Re: Window manager commands in native window manager multiwindow mode

2015-10-08 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/7/2015 11:48 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 10/7/2015 11:20 AM, Gulliver Smith wrote: I ask this question from time to time just in case someone new sees it and decides to work on it or others might agree that it is a priority. Other people have raised this over the last few years as well. The

Re: Window manager commands in native window manager multiwindow mode

2015-10-07 Thread Ken Brown
macs&'. 4. In emacs, run 'M-x iconify-frame'. The current frame did indeed get iconified, as expected. I'm not sure how to test the other commands. Ken P.S. The cygwin-xfree mailing list is obsolete. You should use the main cygwin mailing list in the future to make sure

Re: xpdf zoom-in/out ("-"/"+") doesn't work after "z"/"w"

2015-09-19 Thread Ken Brown
On 9/19/2015 1:24 AM, Csaba Raduly wrote: On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 10:37 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 9/17/2015 1:08 AM, Paul wrote: After I press "z" to fit the page to the window, or "w" to fit the page width within the window, I'm finding that "-" & "

Re: xpdf zoom-in/out ("-"/"+") doesn't work after "z"/"w"

2015-09-18 Thread Ken Brown
Set the zoom factor to 125%. + Zoom in (increment the zoom factor by 1). - Zoom out (decrement the zoom factor by 1). z Set the zoom factor to 'page' (fit page to window). w Set the zoom factor to 'width' (fit page width to window). If the zoo

Re: X no longer spawning windows after update

2015-07-25 Thread Ken Brown
cific readmes so that user accepts the change before discovery and being launched into the unknown, You could also subscribe to the cygwin-announce list. It's a low-volume list and shouldn't be much of a burden. Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: packages rebuilt for libpng16, tiff-4

2015-02-11 Thread Ken Brown
On 2/11/2015 7:39 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: On Wed, 2015-02-11 at 18:12 -0500, Ken Brown wrote: On 2/8/2015 9:56 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: * fontconfig-2.11.1-2 I see that you decided not to restore the TeX Live font directories to /etc/fonts/fonts.conf. If that's your actual dec

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: packages rebuilt for libpng16, tiff-4

2015-02-11 Thread Ken Brown
/usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/type1 and I would call it 09-texlive.conf, as suggested in the TeX Live manual. Is this how you want me to handle it? Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xinit-1.3.4-1 (Major overhaul of X session handling)

2014-11-30 Thread Ken Brown
-5 to sourceware; once it hits the mirrors and you install it, please remove your empty ~/.config/fbpanel/multiwindow and it should work as designed. That fixed it. Thanks. Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xinit-1.3.4-1 (Major overhaul of X session handling)

2014-11-28 Thread Ken Brown
#x27;s appearing in the wrong place. I don't see anything suspicious in XWin.0.log, but .xsession-errors says, "fbpanel: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.". But this only appears after I've exited the server, so maybe it's normal.

Re: cygwin emacs failing siletnly

2014-11-25 Thread Ken Brown
going to be able to find any fonts if there's something wrong with your fontconfig setup. You might try running fc-cache under strace to see if that gives any clues. Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/pro

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: fontconfig-2.11.1-1

2014-05-13 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/13/2014 4:38 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 2014-05-12 20:45, Ken Brown wrote: On 5/9/2014 11:07 AM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: This is an update to the latest upstream release. The Windows font directory has been removed from the default fonts path due to issues caused by stale caches; a

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: fontconfig-2.11.1-1

2014-05-12 Thread Ken Brown
. You also removed /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts, /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype, /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype, and /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/type1. Was that intentional? Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http

Re: Emacs just stopped working for no reason

2014-03-05 Thread Ken Brown
here *any* way to try to figure out what is causing this? You might check to see if this is the fontconfig problem that others have reported (see http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-12/msg00248.html): Try running "fc-cache -fsv". Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#u

Re: gtk+ applications crash when filechooser opened

2013-12-13 Thread Ken Brown
86 only. The File->Open dialog works fine in both gvim and emacs-X11 on x86_64. Ken -- 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/

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Uploads for 12 August

2013-08-14 Thread Ken Brown
On 8/14/2013 8:14 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/14/2013 7:59 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 14 13:33, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 14 12:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 14 06:28, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/14/2013 5:16 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 14 10:10, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Uploads for 12 August

