Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-server-1.15.1-4

2014-07-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 07:14:42PM +0200, Marco Atzeri wrote: On 21/07/2014 16:57, Matt D. wrote: to that should be up to date? most of the mirrors have a 24 hours cycle Actually, many mirrors update from sourceware.org every couple of hours. kernel.org is one example. cgf -- Unsubscribe

Re: Erreur messages when trying to compile

2013-02-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 07:37:22AM -0800, jere95 wrote: Thanks a lot I was able to solve the problem! For the record: 1) This is a simple C programming problem which should not be sent to a mailing list. You should fix these types of problems yourself. 2) If that wasn't enough to make this

Re: X connections reset on PC sleep

2013-02-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 03:05:37PM +, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 12/02/2013 03:51, Ray Balogh wrote: Sorry, I???m sure this is a known issue, but I can???t seem to locate any description of the problem in the FAQ, docs, or mailing list archives. The problem is that when my PC sleeps, my X

Re: X connections reset on PC sleep

2013-02-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:27:02PM -0500, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 13/02/2013 10:37 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: I use (and love) this package: http://xpra.org/ which allows you to start an X server in the background and connect/disconnect to it. See also: http://winswitch.org/ which provides

Re: Gode tekster selger best -- Spam

2012-08-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 06:52:50AM +0200, Herbert Stocker wrote: To the list: i checked with Google Translate, this is spam. Iaw, an advertising for an off-topic web site. Yes, it's pretty obvious that this is spam without a translation. These kind of things get blocked when they show up.

Re: Linking Errors related to X11

2012-03-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 07:04:54PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin-X) wrote: On 3/21/2012 6:19 PM, Tom Szczesny wrote: I am attempting to port the aplus-fsf-4.22 package (available at www.aplusdev.org) to cygwin, and I'm getting linking errors related to X11. I can build the package successfully on

Re: Linking Errors related to X11

2012-03-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 01:55:04PM -0400, Tom Szczesny wrote: This question was answered in the cygwin list, but the proposed solutions did not work. Someone on the list suggested that I send the question to cygwin-xfree, so I did. When I delete the -I and the -L and try: X_INCLUDES =

Re: you online this am?

2012-03-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 06:30:40AM -0700, edv wrote: are you online this am...? I'm assuming that this is spam and so am blocking this account from further communications here. If I'm wrong the OP should send email to postmaster to be unblocked and explain the reason for this bizarre question.

Re: can I buy some telephone support to get some questions answered?

2011-12-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
No. This is a free software project, staffed by volunteers. As mentioned on the cygwin web site, http://cygwin.com/, the only way to get support is via the cygwin or cygwin-xfree mailing lists. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: original cygwin console?

2011-12-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 09:23:38AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 01:44:59AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 09:30:06PM -0500, wxie wrote: The new cygwin console use mintty. Is it still possible to change back to the orignal console? Wrong

Re: original cygwin console?

2011-12-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 09:30:06PM -0500, wxie wrote: The new cygwin console use mintty. Is it still possible to change back to the orignal console? Wrong mailing list but, there was no cygwin console. That's just a standard Windows console running bash. cgf -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: email to list keeps bouncing

2011-08-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 05:53:07PM +, McBroom, Robert C wrote: My emails to the list keep bouncing from the spam checker. I have everything in plain text. Anyone have any advice on getting through? 1) Don't send list problems here. 2) Read the bounce message. You were including raw email

Re: segfault Xserver...current version (1.10, not 1.8)

2011-08-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 05:55:31PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: Jon TURNEY wrote: Following the instructions at [2] to obtain an Xserver backtrace would also be of great help. [2] http://x.cygwin.com/devel/backtrace.html Reading symbols from /usr/bin/Xwin...(no debugging symbols

Re: how to enable shared memory?

