Re: Still seeking a Cygwin/X maintainer

2008-09-24 Thread Jon TURNEY
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: In case someone else with the Ports' X11R7 is actually interested in helping to figure this out: 1) rm -f /usr/lib/libXfont.*; 2) build and install a static libXfont (.cygport attached); 3) build xorg-server-1.3.0.0 (.cygport and patch attached). The build will

Re: white windows

2008-10-28 Thread Jon TURNEY
Does anyone know why -multiplemonitors isn't the default? I'm guessing you are using -multiwindow mode. In which case, the -multimonitors/-multiplemonitors should be on by default Perhaps the problem you are seeing is that Cygwin/X doesn't know about changes to the size of the Windows

Re: how to recompile XWin.exe ?

2008-11-03 Thread Jon TURNEY
ludo wrote: Jon TURNEY a écrit : I want to recompile XWin.exe but I can't find the correct source files could you give a ULR on a tarball or a CVS / SVN / GIT ... path on the repository into x.org or cygwin.com or ... I have tried without success : * git repository on x.org : target cygwin

Re: nedit gives X-error of failed request - also issues with (x)emacs

2008-11-12 Thread Jon TURNEY
Jon TURNEY wrote: Maarten Vanneste wrote: I am not doing anything different as before. The Xemacs editor opens fine, however, I had to install additional fonts as it became nearly impossible to read the scripts. I just found out that I however cannot type into the editor, same for emacs

Re: nedit gives X-error of failed request - also issues with (x)emacs

2008-11-12 Thread Jon TURNEY
Maarten Vanneste wrote: Dear all, I have just updated my cygwin settings, something I do on a weekly basis. This typically goes without any trouble. Now I have noticed that there was a substantial update on X11. After the update, the nedit editor fails to operate, returning the following

Re: nedit gives X-error of failed request - also issues with (x)emacs

2008-11-12 Thread Jon TURNEY
, Jon TURNEY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jon TURNEY wrote: Maarten Vanneste wrote: I am not doing anything different as before. The Xemacs editor opens fine, however, I had to install additional fonts as it became nearly impossible to read the scripts. I just found out that I however cannot type

Re: X11R7.4: XWinrc does not work anymore

2008-11-12 Thread Jon TURNEY
Danilo Turina wrote: Hello, yesterday I installed the fresh new X11R7.4, this morning I also updated various packages and now the menu on the X tray icon does not work anymore: the menu items (also within submenus) are all there, but clicking them does nothing (apart a brief flickering of

Re: nedit gives X-error of failed request - also issues with (x)emacs

2008-11-12 Thread Jon TURNEY
Maarten Vanneste wrote: I am not doing anything different as before. The Xemacs editor opens fine, however, I had to install additional fonts as it became nearly impossible to read the scripts. I just found out that I however cannot type into the editor, same for emacs. The problem where the

Re: Problems with keyb layout and fonts?

2008-11-12 Thread Jon TURNEY
Angelo Graziosi wrote: I want to flag the following problems I meet with the new X11R7.4. They happen both with just an upgrade and reinstalling all from scratch. 1. With the new X11R7.4 I have lost the italian layout of keyboard which now reacts as an english KB. In the XWin.log I found:

Re: startx not working...(not a stale lock file problem)

2008-11-13 Thread Jon TURNEY
bali asur wrote: I think it is not a stale lock. As there is no lock file to be found. IN0335-01[51]+ startx xauth: creating new authority file /home/pomo/.serverauth.2520 xauth: unable to link authority file /home/pomo/.serverauth.2520, use /home/pom o/.serverauth.2520-n xauth:

Re: xauth misses security extension

2008-11-13 Thread Jon TURNEY
Morche Matthias wrote: Hi all, I am no longer able to use xauth. It misses the security extension within XWin. Has this been removed on purpose and would you please explain why? Xorg 7.4 includes XACE, which provides a superset of Xsecurity/APPGROUP, which are disabled by default. Can you

Re: Fixing problems with new X11

2008-11-13 Thread Jon TURNEY
Chuck wrote: I've got two questions about the new X11 package that got installed when I ran setup to update my packages today. First, it looks like all of the apps moves from /usr/X11R6/bin to /usr/bin. None of my windows start menu or desktop shortcuts got changed. Is there an automatic

