Testing CygWin XFree86 with multiple monitors

2004-11-06 Thread Øyvind Harboe
(This is a repost, but with link to source + binary this time). I'm using CygWin XFree86 with a dual monitor setup and a single monitor setup. In my experience there are, not surprisingly, more problems with the dual monitor setup. This made me think a bit about how multi-monitor CygWin XFree86

Re: Testing CygWin XFree86 with multiple monitors

2004-08-24 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Øyvind Harboe wrote: I'm using CygWin XFree86 with a dual monitor setup and a single monitor setup. In my experience there are, not surprisingly, more problems with the dual monitor setup. This made me think a bit about how multi-monitor CygWin XFree86 could get more

Testing CygWin XFree86 with multiple monitors

2004-08-16 Thread Øyvind Harboe
I'm using CygWin XFree86 with a dual monitor setup and a single monitor setup. In my experience there are, not surprisingly, more problems with the dual monitor setup. This made me think a bit about how multi-monitor CygWin XFree86 could get more testing. Is there any interest amongst CygWin

Problem with Gnuplot under Cygwin/XFree86

2004-03-24 Thread ncokwqc02
I described a problem with Gnuplot under Cygwin/XFree86 here: http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=hl=enlr=ie=UTF-8threadm=c3mrn7%24oko%241%40nets3.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DEprev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26group%3Dcomp.graphics.apps.gnuplot In the opinion of one of the Gnuplot gurus

Re: Problem with Gnuplot under Cygwin/XFree86

2004-03-24 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Cygwin/XFree86 here: http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=hl=enlr=ie=UTF-8threadm=c3mrn7%24oko%241%40nets3.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DEprev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26group%3Dcomp.graphics.apps.gnuplot In the opinion of one of the Gnuplot gurus (Hans BB), it's a Cygwin/XFree86 problem

Re: Problem with Gnuplot under Cygwin/XFree86

2004-03-24 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Harold == Harold L Hunt writes: Harold Have you tried the Cygwin/X gnuplot package instead of the one that Harold you compiled? It is possible that Volker has already fixed this Harold problem in his Cygwin-specific patch. If not, he reads this list and Harold maybe he will

Re: cygwin/xfree86/emacs problems after upgrading

2004-02-26 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Takuma Murakami wrote: Igor, Yes, it's a neat trick *if* the only thing people changed was the install drive. If they change the path, all bets are off. I'm surprised you don't actually customize startxwin.bat (and similar files, like startxdmcp.bat) in a

Re: cygwin/xfree86/emacs problems after upgrading

2004-02-26 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Takuma Murakami wrote: Igor, Yes, it's a neat trick *if* the only thing people changed was the install drive. If they change the path, all bets are off. I'm surprised you don't actually customize startxwin.bat

Re: cygwin/xfree86/emacs problems after upgrading

2004-02-25 Thread Takuma Murakami
Igor, Yes, it's a neat trick *if* the only thing people changed was the install drive. If they change the path, all bets are off. I'm surprised you don't actually customize startxwin.bat (and similar files, like startxdmcp.bat) in a postinstall script (which can run under a Cygwin shell,

Re: cygwin/xfree86/emacs problems after upgrading

2004-02-08 Thread Jari Aalto+mail.linux
This is your copy. Article has been posted to the newsgroup(s). * Tue 2004-02-03 Thomas L Roche tlroche AT us.ibm.com gnu.emacs.help * http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [Cygwin] | $ emacs --debug-init | $ start XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -emulate3buttons | | I

Re: cygwin/xfree86/emacs problems after upgrading

2004-02-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Igor, This (and the existence of CYGWIN_ROOT in your environment) is an artifact of using startxwin.bat. Unless you have a default directory for the Cygwin root, you can't use that file OOTB -- you'll have to edit it and replace \cygwin with the value of your Cygwin root (in your case,

Re: cygwin/xfree86/emacs problems after upgrading

2004-02-04 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Igor, This (and the existence of CYGWIN_ROOT in your environment) is an artifact of using startxwin.bat. Unless you have a default directory for the Cygwin root, you can't use that file OOTB -- you'll have to edit it and replace \cygwin with