2013-08-14 Thread Ken Brown
On 8/14/2013 7:59 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 14 13:33, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 14 12:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 14 06:28, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/14/2013 5:16 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 14 10:10, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 13 18:00, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/13

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Uploads for 12 August

2013-08-14 Thread Ken Brown
On 8/14/2013 5:16 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 14 10:10, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 13 18:00, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/13/2013 2:26 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 13 13:09, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 2013-08-13 09:13, Ken Brown wrote: Yaakov, is there any chance that you could

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Uploads for 12 August

2013-08-13 Thread Ken Brown
On 8/13/2013 2:26 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 13 13:09, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 2013-08-13 09:13, Ken Brown wrote: Yes. The fix was to add the following for the Cygwin build, very early in main(): setenv ("G_SLICE", "always-malloc", 1); I don't know

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Uploads for 12 August

2013-08-13 Thread Ken Brown
On 8/13/2013 10:13 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/13/2013 8:08 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Il 13/08/2013 11.52, Angelo Graziosi ha scritto: Yaakov wrote: The following packages (and their subpackages) have been updated for both arches: After this update my GTK builds of Emacs trunk do not work

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Uploads for 12 August

2013-08-13 Thread Ken Brown
:1040: recipe for target `bootstrap' failed make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2 build-emacs.sh: Bootstrap failure... Probably this issue affects also the Cygwin (GTK) package of Emacs.. It seems that the workaround is to start Emacs with G_SLICE=always-malloc, $ G_SLICE=always-malloc emacs -Q &am

Re: Cygwin/x doesn't work on windows 8

2013-07-05 Thread Ken Brown
o run command failed See http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.fixing-fork-failures . I attach my cygcheck and xwin log files. Your cygcheck output shows that you don't have emacs installed, so you won't be able to start it from the X icon. But that's not related to your

Re: Paste from xterm to Emacs no longer works

2013-04-03 Thread Ken Brown
d give a recipe for reproducing the problem starting with `emacs -Q'. While waiting for this, I'll make a wild guess that his problem is related to the selection changes that started with emacs-24.1. Browse the NEWS file (`C-h n') and search for "Selection changes"

Re: FW: xorg-server 1.13.1-1: problems with xterm

2013-02-10 Thread Ken Brown
On 2/10/2013 1:37 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 10/02/2013 12:45, Ken Brown wrote: I'm also seeing a mouse problem. It involves the combination shift-leftbutton-rightbutton (intended to emulate shift-middlebutton) after I've started XWin with -emulate3buttons. I use a 2-button mouse wit

Re: FW: xorg-server 1.13.1-1: problems with xterm

2013-02-10 Thread Ken Brown
he xterm window. The menu items don't get highlighted, and left-clicking on them has no effect. The problem disappears if I remove the -emulate3buttons option; but that's not a good solution for me since I actually want to emulate 3 buttons. Ken -- Unsubscribe info: htt

Implement ~/.xsession-errors?

2012-11-26 Thread Ken Brown
e nice if users could avoid seeing those every time they start the program. Second, and more importantly, standard error is often lost, for instance for programs started by ~/.startxwinrc. It could be useful for package maintainers to be able to ask users to send the contents of ~/.xsession-err

emacs, GSettings, and gtk3

2012-11-26 Thread Ken Brown
to continue to use gtk2 and to disable GSettings support, but I'm open to other suggestions. Ken Brown Cygwin's Emacs maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygw

Re: GVim slow to respond

2012-06-08 Thread Ken Brown
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-06/msg00057.html Ken -- 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/

X server crash with asymptote

2012-05-31 Thread Ken Brown
-1.15 as well as the latest snapshot. The problem doesn't occur with version 1.12.0-5 of the X server. I'm running 64-bit Windows 7. I assume you'll be able to reproduce this, but I'll send further information (log, backtrace, cygcheck output) if you can't. Ken

Re: EMACS broken after Patch Tuesday

2012-05-16 Thread Ken Brown
Where did /usr/local/bin/emacs come from? Ken - It is just a script to scale the geometry to my display. emacs . -geometry 100x73+504-55& Doesn't this script call itself recursively? Try /usr/bin/emacs . -geometry 100x73+504-55& Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygw

Re: EMACS broken after Patch Tuesday

2012-05-15 Thread Ken Brown
rrno 11 /usr/local/bin/emacs: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable Tried rebaseall, reinstallation of emacs and xorg with no success. You're not using the emacs from the Cygwin distribution (which is /usr/bin/emacs). Where did /usr/local/bin/emacs come from? Ken -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: dbus-launch --exit-with-session fails when run from .startxwinrc

2012-04-25 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/25/2012 12:21 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 24/04/2012 14:50, Ken Brown wrote: On 4/16/2012 9:50 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 4/16/2012 9:44 AM, Ken Brown wrote: The following problem occurs on my 64-bit Windows 7 system but not on my XP system. I start the X server using the Start Menu shortcut

Re: dbus-launch --exit-with-session fails when run from .startxwinrc

2012-04-24 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/16/2012 9:50 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 4/16/2012 9:44 AM, Ken Brown wrote: The following problem occurs on my 64-bit Windows 7 system but not on my XP system. I start the X server using the Start Menu shortcut [modified to add -emulate3buttons] and a .startxwinrc with the following contents

Re: Issue with XWin under xlaunch

2012-04-24 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/24/2012 7:54 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 23/04/2012 16:04, Ken Brown wrote: I've added some code to capture stdout and stderr from these subprocesses to the X server log, and to more clearly diagnose problems which could occur while fork/exec-ing them. Would it be possible for you to

Re: Issue with XWin under xlaunch

2012-04-23 Thread Ken Brown
win.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2012-04/msg00050.html BTW, I tried the snapshot at ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/XWin.20120423-git-638383315ef51e46.exe.bz2 and the resulting log has a lot of messages like this: winMultiWindowXMsgProcErrorHandler - ERROR: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) winMulti

Re: dbus-launch --exit-with-session fails when run from .startxwinrc

2012-04-16 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/16/2012 9:44 AM, Ken Brown wrote: The following problem occurs on my 64-bit Windows 7 system but not on my XP system. I start the X server using the Start Menu shortcut [modified to add -emulate3buttons] and a .startxwinrc with the following contents: eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit

Re: Problems with emacs built with gsettings support

2012-04-15 Thread Ken Brown
Thanks in advance to anyone who is willing to test. Ken -- 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/

Re: Problems with emacs built with gsettings support

2012-04-09 Thread Ken Brown
7. I'd like to know if it's a general problem on Windows 7 or something specific to my systems. The recipe is in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2012-04/msg00024.html Thanks. Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http:/

Re: Problems with emacs built with gsettings support [was: Problems with emacs built against gtk3]

2012-04-08 Thread Ken Brown
I wonder if I need some GNOME-related package. Or it could be BLODA. What anti-virus software do you use (if any)? Thanks. Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.

Re: Problems with emacs built with gsettings support [was: Problems with emacs built against gtk3]

2012-04-06 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/4/2012 6:12 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 2012-04-04 09:15, Ken Brown wrote: Another option is to use gtk3 but to put the GSETTINGS_BACKEND workaround into the emacs startup code: setenv ("GSETTINGS_BACKEND", "memory", 1); I've been testing this, and it seem

Re: Problems with emacs built against gtk3

2012-04-04 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/3/2012 11:55 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 2012-04-03 20:52, Ken Brown wrote: There's no problem when emacs is built with gtk2. There's also no problem with gtk3, provided I set GSETTINGS_BACKEND=memory. I regularly run the entire GNOME desktop for hours (if not days) on

Re: Problems with emacs built against gtk3

2012-04-03 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/3/2012 6:30 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 2012-04-03 16:11, Ken Brown wrote: Now that gvfs is available, I've built the latest emacs-24 pretest against gtk3 and removed the GSETTINGS_BACKEND=memory setting, but I still have the same problem. If I start emacs and then just walk away

Re: X server crash when running texworks

2012-04-02 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/2/2012 8:04 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 3/31/2012 11:26 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 3/31/2012 6:28 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 30/03/2012 12:36, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 29/03/2012 20:59, Ken Brown wrote: On 3/29/2012 8:14 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: Not so good :-(. Thanks for testing it, anyway. I

