XWin Server starts but terminates shortly after

2015-11-12 Thread Thomas Schweikle
Since about six months: I can start XWin-Server, but it terminates shortly after without any chance to start any X11-application. The X11-log shows: -- SNIP # cat XWin.0.log Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 1.17.4.0 OS: CYGWIN_NT-6.1 nc403-muc 2.3.0(0.291/5/3

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

2015-09-16 Thread Paul
Michael DePaulo gmail.com> writes: |On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 7:28 AM, Fergus Daly | frontier-science.co.uk> wrote: |> For ages I used |> XWin -nolock -nolisten local -multiwindow & |> xterm -display localhost:0.0 |> to get a xterm terminal. |> Following recent up

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

2015-06-10 Thread Fergus Daly
For ages I used XWin -nolock -nolisten local -multiwindow xterm -display localhost:0.0 to get a xterm terminal. Following recent updates I get a fatal error: Cannot establish any listening sockets. In the past, updates to XWin have sometimes led to similar difficulties, but I have

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

2015-06-10 Thread Michael DePaulo
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 7:28 AM, Fergus Daly ferg...@frontier-science.co.uk wrote: For ages I used XWin -nolock -nolisten local -multiwindow xterm -display localhost:0.0 to get a xterm terminal. Following recent updates I get a fatal error: Cannot establish any listening sockets

Re: Cygwin XWin 1.17.1 crash at startup

2015-04-01 Thread Jon TURNEY
list without real success. The issue appeared using a long-time tested DOS script launching xmgrace which failed with a message telling A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit. And other XWin programs were not working properly. So I tried to make a fresh install of X-Cygwin (32 bits

Cygwin XWin 1.17.1 crash at startup

2015-03-31 Thread Michel Poirier
real success. The issue appeared using a long-time tested DOS script launching xmgrace which failed with a message telling A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit. And other XWin programs were not working properly. So I tried to make a fresh install of X-Cygwin (32 bits) on another

Re: Cygwin XWin 1.17.1 crash at startup

2015-03-31 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 3/31/2015 8:36 PM, Michel Poirier wrote: Dear Cygwin maintainer Since last X-Cygwin update several of my X-Win applications are not working properly. Googling cygwin xorg 1.17 crash gave many posts reporting probably similar issues but I couldn't find a fix for the error. I also looked at

Re: XWin cursor huge on one computer but normal on another

2014-08-04 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 03/08/2014 15:32, Matt D. wrote: I primarily work on my workstation which has four 1080p monitors (three on the bottom with the fourth at center top) and for the longest time I thought that it this was a configuration error on my part; and perhaps it still it. The issue is that on my

Re: xinit hangs on XWin infinite loop when using -displayfd

2014-08-04 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 29/07/2014 00:57, Matt D. wrote: Doh! I was so blind! Windows XP does not have an IPv6 protocol installed by default. I added it and the problem went away. This sounds like a bug. XWin should verify whether a device which supports the target protocol exists before attempting to open a socket

XWin cursor huge on one computer but normal on another

2014-08-03 Thread Matt D.
I primarily work on my workstation which has four 1080p monitors (three on the bottom with the fourth at center top) and for the longest time I thought that it this was a configuration error on my part; and perhaps it still it. The issue is that on my worksation, the cursor is huge and is

Re: xinit hangs on XWin infinite loop when using -displayfd

2014-07-28 Thread Jon TURNEY
it to determine the display number for any clients they start, and then pass on the display number to the specified file descriptor My XWin.0.log is about 15MB of repeated attempts to open a socket. Here is a snippet. I hope this helps: InitConnectionLimits: MaxClients = 255 Welcome to the XWin X

Re: xinit hangs on XWin infinite loop when using -displayfd

2014-07-28 Thread Matt D.
Doh! I was so blind! Windows XP does not have an IPv6 protocol installed by default. I added it and the problem went away. This sounds like a bug. XWin should verify whether a device which supports the target protocol exists before attempting to open a socket on it. What is this used