Re: cygwin/xfree86/emacs problems after upgrading

2004-02-04 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Thomas L Roche wrote: [snip] Note that I run emacs via emacs --debug-init from bash in an xterm which I launch with start XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -emulate3buttons Not quite. Judging from your cygcheck output, you use startxwin.bat. More below. [snip] However

cygwin/xfree86/emacs problems after upgrading

2004-02-03 Thread Thomas L Roche
Apologies for cross-posting, but I don't know my problems' cause. summary: I am still experiencing post-upgrade problems with my cygwin emacs; output from cygcheck and report-emacs-bug attached. What to do? details: I was annoyed by some shortcomings of my cygwin emacs (21.1? whatever version

1.5.6-1: WinXP and cygwin/xfree86

2004-01-27 Thread ennisa
Has anyone had issues with cygwin utterly destroying the file system of a WinXP(prof.) machine? I'm not sure what happened, but I got a BSoD, rebooted, and the HD wasn't recognizable by anything (I'm in the process of re-installing XP now). Adrian London, ON

Re: 1.5.6-1: WinXP and cygwin/xfree86

2004-01-27 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 ennisaatgdlsdotcom wrote: Has anyone had issues with cygwin utterly destroying the file system of a WinXP(prof.) machine? I'm not sure what happened, but I got a BSoD, rebooted, and the HD wasn't recognizable by anything (I'm in the process of re-installing XP now).

Cygwin XFree86 featured in Danish Computer Magazine

2003-12-17 Thread Franz Wolfhagen
Well, it had to happen sometimes - the danish computer magazine Alt om Data www.aod.dk has metioned/included Cygwin Xfree86 on their monthly CDRom with their magazine along with a lot of the cygwin tools. The only problem as I see it - they have no sourcecode available on the CDRom

Re: Cygwin XFree86 startx Problem

2003-12-02 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Igor, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Igor, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Chan Seng Loong wrote: hi again...

Re: Cygwin XFree86 startx Problem

2003-11-24 Thread Hans Dekker
21, 2003 10:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cygwin XFree86 startx Problem / Chan Seng Loong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |[...] | $ startx | + userclientrc=/home/Chan Seng Loong/.xinitrc | + userserverrc=/home/Chan Seng Loong/.xserverrc just a wild thought, homedir with space in it, try without

Re: Cygwin XFree86 startx Problem

2003-11-24 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
: Re: Cygwin XFree86 startx Problem / Chan Seng Loong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |[...] | $ startx | + userclientrc=/home/Chan Seng Loong/.xinitrc | + userserverrc=/home/Chan Seng Loong/.xserverrc just a wild thought, homedir with space in it, try without.. edit /etc/passwd

Re: Cygwin XFree86 startx Problem

2003-11-22 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Igor, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Chan Seng Loong wrote: hi again... Thanks to Mr. Igor Pechtchanski, the [: Seng: unknown operand problem is eleminated with the power of qutoes :-D Good. Harold, how do you

Re: Cygwin XFree86 startx Problem

2003-11-22 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Igor, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Igor, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Chan Seng Loong wrote: hi again... Thanks to Mr. Igor Pechtchanski, the [: Seng: unknown operand problem is eleminated with the power of qutoes :-D Good.

RE: Cygwin XFree86 startx Problem

2003-11-22 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
in administrater mode. Over all effect will be a new account under Cygwin though windows. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andrew Markebo Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 10:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cygwin XFree86 startx Problem

Re: Cygwin XFree86 startx Problem

2003-11-21 Thread Chan Seng Loong
hi again... Thanks to Mr. Igor Pechtchanski, the [: Seng: unknown operand problem is eleminated with the power of qutoes :-D Chan Seng [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ startx + userclientrc=/home/Chan Seng Loong/.xinitrc + userserverrc=/home/Chan Seng Loong/.xserverrc +

Re: Cygwin XFree86 startx Problem

2003-11-21 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Chan Seng Loong wrote: hi again... Thanks to Mr. Igor Pechtchanski, the [: Seng: unknown operand problem is eleminated with the power of qutoes :-D Good. Harold, how do you want to go about incorporating the patch? [snip] Fontconfig error: Cannot load default

Re: Cygwin XFree86 startx Problem

2003-11-21 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Igor, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Chan Seng Loong wrote: hi again... Thanks to Mr. Igor Pechtchanski, the [: Seng: unknown operand problem is eleminated with the power of qutoes :-D Good. Harold, how do you want to go about incorporating the patch? As you suspected, I

