Re: could not open default font 'fixed' - revisited

Will Senn wrote: > 1. I started a new thread, hence the - revisited suffix. > 2. I didn't reply to a message Your headers speak otherwise: > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Your so-called new message shows up in my mail

Re: startxwin.bat failing

Jon wrote: > I'm trying to run startxwin.bat on a Windows XP system. When I do, the > Cygwin/X Server starts however when the terminal window comes up, I get the > two following error messages: > > xterm: Can't execvp /usr/bin/bash: No such file or directory > xterm: Could not exec /bin/sh: No su

Re: telnet doesn't work

Dmitry Babich wrote: > I installed cygwin/X on XP box. When I try to telnet to another machine, I > immediately received prompt back. It looks like telnet do nothing. I tryed > "/?" to receive help - still nothing. > > Note, that ping works fine. > > If I do telnet from Windows cmd window every

Re: compile in cygwin

Duong Duong wrote: > > I download an component buibded in linux and recopiled > it in cygwin but gcc showed somne errors. One of them > are the error in string.h file. > I attach this source code with this email. It is open > source VietNamese keyboard for linux. > Could you help me? Thanks This

Re: compile in cygwin (can't create configure file)

Duong Duong wrote: > aclocal:configure.ac:108: warning: macro > `AM_GLIB_DEFINE_LOCALEDIR' not found in library You need the glib2-devel package. (And it's not necessary to attach the source code to the mailing list, you can just include a link to ) Bri

Re: XWin minimal installation

Juan José Gutiérrez de Quevedo Pérez wrote: > This might be of interest to some people in the list, so there it goes. > > I've just finished making a small distribution of X/Cygwin (only 2Mb), > and have placed it in the following address: > http://www.iteisa.com/xmins/ > (xmins-->XWin Minimal In

Re: Missing libs when compiling GTK+ code

Radek Vokal wrote: > I think I do sth wrong. I started with helloword example trying to > compile it with > > gcc -mms-bitfields -mno-cygwin -mwindows helloworld.c -o > helloworld.exe `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0` `pkg-config --libs > gtk+-2.0` > > but I get several errors starting with > > he

getting rxvt to use the same font for both W11 and X11

I would like to specify a font for rxvt in ~/.Xdefaults and have it look the same whether it's using native win32 or X11. I have added lucida console to the font path, and I wish to have it be 11 pt. If I put: rxvt*font: "-*-lucida console-*-*-*-*-*-11-*-*-*-*-*-*" ...in .Xdefaults, then the f

Re: GTK+, CYGWIN & MSW

Jamiil Abdullah-Alkadir wrote: > I have finally got an application to compile under cygwin, but to run it I > have to launch the X server, 'startx' to be able to run the program under > cygwin. However, I am not able to run the program form windows, I have added > the 'cygwin.dll' and 'cygX11-6.dl

Re: startx hanging - startup problem located

"martouf ." wrote: > I can state I am -not- having a "personal firewall problem". With the > help of 'Process Explorer' from sysinternals.com, I have been able to > determine it is caused by 'cat.exe' using >90% CPU. I wouldn't be so sure. Process Explorer is a nice tool but it doesn't always p

Re: Process Explorer (was: startx hanging - startup problem located)

"martouf ." wrote: > yes, bringing up the Threads tab on processes like 'xterm' and 'sh' > causes a new thread "ntdll.dll!RtlConvertUiListToApiList+0xNNN" to be > created. It is simple to remedy this by killing the thread. Having > done so, CPU usage returns to normal and the Cygwin process beco

Re: Cannot connect to a Sun server using xterm

Alexander Gottwald wrote: > $ ssh userid@ -Y & Shouldn't this be just "ssh -Y [EMAIL PROTECTED]" or "ssh -Y -l userid host" ? If he does the above, it will treat the second as the command to run, which is probably why the window closes. Brian

Re: ssh -Y not an option

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I will read man Xsecurity but just to re-iterate; the ssh command > does not take the option -Y. I get this statement > > ssh: illegal option -- Y > Usage: ssh [options] host [command] > > Sorry for the confusion I cut and pasted the wrong bit but I did > repost the l

Re: "Linux @ home -> Cygwin X server @ home" won't work

seya wrote: > line 4 > tcp 0 1 192.168.11.8:32955 192.168.11.2:x11 SYN_SENT The fact that it's hung in the SYN_SENT state is a very strong indicator that something low level is wrong, such as a port being blocked by a firewall, a server listening on the wrong interface, and so on.

