GSlice problem with emacs Gtk+ build

2009-12-07 Thread Ken Brown
There's been a longstanding problem with emacs if it is configured to use Gtk+ in Cygwin. The relevant threads begin here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/threads.html#00823 http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-02/threads.html#00469 http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-02/threads.html#00503

Re: GSlice problem with emacs Gtk+ build

2009-12-07 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 07/12/2009 10:06, Ken Brown wrote: There's a known workaround, which is to set G_SLICE=always-malloc before starting emacs. As emacs maintainer, I've been reluctant to provide the Gtk+ version of emacs, because I don't want to answer hundreds of emails telling people about the workaround. I

Re: GSlice problem with emacs Gtk+ build

2009-12-07 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/7/2009 2:13 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 07/12/2009 10:06, Ken Brown wrote: There's a known workaround, which is to set G_SLICE=always-malloc before starting emacs. As emacs maintainer, I've been reluctant to provide the Gtk+ version of emacs, because I don't want to answer hundreds of

RE: cygwin-x xterm not compatible with windows 7?

2009-12-07 Thread Mike Ayers
From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree- ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of wgw...@sbcglobal.net Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2009 4:34 PM Sorry to take a bit of time to get back to you. I am attaching the files you requested. I am not familar with the cygwin x server log,

Re: cygwin-x xterm not compatible with windows 7?

2009-12-07 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 12/07/2009 06:13 PM, Mike Ayers wrote: I'm asking because what I have noticed about Windows 7 Home Edition is that even though I have created a user for myself with administrative priveleges, unless I tell the OS that I want to run a program as the administrator it will default to the