2011-07-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 10:42:48PM -0400, Eliot Moss wrote: On 7/23/2011 6:25 PM, Ekkard Gerlach wrote: I found some stuff on my own: searching missing cygrunsrv with google leaded me to a not installed package cygrunsrv. I started setup.exe again, selected the Admin - cygrunsrv and

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-server-1.10.3-1

2011-07-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 07:25:50PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: Jon TURNEY wrote: The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** xorg-server-1.10.3-1 *** xorg-server-dmx-1.10.3-1 How can I install 'just' those packages (from the command line)

Re: Still can't run XServer or any apps that require it

2011-04-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 04:23:56PM +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 23/04/2011 17:47, David M. Karr wrote: Almost a week ago now, I've been unable to run my XServer, and thus any of the apps that normally run with it, like Emacs. I realise this situation is an inconvenience, but please don't post

Re: Arrow Keys Bash Shortcuts do not work

2011-04-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 12:21:45PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 04:10:58PM +0530, Ajay Jain wrote: Hi, I am in a fix. My arrow keys (left, right, up, down, Alt-F, Alt-B, Ctrl-P, Ctrl-N ) do not work. What should I do? I tried looking on the net, but there is no clear

Re: xterm access violations (again)

2011-04-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 02:27:27PM +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 01/04/2011 17:05, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Could someone try this with the latest snapshot? I haven't made any

Re: xterm access violations (again)

2011-03-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 01:22:42AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:09:38PM -0600, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:24 PM, webmaster wrote: http://www.donsbox.com/~dfelicia/xterm-269[redacted] Still dumps, but xterm came up anyway: Exception

Re: xterm access violations (again)

2011-03-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:09:38PM -0600, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:24 PM, webmaster wrote: http://www.donsbox.com/~dfelicia/xterm-269[redacted] Still dumps, but xterm came up anyway: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION at eip=61020497 eax=00DD00F8 ebx=61246A44

Re: X server segfault problem

2011-01-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 02:32:15PM -0500, chm wrote: I've just added myself to the cygwin-xfree list so this reply should go through now. You don't have to subscribe to the list to send email. Witness: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2011-01/msg3.html -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Segmentation Fault in OpenGL - glutMainLoop

2010-12-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 05:39:27PM +, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 06/12/2010 04:14, Nathan Rose wrote: I suspect this problem may be beyond the scope of this mailing list, but I would really appreciate any help that you could provide. I have someone else's code that uses OpenGL (it's a

Re: Can't use mintty instead of rxvt for ssh -Y using cygwin xserver

2010-10-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 05:14:56PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: On 11 October 2010 17:02, reckoner wrote: Evidently, there is some subtle difference in how the DISPLAY variable, which is set in the user startup files is processed by rxvt as opposed to mintty. Ultimately, although the DISPLAY variable

Re: Can't use mintty instead of rxvt for ssh -Y using cygwin xserver

2010-10-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 10:10:28AM -0700, Reckoner wrote: Hi, I'm starting my xserver using C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe -p /usr/X11R6/bin XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error and then I do: C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -e /bin/xhere /bin/zsh when I do % ssh -Y h...@remote.edu I can

Re: R: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-server-1.9.0-1 (TEST)

2010-10-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 08:36:51PM +, Marco Atzeri wrote: --- Gio 30/9/10, Jon TURNEY ha scritto: The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** xorg-server-1.9.0-1 *** xorg-server-dmx-1.9.0-1 This package contains XWin and the other X.Org X11 servers.

