Following update to XWin or xorg-server: changed syntax to get a xterm terminal window

s, but I have always managed to iterate to a new successful joint syntax XWin xterm but this time I am totally stymied. Can anybody offer me a working syntax please? Thank you. Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: htt

Starting XWin from a portable CD

itten and cannot be diverted to /dev/null (or somewhere write-able). Or, if I know what it is, can I divert it or otherwise turn it off? (Oh woe woe woe. I've lost count of the things that worked so easily on 1.5 and somehow don't on 1.7, this start command on a portable CD being one of

Re: Updated: xorg-server-1.9.2-1

example. On an earlier occasion, the recommended use of -nolock failed. I am just happy when the current usage works. Thanks again.) Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.

Re: Updated: xorg-server-1.9.2-1

's because the fault/ problem/ difficulty is mine rather than general. ?? Any insights much appreciated. Thank you, Fergus PS It kills me not to copy this to cygwin at cygwin dot com which I feel will have a much wider readership and skill set amongst that readership, but anybody sinn

Re: [PATCH] Repair '-nolock'

/release? 2 If not then (I am sorry) I do not know how to introduce a patch into an existing executable. If this is something everybody in the world except me knows, can you direct me to a howto? Thanks again. Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

Unrecognized option: -nolock

is unrecognised in the current XWin. Please could -nolock be reintroduced so that FAT32 users can take full advantage of the current .dll? Thank you. Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation

Re: Can't read lock file

sequences. It is a marvellous advance in security I am sure (and I am very appreciative that Corinna and Jon took this up and responded to me) but I guess it just isn't for me. Thank you. If meanwhile you can point me somewhere for a solution to the lost colour schemes, I would be very gratef

Can't read lock file

fixes intended to address problems starting XWin? Thank you. Fergus PS Not quite "finally". Can I please ask a 4th question: Q4 Why are questions about X specifically directed to a different mailing list? Apart from occasional high-frequency dialogue as at present, posts about X are

Strange architecture under /etc/X11/

tc/X11/xserver/en_US/en_US This seems to me to cause havoc with file handling resulting in multiple error msgs "No such file or directory" or "Too many levels of symbolic links". Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem report

Re: How to add a title to xterm

defaults. 1. Start bash then 2. run XWin -nolisten local -multiwindow & 3. xterm -display localhost:0.0 -title Columbia works fine for me ... Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http:

Re: Basic question 1 - Traffic

ry helpful. (IKWWFMATWID, meaning "I know what works for me and that's what I do", pronounced I Don't Give A Toss About Anybody Else. Not in fact true, but it might as well be ...) Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: Basic question 1 - Traffic

erm, but you might want something else and I seem to have a quiettime (cf. yours, noisy). Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http:/

xpdf: error messages

he same source. This is huge (8MB, Goodness knows why) and takes a long time to load but does not present the error msgs after viewing. My "fix" is to use the command structure xpdf filename.pdf 2>/dev/null which effectively mutes the error messages but this is not quite optimal. Thanks. Fergus

Re: installing a window manager - help please

act it objects if you do). If you prefer to, you can set DISPLAY in your environment and not have to type -display ... each time. 5. If after this you make more progress with fvwm please let me know as I can't get anywhere either. Fergus

Re: How to clean the local package directory?

t, (3) rename new location to old. (Or have the effect of (1) - (3), however you manage the detail.) Any good, do you think? Fergus If you wanted to run a fresh installation with just these packages, and without the effort of picking them, then this too can be contrived, but that's another story. Do you?

Re: XWin on Windows 98 unreliable

This works for me on W98 on a non-networked machine: bash run XWin -nolisten local -multiwindow & should do it. Then if you want to run xterm (say) just use xterm -display localhost:0.0 HTH. Fergus

Re: Problem with xman

/xman002688: permission denied whose solution may reside in something to do with permissions rather than Xman ... Fergus

Re: Problem with xman

/xman002688: permission denied whose solution may reside in something to do with permissions rather than Xman ... Fergus

Problem with xman

ompare files line by line 1mSYNOPSIS0m 1mdiff 22m[4mOPTION24m] ... 4mFILES0m etc. Anybody else get this? Do I need to do something simple to correct this behaviour? Fergus

XWin: problems on un-networked machine

, I know this is an essentially pointless question, but _why_ does XWin require internet access??!! and, are there other / better switches I should or could be using than "-nolisten local" to render the application useable on a non-networked machine? Thanks, Fergus cygcheck.out Description: Binary data

cygwin-X: bits of .Xdefaults selectively ignored

, are successfully read identified and enacted in rxvt in non-X mode. Any help / ideas? PS. Despite several efforts to identify the rules going on here, I can find no easy way of defining/ guessing/ forecasting which fonts from the Windows provision rxvt will understand, and which not. Thank you. Fergus

No on-screen response to keypress until press spacebar

rs, all similar and apparently related to the above. I know I have seen this or similar symptoms recently described, but cannot find it. Possibly in a X context, so I'm copying this to the cygwin-xfree list too. Can anybody please point me to the thread (and, with any luck, explanation and solution)? Thank you. Fergus

How to kill XWin from a script

ipt) which will kill them all stone dead without previous reference to ps is kill `ps | grep XWin | awk '{print $1}'` Put it in .bash_logout? Or wherever suits. Fergus

Re: internet required?

ch played a role here?) More details, if I can, if you need them ... Thanks. Fergus

