Re: XWin hangs on opening xterms, correspondence with setup hangs ??

2005-10-10 Thread Norbert Harendt
Norbert Harendt ib-eckerl.de> writes: I encounter shell-hangs with cygwin also when using cygwins setup, so i post the problem also under http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/70104 because i think it has something to do with deadlocks or errors in communication in dll-subroutine calls -

multiwindow and -geometry -0-0

2005-10-10 Thread Stephen J. Cowley
First, thanks for all your efforts in making xfree work under cygwin. I am running cygwin-xfree under Windows 2000 on a laptop. I start Xwin using -multiwindow. If I then start an xterm with "xterm -geom -0-0", part of the xterm is off the screen since, apparently, the positioning does not ta

Re: XWin hangs on opening xterms, correspondence with setup hangs ??

2005-10-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 09:41:00AM +, Norbert Harendt wrote: >Norbert Harendt ib-eckerl.de> writes: >I encounter shell-hangs with cygwin also when using cygwins setup, so i >post the problem also under >http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/70104 because i think it has >something to do with

Foxboro - Blink task

2005-10-10 Thread James.Bassett
Has anyone been successful getting Xcygwin to work properly with a Foxboro system? Ours is running on a Sun Solaris system. I can get it working all except the pseudo colors. The Sun box runs an app called 'blinktask' that flips the first 70 or so of the 256 colors to get a flashing color effect

cygwin1.dll

2005-10-10 Thread SaSHa SHokovic
im new in this mailing list, so i dont have any archyve about this problem. I want to use XWin.exe and im getting that where is no cygwin1.dll, i reinstalled it, bet it didnt help. Is there any procedure how can i solve it? Thanks in advance -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsub

Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure

2005-10-10 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi all As you all know by now, Corinna is hunting for our vacant package maintainers. So may be it's a good idea to also have consensus about our X11 directory structure regarding man pages and documentation. I propose that documentation in general should go to /usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE even for

Re: cygwin1.dll

2005-10-10 Thread Ken Dibble
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 09:58:16PM +0200, SaSHa SHokovic wrote: > im new in this mailing list, so i dont have any archyve about this > problem. I want to use XWin.exe and im getting that where is no > cygwin1.dll, i reinstalled it, bet it didnt help. Is there any procedure > how can i solve it? >

Re: Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure

2005-10-10 Thread Brian Ford
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > I propose that documentation in general should go to /usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE > even for X11 packages and the main man page directory should be dictated > by the generic X11 tree, which is right now /usr/X11R6/man/manX (X=1,) > > Any comments ? Why

Re: cygwin1.dll

2005-10-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/10/2005 03:58 PM, SaSHa SHokovic wrote: im new in this mailing list, so i dont have any archyve about this problem. I want to use XWin.exe and im getting that where is no cygwin1.dll, i reinstalled it, bet it didnt help. Is there any procedure how can i solve it? Yes. Read and follow t

Re: Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure

2005-10-10 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian Ford wrote: > Why do you propose keeping a distinct X11R6 tree yet puting documentation > outside it. I would prefer these to be consistent. FWIW, Debian and Gentoo both do as proposed. > IIRC, Harold had decided to eliminate the X11R6 subtree

Re: Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure

2005-10-10 Thread Charles Wilson
Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: What does "Cygwin native" mean? If Cygwin is meant to be a POSIX environment, then X11 should be the standard for GUI apps. Not gonna happen: it has been stated before on this list that 'insight' *must* run without X -- which means that tk will remain Win32GUI.

Re: Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure

2005-10-10 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charles Wilson wrote: > Not gonna happen: it has been stated before on this list that 'insight' > *must* run without X -- which means that tk will remain Win32GUI. Tk must remain Win32GUI, or *a* Win32GUI Tk must remain, for the sake of insight? > It

Re: Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure

2005-10-10 Thread Charles Wilson
Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Others have mentioned building *NIX tcl/tk on Cygwin, and I wouldn't call building gtk2 daunting; Daunting to build it in such a way that (a) the win32 version doesn't interfere with the X version, (b) vice versa, and (c) you're SURE that nothing win32-runtime

Re: Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure

2005-10-10 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Charles Wilson wrote: Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: [...] What's stopping us from moving the Win32 tcltk in /opt/win32, and making new *NIX tcl and tk packages in /usr? Then all that's necessary for insight is to add /opt/win32 to PATH (either through a script, profile.d, or manually). Simil