Re: Cygwin XFree86 startx Problem

2003-11-21 Thread Chan Seng Loong
hiagain I check the setup.exe and it say that I already installed: libconfig-devel libfontconfig1 libfreetype2-devel libfreetype26 packages... still I got the fontconfig problem: Chan Seng [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ startx + userclientrc=/home/Chan Seng Loong/.xinitrc +

Re: Cygwin XFree86 startx Problem

2003-11-21 Thread David Andersen
Seng Loong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin.xfree Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 8:02 PM Subject: Re: Cygwin XFree86 startx Problem ... + xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 ... Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file Warning: Cannot convert string to type XftFont

Re: Cygwin XFree86 startx Problem

2003-11-21 Thread Andrew Markebo
/ Chan Seng Loong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |[...] | $ startx | + userclientrc=/home/Chan Seng Loong/.xinitrc | + userserverrc=/home/Chan Seng Loong/.xserverrc just a wild thought, homedir with space in it, try without.. edit /etc/passwd. /A -- Democracy is two hungry wolves and one

RE: Cygwin XFree86 startx Problem

2003-11-21 Thread Robert McNulty Junior
:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cygwin XFree86 startx Problem / Chan Seng Loong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |[...] | $ startx | + userclientrc=/home/Chan Seng Loong/.xinitrc | + userserverrc=/home/Chan Seng Loong/.xserverrc just a wild thought, homedir with space in it, try without.. edit

Cygwin XFree86 startx Problem

2003-11-20 Thread Chan Seng Loong
hi... I having problem using startx to startx the X window or X server... here are the error: Chan Seng [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ startx + userclientrc=/home/Chan Seng Loong/.xinitrc + userserverrc=/home/Chan Seng Loong/.xserverrc + sysclientrc=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc +

Re: Cygwin XFree86 startx Problem

2003-11-20 Thread Harold L Hunt II
John, I recommend using startxwin.bat. I don't recommend using startx. With that being said, looks like you are missing the fontconfig and freetype2 packages. Harold Chan Seng Loong wrote: hi... I having problem using startx to startx the X window or X server... here are the error:

RE: Cygwin XFree86 startx Problem

2003-11-20 Thread Henrik Schultz
With that being said, looks like you are missing the fontconfig and freetype2 packages. No, they just need to enclose long file names with spaces in quotes ... - Henrik

Re: Cygwin XFree86 startx Problem

2003-11-20 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Henrik, Henrik Schultz wrote: With that being said, looks like you are missing the fontconfig and freetype2 packages. No, they just need to enclose long file names with spaces in quotes ... Not so sure about that. That may fix some of the problems, but what about the last problem in the

RE: [Cygwin/XFree86] Duplicate keystrokes in X Server

2003-10-29 Thread Pille Geert (bizvdm)
Hallo Harold, I've finally installed Cygwin/XFree86 with setup, until this morning I was still using a version that I installed manually (ahum). Haven't spotted the duplicate keystrokes (yet?). After setup, I installed XWin-4.3.0-20-Test01.exe, since I experienced the no key input. This didn't

Re: Cygwin/XFree86 - No longer associated with XFree86.org

2003-10-28 Thread Egbert Eich
Harold, I find it sad that you had to make this decision. I've just been absent for a little more than two weeks and was unable to commit patches - look what came out of it. I understand that the level of frustration among contributors has risen to a point that people are starting to use bad

Re: Cygwin/XFree86 - No longer associated with XFree86.org

2003-10-28 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Egbert, Egbert Eich wrote: Harold, I find it sad that you had to make this decision. I've just been absent for a little more than two weeks and was unable to commit patches - look what came out of it. Egbert, I am sorry, I want to make it absolutely clear that my raising the issue with

RE: Cygwin/XFree86 - No longer associated with XFree86.org

2003-10-28 Thread Armbrust, Daniel C.
Harold, I have been lurking on this list for a while now. I don't know much about XFree86, or the politics, or any history. But I read the threads that led up to your decision. I applaud you. You asked for something completely reasonable, and (pardon the language) David Dawes came off as

Re: Cygwin/XFree86 - No longer associated with XFree86.org

2003-10-28 Thread Jason Dufair
I'll also chime in as a lurker to say that you have kicked some major ass for us Cygwin/XFree86 users, Harold, and I think you've been nothing but helpful and responsive on the list. I think your plea on the XFree86 list was reasonable. Good luck as you explore other options. Harold L Hunt II

