Re: Shift-Backspace kills X?

2011-10-04 Thread Marty Jack
On 10/04/2011 04:34 PM, walt wrote: > On 10/04/2011 09:19 AM, Octoploid wrote: >> walt gmail.com> writes: >> >>> Just lately I've found that Shift-Backspace terminates my X session >>> just the way Ctrl-Alt-Backspace did in the old days. > >> Yes, I've hit the same problem. I came up with this

Re: instead of xorg.conf

2011-10-01 Thread Marty Jack
On 10/01/2011 11:14 AM, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: > Dear all, > > According of xorg's documentation, xorg.conf file was deprecated and > xorg use just memory, of course accepts xorg.conf if /etc/X11/xorg.conf > exists. > Now, very interesting that i want to add to xorg structure such as > sect

Re: How does Xorg deal with the brightness control keys?

2011-10-01 Thread Marty Jack
On 09/30/2011 07:40 PM, Georgiy Treyvus wrote: > In attempting to help fix a possible bug in Openbox I ran into a few > questions. Rather awkward situation. Don't know how to explain. Here's the > backstory. A bug report is worth 1000 words: > https://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5234 >

Re: Identify parent window of menus and tooltips

2011-09-29 Thread Marty Jack
On 09/29/2011 12:07 PM, Markus Kramer wrote: > Is there a way to identify the parent window of a menu or tooltip? > I know that menus and tooltips are top level windows. So their parent > would be the root window. I'm wondering if there is some other > property which tells me to what window they

Re: Sudden blank black screen

2011-09-09 Thread Marty Jack
On 09/09/2011 01:15 PM, Matthew Monaco wrote: > On 09/09/2011 12:46 AM, DarkKnight BrightWarrior wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I am using kernel 2.6.38 with X Server 1.9.4 with radeon open source driver. >> >> I am facing a strange issue. I am using DVI Monitor. Sometimes while doing >> logout and l

Re: High /usr/bin/X CPU Usage

2011-09-07 Thread Marty Jack
On 09/07/2011 02:49 AM, Robert Massaioli wrote: > Hi Tormod and Chris, > > Thankyou for the great responses so far! But unfortunately still no luck. Let > me explain the results of what happened after I tried what was suggested. > > I tried looking into the CPU and GPU issues that people were

Re: Fw: "sticky" xkb options ?

2011-08-21 Thread Marty Jack
On 08/21/2011 12:44 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > On 08/20/11 12:45, Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> On 08/20/11 11:50, Matthieu Herrb wrote: >>> And sticky xkboptions could be useful for other options too, given >>> that a way to reset them explicitely also exist. >> >> Yes, an "XkbOptionsAdd" or sim

Re: How to set Background Image on X

2011-08-03 Thread Marty Jack
On 08/03/2011 07:20 AM, vishnu jagadish wrote: > Hi All, > > We successfully ported Angstrom on Devkit8000 with Kernel > Linux-2.6.37-rc2-ge53beac. After booting up we have a white background in > X-screen. I want to set a background image for the X-screen. Is it possible?? > > I tried with f

Re: Evdev problem with keyboard

2011-06-25 Thread Marty Jack
On 06/25/2011 01:56 PM, Scott Waye wrote: > Hi, > > I hope this is the right forum, if not apologies. > > I have a bluetooth Logitech diNovo Edge keyboard (with mouse pad) which I'm > trying to get working using the evdev driver. I believe the bluetooth part > is working fine as I get two d

Re: X resolution on intel G31 not better than 1024x768

2011-06-23 Thread Marty Jack
On 06/23/2011 09:27 PM, Alex Janssen wrote: > On 06/23/2011 06:09 PM, Alex Janssen wrote: >> Hello to all. Hope you are well. >> >> Sorry for this long post, but I'm stumped. <> >> Thanks for your help, >> Alex >> > I'm stumped no more. > Glad I caught this before anyone spent any time on it. ;-

Re: Setting keyboard autorepeat rate with xkb?

2011-05-31 Thread Marty Jack
On 05/31/2011 05:49 PM, Chris Frey wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 05:26:26PM -0400, Marty Jack wrote: >> XkbGetControls( , XkbRepeatKeysMask, ); >> xkb_desc->ctrls->repeat_interval = ; >> XkbSetControls( , XkbRepeatKeysMask,) >> >> Advice to use xset is

Re: Setting keyboard autorepeat rate with xkb?