Re: R: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-server-1.9.0-1 (TEST)

2010-10-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 04:54:25PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 08:36:51PM +, Marco Atzeri wrote: testing the 1.9.0-1 server with recent cygwin snapshots 20100924 to 20101001 (not checked the ones before) Which snapshot does the above stack trace come from

Re: Re: Missing dependency for Athena libraries

2010-08-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:13:51PM +0200, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 8:59 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: On 14 August 2010 12:57, Ryan Johnson wrote: I just tried to pull down the Athena widget libraries (xaw and xaw3d) and got an unmet dependency message for libXpm-devel. It's not a big deal, since it

Re: GNOME on cygwin

2010-08-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 12:43:11PM -0700, Raul Acevedo wrote: So why are there GNOME packages in Cygwin? What is actually in them? http://cygwin.com/packages/ would answer that question for you. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: GNOME on cygwin

2010-08-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 11:48:35PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Since there are already in Ports, why aren't these in the distro? I already maintain a proportionally large number of the distro packages, and there is legitimate concern that having too many packages maintained by one volunteer

Re: USER/GDI Objects leak with (XWin.exe) Cygwin/X X Server Verion 1.7.6, Build Date 2010-03-18

2010-07-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 09:34:01PM +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote: If you are using the current version of Xming, that is the case. If you are using the free version of Xming, that's about 3 years old. There have been a few changes in the source since then :-) There's a non-free version of Xming?

Re: Resizing problem

2010-07-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 04:39:58PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: On 16 July 2010 15:39, Olwe Melwasul wrote: On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: I installed cygwin/xcygwin 1.7.5 with KDE. I don't know where you got KDE from, but it's not in the standard cygwin distribution. ??If you

Re: Resizing problem

2010-07-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 03:03:07PM -0500, Olwe Melwasul wrote: If you people simply want to flame me, fine. But everything I said is true: 1) No one flamed you. Flaming is what you are doing now. 2) You are not a customer. You have no rights to anything here. The flow of obligation does not

Re: Resizing problem

2010-07-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 05:23:26PM -0500, Olwe Melwasul wrote: After my last email, I a) went down to the lake (Superior) and stuck my head underwater until the steam stopped bubbling up b) took some horse tranquilizers c) read the Wikipedia article on Mother Teresa I'm okay now. Yes, I'll do

Re: Resizing problem

2010-07-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
I'll say it again. If you want to have a non-cygwin-xfree discussion use the cygwin-talk mailing list. That's what it is for. My response will be there. This thread is officially closed. No more responses please. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

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 old cygwin

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_package

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.exe.

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, whether

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 reason

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: frequently getting a STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION exception under win7

2010-05-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 06:51:35PM +0300, Yuval Emek wrote: I'm somewhat surprised that this problem was not reported before since I know that my office mate suffers from it as well (she is also using Windows 7 32 bits). Since you and an office mate are both having the problem it would point to

Re: frequently getting a STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION exception under win7

2010-05-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 09:37:04PM +0300, Yuval Emek wrote: I'll check it, but I don't think that this is the case because she is experiencing this problem on her private laptop (in my case, it's the company's laptop). Any other suggestions? Ok, then generalize this further: Since the mailing

Re: frequently getting a STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION exception under win7

2010-05-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 02:56:09PM -0400, Denis Beauchemin wrote: Hello all, I do get the same error msgs. Setup: Cygwin/X 1.7.6 (build 2010-03-22), win7-64, McAfee, etc. McAfee, etc. would probably be a problem. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

Re: frequently getting a STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION exception under win7

2010-05-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 02:59:22PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 02:56:09PM -0400, Denis Beauchemin wrote: Hello all, I do get the same error msgs. Setup: Cygwin/X 1.7.6 (build 2010-03-22), win7-64, McAfee, etc. McAfee, etc. would probably be a problem. Another thing

Re: libfreetype install errors

2010-04-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 02:32:16PM -0700, Daniel Povey wrote: When installing Cygwin (I use apt-cyg to install packages) I repeatedly get the following kind of errors with libfreetype* packages. This has happened to me multiple times on multiple different machines. Does anyone know what this might

Re: fvwm2 and startxwin

2010-03-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 04:32:06PM -0500, Stephen More wrote: I have read: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using.html I have figured out how to run fvwm2 using startx in windowed mode. But how can I run startxwin with fvwm2 ? If I put fvwm2 inside of .startxwinrc I get:

Re: How do I start WM?

