Earle F. Philhower III wrote:
Howdy Harold,
At 07:31 PM 8/5/2003 -0400, you wrote:
In other words, I might look at your patch tomorrow, or I might look
at it next week. Can't say for sure.
In any case, thanks for the patch, I like the idea and am looking
forward to seeing what it does.
No rus
Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Ralf Habacker sent some patches on 2003/09/05 that I am working on
getting committed to the XFree86 CVS tree. Those two patches are here:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-09/msg00092.html
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-09/msg00090.html
I have opened Bug 698
Lung.Allen wrote:
I'm trying to get kde to display only the toolbar on my system! Here is what my start file look like.
___---
@echo off
set DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
set REMOTE_HOST=remotehost
set CYGWIN_ROOT=\cygwin
set PATH=.;%CYGWIN_ROOT%\bin;%CYGWIN_ROOT%\usr\X11R6\bin;%PATH%
if
Jeffrey C Honig wrote:
No, it does not happen when I use startxwin.bat. Even if I configure it
for -fullscreen. But it is only starting one xterm. I need to do more
testing trying to start multiple xterm.
I'll also post on the cywin list. I just thought it likely that someone
on this list may
Kensuke Matsuzaki wrote:
Hello,
This uses miext/rootless. rootless mode create Windows window for each toplevel X
window.
The remote X apps's reorder/maximize/minimize performance is improved.
And to click one X window doesn't raise all X window together.
Known problem:
When using twm, I click
Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Michel DÃnzer wrote:
Well, you know, XFree86's disregard for offers to help made by
developers that have been with the project for over two years are
certainly part of the problem.
Err, this is about bug triage, which you can do just as well as
everybody else.
No, th
Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Mitch,
Mitchell Skinner wrote:
I followed the [EMAIL PROTECTED] discussion and the xwin.org and
xouvert.org bits, and at first I wasn't sure if the complainers had a
real beef or if the hubbub was the outcome of some bizarre historical
politics, but it's becoming clearer
Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Jonathan,
Jonathan Walther wrote:
Hi Harold.
Hello, hello.
My name is Jonathan Walther, and I am the coordinator for the Xouvert
project. I read your post on Slashdot yesterday, and it looks like you
are responding to some of the same frustrations and desire for chang
Harold L Hunt II wrote:
I am interested in the work going on in the xlibs and xserver
repositories, which are an autotooled build of most X libs and the X
Server. I was able to build all but Xft from CVS (need a newer
version of FontConfig to build the latest Xft) using static libs, but
it sh
Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Alexander,
Alexander Gottwald wrote:
Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Another thing to keep in mind is how we want to do development. It has
been suggested that we keep the HEAD branch in sync with XFree86.org
and
that we do our development on another branch. The question here
Mike A. Harris wrote:
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, David Fraser wrote:
My suggestion is to import the current "stable" release into our CVS.
With
CVS we can later import the next release and merge all patches we have
already commited. Fixing severe bugs is still an issue and might be
Bruce A. Hamilton wrote:
XP Pro SP1, Pentium 2.66 GHz, 1 GB memory.
I am running the latest cygwin including XFree86 4.3.0.
Performance connecting to my workplace via VPN over cable modem is
painfully slow, similar to what I used to see running X over dialup
years ago. I'm running a local wind
Chan Seng Loong wrote:
hi...
Can I install KDE from www.kde.org or GNOME from
www.gnome directly into cygwin xfree86?
Thanks
:-)
Neither www.kde.org nor www.gnome.org provide binaries compiled for
cygwin (AFAIK).
Compiling the source yourself is reasonably difficult and not to be
taken on u
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My apologies in advance if this is considered to be 'off topic' for this list.
I have heard rumour that it is possible to run the KDE desktop under Cygwin and wondered if anyone had any knowledge of this - experience or just a pointer to some details. Any help would be mu
their jobs for receiving 'dodgy' e-mail adverts at work.
Kevin.
kevin_dot_lawton_at_bt_dot_com
-Original Message-
From: David Fraser
Sent: 05 December 2003 10:41
To: cygwin-xfree
Cc: Lawton,K,Kevin,XJH3C C
Subject: Re: Cygwin - KDE
kevin.lawton wrote:
My apologi
Atwood, Robert C wrote:
Can you tell me the date/title of the announcement? I think it was a
while before I started reading this list, and Harold is so active that I
so far could not find it in the archives.