Cygwin/XFree86 - No longer associated with XFree86.org

2003-10-27 Thread Harold L Hunt II
It seems that David Dawes has made his decision not to let the Cygwin/XFree86 project commit patches directly to the XFree86.org CVS tree; he doesn't seem to want to go on record saying this, but he has written several messages during this discussion about ftp servers, cvs servers, etc., while

Re: Cygwin/XFree86 - No longer associated with XFree86.org

2003-10-27 Thread Alan Hourihane
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 11:35:20AM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: 6) Alternatives are being evaluated for hosting Cygwin/XFree86 code in CVS. Hosts that can provide CVS commit access for at least five Cygwin/XFree86 developers will be given priority. Harold, I thought you already had

Re: Cygwin/XFree86 - No longer associated with XFree86.org

2003-10-27 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Alan Hourihane wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 11:35:20AM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: 6) Alternatives are being evaluated for hosting Cygwin/XFree86 code in CVS. Hosts that can provide CVS commit access for at least five Cygwin/XFree86 developers will be given priority. Harold, I thought

Re: host cygwin/xfree86 code on sources.redhat.com

2003-10-27 Thread Harold L Hunt II
. CGF has made offers in the past to host serious projects' code, I'm sure Cygwin/XFree86 qualifies. It saddens me to see that we cannot get the time of day from the XFree86 people. Shame on them for that! Cheers, Nicholas

AW: Problems with shared lesstif and shared Xt on Cygwin/XFree86

2003-10-27 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi Harold L Hunt II wrote: I tried a build without $(SMLIB) and $(ICELIB) in SharedXtReqs, but it fails to link due to unresolved symbols (all symbols must be resolved at library link time in DLLs on Windows). I will have to consult with the rest of the Cygwin people to see what we

xouvert? (was Re: Cygwin/XFree86 - No longer associated with XFree86.org)

2003-10-27 Thread Mitchell Skinner
; hopefully all those that have a problem with the old system can get together and start a single new mainline rather than splinter into a bunch of different groups. Speaking of which, since the xouvert guys announced their intention to fork, I've been wondering which way cygwin-xfree86 would go

Re: xouvert? (was Re: Cygwin/XFree86 - No longer associated with XFree86.org)

2003-10-27 Thread Harold L Hunt II
be advantageous to us and them. Speaking of which, since the xouvert guys announced their intention to fork, I've been wondering which way cygwin-xfree86 would go. What do cygwin-xfree subscribers think about that? Oops, I think I told you above :) Harold

Re: Problems with shared lesstif and shared Xt on Cygwin/XFree86

2003-10-27 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Harold L Hunt II wrote: I tried a build without $(SMLIB) and $(ICELIB) in SharedXtReqs, but it fails to link due to unresolved symbols (all symbols must be resolved at library link time in DLLs on Windows). I will have to consult with the rest of the Cygwin people to see what we should do

Re: Problems with shared lesstif and shared Xt on Cygwin/XFree86

2003-10-27 Thread Matthieu Herrb
Torrey Lyons wrote (in a message from Saturday 25) The issue on Mac OS X is that most shared libraries want to be built as two-level namespace images. Two-level namespace images have significant advantages in loading speed, but they require that they have no unresolved symbols when

Re: Cygwin/XFree86 Website Design (Possible Deuglification?)

2003-10-05 Thread Colin Harrison
used to sniff my firewall traffic. 5) A local cygwin/xfree86 xterm. 6) A local cygwin/xfree86 xeyes showing shaped window/transparency. 7) My custom X selection menu from the XWin system tray icon. I can post more of the same if you want (more web friendly or different format/quality/size etc

Re: Cygwin/XFree86 Website Design (Possible Deuglification?)

2003-10-05 Thread Harold L Hunt II
) A local cygwin/xfree86 xterm. 6) A local cygwin/xfree86 xeyes showing shaped window/transparency. 7) My custom X selection menu from the XWin system tray icon. I can post more of the same if you want (more web friendly or different format/quality/size etc)? Colin

Re: Cygwin/XFree86 Website Design (Possible Deuglification?)

2003-10-05 Thread Colin Harrison
Hi Harold, I've captured again Starting from a 1280x1024 capture my shrinker gives me (preserving aspect ratio):- http://www.straightrunning.com/desktop1280 800x640 http://www.straightrunning.com/desktop800 750x600 http://www.straightrunning.com/desktop750 200x160

Cygwin/XFree86 Website Design (Possible Deuglification?)

