Re: Vista, new install, x server does not start, startxwin.bat missing

2010-02-03 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 03/02/2010 01:18, Dr. M. C. Nelson wrote: We installed cygwin/x on a new acer laptop (vista). The X server does not start from the icon, and the x server does not start from the command line startx The batch script startxwin.bat is not present. Don't panic about the absence of startxwin.

Re: startxwin.exe and emulate3buttons

2010-02-03 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 02/02/2010 15:23, Anthony Becker wrote: In the previous version of Cygwin/X, when XWin.exe was started by startxwin.bat, I was able to specify the emulate3buttons option to simulate a middle mouse button press by pressing the right and left buttons simultaneously. Now that I must use startxwin

Re: startxwin.exe and emulate3buttons

2010-02-03 Thread Anthony Becker
Jon, thank you - that worked. Anthony On 2/3/2010 12:45, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 02/02/2010 15:23, Anthony Becker wrote: In the previous version of Cygwin/X, when XWin.exe was started by startxwin.bat, I was able to specify the emulate3buttons option to simulate a middle mouse button press by pre

Re: screen pixel density VS startxwin.exe

2010-02-03 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 19/01/2010 14:45, Alexandre Beaugy wrote: For many years now, I used to set my screen pixel density to 90 pixels per inch, instead of the default 75 ppi, in the "startxwin.bat" file. My "startxwin.bat" used to be executed, then, at windows startup, to get a full functional Cygwin-X environment

Re: Can't start X after upgrading to cygwin1.7

2010-02-03 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 23/01/2010 15:37, Jeff Spirko wrote: On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Andrew Senior wrote: I've had cygwin installed for a year on my Thinkpad T61, running Windows XP professional, and just ran the latest setup.exe from cygwin.com. I now can't run X with startxwin.exe (no process appears, no

Re: screen not updated outside 1680x1050

2010-02-03 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 18/12/2009 06:11, Frédéric Bron wrote: XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1680 h 1050 ^ Looks like the system doesn't see your whole resolution at startup

Re: Windows Batch File to start xterm on Cygwin/X 1.7.x

2010-02-03 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 25/01/2010 22:53, Zheng-Da Tan wrote: I like to have one icon in Windows that I can click on to open a new xterm window: - if the X server is not running, the icon would start X and launch a xterm window - if the X server is running, it will simply open a new xterm window on the existi

Re: startxwin.exe without lingering DOS window

2010-02-03 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 06/01/2010 23:14, Raul Acevedo wrote: How do you run startxwin.exe so that it doesn't leave a lingering MS-DOS window after it starts the programs in ~/.startwinrc? As pointed out by others, this is achieved by using 'run' (which is designed for exactly that purpose) to invoke startxwin.

Re: Option to disable PRIMARY clipboard

2010-02-03 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 12/11/2009 14:27, Corentin Chary wrote: 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 o

Re: problem with startxwin.exe and a possible solution

2010-02-03 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 21/01/2010 23:13, Marco Atzeri wrote: Hi, after the transition from startxwin.bat to startxwin.exe, I had the "Xwin Server" menu pratically unusable. The server start but the xterm usually don't show up while ps reports it running. Running a second xterm could appear but most of the time as if

Re: problem with startxwin.exe and a possible solution

2010-02-03 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
I posted a related problem a month ago (CYGWIN=tty). In my case, when starting the server, I could not start an Xterm, nor could I start one from the system tray icon. I could start one from a shortcut icon on my desktop, however. This is the first time that anyone else on this list has confirmed

Re: problem with startxwin.exe and a possible solution

2010-02-03 Thread George Barrick
2010.02.03.16:43:56 EST Hi Jim and cygwin-xfree folks, I had the same problem that Jim was experiencing. I had started with cygwin-1.7 back in August, and over the course of the autumn months had my difficulties with startxwin.bat. Among the things that I did to make star

Re: Can't start X after upgrading to cygwin1.7

2010-02-03 Thread Tim Prince
On 2/3/10 12:43 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 23/01/2010 15:37, Jeff Spirko wrote: On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Andrew Senior wrote: I've had cygwin installed for a year on my Thinkpad T61, running Windows XP professional, and just ran the latest setup.exe from cygwin.com. I now can't run X wi