Updated: lesstif-0.93.91-6
01/16/2004 07:13 AM
Yauger, Joshua (Contractor) wrote:
Please provide some input; I can't find the information I need on the net to
complete my mission at hand. This issue is ongoing and needs to be
addressed, Thank you in advanced for any information you can provide for the
following:
PostgreSQL
How can I dump (back
Harold L Hunt II wrote:
We will soon (possibly next week) be releasing a new version of all
Cygwin/X packages built from the source code tree managed by X.org and
hosted on freedesktop.org. This will be a very good thing since all of
the Cygwin/X developers will be able to stay in sync with the
Harold L Hunt II wrote:
I pulled the subscribers list for this mailing list and did some
aggregate counts of the top-level domains that people are subscribed
from (results are below). The only problem with the results are that
I suspect that a great number of people not residing in the US have
Kensuke Matsuzaki wrote:
Hi,
On Sun, 30 May 2004, Ariel Burbaickij wrote:
I guess the topic says it all, gentlemen ;-)
No. There is currently no possibility to do this. The windows application
uses GDI to draw to the screen.
There is of course the possibility to catch the GDI call
Alexander Gottwald wrote:
On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, David Fraser wrote:
Wow! This is amazing! I wish I had known about it before ...
Still works, I only had to patch it to set the DEFAULT_CHARSET to Ansi
(see ttfont.cc, line 1140 or so for where to patch this)
I got some errors with stdint.h vs
Alexander Gottwald wrote:
On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, David Fraser wrote:
Alexander Gottwald wrote:
But I'm still getting segfaults. The msgbox example segfaults
in cygwin1!aclcheck. Are you using the latest packages or some older
ones?
Probably a bit older but not too old ... attach
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 09:31:31PM +0200, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
I have to make a sad announce:
Harold Hunt, leader of the Cygwin/X project for some years will quit being
the project leader because of his new job and family. With Harold quitting
I'll take over leader
Alexander Gottwald wrote:
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 09:02:53PM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, ?yvind Harboe wrote:
* There are two many options and questions with CygWin. I imagine that
Xming.exe can come with a ~"z
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 10:30:48AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
In any event
Sorry. This message obviously slipped out before I was done with it.
I blame my spastic index finger. It likes to press the "y" key.
In any event, what I was going to say above was t
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 06:04:45PM +0200, David Fraser wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 10:30:48AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
In any event
Sorry. This message obviously slipped out before I was done with it.
I
Mark Fisher wrote:
I've just ported xfce4.2 to cygwin, and start it like this:
Fantastic! Are the patches included in the CVS, are their any particular
build instructions?
I'm on the xfce dev list but I didn't see anything about this ...
David
Maarten Boekhold wrote:
David Fraser wrote:
Mark Fisher wrote:
I've just ported xfce4.2 to cygwin, and start it like this:
Fantastic! Are the patches included in the CVS, are their any
particular build instructions?
I'm on the xfce dev list but I didn't see anything about this .
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 11:43:33AM -0500, Joseph Miller wrote:
Hello X Cygwin project. I got tired of the only option to use an X
Server on Windows to be either use the X-Win32 trial (like i would pay
$200+ for that!) or install the full cygwin environment.
You do
Alexander Gottwald wrote:
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Karl Bowden wrote:
Has any body made any more progress on compiling and getting the
CygPeace project working?
This seems like a very worthwile project if somebody could supply binaries.
The only other application I have seen to offer this feature of
got it compiled ok, and installed ok, but it does not seem
to have any effect. If I run the 'withdll -d:peacehook.dll winmine'
from a remote linux session (with the env vars setup), withdll just
sits there. No seg fault, nothing. I just have to end up hitting
Ctrl-C.
On Tue, 08 Feb 2
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I emailed you guys a few days ago and I have had no response. Cygwin
is not working for me. I reinstalled it twice and type in Xwin.exe
-query ruby.engin.edu and enter and this weird grey screen w/ two
black lines shows up. I really need this to be fixed. How do I fix it
Mike Morgan wrote:
I have been trying to come up with an answer to the following question
through FAQs, google, and IRC, but to no avail. Its a simple question,
but perhaps I am not asking/searching properly...
