[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: picard-1.3.2 - MusicBrainz audio tagger

2015-02-19 Thread Dr . Volker Zell
Hi The package picard is now available with the Cygwin distribution: o http://picard.musicbrainz.org/ (Homepage) DESCRIPTION: MusicBrainz Picard is the official MusicBrainz tagger. Picard supports the majority of audio file formats, is capable of using audio fingerprints (PUIDs,

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {xfig/xfig-lib}-3.2.5c-2: An interactive drawing tool

2015-02-13 Thread Dr . Volker Zell
Hi New versions of 'xfig/xfig-lib' have been uploaded to a server near you. o Build for cygwin 1.7.34 with gcc-4.9.2 o Build against libpng16 CYGWIN-XFREE-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO == If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-xfree-announce mailing list,

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gnubg-1.04.000-1: A backgammon player and analysis tool.

2015-02-13 Thread Dr . Volker Zell
Hi A new version of 'gnubg' has been uploaded to a server near you. o Build for cygwin 1.7.34 with gcc-4.9.2 o Update to latest upstream o Build against libpng16, libgmp10 gnubg NEWS: === o No real NEWS available CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: ted-2.23-3: An easy rich text processor

2015-02-13 Thread Dr . Volker Zell
Hi A new version of 'ted' has been uploaded to a server near you. o Build for cygwin 1.7.34 with gcc-4.9.2 o Build against libpng16, libtiff6 CYGWIN-XFREE-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO == If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-xfree-announce mailing list,

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {XmHTML/libXmHTML0/XmHTML-devel}-1.1.7-13: A widget capable of displaying HTML 3.2 conforming text

2015-02-13 Thread Dr . Volker Zell
Hi New versions of 'XmHTML/libXmHTML0/XmHTML-devel' have been uploaded to a server near you. o Build for cygwin 1.7.34 with gcc-4.9.2 o Build against libpng16 CYGWIN-XFREE-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO == If you want to unsubscribe from the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gnuplot-5.0.0-1: A command-line driven interactive function plotting utility

2015-02-13 Thread Dr . Volker Zell
Hi A new version of 'gnuplot' has been uploaded to a server near you. o Update to latest upstream release. o Build for cygwin 1.7.34 with gcc-4.9.2 o Build against libpng16, libgd3 gnuplot NEWS: = Changes in final release of 5.0 === * CHANGE

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: ted-2.22-2: An easy rich text processor

2012-11-24 Thread Dr . Volker Zell
Hi A new version of 'ted' has been uploaded to a server near you. o Build for cygwin 1.7.17 with gcc-4.5.3 o Linked against motif instead of lesstiff CYGWIN-XFREE-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO == If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-xfree-announce

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: tcm-2.20-3: Toolkit for Conceptual Modeling (TCM)

2012-11-24 Thread Dr . Volker Zell
Hi A new version of 'tcm' has been uploaded to a server near you. o Build for cygwin 1.7.17 with gcc-4.5.3 o Uses cygport-0.11.2 for .hint files generation o debuginfo package included o Linked against motif instead of lesstiff CYGWIN-XFREE-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {XmHTML/libXmHTML0/XmHTML-devel}-1.1.7-12: A widget capable of displaying HTML 3.2 conforming text

2012-11-24 Thread Dr . Volker Zell
Hi New versions of 'XmHTML/libXmHTML0/XmHTML-devel' have been uploaded to a server near you. o Linked against motif instead of lesstiff o debuginfo package included o Build for cygwin 1.7.17 with gcc-4.5.3 CYGWIN-XFREE-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO == If

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {xfig/xfig-lib}-3.2.5b-5: An interactive drawing tool

2012-11-24 Thread Dr . Volker Zell
Hi New versions of 'xfig/xfig-lib' have been uploaded to a server near you. o Build for cygwin 1.7.17 with gcc-4.5.3 o debuginfo package included CYGWIN-XFREE-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO == If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-xfree-announce mailing

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xpdf-3.03-3: An open source viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files

2012-11-23 Thread Dr . Volker Zell
Hi A new version of 'xpdf' has been uploaded to a server near you. o Build for cygwin 1.7.17 with gcc-4.5.3 o Uses cygport-0.11.2 for .hint files generation o debuginfo package included o Linked against motif instead of lesstiff CYGWIN-XFREE-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {xfig/xfig-lib}-3.2.5b-4: An interactive drawing tool