Re: fedora project

kyle white wrote: > Is it possible to run fedora project from cygwin? Your question is too vague, but the answer is probably "no". Cygwin gives you unix/posix compatibility at the source level, not the binary level. There is absolutely no way to run a binary that is compiled for linux under cyg

Re: regression code in in the latest cygwin versions

hugues henocq wrote: > I wanted to upgrade my cygwin version from 1.3.17 to 1.5.17 and, then, > I tried > to compil and link my software using X/lesstif GUI. The link works but I > get some new messages like this: > ... > Then, when I run the software, it fails down with a segmentation fault. > T

Re: Compiling xorg-x11-fonts

Alireza Ghasemi wrote: > I have downloaded xorg-x11-fonts-6.8 but I don't know how to compile > it.There is no typical Makefile and no configure script.Please explain me > step by step how to compile it and get use of X11 in Cygwin.I need X! 1. You sent this to the wrong address. For X11 questio

Re: compiling flpsed under Cygwin

"Stephen P. Harris" wrote: > Well I installed LyX 1.3.1 before the current port to native Windows, > LyX 1.3.6. So I used the recommendation found at the porter's website. What he means is that Cygwin/X long ago transitioned from XFree86 to X.org for the X server. If you are still using the anci

Re: compiling flpsed under Cygwin

"Stephen P. Harris" wrote: > "I use xfree86 as my x server for my cygwin windows lyx, > perhaps there is a conflict? I have all the files for both > Xfree and X11 org installed and the compatibility file. > There is no LibXll.so native to my computer." There will never be a "libX11.so" on your co

Re: compiling flpsed under Cygwin

"Stephen P. Harris" wrote: > Pontificate on your own dime. My point has nothing to do with > the correctness of your advice, but the irrelevancy of it to flpsed. FYI, I was able to build flpsed just fine. The actual hard part is building a X11 fltk. The Cygwin packaged version uses win32/GDI an

Re: Problem about window managers

Alireza Ghasemi wrote: > I compiled Fvwm95 and I tried to run it using " startx -e fvwm95.exe " but > it failed and said that " there is Another window manager running " . What's > wrong and what should I do to solve it ? You're probably using -multiwindow mode when starting XWin.exe which means

Re: Problems launching X

Jose Luis Gomez Dans wrote: > Previously to this installation, cygwin used to reside on c:\cygwin, and the > /usr/X11R6... directory seems to point to c:\cygwin, ratheer than to > e:\cygwin (where it now resides), but I don't know where cygwin gets its > mount table from. I suspect that this is wh

Re: Copy and Paste between my PC and CygwinX

"Lee, Jason" wrote: > I have recently start using CygwinX which is a window to my UNIX environment. > The problem is that I have being searching for answer to do copy and paste > between CygwinX environment and my PC environment. > I can use Ctrl-Insert and Shift-Insert to do copy and paste in

Re: Cygwin/X and 64-bit Windows

Nathan Heck wrote: > Is Cygwin/X compatible with 64-bit Windows? I checked the website and help > documents but this does not appear to be addressed anywhere. > > I have installed Cygwin/X in several of our labs each time configuring it the > same way and it works beautifully in our labs with 32-

Re: Is my X Server not fully started (Rel: 6.8.2.0-4)

Jack Tanner wrote: > Does anyone know if Cygwin and Cygwin/X have been tested under VMware? Yes, and both work fine. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ F

Re: Basic question X - whatever

Herbert Eppel wrote: > Just one more thing for now: I think I may find it a little difficult to > get used to pressing the left and right mouse button simultaneously. > > Is there an alternative (without losing my double-click function for the > scroll wheel button)? Some mouse drivers (for exam

Re: Basic question X - whatever

Herbert Eppel wrote: > Thanks for this. I have a (relatively old) optical Logitech mouse, and I > can't see such an option in the mouse properties. Perhaps I simply have > to get used to the left/right combination :-) You might try installing the MS Intellipoint drivers anyway. I have read in th

Re: Problem configuring gtkpod-0.94.0 in cygwin:

breakthestate wrote: > checking for id3_frame_field in -lid3tag... no > configure: error: *** id3tag >= 0.15 lib not found (0.14 will not work!) gcc is not finding libid3tag. > configure:6965: checking for id3_frame_field in -lid3tag > configure:6995: gcc -o conftest.exe -O2 -L/usr/local/include

Re: X Copy/Paste ?

Roy Wiseman wrote: > A quick question, and I have a feeling this is asked > regularly, but I couldn't find an answer on searching > the forum. > > How can I copy/paste to/from xterm to another xterm > windows and also how can I copy/paste to/from an xterm > window and a windows application like s

Re: port existing x windows application to win32

Thomas Dickey wrote: > The X library source is not GPL. Likewise ncurses. > Stating that it is "effectively" GPL is at best misleading, > since it is possible for someone to take the same source > to a different place and use it without cygwin. The word "effectively" might be misleading to you b

Re: XInternAtom XRectInRegion ... not found ... problem with the make file?