I wish to know if its possible to run a proper windows formatted
executa
Hi there
I posted this to the kde-cygwin mailing list and someone suggested
reposting it here.
Basically an explanation of my kde setup under Windows...
I am now using KDE as my default shell under Windows.
Thanks to everyone for the effort - it's so much nicer than explorer :-)
I thought it w
Hadn't tried that till you mentioned it ...
I tried starting actual .msi files with my win32start script (in my
previous message) and could both
install and uninstall programs that way without any problems without
explorer running. Also tried starting
C:\Winnt\system32\appwiz.cpl (Add/Remove pro
Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi Hans, David and other folks,
>
> Oeste, Hans P GPEB:EX wrote:
>
>> You might want to make sure to dave them in a file format that is
>> supported
>> by Office XP since it doesn't support Open Office, of course. Then
>> save it
>> to a file share that both can acc
Keith D. Tyler wrote:
>David Fraser was recently quoted as saying...
>
>
>>I've discovered that rather than using -fullscreen, if you simply use
>>-nodecoration
>>and set the X server to run at the same size as fullscreen, it doesn't
>>minimize w
Stuart Adamson wrote:
>>Every Windows draw command is translated into calls to a GDI
>>driver. this
>>driver is either the driver of the graphics card or a
>>printer. The people
>>from wine already have written a driver which exports a GDI
>>interface and
>>maps all calls to X11. Maybe this is
Alexander Gottwald wrote:
>On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Jehan wrote:
>
>
>
>>4. Give me valid point (like the hardware thing) and I'll just up. API
>>compatibility isn't a valid one since it can be easily fix (more easily
>>that writing a new GDI driver).
>>
>>
>
>Just explain the design you have i
Rasjid Wilcox wrote:
>On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 5:58 am, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
>
>
>
>>VNC is not the better solution. It grab parts of the picture _after_ they
>>were drawn. X11 sends the drawing commands across network. There was always
>>a VNC client for windows which allowed access to a unix
Stuart Adamson wrote:
>>From: Jehan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Stuart Adamson wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Maybe the way forward is to filter calls to user32.dll (where most of thebasic
>>>windowing functions end up). By filtering I mean renaming user32.dll to
>>>user32-real.dll and writing your own u
Stuart Adamson wrote:
>As what we are wanting to do here isn't strictly a cygwin/Xfree86
>thing could I suggest we start a new sourceforge project and mailing list
>for this?
>
>Of course - we need a name for that ...
>
>
>Stuart
>
>
Yes, I've been thinking this and then we can include it back
Stuart Adamson wrote:
>>I agree, we should hook user32.dll.
>>I have some code that does the following:
>>1) Uses Windows Hooks (designed for Computer-Based Training
>>etc) to get
>>loaded
>>into program as soon as the program creates a window, then calls 2)
>>2) Updates the address table to re
>
> Something more along those lines would help to differentiate your
> project from Cygwin/XFree86.
>
> Harold
>
> David Fraser wrote:
>
>> Yes, I've been thinking this and then we can include it back into
>> cygwin if neccessary
>> later. Possible names
Yes, will do as soon as the new project is set up. So it'll hopefully be
only a few more emails.
Jim Drash wrote:
>Can we move this discussion to another mailing list? and Get back to the
>business of cygwin-xfree, here.
>
>TIA
>jim drash
>
>
>
>
Alexander Gottwald wrote:
>On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, David Fraser wrote:
>
>
>
>>Other names:
>> OpenWin[dows] (because it's open source replacement for windows gdi)
>> XOpenWin[dows]
>>
>>
>
>OpenWindows is the X11 environment from SUN.
Submitted an application to source forge to create project XOpenWin.
Will post again when it is set up (takes a while for them to process)
David
/cons?
Jean-Claude Gervais wrote:
>Um, was Win2X pitched as a name?
>
>
>-Original Message-
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
>Behalf Of David Fraser
>Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 1:23 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: XOpenWin
>
>S
OK. Let's use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for the mean time if there is
any discussion
needed. Once it's going we can discuss elsewhere. It would be really
nice to have this hosted
at sources.redhat.com but actually at the moment we don't need that, we
just need to start
developing. But that can all be d
I have got xopenwin.sourceforge.net going with a simple page, and I
recommend we use
this for hosting anything we need to share info / source until we decide
anything further.