2012-11-15 Thread Dr . Volker Zell
Hi New versions of 'xfig/xfig-lib' have been uploaded to a server near you. o Build for cygwin 1.7.17 with gcc-4.5.3 o Fix for read eps bug see -- http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2012-10/msg00021.html CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO If you want to

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xemacs-sumo-2010.07.27-1: XEmacs standard packages

2012-09-19 Thread Dr . Volker Zell
Hi A new version of 'xemacs-sumo' has been uploaded to a server near you. * Changed to cygport build framework * Update release xemacs-sumo NEWS: = For changes since last release please see the individual ChangeLog files in the lisp subdirectory for each package

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xemacs-mule-sumo-2010.07.27-1: XEmacs MULE (MUlti Lingual Emacs) packages

2012-09-19 Thread Dr . Volker Zell
Hi A new version of 'xemacs-mule-sumo' has been uploaded to a server near you. * Changed to cygport build framework * Uses cygport-0.11.0 for .hint files generation * Update release xemacs-mule-sumo NEWS: === For changes since last release please see the individual ChangeLog

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gv-3.7.3.90-1: A PostScript and PDF viewer for X using 3d Athena Widgets

2012-09-18 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi A new version of 'gv' has been uploaded to a server near you. o Update to latest upstream prerelease o Build for cygwin 1.7.16 with gcc-4.5.3 o Uses cygport-0.11.0 for .hint files generation o debuginfo package included o Linked against libXaw3d-1.6.2 gv NEWS: o Support for

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {xfig/xfig-lib}-3.2.5b-2: An interactive drawing tool

2010-05-31 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi New versions of 'xfig/xfig-lib' have been uploaded to a server near you. o Added i18n support CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, please use the automated form at:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {xfig/xfig-lib}-3.2.5b-1: An interactive drawing tool

2010-05-27 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi New versions of 'xfig/xfig-lib' have been uploaded to a server near you. o Build for cygwin 1.7 with gcc-4 o Updated to latest upstream release xfig NEWS: === Patchlevel 5b (Jun 1, 2009) BUGS FIXED: o Dimension line indicator incorrectly showed arrow length/width

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {xfig/xfig-lib}-3.2.5b-1

2010-05-27 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Angelo Graziosi writes: It looks a postinstall problem: == if [ ! -f /etc/X11/app-defaults/Fig ] then /usr/bin/mkdir -p /etc/X11/app-defaults /usr/bin/cp /etc/defaults/etc/X11/app-defaults/Fig /etc/X11/app-defaults/Fig fi if [

Re: Req: cygwin binary for gnuplot-4.4.

2010-04-29 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
George Barrick writes: Has anyone worked up a cygwin binary for gnuplot-4.4? It's ready. I will upload it on the weekend. Ciao Volker -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: [1.7] Dr. Zell to the rebuild room...

2009-09-09 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Yaakov writes: Dr. Volker Zell, Hi Yaakow libxcb/libX11 1.2, released together with xorg-server 1.6 for Cygwin 1.7, completely removed the libxcb-xlib library. Due to the nature of libtool, your libtool libraries which were built for libxcb/libX11-1.1 on Cygwin 1.5

Re: Semaphore handle leaks in WindowMaker with latest Xorg distribution

2009-02-04 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Yaakov writes: Dr. Volker Zell wrote: After switching to the latest Xorg packages (still under cygwin-1.5), WindowMaker-0.90.0-2 stops working after more or less 36 hours continues uptime of my laptop. When this happens I see the following in a bash window from where I

Re: Semaphore handle leaks in WindowMaker with latest Xorg distribution

2009-01-19 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Yaakov writes: Dr. Volker Zell wrote: An old cygwin installation where I haven't updated Xorg yet doesn't show this behavior. So it really looks like some X lib is the culprit. I've got a hunch. On 1.7, could you try replacing your libxcb1

Re: WMaker compile

2009-01-14 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Pascal A Dupuis writes: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 05:27:07PM +0100, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Can you please check if your version also leaks handles ? o http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2009-01/msg00048.html Sorry, but how can I detect handle leakage ? With Windows