2011-05-31 Thread Marty Jack
On 05/31/2011 04:15 PM, Chris Frey wrote: > Hi, > > In commit ae630aef17185dd8d2c23d0eb1b3287fa6e26268, Peter Hutterer > writes: > > Really remove autorepeat. > > This strips all autorepeat from the keyboard driver. > If you need autorepeat, use XKB. > > So I've been try

Re: Stop checking and alerting--You have an existing ~/.xinitrc

2011-05-26 Thread Marty Jack
On 05/25/2011 10:07 AM, Steven Imbimbo wrote: > How can I get X11 to stop checking for an existing ~/.xinitrc, and therefor > stop the dialog box asking to replace it. > ___ > xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support > Archives: http://lists.freedeskt

Re: unable open xterm

2011-05-09 Thread Marty Jack
or ) > > 2- I see nothing when I ran "xauth -f path list" neither path to the > file cookie as you commented below only the message: > xauth: creating new authority file path > > > thank! > > > > > > > > > > > >

Re: unable open xterm

2011-05-09 Thread Marty Jack
On 05/09/2011 11:50 AM, Usuário do Sistema wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm trying open one session xterm on of the same machine that holds > the X Server but occur a error. > > what I've done: > > 1- login in at the machine that holds the X server by ssh ( the > Machine hasn't monitor ) > > 2-

Re: Changing non-printing keys in keyboard layout

2011-05-08 Thread Marty Jack
On 05/08/2011 05:47 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Hi all, I'm trying to write a new keyboard layout to help with a > manual disability. I have no problems moving the letters around but > the non-printing character keys are being tenacious: > > How does one map Enter to a different key? The following

Re: Changing non-printing keys in keyboard layout

2011-05-08 Thread Marty Jack
On 05/08/2011 05:47 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Hi all, I'm trying to write a new keyboard layout to help with a > manual disability. I have no problems moving the letters around but > the non-printing character keys are being tenacious: > > How does one map Enter to a different key? The following

Re: How to send a user-defined value along with x window creation api

2011-05-04 Thread Marty Jack
On 05/04/2011 02:58 AM, prudhvi raj wrote: > Hi, > > I need to send some user-defined value (string/integer) along with the x > window creation api (XCreateWindow / XCreateSimpleWindow) > in order to differentiate the window from others and can retrieve that value > inside X server to use for

Re: xmodmap keystrings (2)

2011-04-26 Thread Marty Jack
On 04/26/2011 11:35 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > On 04/26/11 08:19 AM, frank wrote: >> >> Hello Alan, >> >> Thanks for replying. It seems I didn't make myself clear. >> >> Please go to a graphic terminal, press ^V then F1 or F2 or Home or >> Left or any of the functional keys. You are inserting

Re: Functionality to capture X events

2011-04-26 Thread Marty Jack
On 04/26/2011 01:26 PM, André Rodrigues wrote: > Hello all. > > > > I would like to know if it is possible to capture keys in X that reach the X > by events (lirc events, to be more precisely) and without create another > window. > > There is some functionality for this? > > > > Many t

Re: GdkEvent and GdkEventKey not working in ekiga

2011-04-24 Thread Marty Jack
On 04/24/2011 10:26 AM, David Woodfall wrote: > I'm trying to patch ekiga to use the Return key to dial. Presently it > only accepts mouse clicks. I first tried GdkEventKey and then GdkEvent > but neither seem to work. Here's the code: > > /// > #define GDK_Return

Re: Is there a defined xpixmap width limit?

2011-04-22 Thread Marty Jack
On 04/22/2011 11:44 AM, Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin wrote: > On 04/22/2011 04:48 PM, Michael Stapelberg wrote: >> Hi Emmanuel, >> >> Excerpts from Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin's message of 2011-04-22 14:31:04 +0200: >>> I've been searching for this for a while: Is there a width and height >>> limit for xpix

Re: Every newcomers to X think that servers and clients are reversed because they are

2011-04-20 Thread Marty Jack
On 04/20/2011 06:37 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Paul Dufresne, le Wed 20 Apr 2011 18:21:05 -0400, a écrit : >> User_Group Authorized X application >> >> secretaryLibreOffice > > Which instance of LibreOffice, with which Unix r

Re: xorg 7.6 will not start

2011-04-18 Thread Marty Jack
On 04/17/2011 03:43 PM, spiky wrote: > Hi I am having a real problem with getting xorg to work, I have built with > Linux from scratch using xorg 7.6 I have an intel graphics card 855GM in a > Toshiba laptop I could really do with some help here I have a post on a forum > which covers all we h

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xkeyboard-config 2.2.1

2011-04-06 Thread Marty Jack
I confirm that xkeyboard-config 2.2.1 fixes the problem. Your prompt repair is appreciated. One idea that might have prevented a misstep would be to have tested 2.2 with "success insertion" (the converse of "fault insertion"): manually edit x11.pc temporarily to change the version number in or