This is my last post about this for a while, see the other post about
lists...
Nicholas Wourms wrote:
>--- Da
ygwin-xfree/2002-09/)
David Fraser
Christopher Faylor wrote:
>Actually, if you want an existing mailing list to discuss this on, you
>can use [EMAIL PROTECTED] That was Suhaib's list but he's
>indicated that he's had to move on and the project is basically dead.
>The nam
Sorry everyone, posted to wrong list! Yikes!
David Fraser wrote:
> This is a notice to everyone on this list that we will (for a short
> time at least) be using this list to discuss a new project intended to
> allow ordinary Windows programs to appear in X-Windows. This is quite
&g
Thomas Chadwick wrote:
>> What to Fix
>> ===
>>
>> ssh should assume ``DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0'' when the DISPLAY variable
>> is not set on the Cygwin host. I am not sure why this is not
>> currently the case. I can only guess that the lack of this
>> assumption is either do to 1) a wh
Jean-Claude Gervais wrote:
I tried running XDM ?!? And it replies only root wants to run xdm... But
there is no user called root on my system...
Thanks.
An equal and opposite reaction... Is it possible to run XDMCP as a "server"
(sorry probably wrong terminology) on the cygwin side, so I can
Hansom Young wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Lisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 20:57:52 +0200
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Cygwin GNOME 1.4 binary packages
Hi Hansom,
I am definitely interested in a cygwin GNOME binary, like the KDE binary
which is available
Hansom Young wrote:
Hi,
Now you can download some prebuilt packages
from http://www.sourceforge.net/project/cygnome
Hi Hansom,
Thanks for doing this!
The URL should be http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/cygnome (missing s)
Currently only core libraries and a brunch of applications are ava
Kensuke, Harold,
I was just wondering whether it would be possible to create a test build
of the X server with this multi-window
mode. Obviously there are issues with it but I presume they only come up
in multi-window mode?
It would just be really nice to see it beginning to work - this is
somet
Ian Harcombe wrote:
Just to voice a quick vote of thanks to all involved in getting this
working.
I am now happily running Gnome 1.4 (with all the extra bits n bobs
you've provided) under Cygwin on a Windows XP Professional laptop as my
normal development environment at work. It is clean and res
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-multiwindow is not stable, so I thought binary is not needed.
XWin.exe is here.
http://peppermint.jp/products/asis/XWin.2002_12_09.exe.bz2
And libfreetype 2.1.1 is here.
http://peppermint.jp/temp/libfreetype.tar.bz2
Kensuke Matsuzaki
Thank you Kensuke! I have kons
Harold L Hunt II wrote:
David,
I have not released a test version because the version that Kensuke
sent me didn't work at all. It just kept repeating the dragging of a
window if you ever moved one. I sent a report to the list but he
never responded. I didn't want to bug him about it for aw
Alexander Gottwald wrote:
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, J S wrote:
Kensuke,
I'm not an expert on gdb but managed to get the following debug info for
you. Also in answer to Harold's question I only have one cygwin1.dll.
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x77e8c40c in _libkernel32_
Milos Komarcevic wrote:
Harold,
just tried Test 71, works fine on my Win2k box.
Kensuke's patch you mention in the release notes is for the
detached menus I believe (someone correct me if I'm wrong), which it
does indeed fix - but who knows, maybe it fixes the
segafult as well. It could be the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Sylvain Petreolle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 01:36:54 +0100 (CET)
::If I remember correct, when the dcop server isnt loaded it is started
::automatically when you call a kde application.
::
::Could the kde window manager be loaded the same way ?
Wel
Hi
just some feedback on -clipboard
Running Cygwin xterm on it works really well (i.e. I can easily copy
both ways)
Running kde-cygwin on it works really well.
Connecting using XDMCP to my Linux machine, works really well,
but sometimes it seems to disconnect (before any X window appears, or
whe
the window manager.
David Fraser has reported done so with kde-cygwin. See
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-cygwin&m=103072530327420&w=2 for
further infos.