2003-10-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
The Cygwin/XFree86 website is looking pretty tired: http://xfree86.cygwin.com/ Things I don't like === 1) The green and black header. Yuk! 2) The hideous X logo. Yuk! 3) All the crap on the front page. Most of that stuff should be put on secondary pages. 4) News needs its

RE: FW: XFree86-bin-icons .. believe cygwin xfree86 a red herring ... this is I believe a cygwin problem

2003-09-30 Thread Alan Miles
- From: Alexander Gottwald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: September 30, 2003 05:31 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FW: XFree86-bin-icons .. believe cygwin xfree86 a red herring ... this is I believe a cygwin problem On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Alan Miles

Re: FW: XFree86-bin-icons .. believe cygwin xfree86 a red herring ... this is I believe a cygwin problem

2003-09-30 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Alan Miles wrote: All, This is attempt 4 - I cannot seem to get the attachment there, since I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ezmlm-reject: fatal: Sorry, I don't accept messages larger than 5 bytes (#5.2.3) You can place the files somewhere on the web and post a link to

Re: [Cygwin/XFree86] Duplicate keystrokes in X Server

2003-09-23 Thread Lev Bishop
Thanks, that's very interesting. I found that the suggested xset r off worked well for me, by completely disabling the X autorepeat stuff, since there's already windows autorepeat. But it's good to get to the bottom of these subtle race-condition type bugs. Lev

RE: [Cygwin/XFree86] Duplicate keystrokes in X Server

2003-09-22 Thread Pille Geert (bizvdm)
to a setup version of Cygwin/XFree86? I'm sure I could handle it myself, I wouldn't like to count the hours I spent installing X on different OS's, but I don't like to reinvent the warm water. There are some other things I have to do while at work. If you don't, I'll try it at home first. Just

[Cygwin/XFree86] Duplicate keystrokes in X Server

2003-09-21 Thread Harold L Hunt II
[BCCing seven people that have asked about this bug somewhat recently] This bug has been around for a long time, but it was thought to be a Cygwin/XFree86-specific bug. However, I recently learned that this is a general XFree86 bug that is reproducible on, probably, all other platforms. Ivan

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Cygwin/XFree86 Documentation 0.9.10

2003-09-18 Thread Harold L Hunt II
that describes how Cygwin/XFree86 works with different types of window managers (e.g. internal, local external, xdmcp, remote). (Harold L Hunt II) 3) UG - Add Clipboard Integration section that describes how the clipboard integration system is used and why it has a certain deficiency. (Harold L Hunt II) 4) UG

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Cygwin/XFree86 Documentation 0.9.9

2003-09-10 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Links: I just posted release 0.9.9 to the documentation development page: http://xfree86.cygwin.com/devel/documentation/ Documentation, formatted, direct links: Contributor's Guide http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/cg User's Guide http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/ug/ FAQ

cygwin-xfree86 on WinXP

2003-08-19 Thread richard kovars
Hello, I just installed the latest version of cygwin/XFree86. Everything was working before the upgrade. Now when I startx (with any of the scripts) the keyboard is dead. I have tried several of the thread leads to no avail. Has anyone seen this recently? (I have a WIN2K box

Download full Cygwin/XFree86

2003-08-14 Thread Asaf Bokish
Hello, My name is Asaf, and I'm wan't to install Cygwin/XFree86 on my computer. The computer I want to install the Cygwin/XFree86 on is not connected to the Internet, so I need a full version of the installation. Where can I get such intallation? Tx Asaf Bokish

Re: Download full Cygwin/XFree86

2003-08-14 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Download it to disk and burn it to a CD. Harold Asaf Bokish wrote: Hello, My name is Asaf, and I'm wan't to install Cygwin/XFree86 on my computer. The computer I want to install the Cygwin/XFree86 on is not connected to the Internet, so I need a full version of the installation. Where can I get

-clipboard mark-region cut and paste xemacs dilemma in cygwin xfree86

2003-08-14 Thread terrence brannon
(How's that for a google-searchable title :)) I am between a rock and a hard place. If I start X-windows without the -clipboard option, then I cannot cut and paste between my windows web browser (mozilla) and my x-terminals using the middle mouse button. If I do start X-windows with the