Re: xhost command not found

2008-11-13 Thread Jon TURNEY
Harry Zisko wrote: I did a search on the 'cygwin' directory (and it's sub-directories) for a file name of 'xhost', and nothing was found. Should I have an 'xhost' file somewhere? Or is 'xhost' included in some other file? Or do I need to configure a path? Or use some command other than

Re: Fwd: Xwindows won't start (Can't read lock file)

2008-11-13 Thread Jon TURNEY
James Ertle wrote: Fatal server error: Can't read lock file /tmp/.X0-lock As a workaround, you should be able to add -nolock to the command line used to start Xwin (in startxwin.bat, I'm guessing, in your case). Since a few people seem to have this problem, I'd like to get a resolution.

X server 1.5.3-2 candidate

2008-11-13 Thread Jon TURNEY
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: I just checked this into SVN, hopefully merging everything correctly and adding a couple minor patches of my own; system.XWinrc moved to /etc/X11 and XWin.log to /var/log. Could you please svn up and test 1.5.3-2? Works for me. It doesn't seem to be possible to

Re: Fixing problems with new X11

2008-11-13 Thread Jon TURNEY
Jon TURNEY wrote: Chuck wrote: I've got two questions about the new X11 package that got installed when I ran setup to update my packages today. First, it looks like all of the apps moves from /usr/X11R6/bin to /usr/bin. None of my windows start menu or desktop shortcuts got changed

Re: X server 1.5.3-2 candidate

2008-11-13 Thread Jon TURNEY
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Jon TURNEY wrote: Works for me. It doesn't seem to be possible to build Xwin using just the stuff in the cygwin distro: Kdrive's kxv.c requires headers from videoproto. I guess this is failing to honour a configure check properly somewhere. AFAICS that file

Re: Fwd: Xwindows won't start (Can't read lock file)

2008-11-13 Thread Jon TURNEY
Jon TURNEY wrote: James Ertle wrote: Fatal server error: Can't read lock file /tmp/.X0-lock As a workaround, you should be able to add -nolock to the command line used to start Xwin (in startxwin.bat, I'm guessing, in your case). Since a few people seem to have this problem, I'd like

Re: startx is failing in X11R7.4

2008-11-13 Thread Jon TURNEY
Ryan Warnick wrote: I am having the same issue. I just updated Cygwin today. XWin has always worked great for me. Also I checked and made sure that there is no file /tmp/.X0-lock on my machine. Does startx -- -nolock work any better? -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: nedit gives X-error of failed request - also issues with (x)emacs

2008-11-14 Thread Jon TURNEY
Maarten Vanneste wrote: Hello again, Thanks for the help and feedback so far. However, I am still struggling with the keyboard issue, i.e. I cannot use it in any editor after updating the X11 package earlier this week. I have just updated once more (reinstalling the X11 package), rebooted,

Re: Problems with keyb layout and fonts?

2008-11-14 Thread Jon TURNEY
Angelo Graziosi wrote: Jon TURNEY wrote: I'm sorry I don't quite understand where these fonts came from. If it's something you've installed yourself, No, I haven't other basic things, as fonts, installed! For the sake of completeness, I have done a new clean, fresh reinstall, only Basic

Re: nedit gives X-error of failed request - also issues with (x)emacs

2008-11-14 Thread Jon TURNEY
Marco Atzeri wrote: --- Maarten Vanneste ha scritto: Hello, Interesting. I quit cygwin including killing the X-server. Restarted my cygwin by double clicking the cygwin icon, executed startxwin.sh, which prompted an X-window to open, in which I can now type ! Going back to the cygwin

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: font-bitstream-vera-ttf 1.10

2008-11-14 Thread Jon TURNEY
font-bitstream-vera-ttf 1.10 The Bitstream Vera TTF font family has gone AWOL in the upgrade to X.Org R7.4 (it was previously contained in the xorg-x11-fscl package). This new package makes the font available again. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