Re: xinit hangs on XWin infinite loop when using -displayfd

2014-07-21 Thread Matt D.
install on a VMware virtual machine and is 100% patched up. Cygwin also is a clean install. I did try a rebaseall with no effect. This is the first time I've encountered this. When I run xinit -- -displayfd 3, xinit will hang and XWin takes up 100% of the cpu. I've confirmed that file descriptors

Re: xinit hangs on XWin infinite loop when using -displayfd

2014-07-21 Thread Matt D.
Ok.. so I let xinit do its thing to see if it got anywhere. Eventually it will pop and error box. Interestingly, I specified a displayfd value of 3 and yet both the popup and the log are reporting 5: http://oi58.tinypic.com/106fono.jpg My XWin.0.log is about 15MB of repeated attempts to open

xinit hangs on XWin infinite loop when using -displayfd

2014-07-20 Thread Matt D.
and XWin takes up 100% of the cpu. I've confirmed that file descriptors are working: $ exec 3a $ echo test 3 $ cat a test $ exec 3- I can confirm that ports are available and that both xinit and XWin work without this argument by running: $ xinit -- Everything else works fine but without

Re: compiling xwin 1.15.1-2

2014-06-21 Thread J. Offerman
are talking about? = Making all in glx make[4]: Entering directory '/usr/src/xorg-server-1.15.1-3/xorg-server-1.15.1-3/ build/hw/xwin/glx' GEN generated_gl_shim.c GEN generated_gl_thunks.c GEN generated_gl_thunks.def Traceback

Re: compiling xwin 1.15.1-2

2014-06-21 Thread J. Offerman
) ) Due to other changes it includes, an additional change is needed to ) compile xorg-server with it, which is included in 1.15.1-3. ) ) I'm seeing the following error now. Is this what you are talking about? No, it was just a python thing. After installing additional python3 libraries, it did

Re: XWin ignores all parameters related to multiple monitors

2014-06-19 Thread Jon TURNEY
. Try this one instead. ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/x86/XWin.20140509-git-c4a16a6606868d3e.exe.bz2 Can't believe it, great! Works exactly as it should (just with the standard configuration, X :0 -multiwindow)!! Now I just hope that this 'patch' somehow finds its way into the trunk ;-) This fix

Re: compiling xwin 1.15.1-2

2014-06-19 Thread Jon TURNEY
/xorg-server-1.15.1-2/src/xserver-cygwin-1.15.1-2/hw/xwin/glx/glthunk.c:87:0: ./generated_gl_thunks.c: In function 'glTexturePageCommitmentEXTWrapper': ./generated_gl_thunks.c:10560:3: error: too many arguments to function 'proc' RESOLVED_PROC(PFNGLTEXTUREPAGECOMMITMENTEXTPROC)( texture_

Re: compiling xwin 1.15.1-2

2014-06-12 Thread Jon TURNEY
-1.15.1-2/hw/xwin/glx/glthunk.c:87:0: ./generated_gl_thunks.c: In function 'glTexturePageCommitmentEXTWrapper': ./generated_gl_thunks.c:10560:3: error: too many arguments to function 'proc' RESOLVED_PROC(PFNGLTEXTUREPAGECOMMITMENTEXTPROC)( texture_, target_, level_, xoffset_, yoffset_, zoffset_

Re: XWin ignores all parameters related to multiple monitors

2014-05-09 Thread Jon TURNEY
? Sorry, my snapshot building script went wrong and the snapshot was broken. Try this one instead. ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/x86/XWin.20140509-git-c4a16a6606868d3e.exe.bz2 -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: XWin ignores all parameters related to multiple monitors

2014-05-09 Thread Lukas Haase
? Sorry, my snapshot building script went wrong and the snapshot was broken. Try this one instead. ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/x86/XWin.20140509-git-c4a16a6606868d3e.exe.bz2 Can't believe it, great! Works exactly as it should (just with the standard configuration, X :0 -multiwindow)!! Now

Re: XWin ignores all parameters related to multiple monitors

2014-05-08 Thread Jon TURNEY
if that fixes your problem, but I'm not sure if that is the correct solution. (I also found a bug with how this hint is handled in 64-bit builds, but I don't think that affects you) [1] ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/x86/XWin.20140508-git-c4a16a6606868d3e.exe.bz2 This is not how it behaves for me