2010-02-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 07:11:09AM -0800, Joseph Ess wrote: To: XXX Cc: XXX Sent: Tue, February 23, 2010 9:36:55 AM Subject: Re: How do I start WM? There is no need to duplicate this. It's all in the header. On 23/02/2010 14:11, Joseph Ess wrote: How do I start XWindows in full screen

Re: How do I start WM?

2010-02-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:04:20AM -0800, Joseph Ess wrote: - Original Message From: Jon TURNEY jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Cc: joseph_...@yahoo.com Sent: Tue, February 23, 2010 1:49:56 PM Subject: Re: How do I start WM? On 23/02/2010 18:29, Joseph

Re: Issue with the installation of Cygwin/X

2010-01-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 09:57:50AM -0600, akramuddin.x.moham...@verizon.com wrote: Hi, I am running into an issue when trying to install Cygwin/X. I am installing from http://x.cygwin.com/ When the setup.exe is run, after it shows the screen where we choose a site from a list, no matter what

Re: Unrecognisable file format errors running setup.exe

2010-01-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 05:06:28PM -0800, Paul Loewenstein wrote: Because I install Cygwin on multiple systems, I initially run setup.exe under wine (fedora 11) to download the files into a Samba-accessible directory (Distribution/Cygwin/ on Cambridge), into which I also place setup.exe. On a

Re: Setup for basic development

2009-12-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 01:46:07PM -0800, xtheunknown0 wrote: Hi, I've used various distros of Linux *just* long enough to know commands like ls, cat, gcc something -o something, and cd. I was trying to setup Cygwin but when I got to the window with stacks of checkboxes to tick or not tick I got

Re: how do I get help if I can't figure out how to do anything?

2009-12-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 09:44:34AM -0500, Wendel Dean Renner wrote: Do you have a list of consultants? And it is not like I am ignorant of computers. I write c++ code. Without help, who is going to be able to use anything provided? What is a consultant? Are you actualy saying that you will be

Re: xterm doesn't open on start (was: checkX problems)

2009-12-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 12:25:14AM +0100, Lothar Brendel wrote: More information as promised, after getting the new run and checkX (run2) packages announced this morning. $ checkX -v run2 0.3.2 0.3.2 announced? I didn't get any such message, and setup still only offers 0.3.1-1 to me.

Re: Cygwin X query Solaris Login page reloads

2009-11-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 04:37:43AM -0800, BharathX wrote: Hi Guys, This is my first post so please bear with me... Actually, it's your sixth identical post. Please correct the malfunction which is causing this. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

Re: Xterm hangs with latest Cygwin (-62?)

2009-10-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 05:46:21PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 05/10/2009 13:47, Corinna Vinschen wrote: And here's the problem. Cygwin doesn't have TIOCSCTTY, and the only way to make a terminal a controlling tty in Cygwin is to call open() on it, which tcsh misses to do. Bash,

Re: Emacs-GTK hangs with dialog boxes

2009-09-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 08:41:47PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 24/09/2009 18:35, Angelo Graziosi wrote: For completeness, I want to flag that my GTK build of Emacs has the same problem described here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2009-09/msg00051.html. That has been fixed in the

Re: Emacs-GTK hangs with dialog boxes

2009-09-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:19:26PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 24/09/2009 20:47, Christopher Faylor wrote: I'm not aware of anything which would address this in the latest snapshot. The Failed to connect to socket error from GIO was, AFAICS, a fork() issue like the others plaguing GTK

Re: [1.7] IPv6 accept() fails if address_len is sizeof(sockaddr_in6) [was Re: PATCH /usr/include/X11/Xtrans/Xtranssock.c [WAS: Re: xhost package not compiled for IPv6]]

2009-08-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 05:35:11PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I have applied a patch to accept(), btw. This should now work in the given scenario. It occured to me that the returned value is incorrect for AF_UNIX/AF_LOCAL sockets, but that was always the case and it's not a regression.