Re: Warning: No xauth data

2008-11-14 Thread Jon TURNEY
Chuck wrote: Started getting this warning on ssh sessions that forward X11 after upgrading to the new X11 package yesterday. I forward X11 on all ssh connections via a line in ~/.ssh/ssh_config. Hmmm it seems that ssh needs to run xauth to do connection forwarding, but is still trying to

cygwin-x-doc refresh

2008-11-16 Thread Jon TURNEY
Yaakov, 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 makes good use of entities for things like filenames and paths Interestingly there are CVS repositories for this package at both

Re: XWin Server starting everything offscreen

2008-11-16 Thread Jon TURNEY
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Mark A. Ziesemer wrote: However, it seems that some part of this (the XWin window manager?) is getting confused by the multi-monitor window geometry. I have 2 monitors, 1280x1024, with the primary on the right and the secondary on the left. When starting, the

Re: xorg-xserver-1.5.3-2: Dialogs that save their positions keep drifting downwards

2008-11-16 Thread Jon TURNEY
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Cesar Strauss wrote: There is a GTK application (gschem from www.geda.seul.org) that saves the position of its sub-dialogs when they close, so they reopen at the same place. Up to now, on Cygwin/X, this didn't always work well: in multi-window mode, dialogs

Re: XWin Server starting everything offscreen

2008-11-16 Thread Jon TURNEY
Uh Huh wrote: Mark A. Ziesemer wrote: Additionally, items like the taskbar on the primary monitor cause an equal void to appear on the secondary monitor, as it is just one continuous area that must fit on both screens. I see that too; I had thought that particular behaviour might be an

Re: Connecting to an XServer with XWin

2008-11-17 Thread Jon TURNEY
jose isaias cabrera wrote: Greetings! I just ran setup and upgraded to the new cygwin and something has broke. I was able to run this command before, xwin :0.0 -clipboard -query 13.142.6.222 -fp tcp/13.142.6.222:7100 I'm a bit suspicious of this command line as the server is called

Re: X 7.4 ignores most keyboard input

2008-11-17 Thread Jon TURNEY
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Mike Conley wrote: Hi. After upgrading my X server, I find that X programs ignore most keyboard input entirely, with the exception of the numeric keypad. I tried again with a fresh install and got the same results. Log file (generated by starting XWin from

Re: XWin Server starting everything offscreen

2008-11-17 Thread Jon TURNEY
Mark A. Ziesemer wrote: Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: I think that patch was already committed[1], but the code has clearly changed significantly from then. [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-05/msg00210.html So can someone look into this, or at acknowledge that it's probably

Small update for X server 1.5.3 patch set

2008-11-17 Thread Jon TURNEY
Yaakov, Please find at the URL below a small update to the xorg server patch set. http://www.dronecode.org.uk/cygwin/cygwin-xorg-server-patch-set-update-20081117.tar.bz2 This should fix: * The issue with initial window placement being offscreen on multimonitor systems when some monitors have

Re: Upgrade failed now remote X11 fails :-(

2008-11-17 Thread Jon TURNEY
Duane Ellis wrote: I use cygwin/X to connect to a remote linux box via SSH. I run KDE via that remote connection. (By remote: I mean, in the same building - down the hall in a server room) I forward the X11 session to my local machine via SSH in the standard way. To be clear: It worked

Re: Connecting to an XServer with XWin

2008-11-17 Thread Jon TURNEY
Jon TURNEY wrote: jose isaias cabrera wrote: exits the login screen once I hit any key in the user textbox. Is there any way to get the previous setup? Maybe it has to do with the keyboard problem I have read very little of... No, I think problem is that the XDM (if that's what

Re: New X server

2008-11-18 Thread Jon TURNEY
Ryan Stewart wrote: Hi. I appreciate the work you guys do for Cygwin, but I just got blasted with the new xorg-server update when I was just trying to grab another package. I say blasted because it was not a good thing. It's perhaps somewhat unfortunate that cygwin setup doesn't default to

Re: Upgrade failed now remote X11 fails :-(

2008-11-18 Thread Jon TURNEY
Duane Ellis wrote: Duane Ellis wrote: === [upgrade cygwin/X fails] [various attachments...] To be clear: It worked before - just fine until I upgraded Jon Turney Can you try again without -clipboard in your Jon Turney script just to rule something out? Hmm without