Re: XWin ignores all parameters related to multiple monitors

2014-05-08 Thread Lukas Haase
, but I don't think that affects you) [1] ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/x86/XWin.20140508-git-c4a16a6606868d3e.exe.bz2 Thanks so much for that! I have just the issue that the exe does not seem to work for me. Is there anything special I need to consider? I tried copying both, 63 and 32 bit

Re: XWin ignores all parameters related to multiple monitors

2014-05-06 Thread Lukas Haase
this, I want to disable the second monitor (and *only* use the primary). But whatever I do, XWin seems to ignore whatever I supply. For example, I start /usr/bin/startxwin.exe -- -nomultiplemonitors /usr/bin/startxwin.exe -- -screen 0 @1 -nomultiplemonitors /usr/bin/startxwin.exe -- -screen 0 @1

Re: XWin ignores all parameters related to multiple monitors

2014-05-05 Thread Jon TURNEY
. To avoid this, I want to disable the second monitor (and *only* use the primary). But whatever I do, XWin seems to ignore whatever I supply. For example, I start /usr/bin/startxwin.exe -- -nomultiplemonitors /usr/bin/startxwin.exe -- -screen 0 @1 -nomultiplemonitors /usr/bin/startxwin.exe -- -screen 0

XWin ignores all parameters related to multiple monitors

2014-05-04 Thread Lukas Haase
this, I want to disable the second monitor (and *only* use the primary). But whatever I do, XWin seems to ignore whatever I supply. For example, I start /usr/bin/startxwin.exe -- -nomultiplemonitors /usr/bin/startxwin.exe -- -screen 0 @1 -nomultiplemonitors /usr/bin/startxwin.exe -- -screen 0 @1

windows 7 cygwin/XWin session dies

2014-04-22 Thread Arnaud Caubel
this behaviour... Here is the log file of the session : Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 1.9.2.0 (10902000) Build Date: 2010-11-03 XWin was started with the following command line: /usr/bin/XWin -query asterix ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens

Re: windows 7 cygwin/XWin session dies

2014-04-22 Thread Jon TURNEY
, declaring session dead This means I sent an XDMCP keepalive for the current session to the XDM server, but it's response said that the session wasn't alive. One question I have is if your machine running XWin is idle, and going into a sleep state before this problem occurs? If that is the case

Re: Problem with Multi-Key Sequences... They Seem To Be Filtered Out By XWin

2014-03-07 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 06/03/2014 22:25, Cutler, David (NonStop) wrote: I downloaded a new copy of Cygwin in the last 5 days (effectively started from scratch) and am trying to use XWin on a Windows 7 virtual machine running an old proprietary X program (it's called x6530 which is a terminal emulator

Problem with Multi-Key Sequences... They Seem To Be Filtered Out By XWin

2014-03-06 Thread Cutler, David (NonStop)
Hello, I downloaded a new copy of Cygwin in the last 5 days (effectively started from scratch) and am trying to use XWin on a Windows 7 virtual machine running an old proprietary X program (it's called x6530 which is a terminal emulator for a proprietary terminal built originally by Tandem

XWin hangs connecting to SunOS 5.11

2013-10-31 Thread jose isaias cabrera
Greetings! I have a SunOS 5.11, jcabrera@whale:~$ uname -a SunOS whale 5.11 11.1 i86pc i386 i86pc which has X installed. One of the folks that uses this machine connects = ok with XMing and putty, but I am trying to use it with XWin and the = display stays black for ever. I am using

Re: XWin hangs connecting to SunOS 5.11

2013-10-31 Thread jose isaias cabrera
Attached is the log From: jose isaias cabrera wrote... Greetings! I have a SunOS 5.11, jcabrera@whale:~$ uname -a SunOS whale 5.11 11.1 i86pc i386 i86pc which has X installed. One of the folks that uses this machine connects = ok with XMing and putty, but I am trying to use it with XWin

Re: XWin hangs connecting to SunOS 5.11

2013-10-31 Thread jose isaias cabrera
, but I am trying to use it with XWin and the = display stays black for ever. I am using these two commands, xwin :0 -clipboard -query 13.121.188.152 -fp tcp/13.121.188.152:7100 and this one, xwin :0 -clipboard -query 13.121.188.152 they both connect, but no actual display from the SunOS display

