RE: [Xoncygwin-cvs] CVS Update: cygwin-xfree-doc (branch: trunk)

2003-12-10 Thread Pille Geert (bizvdm)
Hallo, Will the rootless option be removed? Or do I get this (everything that smelled like rootless) wrong? Geert -Original Message- From: Alexander Gottwald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: dinsdag 9 december 2003 2:43 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Xoncygwin-cvs] CVS

Re: Cygwin and XDM-AUTHENTICATION-1

2003-12-10 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Terrence Branscombe wrote: Hi, I'm brand new to Cygwin (and X in general) and would appreciate some help understanding how to set up authentication with XDM-AUTHENTICATION-1. I'm running the latest Cygwin/XFree86 release and connecting to an HP AlphaServer running

RE: [Xoncygwin-cvs] CVS Update: cygwin-xfree-doc (branch: trunk)

2003-12-10 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Pille Geert (bizvdm) wrote: Hallo, Will the rootless option be removed? Or do I get this (everything that smelled like rootless) wrong? There is new code for rootless so I've tried not to copy the old code. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org

Re: keyboard settings

2003-12-10 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Cee Rainer wrote: Dear Cygwin users, I do not succeed in setting my german keyboard (portable PC, 88 keys) under Cygwin XFree86. I have read the FAQ's and the hints on the Chemnitz homepage (http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~goal/xfree/#config). This is what I

Xwin freezes when IE6 crashes...

2003-12-10 Thread Kris Thielemans
Hi I've recently upgraded to IE6 sp1 and encounter the following strange thing. Occasionally, IE6 crashes when I open a new web page (not always, but anyway, this is not an IE list). However, when this happens, my XFree session is 'frozen'. Clicking on its icon on the task bar doesn't bring it to

Re: Xwin freezes when IE6 crashes...

2003-12-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Kris Thielemans wrote: Hi I've recently upgraded to IE6 sp1 and encounter the following strange thing. Occasionally, IE6 crashes when I open a new web page (not always, but anyway, this is not an IE list). However, when this happens, my XFree session is 'frozen'.

Re: keyboard settings

2003-12-10 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Cee Rainer wrote: I do not succeed in setting my german keyboard (portable PC, 88 keys) under Cygwin XFree86. I have read the FAQ's and the hints on the Chemnitz homepage

sun binary on windows

2003-12-10 Thread Shashikant Sharma
Hi, I downloaded and installed cygwin from internet on my windows2000 PC. And I'm trying to execute a sun binary executable in cygwin shell, but I keep getting error. The command lines run fine. old scripts are running fine, except the executable. This executable doesn't need any library file, or

Re: sun binary on windows

2003-12-10 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Shashikant Sharma wrote: Hi, I downloaded and installed cygwin from internet on my windows2000 PC. And I'm trying to execute a sun binary executable in cygwin shell, but I keep getting error. The command lines run fine. old scripts are running fine, except the executable. This executable doesn't

Re: keyboard settings

2003-12-10 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Brian Ford wrote: On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Cee Rainer wrote: I do not succeed in setting my german keyboard (portable PC, 88 keys) under Cygwin XFree86. I have read the FAQ's and the hints on the Chemnitz homepage

Portable Cygwin works, but XWin fails

2003-12-10 Thread fergus
I have been able to run portable versions of Cygwin, reduced in one way or another, both from writable USB memory sticks and from unwritable CDs. Lately I tried running XWin from a writable stick. By observing which files were written where, and as a consequence setting up links using ln -s

Re: cygwin as X client

2003-12-10 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Hong, You have to edit your sshd_config file and add the following line, then restart sshd: X11Forwarding yes X11 forwarding is disabled by default. Harold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, Now I am on trip, the computer in my offcie is cygwin/win2000. I opened the ssh and apache server.