Re: X11R7.4 and Webex problem, X apps hang

2009-08-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 03:41:41PM +1200, Chris LeBlanc wrote: Hello, Just wanted to mention a bug I've seen with Cygwin, X11R7.4, and Webex (a Java based meeting and collaboration tool, www.webex.com). Webex has the ability to share a users desktop or individual applications with other people

Re: broken checkx on mirrors

2009-07-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 12:56:12PM +0200, Guenter Millahn wrote: just now I tried an update of my CygWin. I realized that checkx-0.2.1-1.tar.bz is broken on all mirrors. You haven't explained why you think this package is broken. You really need to do that. cgf -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Donate for text link

2009-07-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 02:54:05PM +0200, Martin Kicko wrote: Hi Cygwin, Thank you for great OSS project. I would like to make donation for you. Could you please place my text link on your homepage (http://www.cygwin.com/). It would link to my software downloads website, anchor text Software

Question for Corinna (was Re: Novice Question)

2009-06-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:09:12PM +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote: Andy wrote: /opt/wip/cygport-svn/xorg-server/xorg-server-1.6.0-10/src/xorg-server-1.6.0/ os/access.c (gdb) p *ifr $1 = {ifa_next = 0x1447798, ifa_name = 0x14474c4 {B8B51884-C69A-4592-B65D-89ABB3DCF18D}, ifa_flags = 69635, ifa_addr

Re: fastpath 0 - xterm?

2009-06-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 02:29:30PM -0400, Tom Roche wrote: Since I'm not seeing this in the FAQ, I wanted to propose the following item: what would be required to go from zero to xterm? I.e. from a Cygwin-less windows box (windows = 2k) to getting a Cygwin/X xterm up on one's screen? You do

Re: XWin Server shortcut broken

2009-06-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 06:32:26PM +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote: Frank Mori Hess wrote: I did an install of cygwin/x and the xwin server shortcut it installs in the start menu didn't work. I had to go into its properties and set the Start in: field to C:\ This may be due to the fact that my

Re: Windows 7 RC1 and Cygwin 1.7

2009-05-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 01:22:23PM -0700, Mike Ayers wrote: P.S. That was speculation. Hopefully someone will have a real answer soon. This was already discussed in the main cygwin list. There is a workaround in the latest version of Cygwin 1.7.x.

Re: Error: Can't open display: 127.0.0.1:0.0

2009-05-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 01:10:39PM -0700, Drew Ackerman wrote: I know that this has been posted before but I can't find an answer in the archives that work. The error message I'm getting is Error: Can't open display: 127.0.0.1:0.0 My system info is: Windows XP Firewall exceptionPort

Re: link broken

2009-03-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 04:27:29PM +0100, Ronald Fischer wrote: The FAQ link on http://x.cygwin.com/, pointing to http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/, always gives error 504 (gateway timeout). Works just fine here. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

Re: Problem with cygwin-xfree mailimg list ?

2009-03-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 12:06:23PM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Jon TURNEY wrote: Andr? Bleau wrote: .. that or Yaakov and John have taken very deserved vacations after killing the very last of the X server bugs, and every user in the world is using X happily ever since! It's quiet...too

Re: Problem with cygwin-xfree mailimg list ?

2009-03-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 02:12:12PM -0500, jose isaias cabrera wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote... On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 12:06:23PM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Jon TURNEY wrote: Andr? Bleau wrote: .. that or Yaakov and John have taken very deserved vacations after killing the very last

Re: /usr/bin/startx fails on new x.org install?