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

2013-10-04 Thread Erik Soderquist
snip Trying again; last time i tried it was looking like CentOS was going to skip the 5.9 release entirely... It seems it is there now and (so far) has two of the previously missing dependencies... we will see how far i get... --- Erik And that idea crashed and burned badly... After

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

2013-10-04 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Ryan Johnson ryan.john...@cs.utoronto.ca wrote: 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

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 Erik Soderquist
the connection to/from the remote host. Once nearly everything was disabled, i rebooted the VM. Currently there are only four Windows services running. They are: CYGWIN sshd, DHCP Client, Plug and Play, and Remote Procedure Call (RPC). Issue still presents. I've attached the XWin log and the cygcheck

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

2013-10-03 Thread Erik Soderquist
snip 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. snip Followup: I confirmed that my VM host's environment's memory setting is set to lock all VM guest memory into physical ram, and doubled

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 Erik Soderquist
snip I just fired up a 64-bit Ubuntu VM I had laying around, installed firefox, and tunneled it to cygwin64/X on my win7-64 machine. X isn't even visible in the task manager when I sort descending by PF delta, CPU, or memory. This in spite of having half a dozen tabs with content (including

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

2013-10-03 Thread Erik Soderquist
snip Huh. I have 1.14.3, not 1.14.2... have you tried upgrading just in case that's the issue? Ryan The virgin XP-64 VM is using 1.14.3, issue still presents. --- Erik -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

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

2013-10-03 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin-X)
On 10/3/2013 12:46 PM, Erik Soderquist wrote: snip I just fired up a 64-bit Ubuntu VM I had laying around, installed firefox, and tunneled it to cygwin64/X on my win7-64 machine. X isn't even visible in the task manager when I sort descending by PF delta, CPU, or memory. This in spite of having

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

2013-10-03 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Erik Soderquist erik.soderqu...@gmail.com wrote: snip Similar, to but different from Larry's suggestion, can you install Firefox on CentOS using the installer from Firefox itself, and not the distro version? I can imagine it could be something about flags or

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: Xwin 1.14.2 (64 bit) extreme memory page faulting

2013-10-02 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Ryan Johnson ryan.john...@cs.utoronto.ca wrote: 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). snip Is there really a Firefox build for cygwin/X ?

Re: cygwin and xwin and super and hyper

2013-06-24 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 21/06/2013 16:56, J. David Boyd wrote: Jon TURNEY writes: On 19/06/2013 22:27, J. David Boyd wrote: I can get my capslock key to be super with the command line 'setxkbmap -option caps:super', but I can't get 'setxkbmap -option altwin:hyper_win' to do anything. Running 'setxkbmap

Re: cygwin and xwin and super and hyper

2013-06-24 Thread J. David Boyd
Jon TURNEY jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk writes: On 21/06/2013 16:56, J. David Boyd wrote: Jon TURNEY writes: On 19/06/2013 22:27, J. David Boyd wrote: All perfect so far. So, when I start up emacs, and press C-h k, then, for example, Capslock-d, (hyper-d) I get 'H-d is undefined'. Yeah.

Re: cygwin and xwin and super and hyper

2013-06-21 Thread J. David Boyd
Jon TURNEY jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk writes: On 19/06/2013 22:27, J. David Boyd wrote: I can get my capslock key to be super with the command line 'setxkbmap -option caps:super', but I can't get 'setxkbmap -option altwin:hyper_win' to do anything. Running 'setxkbmap -print' shows both

Re: cygwin and xwin and super and hyper

2013-06-20 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 19/06/2013 22:27, J. David Boyd wrote: I can get my capslock key to be super with the command line 'setxkbmap -option caps:super', but I can't get 'setxkbmap -option altwin:hyper_win' to do anything. Running 'setxkbmap -print' shows both options as being set, but the win keys still act

cygwin and xwin and super and hyper

2013-06-19 Thread J. David Boyd
I can get my capslock key to be super with the command line 'setxkbmap -option caps:super', but I can't get 'setxkbmap -option altwin:hyper_win' to do anything. Running 'setxkbmap -print' shows both options as being set, but the win keys still act as the win key. Is there something else I need

