Re: Xwin 1.14.2 (64 bit) extreme memory page faulting

2013-10-04 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 04/10/2013 9:21 AM, Erik Soderquist wrote: if I succeeded I would by then be running a Fedora system rather than CentOS; IS team here would have had my hide for breakfast... Next attempt: trying to get a test VM for Ubuntu or Mint; IS team may have my hide just for asking that one... I

Re: Xwin 1.14.2 (64 bit) extreme memory page faulting

2013-10-03 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 02/10/2013 7:55 PM, Erik Soderquist wrote: On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Ryan Johnson ryan.john...@cs.utoronto.ca wrote: I doubt it's an X-server code issue. You tried it on too many machines with problems, and too many other people aren't spamming the list about this, which suggests it's

Re: Xwin 1.14.2 (64 bit) extreme memory page faulting

2013-10-03 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 03/10/2013 11:44 AM, Erik Soderquist wrote: Installed a fresh VM with a Windows XP 64 bit ISO, sp2 already applied. VM has 512 MB ram, and the only package I installed after the OS was cygwin. Issue presents in this environment as soon as Firefox connects/starts. Page Faults Delta over

Re: Xwin 1.14.2 (64 bit) extreme memory page faulting

2013-10-03 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 03/10/2013 12:27 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 03/10/2013 11:44 AM, Erik Soderquist wrote: Installed a fresh VM with a Windows XP 64 bit ISO, sp2 already applied. VM has 512 MB ram, and the only package I installed after the OS was cygwin. Issue presents in this environment as soon as Firefox

Re: Xwin 1.14.2 (64 bit) extreme memory page faulting

2013-10-02 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 02/10/2013 2:50 PM, Erik Soderquist wrote: I am currently using the X server on a Windows 7 64 bit host for Firefox (in particular, occasional terminals too). While everything works, I am experiencing very severe memory page faulting causing the graphical interface to appear to hang for

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Uploads for 12 August

2013-08-14 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 14/08/2013 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

Re: X connections reset on PC sleep

2013-02-13 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 13/02/2013 10:37 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: I use (and love) this package: http://xpra.org/ which allows you to start an X server in the background and connect/disconnect to it. See also: http://winswitch.org/ which provides a GUI for manipulating xpra. Nice! I tried partiwm a long

Re: AW: Levovo trackpoint come delayed (reproducable with xev)

2012-01-24 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 24/01/2012 8:17 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 23/01/2012 21:56, Paul Maier wrote: On 22/01/2012 23:10, Paul Maier wrote: Lenovo trackpoint scrolling events get buffered somewhere until I release the button: then I get hundreds of scrolling events all at once. I can clearly see these events in

Re: XWin.exe causes Windows apps. to freeze

2011-11-21 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 21/11/2011 12:14 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: I have a persistent problem at work after XWin has been running for a while (sometimes hours, sometimes days). Windows programs will spontaneously freeze For example, I'm composing a message in Outlook, and all of a sudden, my keyboard stops

Re: XWin.exe causes Windows apps. to freeze

2011-11-21 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 21/11/2011 12:57 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Ryan Johnson ryan.john...@cs.utoronto.ca wrote: If you think it's clipboard related, try running with -noclipboard and see if that fixes it. Downside is, you lose all clipboard functionality... Duh, I should

Re: XWin.exe causes Windows apps. to freeze

2011-11-21 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 21/11/2011 4:25 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: Eh? Mouse copy/paste in mintty is identical to xterm AFAIK... select = copy, middle button = paste. If you're in a mouse-using terminal app you have to hold down [shift] but that's the same

Re: XWin.exe causes Windows apps. to freeze

2011-11-21 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 22/11/2011 12:27 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: On 21 November 2011 23:45, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 21/11/2011 4:25 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: Eh? Mouse copy/paste in mintty is identical to xterm AFAIK... select = copy, middle button = paste

Re: X Server shortcut removed from start menu?

2011-10-20 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 20/10/2011 6:47 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 19/10/2011 15:11, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 19/10/2011 9:40 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 19/10/2011 12:55, Ryan Johnson wrote: 2011/10/18 14:57:17 running: c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile /etc/postinstall/xinit.sh 2011/10/18 14:57:17 abnormal

Re: X Server shortcut removed from start menu?

2011-10-19 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 19/10/2011 7:43 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 18/10/2011 19:58, Ryan Johnson wrote: I recently upgraded to the latest cygwin/x and my start menu no longer contains a shortcut to start the x-server -- the thing there is a shortcut for xterm. Is there a packaging change that I wasn't aware

Re: X Server shortcut removed from start menu?

2011-10-19 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 19/10/2011 9:40 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 19/10/2011 12:55, Ryan Johnson wrote: 2011/10/18 14:57:17 running: c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile /etc/postinstall/xinit.sh 2011/10/18 14:57:17 abnormal exit: exit code=3 I guess something different than usual went wrong? What's the best

Re: SIGSEGV in xorg-1.8.2.0 during -resize operation

2010-09-06 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 8/31/2010 7:00 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: Okay, I think I have worked out the correct thing to do do to handle bpp changes in the RANDR code, and I've uploaded a test build at [1]. Perhaps you could try it and see if it works for you? Note that you will need to use -resize with this build to

Re: SIGSEGV in xorg-1.8.2.0 during -resize operation

2010-09-06 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 9/6/2010 11:01 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 8/31/2010 7:00 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: Okay, I think I have worked out the correct thing to do do to handle bpp changes in the RANDR code, and I've uploaded a test build at [1]. Perhaps you could try it and see if it works for you? Note that you