Re: Semaphore handle leaks in WindowMaker with latest Xorg distribution

2009-01-13 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Volker Zell writes: Yaakov writes: Dr. Volker Zell wrote: After switching to the latest Xorg packages (still under cygwin-1.5), WindowMaker-0.90.0-2 stops working after more or less 36 hours continues uptime of my laptop. When this happens I see the following in a bash

Re: Semaphore handle leaks in WindowMaker with latest Xorg distribution

2009-01-12 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Yaakov writes: Dr. Volker Zell wrote: After switching to the latest Xorg packages (still under cygwin-1.5), WindowMaker-0.90.0-2 stops working after more or less 36 hours continues uptime of my laptop. When this happens I see the following in a bash window from where I

Semaphore handle leaks in WindowMaker with latest Xorg distribution

2009-01-11 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi After switching to the latest Xorg packages (still under cygwin-1.5), WindowMaker-0.90.0-2 stops working after more or less 36 hours continues uptime of my laptop. When this happens I see the following in a bash window from where I started my X environment via startx: winShadowUpdateDDNL

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {gd/libgd2/libgd-devel}-2.0.36RC1-1: A graphics library for fast image creation

2008-12-04 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: == If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. -- Dr. Volker Zell volunteer cygwin gd maintainer CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO: = To unsubscribe to the cygwin-announce mailing list

[Attn: ImageMagick/plotutils/tetex/TeXmacs maintainer] setup hint changes

2008-11-27 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi I've made the following changes on sourceware to the requires line in the setup.hint files of the following packages: libMagick10:ghostscript-base - ghostscript plotutils: ghostscript-base - ghostscript tetex-x11: ghostscript-x11

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: XmHTML-1.1.7-3 - A widget capable of displaying HTML 3.2 conforming text

2008-11-26 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi A new version of 'XmHTML' has been uploaded to a server near you. DESCRIPTION: A widget capable of displaying HTML 3.2 conforming text CYGWIN NEWS: o Rebuild against latest X11R7.4 (fixes the problems mentioned in

Re: xmgrace and xmhtml hang in XR7

2008-11-25 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Rodrigo Medina writes: Hi, I am updating to XR7. I have problems with xmgrace and xmhtml. Both programs behave similarly, the program runs consuming 50% of the CPU time, but the window never appears. The process cannot be stopped with kill -9 I'll upload a new XmHTML

[Packagin error] Print.h from libXm-devel-0.95.0-2 includes no longer available header file /usr/include/X11/extensions/Print.h

2008-11-25 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi In the process of rebuilding XmHTML against latest X11R7.4 I discovered that one of the test applications cannot be build anymore: gcc -g -funroll-loops -pipe -ansi -DNDEBUG -DHAVE_STRINGS_H -D_GNU_SOURCE -DHAVE_REGEX_H -DHAVE_LIBJPEG -DHAVE_LIBPNG -DHAVE_LIBZ -Dlint -Dproduction -DMotif

Re: xmkmf creates wrong MANPATH entry in Makefiles

2008-11-23 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Yaakov writes: Dr. Volker Zell wrote: When generating Makefiles with latest xmkmf the resulting Makefiles have some bogus entries. Fixed in xorg-cf-files-1.0.2-7. But I'm curious, what are you building that still uses imake so extensively? I had a couple of old x11

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-cf-files-1.0.2-7

2008-11-23 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Yaakov writes: The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin net distribution: *** xorg-cf-files-1.0.2-7 This release fixes the definitions of MANPATH, FONTDIR, and ENCODINGSDIR. Actually only FONTDIR and ENCODINGSDIR.are fixed. The line with MANPATH comes from

pmconfig from proxymngr-1.0.1-1 references to deprecated /usr/X11R6 hirarchy

2008-11-23 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi See subject: 09:40 PM [531] cat /usr/lib/X11/proxymngr/pmconfig | grep /X11 lbx managed /usr/X11R6/bin/lbxproxy Ciao Volker -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {aalib/libaa1/aalib-devel}-1.4rc5-3: An ascii art library

2008-11-23 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: == If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. -- Dr. Volker Zell volunteer cygwin aalib maintainer CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE

[Packaging bug] motif-config references -L/usr/X11R6/lib in latest libXm-devel-0.95.0-2

2008-11-22 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
see subject -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {Xaw3d/libXaw3d7/libXaw3d-devel}-1.5D-8: A 3D version of the MIT Athena widget set for X

2008-11-16 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
: == If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. -- Dr. Volker Zell volunteer cygwin Xaw3d maintainer CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO: = To unsubscribe to the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the List-Unsubscribe

Packaging library only packages with latest cygport

2008-11-13 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi Yaakov I'm in the process of packaging Xaw3D. Your latest patch to xorg-xf-files works by the way. I have a question regarding packaging library only packages like for example your libXmu package. The setup hint file contains the following lines: category: _source sdesc: X.Org miscellaneous

xmkmf problem with latest X11R7.4

2008-11-12 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi When generating the Makefile with xmkmf from latest X11R7.4 for Xaw3d I get the following lines in the Makefile SOXAWREV = SharedXawRev DEPXAWLIB = XAWLIB = -lXaw and the following with the old release. SOXAWREV = 7.0 DEPXAWLIB = XAWLIB = -lXaw This leads to a cygXaw3d-SharedXawRev.dll

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: ted-2.17 - An easy rich text processor

2008-05-19 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi The package ted is now available with the Cygwin distribution: o http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted/ (Homepage) It can be used without X for conversions. DESCRIPTION: Ted is a text processor running under X Windows on Unix/Linux systems. Ted was developed as a standard easy word

Re: Xterm, rxvt, mrxvt, etc....

2007-05-09 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Thorsten Kampe writes: * Reid Thompson (Tue, 08 May 2007 07:00:45 -0400) Charles Wilson wrote: Sigh. cygwin's rxvt is not broken. It works for me, and about 2000 others. +1 --I have been using cygwin rxvt for several years (Xwin and Win) -- has

Re: XEmacs error

2005-11-29 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
only4 writes: Gnuplot-mode is nice XEmacs mode for programming gnuplot scripts. http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel/software/gnuplot-mode.html This is the situation: XEmacs ported to cygwin ok. Gnuplot ported to cygwin: ver 4:

Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure

2005-10-10 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi all As you all know by now, Corinna is hunting for our vacant package maintainers. So may be it's a good idea to also have consensus about our X11 directory structure regarding man pages and documentation. I propose that documentation in general should go to /usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE even for

Re: AltGr doesn't produce @|{[]}\~

2005-07-21 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Alexander Gottwald writes: Somehow the distinction does not work properly for you because 1) the control and alt messages have different timestamps 2) the extended key flag for the control key is set 3) a message in the range from [WM_KEYDOWN..WM_SYSKEYDOWN] is reported

AltGr doesn't produce @|{[]}\~

2005-07-20 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi list My AltGr-Key doesn't produce the following chars @|{[]}\~ anymore under X. This is on a german keyboard (Toshiba Laptop - Tecra) after an upgrade to the latest bash, XWin, coreutils and a rebaseall afterwards. Everything is fine in a non-X bash window. Any ideas how to debug this.

Re: AltGr doesn't produce @|{[]}\~

2005-07-20 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Volker Zell writes: Hi list My AltGr-Key doesn't produce the following chars @|{[]}\~ anymore under X. This is on a german keyboard (Toshiba Laptop - Tecra) after an upgrade to the latest bash, XWin, coreutils and a rebaseall afterwards. Everything is fine in a non-X

Re: IBM T42 laptop, font display problem

2004-12-20 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Guy C Erb writes: Hi I am having a problem with font display using Xemacs under Cygwin/X on my IBM T42 @ 1400x1050 (cygcheck output below). I generally use 12 pt Courier for writing code but it is very jaggy on my Cygwin/X install. I have tried most of the fonts and

Re: xpdf: error messages

2004-10-26 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Fergus Daly writes: I assume this is the place to comment on the recent provision of xpdf (not cygwin@). Thanks for this. One minor irritation. It doesn't matter what .pdf I choose to view (I've tried many) it turns out that on quitting the successful viewing and before the