Re: 1.14.0-2 XWin does not start, though 1.13.2.0 X Server latest snapshot 20130210-git works

2013-05-07 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 2013-05-06 21:52, Vasiliy wrote: - 1.14.0-2 XWin X Server installation is broken after replacing 1.13 in Cygwin (1.17.18 / 1.17.19s) Do you have only a 3-button mouse? If so, the issue is known and a fix is already queued up for 1.14.1-1. Yaakov -- Unsubscribe info: http

Re: 1.14.0-2 XWin does not start, though 1.13.2.0 X Server latest snapshot 20130210-git works

2013-05-07 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 07/05/2013 03:52, Vasiliy wrote: - 1.14.0-2 XWin X Server installation is broken after replacing 1.13 in Cygwin (1.17.18 / 1.17.19s) - no software interfering with Cygwin is installed - reinstalling xorg-server doesn't help - with the latest Cygwin snapshot (20130503) it might cause 1.14.0

Fwd: 1.14.0-2 XWin does not start, though 1.13.2.0 X Server latest snapshot 20130210-git works

2013-05-07 Thread Vasiliy
: On 07/05/2013 03:52, Vasiliy wrote: - 1.14.0-2 XWin X Server installation is broken after replacing 1.13 in Cygwin (1.17.18 / 1.17.19s) - no software interfering with Cygwin is installed - reinstalling xorg-server doesn't help - with the latest Cygwin snapshot (20130503) it might cause 1.14.0-2

Re: Is there a way to spawn processes from the XWin login shell?

2013-03-27 Thread Thiago Padilha
the tray icon. It would be nice to have a startxwin flag that did that, eg: startxwin -command 'urxvtc -e zsh' # instead of starting a new xwin instance, this would send a command to be spawned by the running login shell which would have the same effect as select a .XWinrc menu entry

Re: Is there a way to spawn processes from the XWin login shell?

2013-03-27 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 23/03/2013 00:02, Thiago Padilha wrote: XWin uses a login shell to configure its environment when it starts up, and processes spawned from the tray icon inherit XWin environment so they don't have to be spawned from login shells. Is there a way to achieve the same effect without using

Re: Is there a way to spawn processes from the XWin login shell?

2013-03-27 Thread Thiago Padilha
As you have shown me, I probably overcomplicated my question. It would have been simpler if I asked: 'can I make XWin start child processes without using the tray icon?' :) The reason I was trying to do that is because my zsh login scripts set things that only make sense once in a traditional

Is there a way to spawn processes from the XWin login shell?

2013-03-22 Thread Thiago Padilha
XWin uses a login shell to configure its environment when it starts up, and processes spawned from the tray icon inherit XWin environment so they don't have to be spawned from login shells. Is there a way to achieve the same effect without using a tray icon? For example, can I have a desktop

Re: How to disable focus stealing prevention in XWin Xorg Multi-Window

2012-10-24 Thread Jon TURNEY
a little background with this in Linux as I know the magic in KDE to disable focus stealing prevention and get these buttons to work. Is there a similar setting I can make to XWin Server's startxwin.exe to disable this? I have noted that twm and WindowMaker do not prevent focus stealing, and my

Re: Probable bug in WGL implementation (AIGLX) of GLX calls in XWin -wgl

2012-10-17 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 16/10/2012 21:34, Tim Edwards wrote: The current implementation of GLX using WGL takes a few shortcuts, basically anything that is drawn with OpenGL isn't composed into the screen, it's just drawn on top of it. I wouldn't want to sound too peevish, as I was quite happy to find that

Re: Probable bug in WGL implementation (AIGLX) of GLX calls in XWin -wgl

2012-10-16 Thread Jon TURNEY
://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10472 [2] ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/XWin.20121012-git-3807fe48a7282459.exe.bz2 -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: Probable bug in WGL implementation (AIGLX) of GLX calls in XWin -wgl

