Re: New Bash Release Broken?

2006-09-28 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Tim Daneliuk wrote: It is my habit to update the entire cygwin installation at least once a week. Earlier today, I updated and got the new version of bash, 3.1.17(8). It appears broken. The .profile I have happily used for years gives it fits (the same .profile works fine if I invoke ksh

Re: WinXP Taskbar Overlaps Maximized xterm

2006-09-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Tim Daneliuk wrote: I have DAGS and looked at the cygwin FAQ but cannot seem to find this problem addressed, so ... When I maximize an xterm on my WinXP workstation, it gets sized so that the Windows taskbar slighty overlaps the bottom of the xterm window. This makes it very difficult to read

Re: WinXP Taskbar Overlaps Maximized xterm

2006-09-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Tim Daneliuk wrote: Tim Daneliuk wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote: Tim Daneliuk wrote: I have DAGS and looked at the cygwin FAQ but cannot seem to find this problem addressed, so ... When I maximize an xterm on my WinXP workstation, it gets sized so that the Windows taskbar slighty

Re: XF86Config file

2006-09-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Stecher, Fred wrote: On CYGWIN is there a config file equivalent to XF86Config? How about '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508)

Re: WinXP Taskbar Overlaps Maximized xterm

2006-09-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Thomas Dickey wrote: On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote: There's a similar issue with KDE and xterm on RHEL 3. So it could also be is doesn't appear to be the right tense, since RHEL 3 was released a few years ago and is not the current version. iirc, cygwin's still

Re: fontconfig imagemagick

2006-09-19 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Wynfield Henman wrote: While building ImageMagick ImageMagick-6.2.9, I found out the the currently distributed cygwin fontconfig version to be too old (version 2.2 or so). and two years of developed have resulted in a (as of now) fontconfig-2.4.1. I found that this also builds well in the

Re: Cygwin/X

2006-09-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Salvador Fernández wrote: A fatal error has ocurred and Cygwin/X will now exit. Please Help me. Sure thing. Please read and follow the problem reporting guidelines found here: Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html -- Larry Hall

Re: stock error

2006-09-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
81302901 wrote: Hi, I'm tryin to install cygwin/X on WindowsXP. When I run startxwin.bat, I get error messages and Xwin doesn't start. Thanks for your help. Maryam In error massage box has been written: A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit. Please open /tmp/Xwin.log for more

Re: XWIn.exe , compile

2006-09-13 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Iztok wrote: Hi; I would like to re-compile the XWin.exe in order to make some changes for multi_window mode; but I have a lot of troubles compiling the x-stuff; Could you tell me, where I could find the compile-process description ? Did you look at the FAQ?

Re: cannot open display

2006-09-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Ogogon !!! wrote: Good afternoon, colleagues! I have established CygWin to compile under Windows the program developed in gcc. At compilation of console applications - all OK. All applications, even rather complex, are started and work without remarks. However, any attempt to create the

Re: could not open default font 'fixed'

2006-09-06 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Andrew MacDonald wrote: Hey, I'm sure you've all see this one posted on here before, but something has to be different because none of the solutions that I have found worked for me. I've checked mount points ensuring directories existed. I've re-installed font packages. I tried re-running

Re: Sylpheed Claws after update broken

2006-08-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Dirk Schleicher wrote: Hallo there, I made a update today and now I am not able to start SC. GV and other X programs working. I try sylpheed-claws --debug but nothing. What can I do. Where can I look. sylpheed-claws is not a package that is part of the Cygwin distribution. As a result, it's

Re: listen() failed

2006-08-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Woogon Chung wrote: Dear all, How do I resolve the following problem? I cannot start X Server. I noticed that an exact question rose about 2 years ago. Can anyone show us any hint to open my X Server for Cygwin? Thanks. Woogon --- Welcome to the XWin X

Re: slow paints despite fast hardware

2006-08-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Phlip wrote: CygWinners: I have either Ubuntu or Mandriva on an old Dell Latitude. Alone, it's perfectly fast. Some programs are faster than on my modern clone running WinXP. Big surprise there. However, when I run the latest CygWin XFree on WinXP, and connect directly to this notebook with

Re: slow paints despite fast hardware

2006-08-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Phlip wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote: In all seriousness, if you really think that your question could be a FAQ, why wouldn't you start with the Cygwin-X FAQ? For example, the answer to your problem may come from the following entry: Thanks for the derision and RTFM. I already stated I