Re: Small update for X server 1.5.3 patch set

2008-11-19 Thread Jon TURNEY
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Jon TURNEY wrote: Please find at the URL below a small update to the xorg server patch set. Committed; could you please svn up and test? I also changed the log location patch to use a separate log for each display (e.g. XWin.0.log), as is done on Linux

Re: cygwin-x-doc refresh

2008-11-20 Thread Jon TURNEY
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 I started some time ago. Updating the text was a bit less

Re: Small update for X server 1.5.3 patch set

2008-11-20 Thread Jon TURNEY
Please find at the URL below another small update to the xorg server patch set. http://www.dronecode.org.uk/cygwin/from-xming-patch-set-20081120.tar.bz2 This contains patches taken from the Xming website http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/ Thanks to Colin Harrison for his permission to

Re: cygwin-x-doc refresh

2008-11-20 Thread Jon TURNEY
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 exist. The web-pages appear to be in cygwin/htdocs/xfree/,

Re: XWin requires tty for console log output

2008-11-20 Thread Jon TURNEY
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Jon, For some reason which I have yet to investigate, XWin requires a tty to the log to the terminal. That means it will output to terminal in VTs, but will not work in ordinary cmd/bash shells without setting CYGWIN=tty; instead you will see a cmd window briefly

Re: cygwin-x-doc refresh

2008-11-20 Thread Jon TURNEY
Christopher Faylor wrote: 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

Re: Documentation

2008-11-20 Thread Jon TURNEY
Jonathan Johansen wrote: Hi All, I've tried installing the Cygwin X11 server to try to be able to run an X app, but the cygwin installation packages were completely different to the ones mentioned on the website and in the documentation. I had to search the mailing list to get the required

Re: new X-server and remote computers

2008-11-21 Thread Jon TURNEY
Jeffrey Forbes wrote: I mostly use the Cygwin X-server when connect to remote unix boxes though SSH. I got the new server working for all of the programs that I use except one. A molecular modelling graphics program called VMD causes the following error. xterm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken

Re: Multiple Monitors issue with Xterm

2008-11-21 Thread Jon TURNEY
Jet Wilda wrote: That is great to hear. Thanks again for the link and the work arounds. I look forward to Jon's fix :-) This should be fixed in 1.5.3-3. Feedback please. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: Still problems starting X

2008-11-21 Thread Jon TURNEY
Angelo Graziosi wrote: With X11R6.99 this works just fine, but with the new X11R7.4 (also -3) there are two annoying dos windows (which appear for less than an instant), in the second of which (after many tries) I have seen that there is this written: [1] Should 'run' avoids/hides dos windows?

Re: Cygwin X-Win scripting help

2008-11-21 Thread Jon TURNEY
tbishop wrote: I have used XP and have used this script for a long time as a bat file to get to my UNIX box: === @echo off C: chdir C:\cygwin\bin bash --login -c \XWin.exe -query 128.49.000.44 -from 128.23.77.149

Re: No Cygwin-X shortcut on fresh install

2008-11-22 Thread Jon TURNEY
. I have reinstalled everything but I there is not shortcut. Am I missing something? Something that needs to be installed? You need to install the 'xinit' package to get startx. I shall fix the documentation to make this clearer. Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Jon TURNEY wrote: One unrelated

Re: GLX on XWin (was Re: X server 1.5.3-2 candidate)

2008-11-23 Thread Jon TURNEY
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: 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. Thanks! I setup up VirtualBox, installed

Re: X server 1.5.3-2 candidate

2008-11-23 Thread Jon TURNEY
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Of course, we only have the choice of the latter, but if swrast_dri.so is missing, the GLX (and SGI-GLX) extension is disabled. So I prepared mesa-7.2-2 and tried building that module, but after fixing up the build system, I found that it wasn't so simple. The

Re: Xinerama

2008-11-23 Thread Jon TURNEY
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Looking further into Xinerama, I think I brushed it off too early. It is *very* widely supported[1], and while XRandR is supposed to replace it, actual implementation and usage may be some time off. I also think that there may be some potential flaws in windowed

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-server-1.5.3-3

2008-11-24 Thread Jon TURNEY
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin net distribution: *** xorg-server-1.5.3-3 These are the changes in this release: * Log changes: - - In addition to the XWin logs now being found in /var/log (as

