Vista after X compile

2007-08-09 Thread Dick Repasky
The behavior of X on Vista improved some after rebuilding X as described in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2007-08/msg00021.html. The problem of interest was that the X would hang if one used the exit menu item of the X icon in the system tray. After rebuilding X and rebasing all to avoi

RE: Revisiting the cradle problem

2007-08-09 Thread Bengt-Arne Fjellner
Scott Mohnkern wrote: > I thought I had this problem solved but I don't. > > I'm running Cygwin with xfree installed, and have installed the > application Cradle. After the install, when I attempted to open up a > shell I got a "blank screen" with no prompt. I could issue some > commands (like a

Re: wrong keyboard layout

2007-08-09 Thread Holger Krull
HXdaverdi Cakir schrieb: > (--) Using preset keyboard for "German (Switzerland)" (807), type "4" > > But xterm always cames up with an english layout. Is the layout really english, or are the german characters just missing? If the later is true you should try to edit .inputrc and uncomment: # A

wrong keyboard layout

2007-08-09 Thread H�daverdi Cakir
Hi, I'm using Cygwin's xterm and having problems with the keyboard-layout. The keybord-layout seems to be detected correctly, as stated in XWin.log: (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "0807" (0807) (--) Using preset keyboard for "German (Switzerland)" (807), type "4" But xterm always came

Re: Revisiting the cradle problem

2007-08-09 Thread Holger Krull
Scott Mohnkern schrieb: > I assume Cygwin is using this environment variable to set the default > shell, and that's what's causing the problem. > Is there a way to start Cygwin (We're using Xstart.bat) to tell it NOT > to use this variable? I don't think so, but i could be wrong. How about settin

Revisiting the cradle problem

2007-08-09 Thread Scott Mohnkern
I thought I had this problem solved but I don't. I'm running Cygwin with xfree installed, and have installed the application Cradle. After the install, when I attempted to open up a shell I got a "blank screen" with no prompt. I could issue some commands (like an ls) but most everything else

solved: X compile fails for missing (internal?) symbols

2007-08-09 Thread Dick Repasky
The original problem report is http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2007-04/msg4.html. After that problem was solved, two others emerged. This message documents fixes for all three. 1) As posted earlier xftpat.o:xftpat.c:(.text+0x3c2): undefined reference to `_FcPatternInsertElt' xftpat.o