Re: /usr/bin/startx fails on new x.org install?
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTWLL !! Lloyd Wood wrote: XWin was started with the following command line: /usr/bin/X :0 -auth /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/lwood/.serverauth.3000 ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1400 h 1050 winInitializeDefaultScreens - returning Unrecognized option: and [..] This isn't X-specific; spaces and *NIX paths don't mix. Please use a sane home directory, like /home/lwood. Quoting will only cure some such problems. -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu Pessimist: The glass is half empty. Optimist: The glass is half full. Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be. -- 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: Xinerama
On Sun, 23 Nov 2008, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: I also think that there may be some potential flaws in windowed multiplemonitor mode that Xinerama support would fix. While the current behaviour makes sense in multiwindow mode, I'm not sure that it does in windowed mode. Since X window managers have no sense of what is really happening in that case, placing a dialog in the centre of the X display could easily land on the seam between two monitors. (I know, I tried it.) With Xinerama support, however, they would have the necessary information to DTRT. This caused me to suspect that I'd misinterpreted some earlier mailings. Further research increased said suspicion. I'd like to make sure I'm following the conversation correctly. On Sun, 16 Nov 2008, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: -multiwindow means hide the root window and use the internal window manager to integrate X windows with native windows The internal window manager means the one built into cygwin-xfree? The root X-window, though invisible, can still receive X-events? -multiplemonitors means I want one big X screen for this display to span all my monitors and is on by default in -multiwindow mode All pixels are presumed to be the same physical size and shape? I remember reading somewhere that all the monitors had to have the same depth, but not any other restrictions. Messy things will happen if different monitors interpret their pixels differently? As a window has only one visual at a time, a window that straddled such monitors would look messy. Xinerama does something similar, but is more flexible? If you want -multiwindow mode, but only on 1 screen, something like XWin -screen 0 @1 -multiwindow should work. IIRC someone suggested that one might want to do multi-monitor with one monitor per X-screen. That would be easier on window managers, but would not allow moving a window from one monitor to another? As I don't expect to grow another head, this is more a matter of curiosity than anything else. -- Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pessimist: The glass is half empty. Optimist: The glass is half full. Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be. -- 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/
opengl
I'd like to do hardware accelerated opengl using Windows and opengl. The Windows part is my boss's idea. If X is hardware accelerated, I might be able to use Xlib calls. Does using opengl under cygwin require X? Does using hardware accelerated opengl require X? How experimental is cygwin's hardware accelerated X server? In other words: What are the gotchas? Are there intermittent or otherwise mysterious problems? If so, how often are there permanent or ephemeral errors? I suspect I could get this by installing cygwin.all and RTFM, but I'm rather leery of all things Windows, especially things installed by me. I'd like to have a clue before I start installing things. -- Pessimist: The glass is half empty. Optimist: The glass is half full. Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be. -- 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: opengl
On Mon, 29 Sep 2008, James Supancic wrote: Cygwin programs can use any API/Calls that a native windows program can. Therefor if you need hardware accelerated graphics you can just use the Windows Direct3D or OpenGL API and circumvent X11 altogether. Thanks. If I use cygwin's glu and glut, can I get hardware acceleration? -- Pessimist: The glass is half empty. Optimist: The glass is half full. Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be. -- 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/
