Re: Setup retaining or saving package selections (was: startxwin/XWin won't start properly)

2010-06-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:51:57AM -0500, Timares, Brian (Harris) wrote: >Brian Timares (me! self-replying) wrote: >>However this discussion more properly belongs on a more general Cygwin >>list. I'll see if it makes sense to post a suggestion there. > >I found something where cgf says the big rea

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

2010-06-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 06:11:49PM +0200, Ryan Johnson wrote: >> >> 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

Re: startxwin/XWin won't start properly

2010-06-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 6/30/2010 11:22 AM, Timares, Brian (Harris) wrote: 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 unders

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 lar

Setup retaining or saving package selections (was: startxwin/XWin won't start properly)

2010-06-30 Thread Timares, Brian (Harris)
Brian Timares (me! self-replying) wrote: >However this discussion more properly belongs on a more general Cygwin >list. I'll see if it makes sense to post a suggestion there. I found something where cgf says the big reason remembered installs aren't done are because it takes someone with the time

RE: startxwin/XWin won't start properly

2010-06-30 Thread Timares, Brian (Harris)
cgf, I'll start off by saying I sense an attitude of "only gurus need apply and gurus don't need help" from you. To me that's very OpenBSD, but not very Cygwin. If I sense incorrectly, I suggest what you are writing leads me to feel that way. If that's correct, I suggest we'll never come to an

Re: startxwin/XWin won't start properly

2010-06-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 08:36:05AM -0600, Bradley, Mike wrote: >cgf wrote: >>So, after being told that Cygwin remembers your previous installation >>and to just run setup.exe, you removed your previous installation and >>are surprised that Cygwin doesn't remember it. > >What I did was re-run setup.

RE: startxwin/XWin won't start properly

2010-06-30 Thread Bradley, Mike
> So, after being told that Cygwin remembers your previous installation > and to just run setup.exe, you removed your previous installation and > are surprised that Cygwin doesn't remember it. What I did was re-run setup.exe. XWin would still not startup. Then I Deleted the cygwin install (exce

Re: startxwin/XWin won't start properly

2010-06-30 Thread Tim Prince
On 6/30/2010 10:15 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: OTOH, why not use putty if you don't know linux? You haven't been mean enough. ssh is easier to use than putty, regardless of knowledge of linux. -- Tim Prince -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem r

Re: startxwin/XWin won't start properly

2010-06-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 09:02:34AM -0500, Timares, Brian (Harris) wrote: >Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote: >>On 6/30/2010 1:07 AM, Bradley, Mike wrote: >>> OK, I removed my old cygwin installation (the directory which contains/usr, >>> /bin/, etc.), and re-installed a new version. I kept the "cygwin_p

RE: startxwin/XWin won't start properly

2010-06-30 Thread Bradley, Mike
> It would be great to be able to have a file I can email them saying "Use > this, it'll load everything you need.". And of > course have a copy for myself for when I get a new machine, or the OS has to > be reloaded, or I have cygwin problems > > Such a thing would be great for anyone who

Re: startxwin/XWin won't start properly

2010-06-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:07:44PM -0600, Bradley, Mike wrote: > >> In the past I have not found a good way to "remember" which packages where >> installed (e.g. non-default packages). Is there a file/way to run setup.exe >> so that a specified set of packages are installed? > >OK, I removed my ol

RE: startxwin/XWin won't start properly

2010-06-30 Thread Timares, Brian (Harris)
Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote: >On 6/30/2010 1:07 AM, Bradley, Mike wrote: >> OK, I removed my old cygwin installation (the directory which contains/usr, >> /bin/, etc.), and re-installed a new version. I kept the "cygwin_package" >> directory, but setup.exe did not remember my previous installation

Re: startxwin/XWin won't start properly

2010-06-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 6/30/2010 1:07 AM, Bradley, Mike wrote: OK, I removed my old cygwin installation (the directory which contains/usr, /bin/, etc.), and re-installed a new version. I kept the "cygwin_package" directory, but setup.exe did not remember my previous installation. In the past I have had to install

RE: startxwin/XWin won't start properly

2010-06-29 Thread Bradley, Mike
> In the past I have not found a good way to "remember" which packages where > installed (e.g. non-default packages). Is there a file/way to run setup.exe > so that a specified set of packages are installed? OK, I removed my old cygwin installation (the directory which contains /usr, /bin/, etc

Re: startxwin/XWin won't start properly

2010-06-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 6/29/2010 6:56 PM, Bradley, Mike wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@... [mailto:cygwin-xfree-ow...@...] On Behalf Of Larry Hall (Cygwin X) Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 6:40 PM To: cygwin-xf...@... Subject: Re: startxwin/XWin won't start properly <http://cy

Re: startxwin/XWin won't start properly

2010-06-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 04:56:03PM -0600, Bradley, Mike wrote: >In the past I have not found a good way to "remember" which packages >where installed (e.g. non-default packages). Is there a file/way to >run setup.exe so that a specified set of packages are installed? Every time you select a new

RE: startxwin/XWin won't start properly

2010-06-29 Thread Bradley, Mike
(Cygwin X) Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 6:40 PM To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: startxwin/XWin won't start properly On 6/29/2010 10:50 AM, Bradley, Mike wrote: > Hi, > > All was good, till a couple weeks ago when I added some packages to cygwin, > and several packages where

Re: startxwin/XWin won't start properly

2010-06-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 6/29/2010 10:50 AM, Bradley, Mike wrote: Hi, All was good, till a couple weeks ago when I added some packages to cygwin, and several packages where also upgraded. Then xterm response time became very slow. I tried a second upgrade yesterday, and now I cannot even start an xterm, nor will st

RE: startxwin/XWin won't start properly

2010-06-29 Thread Bradley, Mike
, June 29, 2010 11:45 AM To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: RE: startxwin/XWin won't start properly "Bradley, Mike" was heard to say: > I don't see any difference if I set DISPLAY to :0.0 or > 127.0.0.1:0.0. However, in the past its only worked if I set to >

RE: startxwin/XWin won't start properly

2010-06-29 Thread Markus Hoenicka
"Bradley, Mike" was heard to say: I don't see any difference if I set DISPLAY to :0.0 or 127.0.0.1:0.0. However, in the past its only worked if I set to 127.0.0.1:0.0 My current procedure to start X is as follows: 1. do not set $DISPLAY anywhere. It is just empty. 2. open MinTTY 3. typ

RE: startxwin/XWin won't start properly

2010-06-29 Thread Bradley, Mike
2010 10:55 AM To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: RE: startxwin/XWin won't start properly "Bradley, Mike" was heard to say: > Notice the value of $DISPLAY above, which does not match whats in > XWin.0.log (it has :0.0).  No idea how/why that happens.  > $DISPLA

RE: startxwin/XWin won't start properly

2010-06-29 Thread Markus Hoenicka
"Bradley, Mike" was heard to say: Notice the value of $DISPLAY above, which does not match whats in XWin.0.log (it has :0.0).  No idea how/why that happens.  $DISPLAY is empty over here unless I manually set it. But then, I'm not sure if it has something to do with your problems, as 12