Robert Body wrote: >$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(XLIBDIR) $(XLIBS) $(OBJS) -o $(PROGRAM) In case it wasn't clear in my first reply, this is wrong. You need OBJS before XLIBS, the order does matter. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: htt

Re: XInternAtom XRectInRegion ... not found ... problem with the make file?

Robert Body wrote: > Since this was a distrubuted software (and 5 years old) I thought the > makefile would have been right. And I didn't know that OBJS before XLIBS > would make a difference like that. When you port software that has only really ever been tested under Linux to other *nix-like sy

Re: rxvt fonts size setting problem for X/Cygwin

Charles Wilson wrote: > One thing I haven't worked out is, if I click this shortcut with no X > server running, I get a gigantic rxvt-native window with absolutely huge > font. But that's my error; I just close the window, start the X server, > and go again. "Problem" solved. FWIW I noticed the

Re: How to add a title to xterm

PoWah Wong wrote: > How to add a title to xterm? > > I start cygwinx by "startx". > The following commands does not work: > xterm -T columbia & > xterm -title columbia & > xterm -title "columbia" & The default cygwin prompt contains escape characters that set the window title to contain the CWD.

Re: Mutex init failure trying to run Scribus

René Berber wrote: > versions of gdb and also Microsoft's WinDbg, all show the same problem > "Program > received signal SIGSEGV ... in pthread_key_create". I'll look into this > tomorrow, I've used gdb under XWindows in HP-UX and Solaris but this is the > first time under Cygwin/X, perhaps some

Re: Mutex init failure trying to run Scribus

René Berber wrote: > - From what you said, the "initializer=0x0" is what casuses the SIGSEGV. I'm not sure if that's what's causing it, because it doesn't try to dereference that. I think what's happening is that this: /* The opengroup docs don't define if we should check this or not, bu

Re: Removal or anonymization of a posting

Rainer Luxus wrote: > it's now for many years that I find a certain posting > in the cygwin xfree archive associated with my name > and (office) email address when I'm looking for my > name with the GOOGLE search engine. > > I have accepted this for the elapsed time for the sake > of other users

Re: dselect

STEPHEN GRANT BROWN wrote: > I am sorry if this question has already been answered. > When I run dselect in an cygwin bash shell, I get the following message > > read-only access: only preview of selections is available. > > Is this covered in the documentation? If not, how do I fix it? You see

Re: Xlib: connection to "192.168.0.249:0.0" refused by server

PoWah Wong wrote: > If my client is a unix computer, then "xhost +" will > fix the problem. > Now my client is a windows XP computer, what should I do? What you *should* do is use ssh -Y. Using xhost-based authentication is antiquated and insecure, but it should also work the same as you would o

Re: problems with latest cygwin version CYGWIN_NT-5.1 ELEPHANT 1.5.19(0.150/4/2) 2006-01-20 13:28 i686 Cygwin

Ron Rice & Helga Holtmann wrote: > I have already rebooted the computer several times, and have not had > problems running these applications prior to this download. What further > steps do I need to take to fix this? Uh, did you try doing what the error suggests, searching your system for cygwin

Re: Problems when linking X programs

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > gcc -o Xtest -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 Xtest.cpp This is wrong. Order matters. Put -lX11 at the end (or after any objects that refer to symbols in it), forgot all that other stuff. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports

Re: xterm title not setable

David Strozzi wrote: > I'm running a pretty new cygwin installation (started from scratch about > a month ago) and can't get the title of an xterm window to be anything > other than the current directory. I'm running on win XP. I start the > cygwin X server, and get an xterm. I then launch new

Re: Questions for previous Cygwin/X maintainers

"Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)" wrote: > 2) Is mounting the fonts directory necessary? On one machine, on which > xorg-x11-6.8.2 was the first version installed, there is no such mount, > and yet the old XWin runs. At some point in the past Alexander has said that the reason for having that mount no l

Re: Problem with -multiwindow and -clipboard when using -nolisten tcp

Naveed Hasan wrote: > Editing the XWin.exe 6.8.2.0-4 binary for fun and profit. > http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~naveed/CygwinX While I can appreciate that building X11 from source might be difficult and painful, this is really not a good solution at all. Most importantly, this won't fix the bug in

Re: Problem with -multiwindow and -clipboard when using -nolisten tcp

Brian Dessent wrote: > Additionally, you are violating the GPL because you offer binaries with Er, sorry... X11 isn't GPL, my fault. I fired off without thinking... like I said, it's a pretty common occurance. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-s