Re: Cygwin X-Win scripting help

2008-11-24 Thread Jon TURNEY
of bugs :( :( :( any more ideas please let me know.. It seems far more likely this is a Cygwin/X problem than a Vista problem, and I'd like to help you, but this is just far too vague a problem report for me to suggest anything intelligent. http://cygwin.com/problems.html Jon TURNEY wrote

Re: Problem with OpenGL on new X serverl

2008-11-24 Thread Jon TURNEY
Florent Fievez wrote: Your patch doesn't fix the SEGV. :-( Maybe you could try the follow up patch from http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2008-11/msg00319.html I know this is off-topic but can you tell me if there is a simple way to compile in debug mode using cygport ? I think adding a

Re: X server 1.5.3-4 candidate

2008-11-24 Thread Jon TURNEY
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: I tried to work around this by removing the files with duplicate symbols (glpapi.c and glthread.c) from the GLX code and linking XWin with libGL as well, which seems to work as far as running glgears goes... No regression with my Ubumtu 8.10 VM. (I still need to

Re: All xterms have Untitled title when running twm

2008-11-24 Thread Jon TURNEY
David Steinhauer wrote: After upgrading to the latest Cygwin (xorg-server 1.5.3-3), all my xterms under twm have the title Untitled, even the twm icon manager. Using xterm -title, or the PS1 shell variable, has no effect. However, when I start Cygwin in multiwindow mode, the xterm titles are

Re: Help with startxwin.bat (I did read the FAQ)

2008-11-25 Thread Jon TURNEY
Srinath Avadhanula wrote: Hi, On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The latest xorg-server is 1.5.3-4. Either it, or last Thursday's 1.5.3-3, will certainly fix the could not open default font 'fixed' error. Thanks for the info! I finally got it

Re: X, backingstore and opengl

2008-11-25 Thread Jon TURNEY
Angelo Graziosi wrote: Regarding the problems I have flagged in [1], the first (related to the option +bs of XWin, i.e. the backing store) is still there, also with the recent xorg-server-1.5.3-4. I'm a little bit confused what problems remain, so I'll tell you my results and you can tell me

Re: Problems with Cygwin/X xterm -- not responding to keyboard

2008-11-25 Thread Jon TURNEY
mohnkern wrote: Back, Michael wrote: Hi, I'm having a problem since I updated Cygwin early last week. When I start X via startxwin.bat (which %RUN%'s an xterm), or run xterm from right-click on the tray icon, or create a new xterm from Cygwin Prompt (cygwin.bat), none of these xterms

Re: multiwindow support for _NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_TASKBAR

2008-11-27 Thread Jon TURNEY
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Jon, Following up on our discussion about multiwindow not honouring _NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_TASKBAR. The attached patch was what I had in mind but it has no effect. I'm posting this now to at least start the discussion. You may wish to refer to the FD.o EWMH specs:

Re: No repetition of keys in X11R7

2008-11-27 Thread Jon TURNEY
Rodrigo Medina wrote: Hi, The problem with the key repetition is due to the program setxkbmap. If I start XWin with $ XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -xkbmodel pc105 -xkblayout us\(intl\) This keyboard layout should be auto-detected, so you shouldn't need to do anything to get it work

PATCH: Fix mwextwm mode to build again

2008-11-28 Thread Jon TURNEY
This fixes multiwindow external window manager('-mwextwm') mode to build again. Note this depends on Apple's Xplugin.h to build the rootless extension (just for some typedefs I think), which is no longer included in the X.Org tree, as an old version once was. Google can find you a copy.