Re: [ANNOUNCE] libX11 1.4.3

2011-04-05 Thread Marty Jack
On 04/05/2011 05:18 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > A minor release of libX11 to add support for the Sinhala keysyms required > by the recent xkb-config 2.2 release. Note that to get full support for > these keysyms you will also need to upgrad

xkeyboard-config 2.2

2011-04-05 Thread Marty Jack
Is asking for libX11 1.4.3, which isn't released. Who is correct and if we need a libX11 release, when is it expected. ___ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/

Re: Screen Resolution

2011-04-01 Thread Marty Jack
On 04/01/2011 04:18 AM, ankur jain wrote: > Hi all, > > Could someone please tell me how to get a notification when the screen > resolution is changed in linux?? > > Regards, > Samyak > > > > ___ > xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support > Archi

Re: Unix domain socket source code

2011-03-16 Thread Marty Jack
On 03/16/2011 04:03 PM, derleader mail wrote: > Hi, >I know that X.Org use Unix domain socket for IPC communication. There I > can find the source code of the unix domain socket server? It is > multithreaded? > > Regards > Peter > > > > ___ >

Re: A question about fonts

2011-03-10 Thread Marty Jack
On 03/10/2011 03:14 AM, Andersen, Jan wrote: > So your problem is that the web browser you are using fails to display > all the glyphs? That sounds like an issue with that application. I > would think all main web browsers today would have proper font switching > support. That is, if the font

Re: A question about fonts

2011-03-09 Thread Marty Jack
On 03/09/2011 09:48 AM, Andersen, Jan wrote: > "I don't think things are quite as dire as you suggest. It should be > possible to put together on one system a set of fonts that cover all the > Unicode points you need." > > I wasn't suggesting things were dire :-) > > And I already know that I

Re: A question about fonts

2011-03-09 Thread Marty Jack
On 03/09/2011 08:55 AM, Andersen, Jan wrote: > Sorry for posting this here, where it is almost certainly not appropriate, > but I don't quite know where to ask, and I suspect some of you guys probably > do. So, this is my question: > > I work a lot with Chinese, and need to be able to display th

[Solved] Re: Troubleshooting server unresponsiveness

2011-03-09 Thread Marty Jack
On 03/03/2011 08:29 AM, Marty Jack wrote: > Recently on Server 9 and Server 10, I am finding that once in a while when I > come back to the computer, either the keyboard still works and the mouse is > unresponsive, or the mouse still works and the keyboard is unresponsive. If >

Troubleshooting server unresponsiveness

2011-03-03 Thread Marty Jack
Recently on Server 9 and Server 10, I am finding that once in a while when I come back to the computer, either the keyboard still works and the mouse is unresponsive, or the mouse still works and the keyboard is unresponsive. If I ssh in and gdb, I find the server in the poll in WaitForSomethin

Re: [ANNOUNCE] xextproto 7.2.0

2011-02-27 Thread Marty Jack
On 02/27/2011 03:04 AM, Keith Packard wrote: > > Need to release the XSync changes for X server version 1.10 > > Alan Coopersmith (2): > specs/sync.xml: Fix minor typos in document title section > specs: Fix section titles/nesting > > Gaetan Nadon (6): > Remove the appgroup s

Could this tarball be rolled, if it is ready?

2011-02-25 Thread Marty Jack
I notice the following on server 1.9.99.903 Requested 'xextproto >= 7.1.99' but version of XExtProto is 7.1.2 If this is needed, maybe it could be rolled now, if it is ready? Or maybe the XRandR should have caused it not to be needed. (I know I can grab it from git if I want.) __

Re: Concerning "X freezing occasionally", I can confirm, somewhat

2010-08-14 Thread Marty Jack
p. That seems like it would be the least fragile solution. On 08/08/2010 07:53 PM, Sergio Monteiro Basto wrote: > On Sun, 2010-08-08 at 19:09 -0400, Marty Jack wrote: >> I am finding that under as yet undiagnosed conditions starting an OpenGL >> program will cause the s

Re: Concerning "X freezing occasionally", I can confirm, somewhat

2010-08-09 Thread Marty Jack
Monteiro Basto wrote: > On Sun, 2010-08-08 at 19:09 -0400, Marty Jack wrote: >> I am finding that under as yet undiagnosed conditions starting an OpenGL >> program will cause the server to go into a loop around WaitForSomething. >> This happens running Compiz and glxgears