Re: X server crash when running texworks

2012-04-02 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/31/2012 11:26 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 3/31/2012 6:28 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 30/03/2012 12:36, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 29/03/2012 20:59, Ken Brown wrote: On 3/29/2012 8:14 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: Not so good :-(. Thanks for testing it, anyway. I found a rather bad crash bug I'd intro

Re: X server crash when running texworks

2012-03-31 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/31/2012 6:28 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 30/03/2012 12:36, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 29/03/2012 20:59, Ken Brown wrote: On 3/29/2012 8:14 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: Not so good :-(. Thanks for testing it, anyway. I found a rather bad crash bug I'd introduced and fixed that, so you might wa

Re: X server crash when running texworks

2012-03-29 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/29/2012 4:20 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 2012-03-29 14:59, Ken Brown wrote: OK, I'm running it now and have attached gdb to it. The good news is that I've been running it for a couple hours with no crash, and I've used texworks and have opened many tex files and pdf file

Re: X server crash when running texworks

2012-03-29 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/29/2012 8:14 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 28/03/2012 13:44, Ken Brown wrote: On 3/28/2012 8:28 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 3/28/2012 7:16 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: I'm afraid I can't reproduce your issue, but looking at the backtrace and the somewhat intermittent nature of the fault, I thi

Re: X server crash when running texworks

2012-03-28 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/28/2012 7:16 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 26/03/2012 21:32, Ken Brown wrote: On 3/26/2012 4:06 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 26/03/2012 20:47, Ken Brown wrote: On 3/24/2012 3:47 PM, Ken Brown wrote: One further detail for anyone trying to reproduce this: I just tried it on a second computer

Re: X server crash when running texworks

2012-03-26 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/26/2012 4:06 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 26/03/2012 20:47, Ken Brown wrote: On 3/24/2012 3:47 PM, Ken Brown wrote: To reproduce: 1. Install texworks-0.4.3-1 from Cygwin Ports. 2. Create two tex files in your home directory, say test1.tex and test2.tex. I don't know if the contents m

Re: X server crash when running texworks

2012-03-26 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/24/2012 3:47 PM, Ken Brown wrote: To reproduce: 1. Install texworks-0.4.3-1 from Cygwin Ports. 2. Create two tex files in your home directory, say test1.tex and test2.tex. I don't know if the contents matter, but in my case both files contain the following: \documentclass{article} \

Re: How to properly start xwin at windows seven startup?

2012-02-02 Thread Ken Brown
On 2/2/2012 12:49 PM, David Karr wrote: I've had an old version of Cygwin running on a WinXP laptop for quite a while. I made it run "startxwin.bat" on startup. I'm now setting up the latest Cygwin on a Win7 laptop. The FAQ is saying to not use the "startxwin.bat" file (as it doesn't exist any

Re: Problems with emacs built against gtk3

2011-12-10 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/9/2011 8:39 PM, nyc4...@aol.com wrote: Ken Brown writes: On 11/30/2011 6:54 AM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 11:17 +0100, Pavel Holejsovsky wrote: On 11/30/2011 4:51 AM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: 2. The pango warning can already be observed with the current Cygwin

Re: Problems with emacs built against gtk3

2011-12-05 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/4/2011 8:44 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 12/4/2011 7:13 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 08:01 -0500, Ken Brown wrote: This doesn't do it. Emacs still dies after a short time. I don't know if that means that there's something else going on, but I'll

Re: Problems with emacs built against gtk3

2011-12-04 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/4/2011 7:13 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 08:01 -0500, Ken Brown wrote: This doesn't do it. Emacs still dies after a short time. I don't know if that means that there's something else going on, but I'll retest it after you package gvfs. I

Re: Emacs problems after dbus (?) update

2011-12-03 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/3/2011 10:17 AM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 4:42 AM, Ken Brown wrote: (emacs:3380): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Two different plugins tried to register 'BasicEngineFc'. Try removing /etc/pango/pango.modules . See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2011-1

Re: Emacs problems after dbus (?) update

2011-12-03 Thread Ken Brown
`G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed Try removing /etc/pango/pango.modules . See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2011-11/msg00047.html Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: Problems with emacs built against gtk3

