I write to share the solution to a problem I didn't know I had until
I tripped over it this morning. For various reasons, I have not
upgraded to the 6.8.99.901 versions of Xwindows. Each time I opened a
new xterm window with startxwin.bat after the XWin.exe server was
already running, I was
FWIW, my X problems went away when I downgraded to the
pre-6.8.99.901-1 versions of xorg-x11-* packages. Given my
experience and others' reported problems on this list,
I don't consider the 99 version stable. And, I understand
that there is no one currently maintaining it.
Maybe there was a
I'm getting intermittent, anomalous results when resizing my xterm
window while executing info. Because I've been unable to reproduce
in rxvt, I post this in the xfree mailing list. I have not yet
concluded, however, that the problem is Xwindows-specific. I also
was not able to reproduce with
Since upgrading X Server from 6.8.2.0-4 to 6.8.99.901-1, I get a Windows alert
box after opening a second xterm window using the startxwin.bat script, which
apparently used to be able to detect whether X Server was already running or
not so as not to attempt to start multiple instances. This
Apologies for the long lines in my previous message.
Haven't figured out yet how to control Outlook.
(Suggestions welcome.)
--Ken Nellis
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11:48 AM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: LINES and COLUMNS not getting updated
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 10:07:48AM -0400, Kenneth Nellis wrote:
In my Cygwin X-Windows xterm environment, I'm not seeing the LINES and
COLUMNS environment variables getting updated