PATCH: Fix -silent-dup-error (for real this time)

2008-11-28 Thread Jon TURNEY
-silent-dup-error is still broken, despite my previous attempt to fix it, which only worked with -nolock. Updated version of cygwin-fix-silent-dup-error.patch attached really fixes it. Fix the long-broken -silent-dup-error option --- xserver/hw/xwin/InitOutput.c | 87

Re: X, backingstore and opengl

2008-11-29 Thread Jon TURNEY
Angelo Graziosi wrote: I agree with all BUT NOT with THIS: 1.5.3-4 +bsok (redrawing of area under menus is messed up) In my case (hsimple.C test) 1.5.3-4 +bsGIVES server segfault Are you sure you have started 1.5.3-4 with '+bs'? Indeed I have verified that '1.5.3-4 +bs' works

Re: Installed CygwinX and xhost not found

2008-12-02 Thread Jon TURNEY
RICHARD RASO wrote: So I have searched the FAQs and found a note that says to add a path statement to correct this problem. for missing xhost, the correct FAQ is http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-where-is-xxyzy If it's the Cygwin/X FAQ which has given you the wrong advice to

Re: PATCH: Fix mwextwm mode to build again

2008-12-02 Thread Jon TURNEY
Colin Harrison wrote: Hi, Jon TURNEY wrote Based on somebody else's patch, I'm can't remember who's... I'll give you one guess. Sorry. I managed to confuse myself somehow. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

Re: Recent X11 upgrade and getting _gl?? Undefined references compiling another package

2008-12-02 Thread Jon TURNEY
Brian Keener wrote: I periodically do test compile for OpenSceneGraph in Cygwin and up until I recently accidentally updated to the latest X11 stuff the compiles had been working fine. With the recent change I now getting a lot of undefined references for various _gl?? References. I posted

Re: X11 apps failing after upgrade

2008-12-02 Thread Jon TURNEY
James Ferguson wrote: My client machine is Solaris. Everything worked fine before the update. I'm running the installed startxwin.bat startup (with xterm REM'd out). I can display xclock fine. xterm appears up, but as soon as I hit a key it crashes with: $ xterm xterm: warning, error

Re: X, backingstore and opengl

2008-12-02 Thread Jon TURNEY
Angelo Graziosi wrote: Jon TURNEY wrote: Ok, I've tried this and a few other things an I can't reproduce this, so I'd like your help to get a backtrace if you are willing: 1. Download http://www.dronecode.org.uk/cygwin/XWin.exe.bz2 (this is a build of XWin with debugging symbols) 2. bunzip2

Re: X, backingstore and opengl

2008-12-03 Thread Jon TURNEY
Angelo Graziosi wrote: Jon TURNEY wrote: I'm sorry, your our previous mail hadn't really made it clear to me that there was problem with glxgears etc. Just for my comprehension, can you explain again what happens if you run glxinfo and glxgears on 1.5.3-4. Really, in my posts, I never

Re: fonts and xterm

2008-12-03 Thread Jon TURNEY
JP de Vooght wrote: Hello all, I have recently updated to the newest XWin and have noticed the following on my Vista laptop: - whenever I open an xterm as indicated below, the scrollbar does not work and the window is not rendered at the bottom and on the right where small bands reveal the

Re: Can't read lock file problem: Cygwin/X FAQ solution doesn't work for me

2008-12-04 Thread Jon TURNEY
Rich Signell wrote: Cygwin gurus, After happily using cygwin-X for many years, I have just encountered my first true frustration. After updating my cygwin distribution earlier this week, I found that I can no longer start X windows, getting the same can't read lock file that other users have

Re: X11 apps failing after upgrade

2008-12-04 Thread Jon TURNEY
Richard Toy wrote: Hi We get all the same issues described in [1]. Furthermore, installing the Solaris patch mentioned in [2] made *NO* difference (we are using Solaris 9). :-( Any suggestions as to how to progress this issue further? If you are willing to do some further investigation,

Re: X11 apps failing after upgrade

2008-12-04 Thread Jon TURNEY
Jon TURNEY wrote: If you are willing to do some further investigation, it would be a great help if you could: * build the X server from source with debugging enabled (no, don't run away! the autotoolized modular server is much easier to work with the monolithic imaked monstrosity

Re: I Cannot Start the X Server

2008-12-04 Thread Jon TURNEY
Michael Wehr wrote: Fatal server error: Can't read lock file /tmp/.X0-lock http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-cant-read-lock-file I have searched the internet and tried a number of solutions to no avail. :S -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: X, backingstore and opengl