Re: -clipboard mark-region cut and paste xemacs dilemma in cygwin xfree86

2003-08-14 Thread Cary Jamison
terrence brannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (How's that for a google-searchable title :)) I am between a rock and a hard place. If I start X-windows without the -clipboard option, then I cannot cut and paste between my windows web browser (mozilla) and my

[Fwd: Cygwin/XFree86 patch in XFree86 Bugzilla] Earle - This isfor you

2003-07-09 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Earle, Does your patch fail gracefully if run on non-NT-based OSes? If so, I will give my go-ahead. If not, please modify it so that it exits if not running on Windows NT-based OSes. Thanks, Harold Original Message Subject: Cygwin/XFree86 patch in XFree86 Bugzilla Date: Wed

Problems related to Cygwin/Xfree86-0:0

2003-07-09 Thread Vijay Sheth
Hi, When executing Xwin -query mirage from the Cygwin window, the new window comes up, but it does not get the desktop of mirage. Could you please help? This installation works for our colleagues. Thanks, Vijay 12601 Fair Lakes, #4141 W: 703-227-6709

Fw: Bug in Cygwin/XFree86 Frequently Asked Questions

2003-07-07 Thread Arne Christian Hårseth
L Hunt II [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Arne Christian Hårseth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 5:07 AM Subject: Re: Bug in Cygwin/XFree86 Frequently Asked Questions Arne, Can you send this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your suggestion seems correct, but I would like other people to see it and add

Re: Fw: Bug in Cygwin/XFree86 Frequently Asked Questions

2003-07-07 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Subject: Re: Bug in Cygwin/XFree86 Frequently Asked Questions Arne, Can you send this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your suggestion seems correct, but I would like other people to see it and add their thoughts. Thanks for contributing, Harold Arne Christian Hårseth wrote: Hi! I see that you

Re: Fw: Bug in Cygwin/XFree86 Frequently Asked Questions

2003-07-07 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Igor, Is his suggestion correct? If so, I will need to update the Cygwin/XFree86 FAQ. Thanks, Harold Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Arne, There's an entry in the main Cygwin FAQ that may be of interest: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#SEC49. Igor On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Arne Christian Hårseth

Re: Fw: Bug in Cygwin/XFree86 Frequently Asked Questions

2003-07-07 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
in sh (unless he tried it on Linux, where /bin/sh is a symlink to bash, which still doesn't explain why it didn't work in bash). Igor On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Igor, Is his suggestion correct? If so, I will need to update the Cygwin/XFree86 FAQ. Thanks, Harold

Problem compiling with xlib using GCC and newest Cygwin/Xfree86

2003-07-02 Thread Richard D. Duncan
I installed the latest release (or at least whatever the newest release available on the website) of Cygwin/XFree86 today, but Im having troubles with GCC and Xlib. When I try to include Xlib.h and go to compile, I get a very long slew of errors, mostly saying things like Window is used

Re: Cygwin/Xfree86 is not working

2003-07-01 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
: not found I have no [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/X11R6/bin The cygwin/xfree86:0.0 started but I cannot open any xterm. Hi, Federico, Just a wild guess. Did you install the OpenSSH package when you installed Cygwin? Fred -- Fred Ma, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Carleton University, Dept. of Electronics 1125

Cygwin/Xfree86 is not working

2003-06-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi everyone. I have installed xfree86 in a windows nt sp6. I open a cygwin session. I type $ sh startxwin.sh ssh-agent: not found I have no [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/X11R6/bin The cygwin/xfree86:0.0 started but I cannot open any xterm. The logfile

Re: What is a good Windows Manager for cygwin/XFree86

2003-06-23 Thread David Arnstein
The best window manager might be no window manager at all. If you start XWin.exe with the command line option -multiwindow, then you won't need a window manager. Instead, your X11 applications will all appear in separate windows, managed by Microsoft Windows. The cygwin guys have done a lot of

Cygwin/XFree86 With Remote KDE 2.2.2

2003-06-23 Thread Amir Safavi
Hello, Currently, I have to log into a Debian linux machine remotely and do some of my work there. I have on KDE 2.2.2 installed on that machine. Basically, I ssh in, and startkde. KDE loads up fine, antialiased fonts and all. After several minutes however, either KWin (kde's wm) crashes, or

What is a good Windows Manager for cygwin/XFree86

2003-06-20 Thread Greg Freemyer
I want to find a basic windows manager the supports: resize, move, minimize, maximize Seems like a pretty basic request, but I have tried twm, mwm, and fvwm2. fvwm2 is the most functional for me, but it does not have min/max. What windows manager provides the above in a cygwin/XFree86 env

Q: Cygwin/XFree86 always the first when cycling with Alt-Tab?