Re: slow paints despite fast hardware

2006-08-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Phlip wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote: Again, why should Linux-Win32 be slow when Linux-cloud-Linux is so fast? I don't know what you mean by Linux-Win32 but Windows is not Linux and neither is Cygwin. I'm having trouble feeling motivated to continue reading your posts after

Re: slow paints despite fast hardware

2006-08-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Phlip wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote: I apologize to others on the list for extending this thread and adding to the volume in your mail boxes. It was clearly unnecessary. Don't forget apologizing for leaving a dead trail in the archives... Actually, I've done all the apologizing I

Re: Remonte seesion with HP-UX CDE II

2006-08-24 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Ales Kacor wrote: Hi everyone, I have following problem after executing command: XWin -clipboard -query %REMONTE_HOST% The session starts. You can see a black window with a sandglass. After 2 seconds everything disappear and the process is repeating until you kill it. The XWin.log is

Re: TCP/IP Security Limits - WinXP and XWIN.exe

2006-08-15 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Mark Edwards wrote: On 8/16/06, René Berber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Edwards wrote: On 8/16/06, René Berber wrote: [snip] netstat -nb (and a lot of patience) or netstat -anb (which of course will take a long time). Thanks for the comments René, however my point was that it is

Re: Mrxvt requires the X Window System libraries and headers.

2006-08-15 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU. Reformatted. bin wang wrote: From: Larry Hall (Cygwin X) reply-to-list-only-lh-x at cygwin dot com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com ^ http

Re: Mrxvt requires the X Window System libraries and headers.

2006-08-13 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
bin wang wrote: Hi I try to install mrxvt from source code into cygwin. When I ./configure, I have the following errors in the config.log. configure:3653: gcc -c -g -O2 conftest.c 5 conftest.c:2: error: parse error before me configure:3659: $? = 1 configure: failed program was: | #ifndef

Re: Obvious Question Probably

2006-08-07 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Rich Mayo wrote: I made sure that xwin.exe is run with the -clipboard option (it always was), and I enabled -emulate3button, but what do I type to cut, copy, or paste to/from xterm? There's got to be any easy way to do this, I just can't find it. Copy with the left button, paste with the

Re: startx does nothing

2006-08-02 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
subhra datta wrote: I just installed cygwin with all x11 packages installed. When I open the bash shell and run startx it does nothing - it exits silently without error messages at all. I downloaded cygwin setup to drive E and ran it with the default suggestions except for selecting x11 of

Re: xserver

2006-08-02 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Nicola Ritter wrote: Hi I just installed the latest version of cygwin, including all the X11 stuff on a new machine. But unlike last time, an XServer did not install on my desktop and I cannot find it anywhere in the cygwin directories. What did I miss, or where is it? If you need help,

Re: XWindows version of Java?

2006-07-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
siegfried wrote: I notice the cygwin version of emacs runs in XWindows and is one of the few XWindows programs I run frequently on windows. I assume (I have not tried it yet) I can run the cygwin version of emacs on my home windows machine from a remote machine with the xhost and ssh -X

Re: Problem with starting X server (alternate solution)

2006-07-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Steve Freeland wrote: Apologies for not attaching this to the correct thread; I'm not subscribed to the list and don't really know how I should go about that. But anyways. Regarding the Could not open default font 'fixed' message: Stephen A. Goulet mentioned that he was able to fix the

Re: unixkill crashes under cygwin-1.5.20-1 (and cygwin1dll-20060707)

2006-07-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Lester Ingber wrote: Re: 6.8.99.901-1 I understand that, according to the docs, even under Curr, sometimes an experimental version of a package can be seen when toggling. This seems to be case for 6.8.99.901-1 for the xorg-x11 series. However, under Curr, I cannot toggle all of the xorg-x11

Re: Cygwin/X does not start after updating Cygwin1.dll to 1.5.20-1

2006-07-06 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Charli Li wrote: Searching Local Harddrives (C:;D:)... Cygwin1.dll found in D:\XX\cygwin\bin Cygwin1.dll found in D:\XX\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin Select an item to view its description. Both of these dirs are in $PATH. So, here we are at the xterm: ([EMAIL PROTECTED])[27] ~ $

Re: Cygwin/X does not start after updating Cygwin1.dll to 1.5.20-1

2006-07-05 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Charli Li wrote: -Original Message- From: cgf Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 1:38 PM To: Cygwin/X Mailing List Subject: Re: Cygwin/X does not start after updating Cygwin1.dll to 1.5.20-1 On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 01:30:50PM -0400, Charli Li wrote: Reformatted. -Original