2011-12-02 Thread Ken Brown
On 12/2/2011 5:35 AM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 18:04 -0500, Ken Brown wrote: On 11/30/2011 9:09 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 11/29/2011 10:51 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: This appears to be the same bug. The solution is to launch a DBus session bus *before* starting emacs (or

Re: Problems with emacs built against gtk3

2011-12-01 Thread Ken Brown
On 11/30/2011 9:09 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 11/29/2011 10:51 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 08:40 -0500, Ken Brown wrote: On 11/25/2011 7:38 PM, Ken Brown wrote: When I build emacs against gtk3, it is unusable. Here are the symptoms when the resulting emacs is started in an

Re: Problems with emacs built against gtk3

2011-11-30 Thread Ken Brown
On 11/29/2011 10:51 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 08:40 -0500, Ken Brown wrote: On 11/25/2011 7:38 PM, Ken Brown wrote: When I build emacs against gtk3, it is unusable. Here are the symptoms when the resulting emacs is started in an xterm window: $ ./emacs -Q& [1]

Re: Problems with emacs built against gtk3

2011-11-30 Thread Ken Brown
tched pango to builtin modules over a year ago in Ports to help minimize fork() errors, but that didn't reach the distro until now. If I'm right, removing /etc/pango/pango.modules should fix it. That fixes it. Thanks. Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-si

Re: Problems with emacs built against gtk3

2011-11-26 Thread Ken Brown
On 11/25/2011 7:38 PM, Ken Brown wrote: When I build emacs against gtk3, it is unusable. Here are the symptoms when the resulting emacs is started in an xterm window: $ ./emacs -Q& [1] 3344 (emacs:3344): GLib-WARNING **: In call to g_spawn_sync(), exit status of a child process was reque

Re: Cygwin xterm and emacs-X11 broken in Windows 7

2011-10-26 Thread Ken Brown
emacs-nox, neither does this happen in xemacs. It works fine for me, so my best guess is that this is related to your other X problems. But you might try a recent Cygwin snapshot, on the off chance that that helps. There have been several changes that have an impact on processes running under em

Re: Tried to fix "Doing vfork: resource temporarily unavailable" error with Emacs, now can't start X server

2011-04-18 Thread Ken Brown
at I had versions 8, 9, and 10. So, I set those to reinstall and continued the update. It also updated some other things, including updating me from Cygwin 1.7.8 to 1.7.9. you should try rebaseall now. Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem re

Re: AIGLX

2011-02-04 Thread Ken Olum
Do you get that error with other OpenGL applications (e.g. glxinfo) or just paraview? glxinfo does not give these errors. I haven't tried any other OpenGL application. Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Probl

Re: AIGLX

2011-01-21 Thread Ken Olum
h (invalid parameter attributes) 8 Major opcode: 73 (X_GetImage) Resource id: 0xa0039a I attach my XWin.0.log from a test in which I first succeeded with LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT and then got the error above without it. Ken XWin.0.log.1 Description: Binary

AIGLX

2011-01-19 Thread Ken Olum
GL GL provider for screen 0 When I try to run glx programs they don't work, and glxinfo gives me this error, regardless of whether I set LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT: Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http:

Re: Server segmentation fault at address 0x306 using ParaView

2011-01-04 Thread Ken Olum
would have indirect rendering anyway, or should I explicitly request indirect rendering in order to use AIGLX in all cases? Thanks again. Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/pro

Re: Server segmentation fault at address 0x306 using ParaView

2010-12-15 Thread Ken Olum
particular, I was surprised to find that RHEL reports "direct rendering: No" while Mandriva reports "direct rendering: Yes", although I don't know if this matters when one is running over the network anyway. Ken glxinfo.Mandriva

Re: Server segmentation fault at address 0x306 using ParaView

2010-12-14 Thread Ken Olum
Here is the backtrace. Thanks again. Ken #0 0x0a3eb232 in swrast_dri!_mesa_GetProgramNamedParameterdvNV () from /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so #1 0x004e4baa in _fu456___glapi_Dispatch () at indirect_dispatch.c:4854 #2 0x004d6975 in __glXDisp_Render (cl

Re: Server segmentation fault at address 0x306 using ParaView

2010-12-14 Thread Ken Olum
are both running the exact same 3.8.1 x86_64 executable that I downloaded. I attach my Xwin.0.log showing the crash. Ken XWin.0.log Description: Binary data -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http