2012-10-16 Thread Tim Edwards
Hello Jon, Thanks for the detailed response. The current implementation of GLX using WGL takes a few shortcuts, basically anything that is drawn with OpenGL isn't composed into the screen, it's just drawn on top of it. I wouldn't want to sound too peevish, as I was quite happy to find that

Re: XWin on taskbar

2012-08-06 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 03/08/2012 15:42, Eliot Moss wrote: The patched run.exe seems to work for me as well. Thanks for testing. I am still uncertain if you are seeing the same, similar or a different problem to me, though, so it would be helpful if you could confirm or deny if the extra taskbar button you see

Re: XWin on taskbar

2012-08-06 Thread Eliot Moss
On 8/6/2012 8:04 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 03/08/2012 15:42, Eliot Moss wrote: The patched run.exe seems to work for me as well. Thanks for testing. I am still uncertain if you are seeing the same, similar or a different problem to me, though, so it would be helpful if you could confirm or

Re: AW: AW: possible to run XWin as windows service?

2012-08-06 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 28/07/2012 14:08, Paul Maier wrote: The cygwin program run.exe is designed to do just that. It's what I use for this purpose :-) ... thank you for your input. 8-) I was using run.exe too. run.exe used to hide the window and the task bar entry. But since my upgrade from Cygwin 1.7.9

RE: XWin on taskbar

2012-08-06 Thread Ross Boulet
On 03/08/2012 15:42, Eliot Moss wrote: The patched run.exe seems to work for me as well. Thanks for testing. I am still uncertain if you are seeing the same, similar or a different problem to me, though, so it would be helpful if you could confirm or deny if the extra taskbar button

Re: XWin on taskbar

2012-08-03 Thread Eliot Moss
The patched run.exe seems to work for me as well. Thanks!Eliot -- 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: XWin on taskbar

2012-08-02 Thread Jon TURNEY
installed by Cygwin. On both machines, I have a .startxwinrc that starts two rxvt windows. The difference is, on the desktop, items appear in the Windows taskbar for the two rxvt windows only - as I expect. But on the laptop, another taskbar item for the XWin server appears. It's not a huge deal

XWin on taskbar

2012-07-31 Thread Ross Boulet
windows. The difference is, on the desktop, items appear in the Windows taskbar for the two rxvt windows only - as I expect. But on the laptop, another taskbar item for the XWin server appears. It's not a huge deal, but it adds a little clutter to the taskbar I would rather not see. Any thoughts

Re: XWin on taskbar

2012-07-31 Thread Eliot Moss
have a .startxwinrc that starts two rxvt windows. The difference is, on the desktop, items appear in the Windows taskbar for the two rxvt windows only - as I expect. But on the laptop, another taskbar item for the XWin server appears. It's not a huge deal, but it adds a little clutter

AW: possible to run XWin as windows service?

2012-07-28 Thread Paul Maier
I would like to start XWin automatically on Windows startup (Windows user login). I couldn't find any hint in the manual. Is it possible to run (and automatically start) XWin as windows service? Possible? Yes. [...] Running it from the Startup program group is the correct

Re: AW: possible to run XWin as windows service?

2012-07-28 Thread Eliot Moss
On 7/28/2012 8:15 AM, Paul Maier wrote: Can you recommend me how to start the X Server without getting a task bar entry? The cygwin program run.exe is designed to do just that. It's what I use for this purpose :-) ... Eliot Moss -- Unsubscribe info:

AW: AW: possible to run XWin as windows service?

2012-07-28 Thread Paul Maier
The cygwin program run.exe is designed to do just that. It's what I use for this purpose :-) ... Hi Eliot, thank you for your input. 8-) I was using run.exe too. run.exe used to hide the window and the task bar entry. But since my upgrade from Cygwin 1.7.9 to 1.7.15, run.exe only hides

Re: AW: possible to run XWin as windows service?

2012-07-28 Thread Eliot Moss
On 7/28/2012 8:57 AM, Eliot Moss wrote: On 7/28/2012 8:15 AM, Paul Maier wrote: Can you recommend me how to start the X Server without getting a task bar entry? The cygwin program run.exe is designed to do just that. It's what I use for this purpose :-) ... ... and I just tried it in the

Re: AW: AW: possible to run XWin as windows service?