2009-02-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 05:19:57PM +, Lloyd Wood wrote: thanks for your /usr/bin/startx patch. (repeated as text below since the cygwin mailing list bounces attachments, so probably didn't make it to the list.) The cygwin mailing list does not just generally bounce all attachments. In

Re: cant type in xterm after reboot

2009-02-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:55:35PM -0600, Paul Coene wrote: I can install and run cygwin fine. It works great. (Windows XP Home). However, after my 1st reboot of the system, my xterm comes up (default app) but I cannot type in the window. I have found no way to repair this other than a

Re: Unable to load any usable iso8859 font

2009-02-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 05:04:08AM -0800, amorphia wrote: Can I plead for developers, please please don't make setup.exe broken? I am sure there are many many users like me who don't expect to have to be monitoring some random mailing lists in order to work out what else you need to do when

Re: cygwin and matlab 7.7 problems

2009-01-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 07:26:32PM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jon TURNEY wrote: Just running the cygwin setup.exe program will update to X11R7.4, unless you are taking special steps otherwise. Perhaps you could work through

Re: How do you upgrade to XR117

2009-01-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 01:46:41PM -0800, jchas5 wrote: I have been looking through the cygwin mirrors for the last two days trying to find the X11R7 packages via setup.exe. When I go to the X11 tab, I can not find any X11R7 packages. I have tried to install them twoce and all I get is X11R6.

Re: How do you upgrade to XR117

2009-01-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 02:08:27PM -0800, jchas5 wrote: Well the reason I am thinking that I am not getting the X11R7 is that the /usr directory is showing X11R6 with a time stamp of my last install: $ ls -ltr total 0 drwxrwx---+ 2 jcklose mkgroup-l-d 0 Jan 27 16:35 tmp drwxrwx---+ 2 jcklose

Re: Sourceware bugzilla

2009-01-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 01:10:23AM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Could you make me (yselkowitz AT cygwin DOT com) the default owner/assignee for the Cygwin/X component? Done. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: Sourceware bugzilla (was: Re: [patch 0/7] X server patchset)

2009-01-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 11:35:39PM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: I'm probably stating the obvious, but if you wanted you could keep track of patches in the sourceware bugzilla for cygwin-xfree. I don't see cygwin-xfree listed as a separate project on sourceware

Re: Lesstif cannot be found

2008-12-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 07:30:49AM -, Graeme Kidd wrote: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.setup It doesn't tell you what to do with individual packages that you have downloaded. The Install from Local Directory option is only for files once they have already been download

Re: Cygwin 1.5.3 on vista - startx

2008-12-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 02:08:41PM -0500, Daniel A wrote: Dear Cygwinnies, I am just a newbie. That's no excuse for calling us Cygwinnies. I am using cygwin 1.5.3 on windows vista. I would like to start an x server using startx. This results in a failure and the startx is shut down. I tried

Re: Updated: nedit-5.5-4

2008-12-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 09:15:44AM +, David Monksfield wrote: The following package was updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** nedit-5.5-4 This release includes a patch for proper operation with X11R7.4. Since the X server update, some NEdit windows won't resize any more. I can't grab a

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 09:51:11PM +0100, Andreas Eibach wrote: From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin-xfree Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 10:28 PM Subject: Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge Why are you duplicating the headers of the email in the body of the message? There is no need

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 04:30:37PM -0800, Peter Farley wrote: --- On Fri, 12/12/08, Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com wrote: Snipped My sympathies are growing milder by the minute. I am only a lurker here just trying to keep track of events in cygwin-X, but I do think

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:10:53PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 04:30:37PM -0800, Peter Farley wrote: --- On Fri, 12/12/08, Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com wrote: Snipped My sympathies are growing milder by the minute. I am only a lurker

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 04:00:43AM -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: From: Christopher Faylor The historical reasons for [un?]merging the cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists no longer seems to exist so I am contemplating merging the two lists. For us old-timers, what were the historical reasons again

cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
The historical reasons for merging the cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists no longer seems to exist so I am contemplating merging the two lists. If anyone has a compelling reason why this should not happen please send it to one of the two lists. If I don't hear a coherent argument against doing this,

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 02:45:17PM -0500, jose isaias cabrera wrote: I don't mind the traffic of xfree, but the cygwin list has too much traffic. You have my mild sympathy. - Original Message - From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: xview: hello word does not launch

