'run xterm' fails to open a window

2009-11-04 Thread Florent Fievez
Hi, 2009/11/3 Linda Walsh cyg...@tlinx.org: 1) to Florent Fievee, (you don't need to answer if you have no good  reason, but if you do, I'm curious as to your reasoning) --   Why did you copy Ken's complete note as into your response, when you  simply has to say me too? I simply clicked on

Re: Cygwin X query Solaris Login page reloads

2009-11-04 Thread BharathX
Thanks Larry for the reply. Christopher, Sorry man, i obviously didn't mean to post it so many times...i was pressing the 'post message' button and nothing was happening..so had to try it a few times..finally i got a message that the server is under maintainence. so that was the reason. I

META CONTENT: posting format redux: education of a welcome, new community member...?

2009-11-04 Thread Linda Walsh
Florent Fievez wrote: 2009/11/3 Linda Walsh me'em...@me'dom: ^^^ -- another no no**(see bottom) [curious] Why did you copy [the previous,] complete note into your response, when [all you said was] me too? I simply clicked on reply button of my webmail. I

opengl 'visual capabilities' on windows 7

2009-11-04 Thread Luke J. West
Hi, I've just installed Cygwin 1.7 (Win7 Hmoe Premium) and am trying to get started with OpenGL. I have a sample OpenGL program (sample.c) and I get the following. sh-3.2$ gcc -o sample.bin sample.c -lglut -lglu -lgl sh-3.2$ ./sample.bin freeglut (./sample.bin): ERROR: Internal error Visual

Re: release scheduling, cygwin 1.7 et al (was Re: X11R7.5 fontcache..)

2009-11-04 Thread Linda Walsh
* Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#RSN :-) ** LW wrote: --I don't suppose you could express that in ISO format? :-) Larry Hall wrote: Since you've asked this on multiple lists, I'm going to assume this is more than just a humorous comment that you don't expect an answer to.

Re: release scheduling, cygwin 1.7 et al (was Re: X11R7.5 fontcache..)

2009-11-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 11/04/2009 05:05 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: I saw support for dual installations in a recent announcement on Cygwin's main list. I've also seen quite a few problems reported against 1.7 in the compatibility department, but I realize that gives no indication of the number of users who don't