2012-07-28 Thread Eliot Moss
On 7/28/2012 9:08 AM, Paul Maier wrote: The cygwin program run.exe is designed to do just that. It's what I use for this purpose :-) ... I was using run.exe too. run.exe used to hide the window and the task bar entry. But since my upgrade from Cygwin 1.7.9 to 1.7.15, run.exe only hides the

Re: possible to run XWin as windows service?

2012-07-27 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 26/07/2012 23:30, Paul Maier wrote: I would like to start XWin automatically on Windows startup (Windows user login). I couldn't find any hint in the manual. Is it possible to run (and automatically start) XWin as windows service? Possible? Yes. You can't run an arbitrary executable

possible to run XWin as windows service?

2012-07-26 Thread Paul Maier
Hi, I would like to start XWin automatically on Windows startup (Windows user login). I couldn't find any hint in the manual. Is it possible to run (and automatically start) XWin as windows service? I tried these attempts, but they don't work: sc create testabc1 binpath= D:\Programme\cygwin

RE: possible to run XWin as windows service?

2012-07-26 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
From: Paul Maier I would like to start XWin automatically on Windows startup (Windows user login). I couldn't find any hint in the manual. How about just adding the XWin Server shortcut to the Startup program group? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: XWin 1.12.1.0 seg faults on startup?

2012-06-28 Thread Jon TURNEY
to be somewhat problematic to debug since the debugger seems unable to attach to the faulted process. I'm not sure what might cause that, if it's some software you have installed which is interfering with Cygwin or some security policy you have set? Are you running XWin under a local

Re: XWin 1.12.1.0 seg faults on startup?

2012-06-25 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 21/06/2012 04:39, Nick Vasilatos wrote: Well... the new server (i1.12.2.0) also seg faults at 0x0 on startup. Debugger says ``No Stack''? The log file is attached. [Inferior 1 (process 17136) exited with code 01] (gdb) bt full No stack. (gdb) This says that the XWin process exited, so

Re: XWin 1.12.1.0 seg faults on startup?

2012-06-17 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 09/06/2012 17:32, Nick Vasilatos wrote: XWin doesn't want to start for me. This is a new install of Cygwin/new install of Win7 on an AMD x64 system with an Nvidia gtx-570 GPU; I've reinstalled the X components a couple of times; rebasedall a couple of times. The log (I installed an XWin.exe

XWin crashes with Fatal server error when starting SYBYL 8.1 over SSH

2012-06-11 Thread Patrice Peterson
. SYBYL usually opens two windows, a main window and a (graphical) terminal. When the first (main) window pops up, XWin crashes with the following error: Fatal server error ... Package version: 1.12.1-1 built 2012-05-02 ... X was called with: X :0 -multiwindow An full Cygwin

Re: XWin crashes with Fatal server error when starting SYBYL 8.1 over SSH

2012-06-11 Thread marco atzeri
pinpoint the exact time when it stopped working. SYBYL usually opens two windows, a main window and a (graphical) terminal. When the first (main) window pops up, XWin crashes with the following error: Fatal server error ... Package version: 1.12.1-1 built 2012-05-02 ... X

XWin 1.12.1.0 seg faults on startup?

2012-06-09 Thread Nick Vasilatos
Hi, XWin doesn't want to start for me. This is a new install of Cygwin/new install of Win7 on an AMD x64 system with an Nvidia gtx-570 GPU; I've reinstalled the X components a couple of times; rebasedall a couple of times. The log (I installed an XWin.exe w/symbols) says: [ 5306.810

RE: XWin 1.12.0-4 crash

2012-04-27 Thread Michel Bardiaux
From: Jon TURNEY Mentioning the name of the application which caused the crash (multi-gnome-terminal) would have helped. Sorry, I thought it was clear from the startup script that I had attached. So, in fact, it's not a crash when the X server is started, but when you try to run the

Re: XWin 1.12.0-4 crash

2012-04-26 Thread Jon TURNEY
:\cygwin\bin\dumper.exe' in the system environment (meaning, via the control panel), to have a core file that I could then open with gdb? No, I don't think that would work (for various uninteresting reasons) Start the X server from a terminal using 'gdb --args XWin -multiwindow', type 'r