Re: Portable Cygwin works, but XWin fails

2003-12-10 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Fergus, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been able to run portable versions of Cygwin, reduced in one way or another, both from writable USB memory sticks and from unwritable CDs. Lately I tried running XWin from a writable stick. By observing which files were written where, and as a consequence

Re: cygwin as X client

2003-12-10 Thread Oliver Brandt
Hi, 1. X11Forwarding in ssh_conifg (etc/ssh/ssh_config) on your linux box is enabled (Yes) 2. X11Forwarding in sshd_config (etc/ssh/ssh_config) on your linux box is enabled (Yes) 3. ssh on your linux box is enabled (/etc/services) 4. on your windows machine: export

Re: cygwin as X client

2003-12-10 Thread Brian Ford
I think you read that wrong. He is trying to do the inverse of your recipie. On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Oliver Brandt wrote: 1. X11Forwarding in ssh_conifg (etc/ssh/ssh_config) on your linux box is enabled (Yes) 2. X11Forwarding in sshd_config (etc/ssh/ssh_config) on your linux box is enabled

Re: Portable Cygwin works, but XWin fails

2003-12-10 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been able to run portable versions of Cygwin, reduced in one way or another, both from writable USB memory sticks and from unwritable CDs. Lately I tried running XWin from a writable stick. By observing which files were written where, and as

Re: Portable Cygwin works, but XWin fails

2003-12-10 Thread fergus
Thank you: No, I now think (on looking at a file /cygdrive/c/tmp/XWin.log, brought into being by defining the link described in my previous email) that the problem seems not to be with the creation of this file, but with the creation of the directory /tmp/.X11-unix. (The file XWin.log says:

Re: Portable Cygwin works, but XWin fails

2003-12-10 Thread fergus
What is your display variable set to? localhost:0.0 Do you have a /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 file on your memory stick? Yes: so I wonder whether in trying to make a CD version, as well as re-routing the file /tmp/XWin.log, I ought also to try to re-route the file /tmp/.X11-unix/X0. But: the trouble

RE: how to make xterm point for active window without mouse click

2003-12-10 Thread Haomin Wu
Does anyone understand what I am stating below? Since no any response so far, maybe I did not describe it clearly. If you have any inputs, let me know. Thanks. Haomin -Original Message- From: Haomin Wu Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 6:44 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: how to

Re: Portable Cygwin works, but XWin fails

2003-12-10 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is your display variable set to? localhost:0.0 Do you have a /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 file on your memory stick? Yes: so I wonder whether in trying to make a CD version, as well as re-routing the file /tmp/XWin.log, I ought also to try to

Re: Portable Cygwin works, but XWin fails

2003-12-10 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS: Entirely unrelated question. When I start XWin from a conventional HD full installation of Cygwin, on a broadband 24-hour internet-connected machine, it evidently accesses the web. (I know this, because when Norton is up and running, I can tell

RE: how to make xterm point for active window without mouse click

2003-12-10 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Haomin Wu wrote: Does anyone understand what I am stating below? Yes. Since no any response so far, maybe I did not describe it clearly. Some people on this list are students and are very busy with finals now. Others have year end projects at work to wrap up. Please be

Re: Portable Cygwin works, but XWin fails

2003-12-10 Thread fergus
No, you don't need to. Just Xwin.exe -nolisten local. Thank you. This worked just fine. I take the point about Google-ing - that's how I learned that diverting tmp/XWin.log might help. I didn't see the -nolisten local advice ... Just one final question: when I get into rxvt after XWin

Re: Portable Cygwin works, but XWin fails

2003-12-10 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian Ford wrote: No, you don't need to. Just Xwin.exe -nolisten local. Thank you. This worked just fine. I take the point about Google-ing - that's how I learned that diverting tmp/XWin.log might help. I didn't see the -nolisten local advice

Re: Running xhost from Cygwin Bash Shell..

2003-12-10 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Harold L Hunt II wrote: What you described is by design: the server resets after the last client (xhost in this case) disconnects. You have to be running at least one local client to keep this from happening, as you discovered. What about xwin -screen 0 1400 1050 -noreset ? Harold Jason

Re: sun binary on windows

2003-12-10 Thread Yaakov S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Shashikant Sharma wrote: | I downloaded and installed cygwin from internet on my windows2000 PC. And | I'm trying to execute a sun binary executable in cygwin shell, but I keep | getting error. The command lines run fine. old scripts are running fine,

Re: **Fwd: Re: Cygwin and XDM-AUTHENTICATION-1

2003-12-10 Thread Terrence Branscombe
Alexander, Thanks for the great info. It's certainly a good starting point as you say. I read the Xsecurity man page along with those of xauth and xdm, but I'm still a little confused about terminology. The Xsecurity page refers to XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 whereas the xdm page refer to