Charles Wilson wrote:
[...]
run.exe is peculiar. The first argument is the target, and IF the VERY
NEXT argument is "-wait", run "usurps" that argument. That is, run
will invoke:
checkX
and checkX will never see "-wait". So, what does run.exe do with
"-wait"? It...waits. run.exe won't ex
On 11/12/2009 3:17 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote:
On 10/11/2009 23:44, Mike Ayers wrote:
On Behalf Of jean-luc malet
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 2:50 AM
no more result... gvim process is still started, appears in ps -a, but
nothing is displayed on screen, replacing gvim by xterm still work
with th
On 11/12/2009 4:31 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote:
On 30/10/2009 13:48, Ken Brown wrote:
2. If I start the X server by using the default startxwin.bat or
startxwin.sh (both of which call checkX), the server is very unstable
and crashes within a few minutes. This happens consistently, and it
never happens
Jon TURNEY wrote:
> But why would you fix the timeout problem by doing some horrible
> horrible iteration in the DOS batch script (horrible) (which would
> probably have to busy-wait (also horrible) as there's no sleep command),
> when you can fix checkX, which has the bonus of fixing other uses of
> If you read the cygcheck output which Olivia kindly provided, you will
> see
> that she is running cygwin 1.5, with Xserver 1.5.3, so these recent
> breakages
> relating to Xserver 1.7.1 are unlikely to be the cause of her problems.
>
> --
> Jon TURNEY
> Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer
On 12/11/2009 23:09, Lothar Brendel wrote:
Jon TURNEY wrote:
[...]
Fortunately, the X server
binds it's socket pretty early in the startup, so this probably works
pretty well, but in theory at least there is still a possible timing
window in startxwin.bat.
Yep, and in my setup the X server *
On 12/11/2009 23:04, Mike Ayers wrote:
From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-
ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Olivia Cheronet
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 2:16 PM
I have recently started to work with Cygwin/X.
Until now, I have been starting Cygwin/X by using startxwin.b
> From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-
> ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Olivia Cheronet
> Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 2:16 PM
> I have recently started to work with Cygwin/X.
> Until now, I have been starting Cygwin/X by using startxwin.bat in the
> Cygwin bash shell. Ev
Jon TURNEY wrote:
[...]
Fortunately, the X server
binds it's socket pretty early in the startup, so this probably works
pretty well, but in theory at least there is still a possible timing
window in startxwin.bat.
Yep, and in my setup the X server *always* comes up too late.
So it perhaps
Here is my cygcheck.out.
Sorry about that!
- Original Message
> From: Olivia Cheronet
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Sent: Thu, November 12, 2009 10:16:16 PM
> Subject: Cygwin/x window no longer appears
>
> Hello!
>
>
> I have recently started to work with Cygwin/X.
> Until now, I
Hello!
I have recently started to work with Cygwin/X.
Until now, I have been starting Cygwin/X by using startxwin.bat in the Cygwin
bash shell. Everything seemed to be working fine. However, it has now stopped
working...
When I type "startxwin.bat" in the Cygwin shell, the normal
>startxwin.ba
On 30/10/2009 13:48, Ken Brown wrote:
I'm having trouble with checkX. I haven't seen other people complain
about this, so I assume it's something about my system, but I can't
figure out what. There are two symptoms:
1. If I run checkX with a timeout, the timeout seems to be ignored. For
example
Sounds weird, perhaps you've tried already but did you just highlight
the word in the xterm (without clicking) to copy it and then (in some
other place) press the middle (button 2) to paste it?I saw some
friends having this little problem time ago.
Sent from my iPod
On Nov 12, 2009, at 3:1
dbl...@comcast.net wrote:
Hi,
I just discovered that setting "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" in my environment solved the
problem with pasting into an xterm. Not exactly sure why this fixed that problem,
anybody know?
I still have the problem with clipboard sharing between windows and cygwinx,
though.
> From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-
> ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Jon TURNEY
> Wait, are you saying that the process that run starts is blocked if it
> tries
> to output anything?