2003-03-19 Thread Heiko Nardmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Why is Cygwin/XFree86 always the first entry when I cycle through the running applications usign Alt-Tab? - -- Heiko Nardmann (Dipl.-Ing.), [EMAIL PROTECTED], Software Development secunet Security Networks AG - Sicherheit in Netzwerken

Eterm/imlib2 on Cygwin/XFree86, lt_dlopenext() fails.

2003-03-03 Thread Simon Dong
Has anyone successfully build a fully functional Eterm on Cygwin/XFree86? I spent most of the weekend trying to build it. I did get quite a bit help from searching the archive, but I didn't see one single success report. Anyway here's where I stand: I installed cygipc, built all

Re: (fwd) non us keyboards and cygwin xfree86

2003-02-20 Thread David Starks-Browning
On Thursday 6 Feb 03, Alexander Gottwald writes: On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, J S wrote: Hi Tom, I tried that but got: $ xkbcomp -xkm -m gb /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86 /etc/X11/xkb/keymap/gb Error:Include file wrong type (expected KeyNames, got Keymap)

Re: (fwd) non us keyboards and cygwin xfree86

2003-02-20 Thread Colin Harrison
Hi You will need more than that in your /etc/X11/XF86Config file:- Section ServerLayout Identifier dummy Screen dummy InputDevice Keyboard1 CoreKeyboard EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard1 Driver Keyboard Option

Re: (fwd) non us keyboards and cygwin xfree86

2003-02-20 Thread Alexander Gottwald
David Starks-Browning wrote: But how do we use /etc/X11/XF86Config? I don't have one there already. I downloaded your sample, but there was a lot of other stuff besides the keyboard options. The other stuff is not used, but partly required. The easiest way is to add/replace the options

Re: (fwd) non us keyboards and cygwin xfree86

2003-02-20 Thread Alexander Gottwald
David Starks-Browning wrote: But how do we use /etc/X11/XF86Config? I don't have one there already. I downloaded your sample, but there was a lot of other stuff besides the keyboard options. I have replaced the configfile with a version, where all unused sections were replaced with the

Re: (fwd) non us keyboards and cygwin xfree86

2003-02-06 Thread J S
hope that helps someone and maybe this should be added to the cygwin/XFree86 faq ... i hope everything is correct and i have not missed anything - best wishes t -- thomas graichen [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when

RE: (fwd) non us keyboards and cygwin xfree86

2003-02-06 Thread Leigh Hebblethwaite
typing the command in as one line? If not you'll need the '\'. Leigh. -Original Message- From: J S [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 February 2003 13:12 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: (fwd) non us keyboards and cygwin xfree86 I get the same error even if I try

Re: (fwd) non us keyboards and cygwin xfree86

2003-02-06 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, J S wrote: Hi Tom, I tried that but got: $ xkbcomp -xkm -m gb /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86 /etc/X11/xkb/keymap/gb Error:Include file wrong type (expected KeyNames, got Keymap) Include file xfree86 ignored

Re: (fwd) non us keyboards and cygwin xfree86

2003-02-06 Thread J S
Wow that works! Thanks Alex. On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, J S wrote: Hi Tom, I tried that but got: $ xkbcomp -xkm -m gb /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86 /etc/X11/xkb/keymap/gb Error:Include file wrong type (expected KeyNames, got Keymap) Include file

Re: (fwd) non us keyboards and cygwin xfree86

2003-02-06 Thread thomas graichen
it is notwhere really documented - this should definiteley go into the cygwin xfree86 faq and maybe a sample XF86Config should be part of the cygwin xfree86 distrib ... definitely this way is much better and cleaner than the xkbcomp thing by hand ... t -- thomas graichen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: (fwd) non us keyboards and cygwin xfree86

2003-02-06 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, thomas graichen wrote: maybe because it is notwhere really documented - this should definiteley go into the cygwin xfree86 faq and maybe a sample XF86Config should be part of the cygwin xfree86 distrib ... definitely this way is much better and cleaner than the xkbcomp