Please rebuild WindowMaker with recent tiff package

2004-10-25 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi Harold Is it possible to rebuild WindowMaker with the latest libtiff-devel-3.7.0beta2 package, now that LZW support is again enabled so that we finally get our icons back ? See also: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-11/msg00298.html Ciao Volker

Re: xemacs: segmentation fault after ctrl-xctrl-c

2004-09-30 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Sven Severus writes: After installatioin of sumo packages 2004-08-18: If I start xemacs without a filename on the command line, the Message Log buffer is empty. After typing ctrl-xctrl-c I get the output described by Siegmar Gross with the

Re: xemacs: segmentation fault after ctrl-xctrl-c

2004-09-29 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Sven Severus writes: I'm sorry, but I don't know how to find out this. But maybe the following will be an answer to your question: I start xemacs from bash/xterm command line with xemacs filename.c , xemacs starts up properly. Then I type ctrl-xctrl-c, the

Re: xemacs: segmentation fault after ctrl-xctrl-c

2004-09-28 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Sven Severus writes: Hi, I think the reason for the xemacs exit crash has something to do with the 2004-08-18 release of xemacs-sumo / xemacs-mule-sumo packages. I replaced them in an all-up-to-date Cygwin installation with the old 2004-02-02 releases

Re: font problems with xpdf and gv

2004-09-28 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Alexander Gottwald writes: Warning: Cannot convert string -*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-140-*-*-p-*-ISO08859-1 to type FontStruct Warning: Cannot convert string -*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-p-*-ISO08859-1 to type FontStruct Warning: Cannot convert string

Re: Clipboard problems with xemacs whole-line selection

2004-08-10 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Ed Avis writes: Normally recent versions of XWin have reliable cut and paste between X and Windows. The application I run under X is xemacs. But I recently noticed that when triple-clicking a line of text in xemacs to select the whole line and put it in the clipboard, I

Re: gv

2004-06-15 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Rohan Shah writes: i'm having trouble congifuring gv for cygwin. when i open a postsrcipt file using gv, it gives me the error: Error: Postscript interpreter failed in main window any ideas? thanks in advance. Remove /usr/bin/gs (or /bin/gs) from your installation. The one

Re: uxterm from xterm-185-3 and xfontsel crashing when running under cygserver support

2004-04-10 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Corinna Vinschen writes: Ping? Did you test it? Does no feedback mean that it now works? Sorry was off for a week or so. Everything is fine here now. Corinna Ciao Volker

Re: Updated: xorg-x11-[base,bin,bin-dlls,fenc,fscl,nest,vfb,xwin,xwin-gl]

2004-04-10 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Harold L Hunt, writes: The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** xorg-x11-bin-6.7.0.0-3 *** xorg-x11-xwin-gl-6.7.0.0-2 /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin_GL.exe is found in both archives. Harold Hunt Ciao Volker

Re: Updated: xorg-x11-[base,bin,bin-dlls,bin-lndir,devel,etc,f100,fcyr,fenc,fnts,fscl,fsrv,libs-data,man-pages,man-pages-html,nest,vfb,xwin]-6.7.0.0-1

2004-04-07 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Harold L Hunt, writes: The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** xorg-x11-base-6.7.0.0-1 *** xorg-x11-bin-6.7.0.0-1 *** xorg-x11-bin-dlls-6.7.0.0-1 *** xorg-x11-bin-lndir-6.7.0.0-1 *** xorg-x11-devel-6.7.0.0-1 ***

Re: lesstif 0.93.94 and the attempt to add non-widget ... error

2004-03-31 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Volker == Volker Quetschke writes: Volker Oh, I forgot to say, this lesstif version not only fixes the Volker attempt to add non-widget ... error, but also fixes the Volker crash of grace 5.1.14 when double-clicking on the axes :-) Can you give XmHTML a try if it works with grace ?

Re: uxterm from xterm-185-3 and xfontsel crashing when running under cygserver support

2004-03-29 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Corinna == Corinna Vinschen writes: Corinna I've build my own debug version of the X stuff today and I tracked the Corinna SEGV down. It's an unfortunate combination of two bugs in the SHM Corinna implementation: Corinna - shmat() returns NULL on error instead of (void *)-1.