2008-12-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 09:40:06PM -0600, Carl R. Crawford wrote: The hello world example from the ORA books fails as follows: XView warning: Cannot load font '-bh-lucida-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*' (Font package) XView warning: Cannot load font

Re: Again A Window Opening Issue

2008-11-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 05:31:34PM +, Jon TURNEY wrote: Sascha Tayefeh wrote: Hi all! I am afraid I have to add another issue to the xserver-starts-but-no-windows-visible discussion. I have read and followed the advised given before, though, I did not succeed. Please confirm that you

Re: Still problems starting X

2008-11-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 04:03:52PM +0100, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Jon TURNEY wrote: 'run' can only hide the window of the process it directly starts, I would guess. With X11R7.4 there is a window that seems related to the process which 'run' starts, and a second window related, I think, to

Re: cygwin-x-doc refresh

2008-11-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:57:38PM +, Jon TURNEY wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 08:14:33PM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jon TURNEY wrote: I've finished off a first pass at updating the cygwin-x-doc package

Re: Alias problem with bash -l (was Re: New X server)

2008-11-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:37:51PM -0600, Ryan Stewart wrote: Jon TURNEY wrote: [...] It sounds like you have somehow lost -multiwindow from the command used to start the X server (so the server is operating in the default, windowed mode). [...] Run xterm +tb, or add XTerm*toolBar: false to

Re: cygwin-x-doc refresh

2008-11-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 06:54:42PM +, Jon TURNEY wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: If you update the documentation in the htdocs/xfree/docs/cg directory they should show up on the web site automatically. In fact, everything under htdocs should work like that. cygwin-xfree/htdocs doesn't

Re: Upgrade woes.

2008-11-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:03:11AM -0500, Eric Roode wrote: I updated my cygwin the other day, as I periodically do, and I am very sorry I did so. Here are some of the problems I have encountered. So you just blindly updated without noticing that X was changing? Wow. It's amazing that you

Re: Upgrade woes.

2008-11-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 03:16:05PM -0800, Back, Michael wrote: Chuck wrote: I think the frustration on some people's behalf is that this question has been asked (and answered) maybe 50 times already on the list. Perhaps because people can't find the info. they need in any other way than posting

Re: Unable to download org-x11 files

2008-11-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 09:59:22PM +0100, Kevin Jan Mutch wrote: None the files named xorg-x11. or X-start... are no longer listed by Cygwin's setup. How can I install the Xserver? xorg-server See the announcement: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2008-11/msg0.html --

Re: cygwin-x-doc refresh

2008-11-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 08:14:33PM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jon TURNEY wrote: I've finished off a first pass at updating the cygwin-x-doc package I started some time ago. Updating the text was a bit less traumatic than expected as it

Re: problem with Xwin -multiwindow

2008-11-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 08:57:08PM -0800, Hormoz Yaghutiel wrote: I installed the entire cygwin on my Windows Vista business 64 machine a couple of days ago. I have noticed some pecularities: No cygen icons are created on the desktop even though I check marked it at the end of the installation.

Re: X server 1.5.3-2 candidate

2008-11-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 07:12:42PM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Unfortunately I don't have a linux box to experiment with... :-( There's always http://www.virtualbox.org/ if you want to get a virtual linux system. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

The uncommon valor of Yaakov Selkowitz

2008-11-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
Yesterday, Yaakov released a new version of X for Cygwin, rectifying a long-standing problem in the Cygwin distribution. He was amazingly diligent in making sure that his upgrade did not break the Cygwin distribution. His new packages are laid out in a more sensical fashion and attempt to

Re: The uncommon valor of Yaakov Selkowitz *amended*

2008-11-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:17:43AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: Yesterday, Yaakov released a new version of X for Cygwin, rectifying a long-standing problem in the Cygwin distribution. He was amazingly diligent in making sure that his upgrade did not break the Cygwin distribution. His new

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