Re: (fwd) non us keyboards and cygwin xfree86

2003-02-06 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Andrew, The selection becoming unhighlighted is the expected, though undesirable behavior of -clipboard. There has been much discussion of this on the list. Just search the mailing list archives for xwinclip if you want the full explanation. No comments on the other bugs. Kensuke will need

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] xwinclip Test 08 (Cygwin/XFree86 and Windows clipboard integration)

2003-01-13 Thread John Buttery
* Harold L Hunt II [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-01-12 21:20:30 -0500]: I just posted Test 08 to the xwinclip development page: By the way, in this new version, whenever I select something (in an xterm), the following text gets printed to the terminal at the cursor position: electionNotify -

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] xwinclip Test 08 (Cygwin/XFree86 and Windows clipboardintegration)

2003-01-13 Thread Jeremy Wilkins
Can you download the TEST07 version from xfree.cygwin.com and test that (you'll need to set DISPLAY=ww.xx.yy.zz:0). If it doesn't give those messages then let me know. Jeremy John Buttery wrote: * Harold L Hunt II [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-01-12 21:20:30 -0500]: I just posted Test 08 to the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] xwinclip Test 08 (Cygwin/XFree86 and Windows clipboard integration)

2003-01-13 Thread John Buttery
* Jeremy Wilkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-01-13 13:34:26 +]: Can you download the TEST07 version from xfree.cygwin.com and test that (you'll need to set DISPLAY=ww.xx.yy.zz:0). If it doesn't give those messages then let me know. Test06 does not Test07 and Test08 do Windows NT

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] xwinclip Test 08 (Cygwin/XFree86 and Windows clipboardintegration)

2003-01-13 Thread Harold L Hunt II
I think it is just a message that I turned on in TEST07... or maybe in an interim release. I will turn it off eventually... I promise :) Harold Jeremy Wilkins wrote: Can you download the TEST07 version from xfree.cygwin.com and test that (you'll need to set DISPLAY=ww.xx.yy.zz:0). If it

[ANNOUNCEMENT] xwinclip Test 08 (Cygwin/XFree86 and Windows clipboard integration)

2003-01-12 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Links: I just posted Test 08 to the xwinclip development page: http://xfree86.cygwin.com/devel/xwinclip/ You can install the Test 08 package via setup.exe by selecting the 'release' package (and be sure to check the 'Bin' box): XFree86-xwinclip-4.2.0-8 xwinclip binary and source code releases

[ANNOUNCEMENT] xwinclip Test 07 (Cygwin/XFree86 and Windows clipboard integration)

2002-12-29 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Links: I just posted Test 07 to the xwinclip development page: http://xfree86.cygwin.com/devel/xwinclip/ You can install the Test 07 package via setup.exe by selecting the 'release' package (and be sure to check the 'Bin' box): XFree86-xwinclip-4.2.0-07 xwinclip binary and source code releases

cygwin/xfree86 startup problem

2002-11-20 Thread Philip Blood
to c:/cyginstall. Then I ran setup.exe again, this time choosing to install from local directory to c:/cygwin. Then I copied the zipped xfree binaries from my zip to c:/cygwin/tmp. Then I installed cygwin/xfree86 exactly according to the users guide, but when I doubleclicked on startxwin.bat, I

have cygwin/XFree86 running ... but need help connecting remotely

2002-11-19 Thread Kenn Murrah
Greetings ... Okay, I know I should be able to understand this from the documentation, but I don't ... I've installed CygwinXFree86 on my windows box ... I can double-click the shortcut on the desktop to run the program, and I can run startxwin.sh, startx, etc. ... but how do i connect to a

Re: have cygwin/XFree86 running ... but need help connecting remotely

2002-11-19 Thread Rasjid Wilcox
the Cygwin-XFree86 FAQ etc. http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/ Cheers, Rasjid.

Cygwin/XFree86 patch

2002-11-06 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Changes === 1) Fix memory leaks in rootless mode. (Kensuke Matsuzaki) Harold xwin-20021107-0015.diff Description: Binary data

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin/XFree86 Package: x2x-1.27-2

2002-11-04 Thread Thomas Chadwick
ANNOUCEMENT An update to the Cygwin/XFree86 package 'x2x' is now available. DESCRIPTION The usefulness of this utility will become apparent to anyone with a PC side-by-side with an *ix workstation. Simply bring up an XWindows session on each machine, run x2x on the PC, and use your PC's

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