RE: XWin 1.12.0-4 crash

2012-04-26 Thread Michel Bardiaux
From: Jon TURNEY Start the X server from a terminal using 'gdb --args XWin -multiwindow', type 'r' to start the X server running, Did exactly that in a minty. Then in another one: export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 ssh -X -Y michel@besdev01 multi-gnome-terminal and 'bt full' after it crashes

xlogo crahes XWin with Fatal Error (Segmentation Fault)

2012-04-26 Thread Yusuke Tamura
Dear sirs, Some days ago I updated the cygwin system by 'setup.exe', expecting some GL problems are fixed. Since then XWin crashes with some application programs. One of the most simplest is 'xlogo'. What I have done is as follows; Start [XWin Server] (wait some time for bringing up xterm

Re: XWin 1.12.0-4 crash

2012-04-26 Thread Jon TURNEY
/2012 14:03, Michel Bardiaux wrote: Yes, it is a crash at startup. So, in fact, it's not a crash when the X server is started, but when you try to run the application multi-gnome-terminal? On 26/04/2012 15:54, Michel Bardiaux wrote: Start the X server from a terminal using 'gdb --args XWin

Re: xlogo crashes XWin with Fatal Error (Segmentation Fault)

2012-04-26 Thread George Barrick
Re: xlogo crashes XWin with Fatal Error (Segmentation Fault) 2012.04.26.18:13:33 UT Hey cygwin-x folks, I have not had notable difficulties with XWin-1.12.0-4. Just about everything that I have done with it over the past few days has been fine. However, when I

Re: Issue with XWin under xlaunch

2012-04-24 Thread Jon TURNEY
, which reads /etc/profile, which sets PATH to include /usr/bin, which should be inherited by XWin and used when it execs /bin/sh -c 'your xterm command'. We try to create the login environment as far up the process hierarchy as possible, rather than starting the processes from the notification area

Re: Issue with XWin under xlaunch

2012-04-24 Thread Jon TURNEY
the shortcut which runs it to something like the following (perhaps we should do that by default) C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c '/usr/bin/startxwin.exe /var/log/xwin/startxwin.log 21' -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

Re: Issue with XWin under xlaunch

2012-04-24 Thread Eliot Moss
Ok, I can see that perhaps in some ways I was being foolish and could have figured out more of this myself. But here's something interesting. I tried this: - Pin to Start Menu of the supplied XLaunch short cut - Edit to change the command to: /usr/bin/xlaunch.exe -run

Re: Issue with XWin under xlaunch

2012-04-24 Thread Ken Brown
a terminal, or capture it by changing the shortcut which runs it to something like the following (perhaps we should do that by default) C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c '/usr/bin/startxwin.exe /var/log/xwin/startxwin.log 21' That doesn't help, but I'll reply to my original thread

Re: XWin 1.12.0-4 crash

2012-04-23 Thread Jon TURNEY
to modify the instruction slightly, start X using 'gdb --args XWin -multiwindow' rather than trying to attach to a running XWin. [1] http://x.cygwin.com/devel/backtrace.html -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

RE: XWin 1.12.0-4 crash

2012-04-23 Thread Michel Bardiaux
startxwin.bat - Starting on Windows 95/98/Me goto STARTUP :OS_NT REM Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 rem echo startxwin.bat - Starting on Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 :STARTUP REM Brief descriptions of XWin-specific options: REM REM -screen scr_num [width height] REM Enable screen scr_num and optionally

Re: Issue with XWin under xlaunch

2012-04-23 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 11/04/2012 11:23, Eliot Moss wrote: When I start XWin using xlaunch, trying to the start programs from the .XWinrc popup menu (right-click on the X icon, left-click on the program's entry in the menu), programs do not start. I get only those programs started by my script that I told

Re: Issue with XWin under xlaunch

2012-04-23 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/23/2012 9:51 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 11/04/2012 11:23, Eliot Moss wrote: When I start XWin using xlaunch, trying to the start programs from the .XWinrc popup menu (right-click on the X icon, left-click on the program's entry in the menu), programs do not start. I get only those

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