Re: SIGSEGV in xorg-1.8.2.0 during -resize operation

2010-09-03 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 8/31/2010 7:00 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: Okay, I think I have worked out the correct thing to do do to handle bpp changes in the RANDR code, and I've uploaded a test build at [1]. Perhaps you could try it and see if it works for you? Note that you will need to use -resize with this build to

Re: SIGSEGV in xorg-1.8.2.0 during -resize operation

2010-09-01 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 8/31/2010 7:00 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: Okay, I think I have worked out the correct thing to do do to handle bpp changes in the RANDR code, and I've uploaded a test build at [1]. Perhaps you could try it and see if it works for you? Note that you will need to use -resize with this build to

Re: xwin -multiwindow puts glass pane over windows taskbar

2010-08-31 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 8/31/2010 7:06 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 16/08/2010 11:57, Ryan Johnson wrote: The latest versions of the X server put a glass pane over the windows taskbar -- you have to click on it and then wait several seconds before it responds and gets out of the way. This seems related

Re: Re: Missing dependency for Athena libraries

2010-08-16 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 8:59 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: On 14 August 2010 12:57, Ryan Johnson wrote: I just tried to pull down the Athena widget libraries (xaw and xaw3d) and got an unmet dependency message for libXpm-devel. It's not a big deal, since it offered to add it to my list, but a bit odd (I just clicked

xwin -multiwindow puts glass pane over windows taskbar

2010-08-16 Thread Ryan Johnson
Hi all, The latest versions of the X server put a glass pane over the windows taskbar -- you have to click on it and then wait several seconds before it responds and gets out of the way. This seems related to the previous problem of generally slow response to key presses... Has anyone

Missing dependency for Athena libraries

2010-08-14 Thread Ryan Johnson
Hi all, I just tried to pull down the Athena widget libraries (xaw and xaw3d) and got an unmet dependency message for libXpm-devel. It's not a big deal, since it offered to add it to my list, but a bit odd (I just clicked on each once... none of the cycling though

Re: Re: xterm and 7-bit control codes

2010-08-13 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 8:59 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote: As far as I know, xterm's never sent more than one byte for either x/y in a button event. Ditto for rxvt. It sounds like a useful idea, except that it would of course be incompatible with the existing applications. So it would have to be enabled by a new

xterm and 7-bit control codes

2010-08-12 Thread Ryan Johnson
Hi all, I'm running into a strange one... At some point in the past (on linux because I didn't know about cygwin yet), xterm used to send the following control sequence for a mouse click at row 1, col 250 ESC [ M SPC \303\206 ! ESC [ M # \303\206 ! From what I could piece together, the

Re: SIGSEGV in xorg-1.8.2.0 during -resize operation

2010-08-12 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 8/12/2010 5:46 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 10/08/2010 06:48, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 8/10/2010 12:02 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 09/08/2010 22:14, Ryan Johnson wrote: When I detached the monitor to leave the office, X disappeared with signal 11 (log attached). Oddly, the log file didn't mention

Re: Re: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion

2010-08-09 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 8:59 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 03/08/2010 16:21, Ryan Johnson wrote: As I mentioned before, I'd seen references to those fonts but wasn't sure it would actually help me. I just installed them and, sure enough, there's still some (fewer?) missing charsets. The delay dropped to only 2-3

Re: SIGSEGV in xorg-1.8.2.0 during -resize operation

2010-08-09 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 8/10/2010 12:02 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 09/08/2010 22:14, Ryan Johnson wrote: I was overjoyed to see that the release notes for the new X server release mention support for resizing the X desktop with the windows desktop. Unfortunately, it didn't work :( I modified the xwin windows

Re: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion

2010-08-03 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 8/3/2010 3:35 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 03/08/2010 10:00, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, Ryan Johnson wrote: At some point an annoyance appeared with my xterm windows: The first time I use [ctrl]+mouse click in any window, that xterm becomes unresponsive for about 5 seconds

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

2010-08-03 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 8:59 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: I've cooked up a small additional change which should prevent this blocking behaviour and uploaded a build [2]. It seems to resolve the problem in this specific case. Perhaps you could try it out and see if it helps? [1]

Re: RE: startxwin/XWin won't start properly

2010-06-30 Thread Ryan Johnson
What Mike and I want is actually pretty reasonable. We want to be able to preserve the work we do in picking the wheat from the chaff (from our point of view) to avoid having our coworkers or ourselves duplicate that work, whether they understand Unix or not (I'm sorry I brought it up! It is

Re: startx doesn't run proprely

2010-06-25 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 8:59 PM, hakob...@ualberta.ca wrote: Dear Cygwin helper, After the startx command it doesn't open X terminal. In fact, it sometimes open Xterm sometimes not, givin the following error message: snip _XSERVTransMakeAlloCOTSServerListeners: server already running snip Please, tell me

Re: Can't alt-tab to Xterm window

2010-06-18 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 8:59 PM, Craig Moore wrote: If I switch away from my xterm window (alt-tab), and then try to switch back, nothing happens. I have to right-click on the title of the window in the taskbar, which usually activates the window and brings it to the font. It happens pretty consistently so I was

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

2010-05-18 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 8:59 PM, 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 server (via the start menu shortcut or a slight variant).

Cygwin/X + Solaris = no function keys

2007-02-05 Thread Ryan Johnson
error like all the x-apps do. Has anyone else seen this issue? It seems similar to a couple of messages about eclipse from April 2005, but those had no resolution. Thanks, Ryan Johnson -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com