2008-12-04 Thread Jon TURNEY
Angelo Grandiosity wrote: Jon TURNEY wrote: glxgears, glxinfo are GL demo programs which come with mesa (the OpenGL library) It would be useful if you could install the mesa package and check if glxinfo, glxgears work for you. You have ignored my cygchec.out here [1]. I have those

Re: X11 apps failing after upgrade

2008-12-05 Thread Jon TURNEY
James Ferguson wrote: But anyway, when my Emacs fails, it does not trigger the breakpoint. My xterm gave me a BadAlloc, but the Solaris patch fixed that. My instructions were really aimed at investigating the XkbSetNamedIndicator problem, and the report that installing the Solaris patches

Re: X11 apps failing after upgrade

2008-12-05 Thread Jon TURNEY
James Ferguson wrote: If you're building emacs yourself, you might try to ./configure it --without-xim to see if that makes a difference, or if it just fails in a different place. That worked - Thank you... Now I can run Emacs (from the non-production Solaris machine I'm allowed to patch).

Re: X11 apps failing after upgrade

2008-12-05 Thread Jon TURNEY
TOY Richard wrote: Jon First problem is something to do with permissions. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src $ cygport xorg-server-1.5.3-4.cygport prep compile [...] Compiling xorg-server-1.5.3-4 autoreconf-2.63: Entering directory `.' autoreconf-2.63: configure.ac: not using Gettext

Re: X11 apps failing after upgrade

2008-12-05 Thread Jon TURNEY
James Ferguson wrote: What is the failure mode for running emacs on an unpatched Solaris? Same before and after the patch (the almost immediate BadAtom error). Are you sure that the stack trace points back to XCreateIC() in an emacs built --without-xim run on an unpatched Solaris?

Re: adobe-courier not found

2008-12-08 Thread Jon TURNEY
Mattias Hellström wrote: How can I solve the following error (when trying to view emacs from remote linux machine)? No fonts match `-adobe-courier-medium-r-*-*-12-120-75-75-*-*-*-*' I haved tried to install all fonts but the particular one does not seam to exist. This font should be provided

Re: xview: hello word does not launch

2008-12-08 Thread Jon TURNEY
Carl R. Crawford wrote: Thank you for replying. While I thought that it was a connect problem, you were correct and it is font issue. There are two problems. 1) Sun put specific fonts in the public domain and they are available thru setup.exe. 2) xview uses a number of fonts, e.g.,

Re: Need some help with linking errors when building latest GTK+

2008-12-08 Thread Jon TURNEY
Andreas Eibach wrote: Hi, I'm simply unable to build latest GTK+ (2.14.5) on cygwin atm. I have a bit of building experience, though, so it might simply be a Cygwin-specific thing I don't (yet) know about. (NOTE: This may be a long post.) Has anyone ever fiddled with this recently? I'd

Re: Keyboard map screwed up after launching xemacs

2008-12-08 Thread Jon TURNEY
Andreas Eibach wrote: Hi, when I have X running and start off (latest) xemacs from the command line, my German keyboard is non-existing. WTF? Even the important tilde character can't be typed anymore. Not only until I quit xemacs, my keymap in xterm works again as expected. Are you saying

Re: X11 apps failing after upgrade

2008-12-08 Thread Jon TURNEY
James Ferguson wrote: So perhaps what you need to do is uninstall the dpi100 font package? Just to confirm - I removed the 100dpi fonts, and now my display is back to what it was before the recent major X update. Unfortunately, Cygwin thinks other installs are dependent on the the 100dpi

Re: X, backingstore and opengl

2008-12-08 Thread Jon TURNEY
Angelo Graziosi wrote: Jon TURNEY wrote so perhaps you could try ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/XWin.20081204180806.exe.bz2 and see if that one fails for you Now it fails! For the sake of completeness, attached the stackdump files and the GDB infos as requested here [1], cygcheck.out in [2

Re: xterm: buttons work but cannot type text at the prompt

2008-12-08 Thread Jon TURNEY
Carl R. Crawford wrote: With the new release of X11, xterm comes up and its buttons work. However, I cannot type text at the prompt. I am running X11 w/o a window manager. A number of other applications that require text input also do not work. How do I get text input to work?

