Hi! I am a new user of Cygwin/XFree86. It is great to have all the power of unix at home without fighting with the rest of the family because I have substituted Windows by Linux!. Thanks to all the people involved in this project. I have some questions and reports of extrange behavior.
First, my system is 686 ; Windows 95a. cygwin.dll 1.3.9-1 (last update 2002/02/07) , XFree86 is of Jan 2002. I am using twm. 1)Good news: Some time ago I reported that if in .xinitrc I put 2 or 3 of xterms followed by twm there was a confusion and many times the bash shells were assigned to the wrong xterms and/or did no appear at all (in ps they appear assigned to no terminal). This extrange behavior apparently disappeared after I updated cygwin.dll (my previous one was of Dec 2001). 2)Bad news: After updating cygwin.dll, .xinitrc stop working because xmodmap did not recognize "!" as a comment character in the .Xmodmap file. This behavior of xmodmap appeared only inside the .xinitrc shell script (or any other shell script). I reported this to the cygwin mailing list. Someone told me to try bash instead of sh in the script and indeed it worked fine. What I then did was to replace /bin/sh.exe with a link sh.exe->bash.exe. Is this extrage behavior of sh "normal"? Can the change I performed produce any kind of problems? 3)While compiling ghostview I got a message from gcc complaining that the type of sys_errlist was different in sys/errno.h and in /X11/Xos.h (also inside some internal files of ghostview). In errno.h: #ifdef __CYGWIN__ extern __IMPORT const char * const sys_errlist[}; In Xos.h: extern char *sys_errlist[]; I am not an expert of gcc, but it seems to me that the second "const" in errno.h is wrong. I did the following changes: In errno.h: extern __IMPORT const char * sys_errlist[]; In Xos.h: extern const char *sys_errlist[]; With these changes ghostview compiled. Did I do the right thing? 4) Most of the times the Cygwin+XFree SERVER fails to process some particular actions related to the mouse buttons. I have seen this in in xterm, where the CTRL-MouseButton menus usually do not appear (the bell rings). Also in ghostview there are some menu buttons (File, etc..) that usually do not function. I say usually because occasionally they do function correctly. I have no idea of when or why this happens. I do know that the problem is due to the server and not to the client programs because: i) the same programs behave correctly using the commertial X-WinPro server running locally, ii) a xterm, that I know is fine, running remotely from a SunOS machine presents the same problem. Have other people observed similar behavior, or it is happening only to me? Has anybody any idea of what is going on? Thanks in advance Rodrigo Medina Centro de Fisica IVIC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Some questions