Server segmentation fault at address 0x306 using ParaView

2010-11-28 Thread Ken Olum
d. Thanks. Ken -- 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/

Re: Bug: XTerm scrollbar issue

2010-08-09 Thread Ken
he size of the handle. Tested only in Win7 64-bit. I just thought this may be helpful feedback. BTW, my sincere thanks goes out to all of the hard-working developers and contributors of Cygwin!!! Thank You! :-) Kindly, Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscrib

Re: Resizing problem

2010-07-16 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/16/2010 12:10 AM, Olwe Melwasul wrote: On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Ken Brown wrote: I should have added that you should see /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/emacs.README for more information about that script and the shortcut it creates. Ken make-emacs-shortcut was in /bin. There was

Re: Resizing problem

2010-07-15 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/15/2010 10:03 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 7/15/2010 9:26 PM, Olwe Melwasul wrote: On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 7/15/2010 3:51 PM, Olwe Melwasul wrote: Yes, I am using the emacs-X11 and yes, I started it (after starting the X server to get multiwindowed mode) with

Re: Resizing problem

2010-07-15 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/15/2010 9:26 PM, Olwe Melwasul wrote: On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 7/15/2010 3:51 PM, Olwe Melwasul wrote: Yes, I am using the emacs-X11 and yes, I started it (after starting the X server to get multiwindowed mode) with ">emacs&" at the cygwin c

Re: Resizing problem

2010-07-15 Thread Ken Brown
.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startxwin.exe) you shouldn't have that problem. Notice that it uses 'bash -l' precisely so that the environment, including PATH, is set up in the normal way. Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Resizing problem

2010-07-15 Thread Ken Brown
n type 'emacs&' in an xterm window. If something doesn't work the way you expect, please give a precise recipe for reproducing the problem. I don't know what you mean by "a shell mode that apparently doesn't see cygwin". Ken -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Slow response to keypresses in xorg-server-1.8.0-1

2010-06-30 Thread Ken Brown
On 6/30/2010 1:40 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 02/05/2010 21:52, Ken Brown wrote: On 5/1/2010 9:49 AM, Ken Brown wrote: I'm often seeing a very slow response to keypresses under xorg-server-1.8.0-1. The problem is intermittent, but it always happens within a few minutes after starting the s

Re: Can't "alt-tab" to Xterm window

2010-06-17 Thread Ken Brown
I was wondering if anyone knew how to fix this? This has already been reported by many people. Until it gets fixed, you can work around it by reverting to xorg-server-1.7.6-2. Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

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

2010-05-27 Thread Ken Brown
problem in the future (assuming you manually copy the default files and don't change them). Ken -- 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/

Re: Slow response to keypresses in xorg-server-1.8.0-1

2010-05-02 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/1/2010 9:49 AM, Ken Brown wrote: I'm often seeing a very slow response to keypresses under xorg-server-1.8.0-1. The problem is intermittent, but it always happens within a few minutes after starting the server (via the start menu shortcut or a slight variant). Here are some example

Re: Font change in Gnu emacs/X11 following upgrade

2010-04-29 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/29/2010 3:16 PM, Marc Girod wrote: Ken Brown-6 wrote: [This should have gone to the cygwin-xfree list. I've set the reply-to accordingly.] ... This is a result of the change in the default server DPI announced in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2010-04/msg0.htm

Re: Font change in Gnu emacs/X11 following upgrade

2010-04-29 Thread Ken Brown
l/cygwin-xfree-announce/2010-04/msg0.html As the announcement states, you may want to set Xft.dpi in your ~/.Xdefaults. Setting it to 75 will restore the previous font and frame sizes in emacs under X11. Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem r

Re: emacs-x11 takes 30-40 sec to open after upgrading to cygwin-1.7

2010-04-14 Thread Ken Brown
error (the error number is variable though): strace: error creating process emacs, (error 2) That's because /usr/bin/emacs is a symlink. Try straceing emacs-X11. Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Doc

Re: emacs-x11 takes 30-40 sec to open after upgrading to cygwin-1.7

2010-04-13 Thread Ken Brown
LANG=en_US. While this is ~10% less, waiting 27 seconds for emacs to open still seems unreasonable. Any other ideas? Hmm You don't have any emacs fonts being set via ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources? Actually, I do. However, following the suggestion of Ken Brown http://www.mail-a