XWin: losing focus; killing it

ere a switch or qualifier I can add/ subtract to the "XWin ..." command to keep ownership? My second question is: how kill a running XWin? Presently I do "ps" followed by "kill " but this needs user input, and I'd prefer a single command that meant "". Can anybody help? Thank you. Fergus

Re: Portable Cygwin works, but XWin fails

CD drive. CD still only 640/700 full. ... Fergus

Re: Portable Cygwin works, but XWin fails

"-nolisten local" switch impose some kind USA default, as it would indeed appear to do? Fergus

Re: Portable Cygwin works, but XWin fails

But: the trouble seems to occur earlier, at the point that XWin atempts to make the directory /tmp/.X11-unix. Can I trick XWin into creating this elsewehere (i.e. somewhere writeable?) Fergus

Re: Portable Cygwin works, but XWin fails

winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress and the "noting shutdown in progress" must be what I have described as XWin "dies".) So: is there a way I can try to get this directory (and, specifically, I suppose, its contents) written to /cygdrive/c/tmp/ rather than to /tmp/? Fergus PS

Portable Cygwin works, but XWin fails

e I might try? By the way, in mounting the portable version, I have already established that the directory /cygdrive/c/tmp/ must exist, so I suppose I could try ln -s /cygdrive/c/tmp/XWin.log /tmp/XWin.log before burning to CD. (I've already made 5 coasters. At this rate I'll be able to floor the bathroom.) Thanks. Fergus

XWin: necessary internet access?

to offer advice for non-standard systems. I attach a cygcheck -srv in case it is obvious from that what further necessary component I still lack. Thank you for any help. Fergus cygcheck.out Description: Binary data

Re: Failure to make grap 1.30 under cygwin 1.5.5

> flex 2.5.31-1 sucks ... > ... upgrade to 2.5.4-2. Well this worked just fine. Thank you very much for this pragmatic help. Fergus

Failure to make grap 1.30 under cygwin 1.5.5

A configure / make /make install that has been working successfully oob for a long time recently failed. the relevant .tgz is unaltered, only Cygwin has changed. Does the following output from make, throw any light on this? The configure worked fine. I attach cygcheck.out. Fergus ~/tmp/grap-1.30

Re: Still getting Signal 11 error msg

>> Attaching cygcheck output is something that Fergus has seemed >> reluctant to do. The cygwin problems page also has a lot of tips >> for reporting problems, one of which is to not send email with >> vague subjects. Sorry -- I was at fault on both counts. Thank you C

Still getting Signal 11 error msg

Thank you. Fergus

xdvi "Signal 11" failure

out of the way warning: deleting "" so I can make a directory there (Not that this interferes with the utility of any programs.) Fergus

Re: xpdf as an alternative to Acrobat Reader

eving that it is Motif not lesstif that is installed? Fergus

xpdf as an alternative to Acrobat Reader

X / Motif you will be able to compile pdftops, pdftotext, pdfinfo, pdffonts, and pdfimages but not xpdf and indeed at the end of make install there they all are, but not xpdf. Has anybody succeeded in a successful install and is it easy to explain how? Thank you. Fergus

Two simple QQ about XWin

.list both when XWin is running and when not, expecting a small difference in env vars (or something). But all that has changed are PIDs. I want to be able to query the O/S to ask whether X is running or not. Is there a way of doing this, please? Apart from say ps -a | grep XWin. Thank you! Fergus

Incorporating .epsi files into TeX docs : failure

psi file is created from an original .dvi using dvips diagram.dvi # to make diagram.ps ps2epsi diagram.ps # to make diagram.epsi Thank you for any help you can offer, if you routinely manage this successfully. Fergus

Re: Incorporating .epsi files into TeX docs : failure

s, not all good, since I don't always start XWin ... we'll see. Thanks again. Fergus

Re: Recent upgrade of xfree-xserv: missing DLLs

t is anybody experiencing similar recent anomalies, and are they indicative of something obvious? Fergus

Re: Recent upgrade of xfree-xserv: missing DLLs

oard problems with bash. Also (3) when XWin is not started, I cannot even run rxvt (as in rxvt -e bash). Hmmm. No point in worrying about probs 2 and 3 when I know a solution to prob 1 is in the pipeline. Thank you. I will let you know how things go. Fergus

Recent upgrade of xfree-xserv: missing DLLs

) are related: yesterday there was a massive upgrade of other parts of the XFree86 provision. Any connection? Fergus

Re: Newbie : XWin, rxvt, gv

Thank you for your rapid help. Everything completely clear. Actually what I've got now is set DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 in autoexec.bat start Xwin -multiwindow in Startup run rxvt -e bash as a Desktop shortcut and it is just perfect. (For me.) THANK YOU, guys. Fergus

Newbie : XWin, rxvt, gv

dislike having to "nip outdoors" to use something. Has anybody successfuly compiled gv-3.5.8 into Cygwin (or later? 3.5.8 is the most modern I could find). Thank you very much. Sorry for the very simple-minded nature of these questions. Fergus

Corrupted file x2x-1.27-1-src.tar.bz2

In the directory release/XFree86/x2x/, the file x2x-1.27-1-src.tar.bz2 has the correct md5sum (being 87075ba00b0cd15f35975c956f14591a); but running bzip2 -tv gives a "file ends unexpectedly" error message, and attempting to run bzip2 -dv fails. Fergus