Re: can't open fontforge--get error cygxml2-2.dll not found

2006-06-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 07:52:41PM +, naomi gill wrote: Well, thanks all anyway. Turns out it actually was a Cygwin problem. I did a lot of digging and found out that the libxml2 package has somehow managed to escape installation. I installed the missing component

Re: can't open fontforge--get error cygxml2-2.dll not found

2006-06-28 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Top-post reformatted. From: Larry Hall (Cygwin X) reply-to-list-only-lh-x splat cygwin spot com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree splat cygwin spot com To: cygwin-xfree splat cygwin spot com Don't feed spammers. http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR Subject: Re: can't open fontforge--get error

Re: can't open fontforge--get error cygxml2-2.dll not found

2006-06-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
naomi gill wrote: I downloaded Cygwin and got it to work. Then I downloaded FontForge to run on Cygwin. All well and good until I tried to open FontForge. Then I got an error message saying that cygxml2-2.dll could not be found. From what I was able to gather from the Cygwin site, the above

Re: XWin 100% CPU usage (Remote Desktop)

2006-06-22 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
David Balazic wrote: More info. Maybe it is related to the trayicon. What happened : - XWin.exe using 100% CPU (those are 2 CPUs, both used to max) - I close a window or two in the X session - I notice there are two X icons in systray - I move the mouse over them, one disappears (this is

Re: UK keyboard layout

2006-06-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Phil Reynolds wrote: On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 11:38:15AM +0100, Phil Reynolds wrote: I am trying to get Cygwin/X to support the UK keyboard layout, but cannot work out what it is I need to do. The XWin.log shows the following lines: (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: 0809 (0809) (--)

Re: Cygwin's RUN command and Windows Vista Beta 2

2006-06-07 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Chuck McDevitt wrote: -Original Message- On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 08:22:02PM -0400, Chuck McDevitt wrote: The RUN commands that comes with Cygwin-X (\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\run.exe) has a problem on Windows Vista Beta 2. When I tried running Xwin.exe and ssh.exe using that RUN command

Re: Can't run graphical aplications

2006-05-19 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
João Esteves wrote: Meanwhile I found that starting X with startxwin.sh sets the display correctly and opens a X console. xpdf, xmgrace, etc... work nicelly now. Must I start an X session this way? You must start the X server if you plan to use X applications. You can choose to start the

Re: Help please !!!

2006-05-15 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Oleg Moshinpo wrote: Please help ! Cygwin gives me an error ! About this I send you files : Screenshot of error Error message from tmp dir Error from the log: Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' From the FAQ:

Re: Default directory is C:\PROGRA~1\RATIONAL\RATION~1\NUTCROOT\mksnt\?

2006-04-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 04/25/2006, Charles Wilson wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote: Without the benefit of all the info that http://cygwin.com/problems.html recommends, I can hazard a guess that you have a copy of the MKS tools installed. These tools will conflict with the like named tools in Cygwin. Your

Re: Default directory is C:\PROGRA~1\RATIONAL\RATION~1\NUTCROOT\mksnt\?

2006-04-24 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Schlesinger, Philip wrote: Hi all. I just downloaded and installed Cygwin onto a Windows 2000 Server computer. I chose to do All: Install. After all was said and done, I started the Xserver, then ran Xterm via the Start Menu (as it didn't pop up on its own). I got a Xterm window for about 30

Re: SSH X11 forwarding issues (with verbose data)

2006-04-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 04/09/2006, Philip H. Schlesinger wrote: Somebody else posted that ZoneAlarm jumps in the way of Cygwin's OpenSSH - even if ZoneAlarm is shut down, but I have a hard time believing that's the issue... Well, you could help convince yourself one way or the other by uninstalling ZoneAlarm

Re: SSH X11 forwarding issues

2006-04-08 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Brett Serkez wrote: ZoneAlarm, but I have the remote PC in my trusted list. Plus, both Cygwin/X/putty and X-Win32/StarnetSSH work fine, so this seems to be a Cygwin issue... The only way I've been able to use either the -X or -Y switches is to uninstall ZoneAlarm, shutting it down is

Re: SSH X11 forwarding issues

2006-04-08 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Brett Serkez wrote: Still sounds like a ZoneAlarm issue. It's worth another look. There was a time when this worked with ZoneAlarm, from the best I can recall, it was after a Cygwin update that it broke. My older system that I mentioned, is running almost the lastest ZA with an older Cygwin

Re: Facing problem with bit fields, when compiling with GCC.