Concerning "X freezing occasionally", I can confirm, somewhat

2010-08-08 Thread Marty Jack
I am finding that under as yet undiagnosed conditions starting an OpenGL program will cause the server to go into a loop around WaitForSomething. This happens running Compiz and glxgears and fullscreen Flash video. If I ssh in at runlevel 3 and run X from one terminal and glxgears twice from a

Re: Kernel 2.6.35 misalignment

2010-08-07 Thread Marty Jack
On 08/02/2010 11:41 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 10:54:02PM -0400, Marty Jack wrote: >> We seem to have a situation with 2.6.35. This is on a DH57DD, i5-661, >> Intel 2.12.0, server 1.8.2, Mesa 7.8.2, the only difference between >> working and not work

Kernel 2.6.35 misalignment

2010-08-02 Thread Marty Jack
We seem to have a situation with 2.6.35. This is on a DH57DD, i5-661, Intel 2.12.0, server 1.8.2, Mesa 7.8.2, the only difference between working and not working being 2.6.34.1 vs. 2.6.35, so I am assuming it is in DRI somewhere. I have a dual monitor, as follows. Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200,

libXfont 1.4.2 build issue

2010-06-23 Thread Marty Jack
On my system libXfont 1.4.2 fails attempting to build doc/fontlib.txt. This happens because xmlto needs Lynx or similar to do this. I would claim that Lynx should not be a required build dependency for libXfont, in this day and age when most people are able to read doc/fontlib.html and moreove

User reporting background draw problem on Radeon

2010-04-16 Thread Marty Jack
LXTerminal is a simple VTE based terminal emulator. VTE is doing the background draw that is reportedly faulty. We have a user reporting problems with their background draw on a Mobility Radeon 7500 (r200) xf86-video-ati 6.12.192. They report that disabling KMS and configuring with EXA restor

Re: Display corruption on 1.8.0/Mesa 7.8

2010-04-04 Thread Marty Jack
under 1.7.6/7.7, which I was running until 1.8 came out, unlike the other poster who has issues on his G45. On 04/04/2010 07:54 PM, drago01 wrote: > On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:44 AM, Marty Jack wrote: >> I'm having a nasty amount of corruption on DG965WH, Linux 2.6.33.2, >> xo

Display corruption on 1.8.0/Mesa 7.8

2010-04-03 Thread Marty Jack
I'm having a nasty amount of corruption on DG965WH, Linux 2.6.33.2, xorg-server 1.8.0, Mesa 7.8, libdrm 2.4.20. The same with 1.7.6 and 7.7 works fine. All built from release tarballs and unmodified (except a two-line backport of symbols KMS_BO_TYPE_CURSOR_64X64_A8R8G8B8 and KMS_BO_TYPE_SCANOU

Possible reason why Intel 1.9.0 doesn't load with server 1.7.0 but does with 1.6.x

2009-10-07 Thread Marty Jack
I found that Intel 1.9.0 calls DGAInit, which isn't defined at all in 1.7.0. It comes up as an implicit function declaration. I made an edit to remove that call and I am using it as we speak. One would think that an unmodified driver would find the symbol DGAInit unresolved and refuse to load

Re: Auto-repeat with evdev 2.2.0

2009-03-09 Thread Marty Jack
Good as new. Peter Hutterer wrote: > On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 11:58:57PM -0400, Marty Jack wrote: >> I suppose, given this realization, one could make an argument that 2.2.0 >> should have required 1.6. >> Which would render moot the change >> Define MAX_VALUATO

Re: Auto-repeat with evdev 2.2.0

2009-03-09 Thread Marty Jack
Peter Hutterer wrote: > On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 11:32:25PM -0400, Marty Jack wrote: >> Okay, thanks for the quick response. Yes, I am running 1.5.3. My plan was >> to do a full refresh when 2.6.29 and Mesa come out. I will put 2.2.0 on the >> list of things I will hold off

Re: Auto-repeat with evdev 2.2.0

2009-03-09 Thread Marty Jack
09, 2009 at 10:15:50PM -0400, Marty Jack wrote: >> Dropping evdev 2.2.0 onto a system that was running 2.1.3 caused auto-repeat >> to stop working. >> The keyboard is a run of the mill keyboard connected via a PS/2 connector. >> HAL is not installed. >> >&g

Auto-repeat with evdev 2.2.0

2009-03-09 Thread Marty Jack
Dropping evdev 2.2.0 onto a system that was running 2.1.3 caused auto-repeat to stop working. The keyboard is a run of the mill keyboard connected via a PS/2 connector. HAL is not installed. Restoring 2.1.3 restored auto-repeat. xset q reported the same auto-repeat settings under both drivers