Re: uxterm from xterm-185-3 and xfontsel crashing when running under cygserver support

2004-03-25 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Corinna == Corinna Vinschen writes: Corinna Did you read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cygserver.README? Yes Corinna I guess you know that there are a bunch of settings you can change in Corinna /etc/cygserver.conf and also that cygserver has a debugging option, right? yes, but I forgot

uxterm from xterm-185-3 and xfontsel crashing when running under cygserver support

2004-03-24 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi I just discovered why uxterm and xfontsel are crashing on my system. It's happening when running cygserver so X can detect shared memory support. When disabling cygserver I see the following message in XWin.log: MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support XFree86-Bigfont

Re: uxterm from xterm-185-3 and xfontsel crashing when running under cygserver support

2004-03-24 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi I tried to find some information about the BigFont extension. This is from the X man page: XF86BIGFONT_DISABLE Setting this variable to a non-empty value disables the XFree86-Bigfont extension. This extension is a mechanism to

Re: Problem with Gnuplot under Cygwin/XFree86

2004-03-24 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Harold == Harold L Hunt writes: Harold Have you tried the Cygwin/X gnuplot package instead of the one that Harold you compiled? It is possible that Volker has already fixed this Harold problem in his Cygwin-specific patch. If not, he reads this list and Harold maybe he will

uxterm from xterm-185-2 not working and Unicode related craches from xterm

2004-03-23 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi list When running uxterm from xterm-185-2 I get 12:47 PM [126] uxterm xterm: bad command line option -u8 usage: xterm [-/+132] [-C] [-Sccn] [-T string] [-/+ah] [-/+ai] [-/+aw] [-b number] [-/+bc] [-bcf milliseconds] [-bcn milliseconds] [-bd color] [-/+bdc] [-bg color] [-bw number]

xfontsel crashes with cygwin-1.5.8 and all the latext X packages installed

2004-03-19 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi I get a crash when running xfontsel under latest cygwin-1.5.8 and all the latest cygwin C packages installed. Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Fri Mar 19 18:22:37 2004 Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 4 Cygwin Package Information

Re: Upcoming X.org release and splitting packages

2004-03-18 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Harold == Harold L Hunt, Harold writes: Harold 1) Due to popular demand, rename the prog package to devel. The Harold name devel matches the defacto standard used by other packages for Harold link libraries and header files; most people have no idea what the Harold prog package

Re: Xemacs crash on WinXP

2004-03-18 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Jee == Jee Chung [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jee I start my xemacs by invoking the command emacs via my TWM's root menu (coded into my .twmrc file). The version of emacs I have on my install says that it's 21.2.1. My Cygwin install appears to be cygwin-1.5.7-1 from having examined the

conflicting file xft-config in XFree86-prog-4.3.0-17 and libXft-2.1.5-1

2004-03-16 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Harold == Harold L Hunt writes: Harold The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: Harold *** XFree86-base-4.3.0-5 Harold *** XFree86-bin-4.3.0-16 Harold *** XFree86-etc-4.3.0-10 Harold *** XFree86-nest-4.3.0-7 Harold *** XFree86-prog-4.3.0-17

Re: gnuplot Graph-Window is always in the background

2004-03-15 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Thomas == Thomas Demmer writes: Thomas Hi all, Thomas I am not sure if this is really the right list, so bear with me if not. Thomas I am using ReflectionX as X-server. whenever I plot something with Thomas gnuplot (cygwin version), the graphic window is in the very background

Re: x-start-menu-icons doesn't install on a W2K german OS

2004-03-14 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Harold == Harold L Hunt writes: Harold Had you ever installed the XFree86-bin-icons package? Did it work, or Harold did it have the same problem? I never had. This looks like a code page problem (the ³ is an ü in the Windows codepage) Harold Check the output of:

Re: x-start-menu-icons doesn't install on a W2K german OS

2004-03-14 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Igor == Igor Pechtchanski writes: Igor Theoretically, Windows should do the right translation under the covers. Igor It may be as simple as setting the correct codepage or locale before Igor trying to create the path... Not running the localized version of Igor Windows, I can't

Re: x-start-menu-icons doesn't install on a W2K german OS

2004-03-14 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi Igor Also, instead of using 'chcp', try adding a codepage:oem or codepage:ansi option to your CYGWIN environment variable... It looks like codepage:ansi does the trick. D:\set CYGWIN=codepage:ansi D:\bash [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 07:16 PM [501] echo $CYGWIN codepage:ansi [EMAIL PROTECTED] /

x-start-menu-icons doesn't install on a W2K german OS

2004-03-12 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi see subject. Following is a dir listing (inclusive control-chars) from my Documents and Settings directory on a german W2K system. 11:13 AM [513] pwd /c/Dokumente und Einstellungen/All Users [EMAIL PROTECTED] /c/Dokumente und Einstellungen/All Users 11:13 AM [514] ls -lat --show-control-chars

Re: X11 error when using gv.