Re: Keyboard and start options problems

2010-04-07 Thread Ken Brown
S and the 3 button emulation doesn't work either. You need to quote the part after -c, and you're also missing a '--' (see the startxwin documentation). Try C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c '/usr/bin/startxwin.exe -- -xkblayout ca -xkbvariant fr -emulate3

Re: problems starting xterm

2010-03-19 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/19/2010 11:40 AM, Markus Hoenicka wrote: Markus Hoenicka mumbled: As this method to start xterm seems to work, do I have to start the X server some other way than I do now? I just use the Win start menu entry Cygwin-X->XWin Server. I can answer that one myself. Running startxwin from m

Incorrect Cygwin/X behavior leads to .X0-lock related fatal error

2010-03-11 Thread Ken Klein
Here is tool behavior that seems like a bug in 1.7.1 related to the Cygwin/X FAQ item 3.4 (A2)called "Fatal server error: Can't read lock file /tmp/.X0-lock." I am posting this, because the faq item states that the buggy behavior happens "For reasons which are not well understood at present."

Re: Problems Starting Xterm using the System Tray Icon for XWin Server

2010-02-18 Thread Ken Brown
e a shortcut with target C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/xterm -ls -display 127.0.0.1:0.0 Ken -- 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/

Xwindows very slow to paint, esp. for nedit

2010-01-28 Thread Ken Klein
menu items.  The menu paint just crawls along. Any suggestions as to what the problem may be? Thanks, Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ:

Re: Can't start xterm from Cygwin/X icon in system tray

2009-12-31 Thread Ken Brown
I used /startxwin.bat instead of > /bin/startxwin.exe. If PATH is not being set, then you're probably not running startxwin.exe from a login shell. See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2009-12/msg00117.html Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-sim

Should xterm require xbitmaps?

2009-12-14 Thread Ken Brown
d the vlines2 pixmap is in the xbitmaps package. Should xterm require xbitmaps? Ken -- 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/

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 ans

GSlice problem with emacs Gtk+ build

2009-12-07 Thread Ken Brown
achieve the same effect as setting G_SLICE=always-malloc? Ken -- 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/

Re: 1.7 - what's the right way to start X?

2009-12-04 Thread Ken Brown
n 1.7 after rebasing. Ken Brown Cygwin's emacs maintainer -- 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/

Re: X11R7.5 and C.UTF-8

2009-11-28 Thread Ken Brown
On 11/28/2009 8:34 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/11/28 Ken Brown: On 10/28/2009 6:07 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/10/28 Ken Brown: Maybe my terminology is wrong. But if you start mintty with no .minttyrc and with LANG unset, mintty will set LANG=C.UTF-8. Yep. That's primarily for emacs

Re: X11R7.5 and C.UTF-8

2009-11-28 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/28/2009 6:07 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/10/28 Ken Brown: Maybe my terminology is wrong. But if you start mintty with no .minttyrc and with LANG unset, mintty will set LANG=C.UTF-8. Yep. That's primarily for emacs' benefit, which parses the locale env variables itself instea

Re: checkX problems

2009-11-26 Thread Ken Brown
On 11/26/2009 2:30 AM, Lothar Brendel wrote: Errh, yes. Hence, to make Cygwin/X+xterm run out of the box (using the start menu shortcut), you have to install the CJK fonts. One more noob-question, sorry: Which font-package does provide "the CJK fonts"? I tried several ones but up to now in vain

Re: Problem with new xinit - console window doesn't open (but bash starts)

2009-11-25 Thread Ken Brown
ommand right in startxwin.bat. In the case of CYGWIN, the syntax would be SET CYGWIN=%CYGWIN% tty Ken -- 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/

Re: checkX problems

2009-11-25 Thread Ken Brown
x27;s been discussed in several recent threads. A summary of workarounds can be found in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2009-11/msg00174.html Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: checkX problems

2009-11-20 Thread Ken Brown
On 11/20/2009 2:47 PM, Gertjan van Noord wrote: On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 02:43:11PM -0500, Ken Brown wrote: On 11/20/2009 12:14 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: I've integrated Lothar's patch into run2/checkX (along with some other internal changes), and published a test release. Please try

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