RE: partnership with the Xouvert project?

2003-10-29 Thread Vince Hoffman
> Just a WAG but, do the file naming problems remain if you're using a ^^ > "managed mode" > mount ? > > from the man page of cywin mount. > "managed- directory is managed by cygwin. Mixed case and special > characters

RE: partnership with the Xouvert project?

2003-10-29 Thread Vince Hoffman
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 08:22:42AM +0100, Pau Aliagas wrote: > >I've just subscribed to the list to tell you the same thing > about arch and > >xouvert. Some small problems have arisen using arch in > cygwin and there > >was a consensus that changes needed to be applied to cygwin > to have

RE: Question about the cpio-command

2003-07-28 Thread Vince Hoffman
wrong list realy (you want [EMAIL PROTECTED] for non X questions.) however the (scsi) tape dev on cygwin is /dev/st0 or /dev/nst0 (no rewind version) the /dev dir is virtual but ls /dev/st0 will show it is there. > -Original Message- > From: Hinterplattner Wolfgang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: XDM now working on cygwin to manage remote displays

2003-07-15 Thread Vince Hoffman
> Work remains to to fix authFile (change the colon character to > something storeable on the NTFS filesystem) and to add > ntsec setuid code to permit non-setuid-privilened user > authentications. With the new (experimental) 1.5 cygwin dll its now possible to have a cygwin "managed" mount wh

RE: X server acting funny when displaying remote KDE session

2003-06-16 Thread Vince Hoffman
> > No. Ssh uses port forwarding. That works by accepting X > > connections > > locally at the client machine and than forwarding the data > > packets > > that arrive on that "display" to your actual server through > > an > > internal SSH tunnel. Your DISPLAY variable on the client > > should b

RE: CYGWIN and XFREE

2003-04-04 Thread Vince Hoffman
hmm the cygwin package search at http://www.cygwin.com/packages/ seems to think its in the package "X11 pixmap library" try installing/reinstalling that. > -Original Message- > From: Ralph P. Pass III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 04 April 2003 18:10 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject:

RE: Script for use with linux font server and xsetroot

2003-03-14 Thread Vince Hoffman
The cygwin tools include the gnu sleep command, to save some effort :) (in sh-utils package in base) > -Original Message- > From: Colin Harrison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 13 March 2003 20:51 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Script for use with linux font server and xsetroot >

RE: Lesstif update II

2003-02-27 Thread Vince Hoffman
A quick grep in /etc/postinstall gives $ more XFree86-lib.sh.done #!/bin/sh ETCLINKS="app-defaults fs lbxproxy proxymngr rstart twm xdm xinit xsm xserver" for f in $ETCLINKS; do ln -sf /etc/X11/$f /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/$f done do I'd guess it to be the Xfree86 libraries package that creates the

RE: file manager xfm, or similar for xfree86 under cygwin

2003-02-11 Thread Vince Hoffman
out of interest what happens if you "mount c: /cygdrivec" ? (ie can it handle mount points rather than symlinks) > -Original Message- > From: Cary Lewis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 11 February 2003 21:29 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: FW: file manager xfm, or similar for xfr

RE: Connect from Unix to Windows via ssh and start an applycation which is using the windows display

2003-01-13 Thread Vince Hoffman
Is the application you're trying to launch actually a Cygwin X application ? If not then both the mailing lists you mailed are unsuitable for your query. I'd suggest trying ticking the "allow this service to interact with the desktop" box on the logon tab of the service properties. this will mean

RE: XFree and File Systems

2002-12-31 Thread Vince Hoffman
actualy there is a working NFS server but its still in testing. (search the cygwin-apps mailing list for details) no NFS client i know of though. the URL was http://www.oneparticularharbor.net/cygwin/ only tried it for an afternoon though. > -Original Message- > From: Alexander Gottwald >

RE: Host Chooser Program?

2002-11-29 Thread Vince Hoffman
I seem to remember post about something similar, try searching the archives for 'connection tool' > -Original Message- > From: Alexander Skwar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 29 November 2002 14:26 > To: Cygwin XWin Mailingliste > Subject: Host Chooser Program? > > > Hi! > > Now that

RE: cygwin an windows 311

2002-11-22 Thread Vince Hoffman
Its possible that you could get this to work, http://www.jcraft.com/wiredx/ maybe.. if windows 3.11 java is up to the job. I'd be supprised though. > -Original Message- > From: Hendrik Mueller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 22 November 2002 10:49 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: cy