2004-02-02 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
James == James Merritt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: James That being said, I am having a little problem with James using ghostview under Cygwin/X11. Ghostview seems to James work porperly, it comes up just great. But when I try James to view any kind of file (pdf, ps, etc. ) or

Re: Any WebBrowser for Cygwin?

2004-01-21 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi Michael == Michael Henke writes: Michael I want to do X-Forwarding with my Windowx-XP-Box and am using Cygwin SSHd. Michael SSH is working very fine so far. All i need is a browser (except textbrowser Michael like lynx!) for www. Michael Is there any Webbrowser like Mozilla,

Re: QT 3.2.3 cygwin/XFree release available

2004-01-14 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Ralf == Ralf Habacker writes: Ralf That is the reason why the link line fails. Which release are you using Ralf qt-3.2.3-1 or qt-3.2.3-2 ? qt-3.2.3-1 misses an important file (.qmake.cache) Ralf and the -2 release does not have the /etc/profile.d script. I'm currently Ralf

Re: New package: gv-3.5.8-1

2004-01-13 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Christopher == Christopher Faylor writes: Christopher Volker, Christopher Did you see the bug reports in the cygwin mailing list? Christopher Subject: Xaw3d.dll required for gv is missing in the current distribution Christopher Is this a packaging error? No, gv depends on

Re: QT 3.2.3 cygwin/XFree release available

2004-01-12 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Ralf == Ralf Habacker writes: Ralf Hi all, Hi Ralf today the cygwin/XFree port of the QT 3.2.3 X11 release based on the recent Ralf cygwin release is ready containing binary and source package. The following configure test for QT fails: conftest.cc: #include qglobal.h #include

Re: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-38 Request for Test Results

2004-01-12 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Harold == Harold L Hunt writes: Harold Please send in those test results for the XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-38 Harold clipboard functionality as soon as possible. I want positive results Harold (at least five of them) as well as negative. Use the format below for Harold your test

Re: Updated: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-31

2004-01-05 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Harold == Harold L Hunt writes: Harold 1) General - Everything up to the last three entries describes the Harold new clipboard handling system that does not steal ownership of the X11 Harold selection each time that something is selected; this seems to work Harold fine, but it

Re: Updated: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-31

2004-01-05 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Volker == Volker Zell writes: Volker Hi Harold Volker You made my day The selection ownership problem really went away. Volker I'm running the X version of XEmacs since half a day now and no Volker problems with selection and copy/paste between X and Windows. A couple of

Re: where can I get instruction for installation the xemacs on cgwin threw startx

2004-01-05 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
See o http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-01/msg00015.html Ciao Volker

Re: Updated: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-31

2004-01-05 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Harold == Harold L Hunt, Harold writes: Harold Hmm... that is not something I had seen before. Did an earlier entry Harold in the XWin.log say anything about the clipboard manager shutting Harold down? Want to bzip2 it and send XWin.log to me privately? Sorry, I'm reading this mail

Re: gv probelms

2003-12-06 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Ivar == Ivar Bratberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ivar Hello, I have just installed the newest version of KDE, freeX and Cygwin. Ivar It is an impressingly good software. Ivar But I have problems when using the command gv for reading ps files. Ivar I use latex and dvips to generate

Re: Updated: XFree86-bin-4.3.0-8, XFree86-etc-4.3.0-6, XFree86-fsrv-4.3.0-6, XFree86-prog-4.3.0-11, XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-23, XFree86-[nest,prt,vfb]-4.3.0-5

