Re: Singular CAS: why not in Cygwin menu?

2009-06-17 Thread Jon TURNEY
(following up to a mail to the main cygwin list) Frédéric Bron wrote: Why the need to have Singular CAS outside the Cygwin menu? It makes 3 menus for cygwin: Cygwin, Cygwin-X and Singular CAS. In terms of folders for people who do not have administrator privileges, it makes 4 folders: - User\St

Re: XWin Server shortcut broken

2009-06-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 06:32:26PM +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote: >Frank Mori Hess wrote: > >> I did an install of cygwin/x and the xwin server shortcut it installs in the >> start menu didn't work. I had to go into its properties and set the "Start >> in:" field to C:\ >> >> This may be due to the f

Re: Proposed patch to system.XWinrc

2009-06-17 Thread Jon TURNEY
Ken Brown wrote: I recommend that the xorg-server maintainers consider the following patch to system.XWinrc: --- system.XWinrc.orig 2009-02-22 12:27:28.0 -0500 +++ system.XWinrc 2009-06-09 11:57:50.328125000 -0400 @@ -79,8 +79,8 @@ // Make some menus... menu apps { - xte

Re: can't open Xterm

2009-06-17 Thread Jon TURNEY
dingyang wrote: Hi, All: I just installed cygwin using setup.exe under WinXP operation system, but I can't start X Windows. I've checked and even reinstall X11 again. When I try, I get a pop-up that says: A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit. Please open /tmp/XWin.log for mor

Re: XWinrc suggestion

2009-06-17 Thread Jon TURNEY
It would be perhaps better to teach startxwin.bat to use .xserverrc for this purpose, just like startx does. This could probably be achieved by changing startxwin.bat to use startx to start the server, rather than starting it directly :-) There are a few ancillary issues with doing this, thou

Re: Xwin does not start because CYGWIN_ROOT is wrong in startxwin.bat

2009-06-17 Thread Jon TURNEY
Frédéric Bron wrote: This bug is valid for 1.5 and 1.7: I have installed cygwin in D:\cygwin-1.5 but startxwin.bat contains SET CYGWIN_ROOT=\cygwin It should be updated to SET CYGWIN_ROOT=\cygwin-1.5 Can someone change this in the installation process? Also the "Start in" directory should also

Re: XWin Server shortcut broken

2009-06-17 Thread Jon TURNEY
Frank Mori Hess wrote: I did an install of cygwin/x and the xwin server shortcut it installs in the start menu didn't work. I had to go into its properties and set the "Start in:" field to C:\ This may be due to the fact that my home directory is at H:\ Running the command C:\cygwin\bin\ru

Re: WORKAROUND: Unable to load any usable iso8859 font

2009-06-17 Thread Jon TURNEY
Forwarded to list, unread Please read http://cygwin.com/problems.html#personal-email linked_puffb...@comcast.net wrote: Dear Jon Turney, Today I installed cygwin from scratch on a new laptop with Vista Home Premium. I have gotten the "Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font." message when sta

Re: Problem starting X as user

2009-06-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Michael Winkler wrote: Hi, I installed cygwin today and I have problems is starting X as a user. Installation was done as Admin - and I can open X-Windows shells and programs as administrator. But when I try the same as Windows user I get error messages. Unfortunately, my UNIX knowledge is qui

Problem starting X as user

2009-06-17 Thread Michael Winkler
Hi, I installed cygwin today and I have problems is starting X as a user. Installation was done as Admin - and I can open X-Windows shells and programs as administrator. But when I try the same as Windows user I get error messages. Unfortunately, my UNIX knowledge is quite outdated - but I gues

Blank title bars

2009-06-17 Thread Csaba Raduly
For some reason, changes to the title bar text result in a blank title bar instead until the window loses focus. For example, a new NEdit window will have a blank title bar until I click on another window or the desktop. Then the filename appears. If I modify the file, the title bar becomes blank