That is what I am experiencing.
> Also, the suggestions that this has something t
Hi,
I just discovered that setting "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" in my environment solved the
problem with pasting into an xterm. Not exactly sure why this fixed that
problem, anybody know?
I still have the problem with clipboard sharing between windows and cygwinx,
though. Could this also be related t
On 10/11/2009 23:44, Mike Ayers wrote:
On Behalf Of jean-luc malet
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 2:50 AM
no more result... gvim process is still started, appears in ps -a, but
nothing is displayed on screen, replacing gvim by xterm still work
with this solution...
To find out why t
Hi,
I am having trouble with pasting text into xterm windows, in cygwin1.7. The
problem I'm having seems like the same one recently reported in this thread
'Cut & Paste problem between X windows'. However, I am using a microsoft mouse
(the problem in that thread was with a logitech mouse). I w
On 11/12/2009 01:16 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote:
The only use of the lock file appears to be to stop people from doing
things like starting 'X :0 -nolisten inet -nolisten inet6' and 'X :0
-nolisten unix' at the same time, so I'm kind of tempted just to make
'-nolock' the default and let people run with
The following packages have been updated for Cygwin 1.7:
* libX11_6-1.3.2-2
* libX11-devel-1.3.2-2
* libX11-xcb1-1.3.2-2
* libX11-xcb-devel-1.3.2-2
libX11, aka Xlib, is the core library of the X11 protocol.
This release adds support for the C.UTF-8 locale.
Yaakov
Cygwin/X
CYGWIN-XFREE-ANNOU
The following package has been updated for Cygwin 1.7:
* xorg-server-1.7.1-3
This package contains XWin and the other X.Org X11 servers.
The following patches has been added in this release:
- Don't crash if conversion of window name to UTF-8 fails.
- Discourage other window managers from star
On 11/11/2009 10:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Nov 11 07:40, Fergus wrote:
Q1. Is it still the case that this problem is "not well understood"
as in this reference?
http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-cant-read-lock-file
Hardlinks don't work on FAT filesystems since FAT doesn
On 11/11/2009 07:40, Fergus wrote:
I have made no alterations/ patches/ amendments and have a completely
current [1.7] system.
For all of
cygwin1.7.61.dll - cygwin1.7.64.dll
the command
run XWin
fails with a reference to /vat/log/XWin.0.log which reads
Can't read lock file /tmp/.X0.lock
But whe
Thanks, Jon!
Installing the three font collections you suggested seems to have
solved all THREE of the problems I mentioned. I can only guess
that somehow the font/locale issues prevented some .Xdefault
information from being loaded or used properly, but I attach
the .Xdefaults file anyway.
The
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> On 09/11/2009 16:48, Corentin Chary wrote:
>>
>> Is there a way to disable the PRIMARY clipboard ?
>> Would a patch like that
>> http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-06/msg00148.html (with a
>> command line option) be accepted ?
>
> It's f
On 09/11/2009 16:48, Corentin Chary wrote:
Is there a way to disable the PRIMARY clipboard ?
Would a patch like that
http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-06/msg00148.html (with a
command line option) be accepted ?
It's far more likely to be accepted if you say what problem you are trying
On 08/11/2009 14:11, Eliot Moss wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Nov 7 09:27, Eliot Moss wrote:
Like another user, I had difficulty getting X to fire up.
After setting LANG=en_US.UTF-8 I got farther, but these issues
remain:
Each xterm, xemacs, and xclock I start outputs this:
Warning: Missi
On 07/11/2009 01:10, Cesar Strauss wrote:
Jon TURNEY wrote:
I think I've finally found out why these "Permission denied" errors
occur.
It seems to be caused by the XWin.exe.manifest file we store in the
same directory (it's not shipped as it's embedded into the final
executable using the resour
Since nobody has responded at all, I thought I would
try again, a different way ...
This is a case where what I believe is normal termination
of a window manager (in my case twm) is causing a seg fault
in XWin, at least that's what the attached log seems to
say.
The odd thing is that this happen
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