RE: Mouse/keyboard emulation

2004-05-13 Thread Thomas Chadwick
Turn off NumLock. From: Mark Vovchuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mouse/keyboard emulation Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 11:51:05 -0400 I have been trying to use Cygwin, at least in part, as an X server on top of a Windows install to be able to execute

Re: Xwin weirdnesses

2004-05-13 Thread Wirawan Purwanto
Certainly there are lots of things that need work at this point with X.org's Xwin. I also have the same problem as described below. What I did to resolve the problem is to replace the run keyword with start. run was a cygwin command (run.exe), while start is Windows shell (cmd.exe) intrinsic

Xwin weirdnesses

2004-05-13 Thread dummy
Since updating to the newest xorg distribution weird things are happening with starting Xwin from startxwin.bat. I used to be able to start multiple windows in a 800 by 600 screen with the blackbox window manager. Now when I try that using the -scrollbars -clipboard -screen 0 800 600 no window

Re: Using 6.7.0.0-8 Failure to connect to Linux

2004-05-13 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 12 May 2004, Crystal Martin wrote: Hello! I was successfully using Cygwin to connect my Windows machine to my SuSE 9 until my Windows machine crashed about three weeks ago. Since then, I have not been able to reconnect the two computers. In the meantime, we have new Ethernet

Re: Differnce between Xfree and Xorg

2004-05-13 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 12 May 2004, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Wed, 12 May 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Wed, 12 May 2004, aroushdi wrote: I am a little bit confused I see here that we have moved to Xorg distribution . I took a look at XFree.org and it seems they have Binaries for Cygwin till

Re: Differnce between Xfree and Xorg

2004-05-13 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 12 May 2004, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Wed, 12 May 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Thomas Dickey wrote: On Wed, 12 May 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Wed, 12 May 2004, aroushdi wrote: I am a little bit confused I see here that we have moved to Xorg distribution

Re: Xwin weirdnesses

2004-05-13 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 13 May 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since updating to the newest xorg distribution weird things are happening with starting Xwin from startxwin.bat. I used to be able to start multiple windows in a 800 by 600 screen with the blackbox window manager. Now when I try that using the

problem resizing tunneled xterm

2004-05-13 Thread Kris Thielemans
Hi I run a remote xterm via ssh -Y mydebianlinuxsystem xterm /dev/null this works perfectly fine, except when I resize the window (in particular: make it wider). It seems that xterm/bash doesn't pick up the new size properly. Although output now does fill the new size, I have trouble with

SHAPE extension

2004-05-13 Thread David Rigler
XWin Release 6.7.0.0-8 Trying this against the sawfish window manager in fedora core 2 test3 gives error message sawfish: your X server doesn't support the SHAPE extension; aborting what's that about ?? is there an add on or conf setting ?? dave

Re: Differnce between Xfree and Xorg

2004-05-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 13 May 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: They were based on the XFree 4.3 release. But the hw/xwin part was and still is being extended with a lot of features and 6 months make a big difference between a broken and a much better clipboard integration. particularly when most of the work

Re: Tracking Down Disappearing Cursors

2004-05-13 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 12 May 2004, Wilks, Dan wrote: So, what's the right fix? I don't know. I have a guess. If XWin is now really 100% hardware cursor based then we don't need to do any of this cursor wrangling. My guess is that we could even remove all the MouseTrackEvent stuff as well since that

Re: problem resizing tunneled xterm

2004-05-13 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 13 May 2004, Kris Thielemans wrote: Hi I run a remote xterm via ssh -Y mydebianlinuxsystem xterm /dev/null this works perfectly fine, except when I resize the window (in particular: make it wider). It seems that xterm/bash doesn't pick up the new size properly. Although output

Re: Differnce between Xfree and Xorg

2004-05-13 Thread aroushdi
aroushdi wrote: Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Wed, 12 May 2004, aroushdi wrote: I am a little bit confused I see here that we have moved to Xorg distribution . I took a look at XFree.org and it seems they have Binaries for Cygwin till 4.4 . These binaries are likely to be very outdated. We

RE: problem resizing tunneled xterm

2004-05-13 Thread Kris Thielemans
Maybe the local xterm is newer and already contains a fix for this problem. I can't think of a different reason why the remote xterm would behave different. ok. the debian xterm I'm using is version XFree86 4.2.0(165), while the cygwin is XFree86 4.4(185). Not sure if I can update this

Re: Differnce between Xfree and Xorg

2004-05-13 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 13 May 2004, aroushdi wrote: Alexander , thank u for ur quick reply I have used ur technique with and without -from , -fp , once and they all fail with unable to bind and no message in the logfile . I have produced the same errors on winXP and W2K . same thing . Old version

RE: problem resizing tunneled xterm

2004-05-13 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 13 May 2004, Kris Thielemans wrote: Maybe the local xterm is newer and already contains a fix for this problem. I can't think of a different reason why the remote xterm would behave different. ok. the debian xterm I'm using is version XFree86 4.2.0(165), while the cygwin

RE: problem resizing tunneled xterm

2004-05-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 13 May 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Thu, 13 May 2004, Kris Thielemans wrote: Maybe the local xterm is newer and already contains a fix for this problem. I can't think of a different reason why the remote xterm would behave different. ok. the debian xterm

Upgraded to the latest and now my windows are freezing

2004-05-13 Thread SMore
I have been using cygwin-xfree for a while and everything has been working fine. This morning I grabbed the latest software xorg-x11-base from 6.7.0.0-7 - 6.7.0.0-8 xorg-x11-etc from 6.7.0.0-1 - 6.7.0.0-3 xorg-x11-xwin from 6.7.0.0-4 - 6.7.0.0-8 Now it seems that

Moving

2004-05-13 Thread Harold L Hunt II
My wife and I just graduated with our final college degrees, her with her second bachelor's and I with my master's in computer science. We start moving from Michigan to California tomorrow and I will be losing my internet and computer access starting in about three hours. We will have

Problems running xterms on AIX and the Oracle Univeral Installer

2004-05-13 Thread Bent, Brian
Hello - I am newbie to cygwin and am having a few difficulties running X from a remote AIX 4.3.3 server. I am starting up the X server by running the startxwin.bat file. I am taking the default of run XWin -multiwindow -clipboard . I am using X11Forwarding so that my DISPLAY variable is set

Re: Clipboard problems

2004-05-13 Thread Gilles Civario
Hello. In complement to this problem, I've tried some tests : 1/ I've checked out the cvs tree and compiled a debug version. I've used it but the behaviour was the same and I didn't manage to find how to track the culpid, due to the integration into KDE-Cygwin. I think the problem is