Re: running CygwinX with a limited user account

2006-08-23 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Igor Peshansky wrote: > For each user, execute "mount -u SOMEUSERSPECIFICDIR /tmp" (as "man > mount" would have told you). Are we sure that this works with startxwin.bat ? Some time ago I tried to mount /tmp in an user directory (I used also %TEMP%, i.e. C:\Doc...\%USERNAME%\..\Temp) but it di

Re: running CygwinX with a limited user account

2006-08-23 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > Igor Peshansky wrote: > > > For each user, execute "mount -u SOMEUSERSPECIFICDIR /tmp" (as "man > > mount" would have told you). > > Are we sure that this works with startxwin.bat ? > > Some time ago I tried to mount /tmp in an user directory (I used a

ideal Norton Internet Security 2006 config with Cygwin/X

2006-08-23 Thread n0 SPAM
Out of the box, NIS 2006 slows down Cygwin/X. I open XWin.exe to run a bash shell. When I type at the command prompt: ls -h | sort -r The command prompt freezes on my Windows box for awhile. That is no longer the case with the following tweaks to NIS2006: 1. Right click on the Norton Internet

Cygwin X fails to start

2006-08-23 Thread Javier Delgadillo
All, I've been trying to install Cygwin X on a Win XP machine for the last 2 days and can't get it to work. I've done google searches for possible solutions but the posts I've found seem outdated and no longer apply. This appears to be a problem with the "could not open default font 'fixed'" err

keyboard problem : upper numeric keys don' t work

2006-08-23 Thread cirrus75
Hello all! Xfree runs OK but upper numeric keys (not num keypad) do not work well. Also TAB and BACKSPACE seem not to work well too. My keyboard map seems to be OK because all other keys are OK. I had a similar problem with an PC emulator called QEMU. So, I beleive this is a proble

Re: keyboard problem : upper numeric keys don' t work

2006-08-23 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, cirrus75 wrote: >Hello all! > >Xfree runs OK but upper numeric keys (not num keypad) do not work > well. Also TAB and BACKSPACE seem not to work well too. My keyboard map > seems to be OK because all other keys are OK. > >I had a similar problem with an PC emulator