2003-11-18 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Harold == Harold L Hunt, Harold writes: Harold The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: Harold *** XFree86-fsrv-4.3.0-6 It's missing its man-page again. Harold *** XFree86-prog-4.3.0-11 I get an additional symbolic link /usr/X11R6/include/X11/X11 --

Re: Updated: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-22

2003-11-11 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Harold == Harold L Hunt, Harold writes: Harold Are you using the -kb or -xkb parameters? I don't remember what the Harold name of the parameter is that disables the repeats, but the above Harold seems close. No, but I found the culprit. I once downloaded a XF86Config-4 file from

Re: New package: xwinclip-1.2.0-1

2003-11-03 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Harold == Harold L Hunt, Harold writes: Harold The xwinclip-1.2.0-1 package has been updated in the Cygwin distribution. The package installs its documentation under /usr/X11R6/share/doc indstead of /usr/X11R6/doc. Ciao Volker

Files from Xaw3d-1.5D-3 are also included in XFree86-bin and XFree86-prog

2003-10-30 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi Somehow the contents of the bin, lib and include directories of the Xaw3d-1.5D-3 package ended up also in the Xfree86-bin-4.3.0-6 and XFree86-prog-4.3.0-9 packages respectively. By the way the XFree86-etc-4.3.0-4 package is missing the following files against the latest version: 9a14

Re: Updated: lesstif-0.93.91-4

2003-10-30 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi Just want to be picky. All the man pages are contained in an uncompressed and bzip2 compressed form Ciao Volker

Re: Updated: xfig-3.2.4-4 and xfig-lib-3.2.4-4

2003-10-30 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi The documentaion seems to be split between the /usr/X11R6/doc and /usr/X11R6/share/doc directories. Shouldn't docu go to the /usr/X11R6/doc dir instead ? Ciao Volker

Re: New package: xfig-bin-3.2.4-1

2003-09-28 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Harold == Harold L Hunt, Harold writes: Harold Volker, Harold It wasn't using Xaw3d because I forgot to uncomment the following line Harold in the Imakefile: Harold #define XAW3D Did you try compiling it with Xaw3d ? Is it running for you with the shared lib ? Harold

Re: 3 files missing from the last xfree-bin distribution

2003-09-23 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Harold == Harold L Hunt, Harold writes: Harold Are you using them for anything? Actually not, just for completeness. Harold Harold Ciao Volker

Re: Updated: Xaw3d-1.5E-1

2003-09-23 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Harold == Harold L Hunt, Harold writes: Harold The Xaw3d-1.5E-1 package has been updated in the Cygwin Harold distribution. The last version was called XFree86-Xaw3d so setup doesn't uninstall the last version. So a couple of files are getting overwritten by this version but some old

Re: New package: xfig-bin-3.2.4-1

2003-09-23 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Harold == Harold L Hunt, Harold writes: Harold The xfig-bin-3.2.4-1 package has been added to the Cygwin Harold distribution. Why isn't it using Xaw3d ? Ciao Volker

Re: New package: xfig-bin-3.2.4-1

2003-09-23 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Harold == Harold L Hunt, Harold writes: Harold It isn't? It sure wouldn't compile without it... Harold Could you be more specific about what you are seeing? An older version of mine used Xaw3d and had 3d buttons, but this version doesn't. Also a cygcheck shows no dependency on

3 files missing from the last xfree-bin distribution

2003-09-22 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi /usr/X11R6/bin/bdftruncate /usr/X11R6/bin/sessreg.exe /usr/X11R6/bin/ucs2any seem to have slipped from XFree86-bin-4.3.0-3 to XFree86-bin-4.3.0-4. Ciao Volker

/usr/X11R6/bin/uxterm is missing from XFree86-bin-4.3.0-3

2003-09-19 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hey /usr/X11R6/bin/uxterm is missing from XFree86-bin-4.3.0-3 since XFree86-bin-4.3.0-2 Ciao Volker

The XFree86-etc-4.3.0-3 package contains a .bak file/etc/fonts/fonts.conf.bak

2003-08-28 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi see subject Ciao Volker

Re: expat Xfree

2003-08-28 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Gerrit == Gerrit P Haase [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gerrit BTW, which version of expat is included in the Xfree sources? It seems to be 1.95.2 whereas the cygwin official version is 1.95.6 :-( Gerrit Gerrit Ciao Volker

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