2006-04-05 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Devendra Mulakkayala wrote: Hello, ISSUE: Facing problem with bit fields, when i am compiling my code with GCC. It was previously compiled with diab compiler and was working fine. In our code Union definition is as follows..., union { unsigned_8 indicator; struct { unsigned_8

Re: Newbie help

2006-04-03 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
John Rehill wrote: John Rehill wrote: Total newbie here in relation to not only cygwin cygwin/X but also to UNIX... I'm a total windows slave. Anyway I've been given the delightful task of trying to configure cygwin and cygwin/X server for use on our systems. But I've run into a wall.

Re: How to run VNC thru ssh (openssh question)

2006-03-20 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Siegfried Heintze wrote: I used to use the following all the time to access my Windows machine remotely: ssh -f -L 5901:localhost:5900 -N -C -o Compression=yes -o CompressionLevel=9 machine name or ip vncviewer YMMV. Obviously, you need to make sure that the port ssh is using is open

Re: How to run _X_ Session from RH8 via ssh -X?

2006-03-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Brett Serkez wrote: But now I just realized the obvious: Only X GUIS work and not windows. Is this correct? Yes! I assume I can tunnel rdesktop the same way I tunnel vnc? I guess I'll try tunneling both vnc and rdesktop next. I've heard this works, but have not tried personally. If you

Re: Problem Starting X-Windows -- Problem solved?

2006-03-06 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 03/06/2006, Bill Page wrote: I have also seen the same Cygwin/startx problem that Dean C. Tsai reported on 15 Feb 2006, and I have found the same workaround, killing the sh.exe process that's hogging the CPU. I don't know what's causing it, either. I tried the latest suggestion, renaming

Re: Problem with running application over SSH tunnel?

2006-03-02 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Michael J. Wheeler wrote: Hello all, I'm having a bit of a strange problem, maybe somebody can help me out... I am running the latest updated cygwin on my windows XP SP2 desktop machine. I'm ssh'ing (ssh -X or ssh -Y) into our AIX 5.1 box. I'm trying to run the eclipse IDE. The application

Re: cygXdmcp-6.dll not found when starting Xwin.exe

2006-02-24 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Srinivasan N wrote: Sorry, i am a newbie to cygwin, but i get this error when i try to start X-server on cygwin. I have installed all packages in the X11 section. Any help would be great. http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=cygXdmcp-6.dll So is the package found by the above

Re: CygWin fatal error...

2006-02-14 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I'm new to all this about Cygwin. I'couldn't find any page concerning this issue. It isn't even about a product of yours. It happens i been tring to use the Axiomatic Multi-platform C Compiler from AxiomSol, it uses the Cygwin basement on the Windows version. I

Re: Why gnome-session is not found in a full-installation of cygwin?

2006-02-07 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Yu Lianqing wrote: Hi, folks, I successfully download and install cgywin on my windows xp profesional system. I choose to install everything (at select packages page, I choose All, Install). I prefer GNOME as the window manager but gnome-session is missing, this is weird as I've

Re: Can anyone help with this XWin.log error?

2005-12-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Alan Guedeney wrote: I tried to Google this with no luck! Any help appreciated ... VNC Server is running, but not in use. XWin.log == Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 6.8.2.0-4 Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com XWin was started with the following command

Re: No absolute path for shell: error

2005-11-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 11/30/2005, Douglas Spearot wrote: Thank you for the response Thomas. I downloaded the source from the website that you listed below. When I try to run the 'configure' file that you created to build XTERM, I get a number of error messages (all of which say the same thing): The procedure

Re: CygwinX

2005-11-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
hate me wrote: Hi there, from the last two days I have been traying to do download X-cygwin/X and I have been unsucefully. opened the X terminal and it says: A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit. Please open /tmp/XWin.log for more information. Vendor: The cygwin/project

Re: Auto hidden taskbar stays hidden

2005-11-05 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Thomas Gilgin wrote: Hi list, I use an auto hiding taskbar. If an application, e.g. xterm or a native windows application is maximized, the task bar does not appear if the mouse pointer is moved to the border of the desktop. If no window is maximized, it works as expected. Is this a bug or my

Re: Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure

2005-10-12 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: [snip] 1) How many of our BDs actually work for Red Hat anymore? 1 (one) Harold also stated: Look, it has been made quite clear to us on several occasions that Red Hat doesn't pay for anyone in their company to do development on Cygwin[...] Is this correct?

Re: Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure

2005-10-12 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 03:08:50PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote: Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: [snip] 1) How many of our BDs actually work for Red Hat anymore? 1 (one) Harold also stated: Look, it has been made quite clear to us on several occasions that Red

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