Re: gcc output from remote machine shows up strange on cygwin xterm

Russ Lewis wrote: > I ssh from my local Cygwin installation to a remote Linux box (Fedora > Core 5 on AMD64). When I run gcc on the remote machine, certain parts of > various error messages show up strangely; things between single quotes > show up as the character â. That's UTF-8. It happens bec

Re: gcc output from remote machine shows up strange on cygwin xterm

Thomas Dickey wrote: > Well, then he wouldn't be using cygwin, right? xterm could if cygwin > could - but the last I read, cygwin handled only a handful of 8-bit > locales. (Using putty doesn't count, and having noticed some comments > about gnome being off-topic, suspect that's the same). Whil

Re: Trouble with the g++ compiler

-Patrick wrote: > It appears the cygwin version is significantly different as I get an > error while compiling C++ code that Ive used an overloaded function and Im > certain I am not. My school's server that appears to run the correct > version does not produced this error upon compilation. > > Ho

Re: convert does nothing

Fergus Daly wrote: > On my system (complete and up-to-date) the "convert" command achieves > nothing. E.g. after > convert file1.ps file2.jpg > the prompt is almost immediately returned. No error msg. And no > file2.jpg. How is it for you? The problem is due to a packaging issue. The 6.8

Re: Any move to xorg v7?

Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote: > Is anyone considering porting cygwin/x to the v7 architecture? It's not a matter of porting per se. You can use x.org R7 with Cygwin right now, through Cygwin Ports. (But that's of course a separate project so use its mailing list for problems.) The issue is that Cygw

Re: Windows Vista

Scott Fordin wrote: > > No. The error you got is unlikely to be as a result of Vista. Try a > > different mirror. > > Also make sure that you run the Cygwin setup as Administrator. This > doesn't just mean that your user account has Administrator rights; > you have to right-click the Cygwin set

Re: using chere

Dave wrote: > In other words, would there be general unhappiness if I were to set the > (chere) xterm startup command to something along the lines of: > > %cygwin%\bin\run.exe -p /usr/X11R6/bin %cygwin%\bin\xterm.exe -display > 127.0.0.1:0.0 -e /bin/xhere /bin/bash.exe "%L" > > Does anyone have

Re: xterm not accepting Window Title name changes

Paul McFerrin wrote: > I can't seem to get xterm to recognize Window Title name changes via the > following: > > echo "\0332;new_title\07\c" You were just recently posting in the thread where this came up before: and

Re: Unicode/widechar xterm

Robert Uhl wrote: > Recent builds of xterm don't have --with-wide-chars (or whatever) > enabled. Any good reason why not? Connecting to a Unicode terminal > with a non-unicode xterm has...interesting...results. Cygwin/newlib only supports the C locale, so you could build xterm or rxvt with unic

Re: libXaw8 replacement

Ken Brown wrote: > /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: > cannot find -lresolv > > I assume this means that I have to install a package that contains the > resolv library, but I couldn't find one by searching the cygwin package > list. Can someone tell me what pac

Re: XOrg 7.2 issue with -multiwindow

Uh Huh wrote: > Yes, I read that more than once, and it appeared to contain nothing > pertinent, other than the fact that compositing doesn't work with > -multiwindow, and that there are plans to fix that later. Fine, Did you miss the following part? > * The WindowsWM extension is currently dis

Re: OpenGL-1.1.0 compile problem in cygwin-1.7

"Phan, Linh H" wrote: > /usr/include/sys/_types.h:63:20: error: stddef.h: No such file or directory > In file included from /usr/lib/../include/w32api/glui.h:29, > from example1.cpp:20: > /usr/include/stdio.h:37:20: error: stdarg.h: No such file or directory > In file included fro

Re: OpenGL-1.1.0 compile problem in cygwin-1.7

"Phan, Linh H" wrote: > $ /usr/bin/g++ -g -c -I/usr/include/opengl test.c++ > x.c++: In function `void test()': > x.c++:7: error: invalid conversion from `void (*)()' to `void (*)()' > x.c++:7: error: initializing argument 3 of `void > gluTessCallback(GLUtesselator*, GLenum, void (*)())' > x.c+

Re: OpenGL-1.1.0 compile problem in cygwin-1.7

"Phan, Linh H" wrote: > gluTessCallback(tobj, (GLenum)GLU_BEGIN, (void (*)())glBegin); > gluTessCallback(tobj, (GLenum)GLU_END, glEnd); > gluTessCallback(tobj, (GLenum)GLU_VERTEX, (void (*)())glVertex2fv); > } > > And that fixed it for glEnd, but I don't know how to fix the glBegin and > g