[xterm] better support for editors

2005-04-02 Thread Joseph H Allen
I've patched XTerm, to provide better support for text editors, particularly mine: Joe's Own Editor. Also the patch improves XTerm's speed when the wide-char option is enabled. I've been trying to give this patch to Thomas Dickey, but he has not responding to my email, so I'm posting here. I'll

Re: [xterm] better support for editors

2005-04-02 Thread Joseph H Allen
I looked into this a bit more. You can set XTerm's title bar with one escape sequence and have it echoed back with another. The echoed text is bracketed with escape sequences: ^[]ltitle^[\. Also, control characters (including CR and LF) are not allowed. So this is mostly secure- you're not

Re: GL problems (was Re: Commenced update to XFree86(tm) 4.5.0 on MirOS BSD)

2005-04-02 Thread David Dawes
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 05:35:17PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: David Dawes dixit: Can you try running glxgears with ktrace or truss (or something like that), and see how that compares with apps that work OK? Sure. Here's the ktrace and systrace -A output for glxgears (does not work natively,

Re: [XFree86] CVS error on command line?

2005-04-02 Thread Alan Cooney
Sorry, Im away for a few weeks and dnt hav a linux machine wiv me, plaes send ur request for help again and someone else will help. Heres ur orriginal message: Hello, on page http://www.xfree86.org/cvs/ where there are instructions for access the CVS repository. I copied the command below:

Re: [XFree86] help please!

2005-04-02 Thread David Dawes
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 08:10:10PM +0100, Alan Cooney wrote: Hi, Im a relative neewb (1 month) to linux, and have just reinstalled XFree86 in an attempt to get TV in working. I installed version 4.4.0 because I didn't realise there was a 4.5 version. I am now stuck with a command promt. I would

Re: [XFree86] CVS error on command line?

2005-04-02 Thread David Dawes
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 09:19:56PM -0300, Dedeco wrote: Hello, on page http://www.xfree86.org/cvs/ where there are instructions for access the CVS repository. I copied the command below: snip If you do not want to set $CVSROOT instead you can run cvs as: cvs -d [EMAIL