Re: menu does not come up - Running rootless with an external window manager

2006-03-15 Thread Jack Tanner
Naru Takashima wrote: I notice at the website x.cygwin.com, there is a screenshot with openbox window manager? Is that part of cgwin/X distribution or do I need to purchase or download that from somewhere? The Cygwin Setup program offers at least WindowMaker, fvwm, and openbox. No idea how wel

Re: menu does not come up - Running rootless with an external window manager

2006-03-15 Thread Naru Takashima
I notice at the website x.cygwin.com, there is a screenshot with openbox window manager? Is that part of cgwin/X distribution or do I need to purchase or download that from somewhere? And what would I need to do to run an external window manager? I am really interested in running in a rootless mo

Re: menu does not come up

2006-03-15 Thread Alexander
Naru Takashima wrote: startx does open a window; however, I was hoping to open multiple shell in one window. you can start additional shells with xterm. In the old version of Cygwin/X that I had, if I stated X, then one large window would come up and then I can use the menu that came up wi

Re: menu does not come up

2006-03-15 Thread Jack Tanner
Naru Takashima wrote: startx does open a window; however, I was hoping to open multiple shell in one window. In the old version of Cygwin/X that I had, if I stated X, then one large window would come up and then I can use the menu that came up with a click of a mouse button to open a shell. Is

Re: menu does not come up

2006-03-15 Thread Naru Takashima
startx does open a window; however, I was hoping to open multiple shell in one window. In the old version of Cygwin/X that I had, if I stated X, then one large window would come up and then I can use the menu that came up with a click of a mouse button to open a shell. Is this no longer possible

Re: menu does not come up

2006-03-15 Thread Alexander
You have to start a shell also. Try startx insteed of a plain XWin. Xwin only starts the root window so nothing wrong with that. Alex http://www.aiengine.org Naru Takashima wrote: When I start Xwin from command line, a root window comes up but then nothing happens. I click the mouse button hop

menu does not come up

2006-03-15 Thread Naru Takashima
When I start Xwin from command line, a root window comes up but then nothing happens. I click the mouse button hoping to get a menu to open a shell, but nothing happens when I click the mouse. Any ideas? Thank you, naru __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of sp

Re: windows XP : cygwin -X server not opening

2006-03-15 Thread Alexander
I really don't know if the select () which fails is used on a Network fd or one of the queue fd's within InitQueue. But the final error may be just the result of the previous errors. There is a good chance that it is this way because the error happens within winClipboardProc which usually is

Re: windows XP : cygwin -X server not opening

2006-03-15 Thread Alexander
To make a long story short: My Questions are: Whats causing the null screen fn ReparentWindow null screen fn RestackWindow how can InitQueue - Calling pthread_mutex_init InitQueue - pthread_mutex_init returned InitQueue - Calling pthread_cond_init InitQueue - pthread_cond_init returned work wit

Re: windows XP : cygwin -X server not opening

2006-03-15 Thread Alexander
Your opinion is worth how much squat? Diddley? Not really but I wasn't flamed in years and my Internetcomputer needed some stress testing and hacking tries by experts. Thanks for all the effort. I have been running XWin without shared memory support for years without fault. In fact, my

RE: windows XP : cygwin -X server not opening

2006-03-15 Thread Phil Betts
Alexander wrote on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 11:32 AM:: > I thought you're off working for a real company. > The lines I was refering to are: > > MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support >> XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to >> lack of shared memor

Re: windows XP : cygwin -X server not opening

2006-03-15 Thread Alexander
I thought you're off working for a real company. The lines I was refering to are: MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shared memory And this imo does cause XWin to fail. But at least we have a real

Re: windows XP : cygwin -X server not opening

2006-03-15 Thread Alexander
When XWin gets a signal it's bailing. If you remove whatever causes the signal XWin won't fail. Here's the page. http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygserver.html Thanks for the compliment. Alex http://www.aiengine.org -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Pro

Re: windows XP : cygwin -X server not opening

2006-03-15 Thread Alexander
> hmm - apparently you don't aspire to being a senior of any category, I do but I wouldn't claim to be one for myself. Maybe I'am a senior or I'am just getting old. But two years that's like beeing a expert of chinise culture because I once did make a holiday there. with your poor grammar, spel

Re: windows XP : cygwin -X server not opening

2006-03-15 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 12:45 +0700, Alexander wrote: > Ok. > He should check if he did install the recomended configuration within > the Windows setup: > For all Users. > if yes he should start the Shared memory Service that is where the > SHM-MIT is comming from and probably also the mutex pthrea

Re: windows XP : cygwin -X server not opening

2006-03-15 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Alexander wrote: Ok. He should check if he did install the recomended configuration within the Windows setup: For all Users. if yes he should start the Shared memory Service that is where the SHM-MIT is comming from and probably also the mutex pthread. For this he can rtf

Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkobject.c: line 1034 - Something missing?

2006-03-15 Thread Alexander
Hi, I'am trying to run xmms on a remote linux while the gui is on my local cygwin-xfree. Xmms (1.2.10) starts well and is visible. When I try to load mp3's into the playlist the file selection windows opens. After selecting a file I get the following message: Gtk-WARNING **: invalid class type