Regards
Ralf
Which just shows why its bad to have a monolithic OS instead of one made
up of separate components
That
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Fraser
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 4:43 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: -clipboard on Test73
Hi
just some feedback on -clipboard
Running Cygwin xterm on it works really well (i.e. I can easily
David Fraser wrote:
Sorry, should have said I tried that too. Tried again now,
X -multiwindow works fine
X -clipboard works fine
X -multiwindow -clipboard crashes
X -rootless -clipboard works fine
There are no other options given (and I presume if you run X like this it
won't read any .xi
Harold L Hunt II wrote:
David,
I have made a new debugging release for you to try out:
http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/shadow/XWin-Test73-DEBUG-2.exe.bz2 (1201
KiB)
This new release has many more debug messages around the calls to
_XSetLocale. I have also made the MultiWindow WM call _XSetL
Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Anyone that is experiencing a crash on startup when using -clipboard
and -multiwindow, please try the debugging release that I made last night:
http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/shadow/XWin-Test76-DEBUG.exe.bz2 (1.2 MiB)
I am still awaiting confirmation that this does o
Jean-Raymond CHAUVIERE wrote:
Bonjour,
I have the same problem as you got :
_IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root
_IceTransmkdir: Mode of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to 1777
SESSION_MANAGER=local/auga:/tmp/.ICE-unix/1868
env: gnome-upgrade.py: No such file or directory
/
Chan Kar Heng wrote:
thank you for the courtesy.. :)
.. and i would likely (85%) agree with you that i do not have a
firm grasp on the scope... probably more.. probably less..
but if i had a firm grasp, i probably wouldn't need to ask around
the gurus here right? :)
what i do hope is to be able to
Harold L Hunt II wrote:
I have been working with the code for Keith Packard's XFIXES
extension. The XFIXES extension includes a new hook in
Xserver/dix/dispatch.c that allows functions within the Xserver (such
as the XFIXES xtension) to register for a callback when a selection's
ownership cha
Earle F. Philhower, III wrote:
Hi Harold,
-- Original Message -
Subject: X icon was not updated in XFree86-xserv-4.2.0-42
..
Benny was right. A newly compiled XWin.exe is 2 KiB larger than
4.2.0-42, which accounts for the 2 KiB increase in the size of X.ico.
Additionally, I
Alexander Gottwald wrote:
Harold L Hunt II wrote:
I really don't know much about administering CVS... and I kinda don't
have time to learn right now. However, if someone else is willing to
set it up, I would be more than happy to start using it. I would want
the xoncygwin CVS default branc
William E. Kempf wrote:
Are there any applications similar to Konsole for Cygwin. By similar, I
mean an application with a tabbed frame for multiple consoles and a button
to create new consoles, but one that doesn't require KDE (I want to run
-multiwindow).
You can actually run konsole from th
William E. Kempf wrote:
David Fraser said:
William E. Kempf wrote:
Are there any applications similar to Konsole for Cygwin. By similar,
I mean an application with a tabbed frame for multiple consoles and a
button to create new consoles, but one that doesn't require KDE (I want
t
Harold L Hunt II wrote:
All,
I have removed myself from the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
until I return from my honeymoon. Actually, we get back right near
the 4th of July weekend, so I won't really be back until around July 7th.
I expect many patches to be waiting for me ;)
Have fun until
msg wrote:
Greetings:
Just reporting progress on making a working XDM for Cygwin/XFree86
to manage remote displays:
I now have XDM working to provide a greeter dialog, authenticate
the 'root' user (who has setuid privs on the host) and spawn
the .xsession (in my case startup an rdesktop session).
Harold L Hunt II wrote:
So, my question for the community is whether anyone wants me to post
the 4.3.0 release as the new "stable" release and make another build
for Cygwin 1.5.1 and post that as the "test" release. Or, would
everyone rather that I wait and just make the 1.5.1 version the new
java java wrote:
Then give this a try...
Start->Run
c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\run /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm-display :0
YES! , this works perfectly. Now could this be added
as a right click menu option to the tray?
I don't think everyone would neccessarily like such an option.
What might be better is
Alexander Gottwald wrote:
Harold L Hunt II wrote:
I am all about baby steps. We haven't even proven that we know how to
start a new application for the user from the system tray icon yet.
Until we actually do that this discussion is really pointless.
I can send you code which spawns new p
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