Re: Unknown keyboard

2005-09-06 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Alexander Gottwald wrote: FollowUp to cygwin at cygwin dot com Why? Doesn't this belong on cygwin-xfree instead? Pure stupidity :( I don't know what I had in mind when I wrote this.

New Cygwin/X maintainer

2005-09-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
May I introduce... Alan Hourihane has now officially taken over the job as our new Cygwin/X maintainer. We just have to put his access permissions to sourceware into place, but otherwise, that's it. Congratulations and a *big* thank you for taking over, Alan! Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen

Facename fonts vs XLFD fonts

2005-09-06 Thread Brian Willis
I have an application that by default looks for the Facename font ncenb14. I can over ride the setting by using the Xdefaults and specifying the XLFD (X Logical Font Description) instead. While this works, it's not the ideal situation. I would rather it just found the Facename name by default.

Re: New Cygwin/X maintainer

2005-09-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 01:19:38PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: May I introduce... Alan Hourihane has now officially taken over the job as our new Cygwin/X maintainer. We just have to put his access permissions to sourceware into place, but otherwise, that's it. Congratulations and a *big*

MultiWindow versus MWExtWM

2005-09-06 Thread Joe Krahn
What is the history of internal versus external Win32 WMs? It seems that Cygwin/X is favoring the internal WM, even though the external WM is a better fit to the X server design. I was looking into adding some NET_WM/EWMH features (mainly icons for now), and realized that most things have to

startx wont start xterm window

2005-09-06 Thread MikeSo
i installed cygwin with no problems at all but when i type startx after opening cygwin, nothing happens. i get some text but no xterm window will pop up. ive googled and searched the archives but have had trouble finding anything similar to my problem. below is the log. thanks in advance for

Re: MultiWindow versus MWExtWM

2005-09-06 Thread billh
Any discussion of internal vs external window management cannot take place without acknowledging the fact that we are talking about XWindows operating within another window system, Cygwin/X. The immediate fact here is that any action that a window manager takes that is synchronous to the