin/X in my WinXP PC. But, it has problem opening the X display. I've set the display to my PC's host name using export DISPLAY=leowwk-1 but it still doesn't work. Any idea what's the problem? Thanks. Wee

Re: multiple connections from Xserver

2004-09-24 Thread Michel Bardiaux
Vijay Kiran Kamuju wrote: is it possible to connect to multiple clients from my XServer What do you mean *to* multiple clients *from* X server? Unless you mean some kind of session manager, it works the other way, a client (like xterm) connects to the server. im already running XWin by XWin

Re: The no font fixed problem

2004-09-24 Thread luke . kendall
On 21 Sep, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem with X not running because of the error no font 'fixed' has been around so long that some months ago a I scripted a post-install I could provide new packages where the remounting of

problem in scaleable fonts during update

2004-09-24 Thread aroushdi
Hi everybody , while updating my cygwin to the latest level i get the following message : title:mkfontscale.exe Entry point Not Found body : The procedure entry point FT_Get_BDF_Property could not be located in the dynamic link library cygfreetype-6.dll attatche is the image of the message. thks

Re: multiple connections from Xserver

2004-09-24 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Vijay Kiran Kamuju wrote: is it possible to connect to multiple clients from my XServer im already running XWin by XWin -clipboard -query yamuna if you start multiple instances of XWin you must start to number them 1st XWin -query foo 2nd XWin :1 -query bar 3rd XWin

Re: running xterm in cygwin

2004-09-24 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Leow Wee Kheng wrote: Hi, I installed Cygwin/X in my WinXP PC. But, it has problem opening the X display. I've set the display to my PC's host name using export DISPLAY=leowwk-1 but it still doesn't work. Any idea what's the problem? you were at least missing the

Re: The no font fixed problem

2004-09-24 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many thanks! Following your release of the new xorg-x11-{fonts,xwin}-6.8.1.0-2 package, I'd like to report that X worked 1st time after a fresh install. cool ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723

Re: problem in scaleable fonts during update

2004-09-24 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, aroushdi wrote: Hi everybody , while updating my cygwin to the latest level i get the following message : title:mkfontscale.exe Entry point Not Found body : The procedure entry point FT_Get_BDF_Property could not be located in the dynamic link library cygfreetype-6.dll

Re: multiple connections from Xserver

2004-09-24 Thread Tom Sobczynski
Vijay, I think there is some confusion about what it is you are trying to accomplish. If you tell us more about what you'd really like to be able to do, we can try to provide you with good options. For instance, are you interested in seeing two desktops on remote systems, or do you want to run

Re: multiple connections from Xserver

2004-09-24 Thread Vijay Kiran Kamuju
Hi Tom, Alex's solution just solved my prob bye, Vijay On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:25:42 -0400, Tom Sobczynski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vijay, I think there is some confusion about what it is you are trying to accomplish. If you tell us more about what you'd really like to be able to do, we

Re: multiple connections from Xserver

2004-09-24 Thread Michel Bardiaux
Vijay Kiran Kamuju wrote: Hi Tom, Alex's solution just solved my prob bye, Vijay But since you didnt describe your problem very clearly (there are several interpretions possible), no one else will benefit from the solution. So please explain anyway. On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:25:42 -0400, Tom

Re: start up screen problem

2004-09-24 Thread Michel Bardiaux
Vijay Kiran Kamuju wrote: Hi, i am using humming bird exceed and cygywin/x to connect to solaris servers i noticed some thing quite different check out the first screen after successfully logging in cde1.gif --- Cygwin/X cde2.gif --- HummingBird Exceed there is colorloss in the images due

Re: multiple connections from Xserver

2004-09-24 Thread Igor Furlan
--- Michel Bardiaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vijay Kiran Kamuju wrote: Hi Tom, Alex's solution just solved my prob bye, Vijay But since you didnt describe your problem very clearly (there are several interpretions possible), no one else will benefit from the solution.

BScreen::BScreen: an error occcurred while querying the X server

2004-09-24 Thread Bammon0001
Hello, Am having difficulty getting this email through. I installed cygwin per a the web site's and a Professor's instructions. In startx, got BScreen::BScreen: an error occured whil querying the Xserver. another window manager already running on display:0.0. Openbox: no managable screens

Re: BScreen::BScreen: an error occcurred while querying the X server

2004-09-24 Thread Mark Paulus
Do you have a .xinitrc that is starting a window manager? If you want to use startx and want to use a window manager via .xinitrc (such as fvwm2 or wmaker), then you also need to add a .xserverrc that invokes XWin WITHOUT the multiwindow option: e.g. $ cat .xserverrc exec X :0 -clipboard $

Re: BScreen::BScreen: an error occcurred while querying the X server

2004-09-24 Thread Michel Bardiaux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Am having difficulty getting this email through. I installed cygwin per a the web site's and a Professor's instructions. In startx, got BScreen::BScreen: an error occured whil querying the Xserver. another window manager already running on display:0.0. Openbox: no

Missing characters from a Type1 font

2004-09-24 Thread Arthur Norman
I install the AMS computer modern type1 fonts (as fetched form any big TeX archive) and then try to use them. I appear to find that using cygwin and its X server that the character with code 0xa1 is not displayed when XDrawString is used. The code is a second-mapping of what would otherwise be

Display Error

2004-09-24 Thread ksrangsy
Hello, I have a question about Xwin. I've been using Xwin T1 connection and on dial-up but without the full interface response with dial-up. But now that I have a dsl connection, I get a display error. Attached is the XWin.log with the error message. Is there anything I can do to fix this