Re: adobe-courier not found

2008-12-08 Thread Jon TURNEY
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Mattias Hellström wrote: Restarting the Xserver once more fixed it. Thanks for the help with diagnostics tools to all. For addition to the FAQ: after installing server-side fonts, the server must be restarted for them

Re: Keyboard map screwed up after launching xemacs

2008-12-09 Thread Jon TURNEY
Jon TURNEY wrote: Andreas Eibach wrote: Hi, when I have X running and start off (latest) xemacs from the command line, my German keyboard is non-existing. WTF? Even the important tilde character can't be typed anymore. Not only until I quit xemacs, my keymap in xterm works again as expected

Re: Small update for X server 1.5.3 patch set

2008-12-10 Thread Jon TURNEY
Jon TURNEY wrote: * Always enable built-in fonts; disable other FPEs if --enable-builtin-fonts I've reworked this last one slightly from the form you had it in, but I've just realized now that your version was actually correct. If BUILTIN_FONTS is defined, we want to disable the other FPE

Re: xterm-237-2 still has no UTF-8 support

2008-12-10 Thread Jon TURNEY
neomjp wrote: On 2008/12/10 0:39, Yongwei Wu wrote: 1. xterm +lc -u8 I got these messages: Warning: Cannot convert string -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* to type FontStruct Warning: Cannot convert string nil2 to type FontStruct These are the default fonts

X package font requires need tidying-up

2008-12-10 Thread Jon TURNEY
Yaakov, There's a few packaging oddities with regards to X fonts requirements, which could probably do with tidying up. I guess for dependency purposes we are assuming that any installed client is going to be run on a local X server, in which case it needs to ensure that fonts it needs are

Re: X11R7.4-1 can't read keyboard

2008-12-11 Thread Jon TURNEY
Zdzislaw Meglicki wrote: After having upgraded X11 from the previous version I had installed (and working) on my Cygwin laptop, I found that the new X11R7.4-1 server doesn't read the keyboard. All X11 apps I have tried are keyboard-deaf. I have also noticed another thing. The keyboard seems to

Re: Small update for X server 1.5.3 patch set

2008-12-14 Thread Jon TURNEY
Colin Harrison wrote: Hi, Colin said I thing that's what the static last_pf stuff in my dixfonts patch does? That was an old bodge, that worked but was not that clever. Better to not call 'InitFonts()' other than on serverGeneration 1 and not call 'FreeFonts()' unless shutting down

Re: Swiss German Keyboard Layout - Some Keys Not Found

2008-12-16 Thread Jon TURNEY
Sascha Tayefeh wrote: Dear all, I have been trying to set the Swiss German keyboard layout: $ setxkbmap.exe ch -model pc105 Fortunately, most of the keys are recognised ... unfortunately, some are not. äöü are not recognised at all. Furthermore, some combinations with the right meta key don't

PATCH:

2008-12-16 Thread Jon TURNEY
There seem to be a couple of reported problem which seem to be due to the fact that virtual core keyboard doesn't get the updated with the state of the windows keyboard device until the first keypress. This can lead to oddness in the behaviour of clients started from bash in a DOS window

Re: Windows scaling

2008-12-16 Thread Jon TURNEY
Gionatan Danti wrote: Hi all, I have a question regarding CygWin/X. I would like to know if there is a method to scale a window, similar to what is possible with UltraVNC and its scaling option. To be more clear, I will explain my setup. I have a Linux server where run a fixed-resolution

Re: PATCH:

2008-12-18 Thread Jon TURNEY
It seems I got distracted by something shiny whilst writing the original email. The subject should be something like PATCH: Fix some keyboard strangeness. Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: There seem to be a couple of reported problem which seem to be due to the fact that virtual core keyboard

Re: cursor warp

2008-12-18 Thread Jon TURNEY
Tom George wrote: Cursor warping does not work with the -multiwindow option. It works fine in the single window mode. I saw some vague references to this but nothing to indicate it will be fixed. Are there any plans to fix this? The first step towards fixing this is a description of the

Re: Cannot type in xterm

2008-12-18 Thread Jon TURNEY
Lee S Parsons wrote: Never mind, I found a solution. I found that, just as the FAQ says, the file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB Does not exist. However, as the file /usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB does, I created a symbolic link pointing from the inexistent file to the one that does now exist, and

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