fixed font
Hi, I've installed Cygwin 1.3.6 and xfree 4.1.0 on an XP machine, but X fails to start saying that the fixed font is missing. What does that mean? What can I do? Thank you, Eugen Rotariu
Problems with xterm as distributed (Error 14, errno 2: No such file or directory) and solution
Hello, I've been using the Cygwin Xfree86 release to port a large Unix based application to the Cygwin/Xfree environment. The application uses a Tcl/Tk based front-end which starts up an xterm to do the actual work. The startup of the xterm fails with 'xterm: Error 14, errno 2: No such file or directory'. This issue came up also early last year on the mailing list: see the thread starting with http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2001-q1/msg00-275.html. This thread did not give the cause of the problem. Some more looking around on the net showed that the problem is caused when xterm is started without a controlling terminal. This is exactly what happens in my case when started from a Tcl/Tk procedure. Looking at the xterm XFree86 sourcecode in the CVS at www.xfree86.org it turns out the problem has already been solved with CYGWIN specific code in main.c (accepts ENOENT as a return code when trying to open /dev/tty in function spawn()). So I grabbed a copy of the xterm sources (xc/programs/xterm), recompiled and it is working now. An other issue is that the xterm application defaults are not installed. They are not in the cygwin/xfree86 distribution and also did not get installed by 'make install' after my recompilation. After doing a 'touch' on XTerm.ad and XTerm-col.ad they got installed. Some date/time confusion between Windows Cygwin ?? I would suggest to replace the xterm in the distribution by the one from the current xf_4_1 branch and also to include the app default files. Regards, Ton van Overbeek
FW: Program shuts down after trying to start
-Original Message- From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 3:34 AM To: Ross Snoeyenbos Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Program shuts down after trying to start On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 03:21:25AM -0600, Ross Snoeyenbos wrote: I just installed Xfree on Cygwin following the instructions in the Cygwin/XFree86 User's Guide exactly, and I get a message that scrolls off the screen about /tmp/.X11~unix should be set to root when I run startx. Also there are messages about /home/username/.Xauthority: No such file or directory, and a message that says xterm Xt error: Can't open display: :0xterm Xt error: Can't open display: :0, the rest goes off the right side of the box. I am running Windows 98 Second Edition with all the latest updates and patches as of today. Please help!! Send reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as I don't have time to check the archives every day, and I want to install XEmacs once the X11R6 install is working. Wrong mailing list. Go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developermailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc.
RE: aterm under Cygwin/Xfree
Hello, On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote: Ok, but how about building a debug version of aterm and debuging it using GDB? Many times when porting a code from one platform to another, you need to fix it for that particular OS. I got a few suggestions to try that, so I did (; Unfortunately, I'm either not very good with gdb or something weird is happening... I built with -ggdb in CFLAGS to get native gdb info. What happens is, it does a lot of initializing stuff and then enters the main_loop function. Then gdb pauses itself in a constant hourglass thing. It doesn't move into the file main_loop is in (command.c) and thus becomes useless ): I got it to set a breakpoint inside main_loop (way to be intuitive, gdb! (: ), and discovered it sits around in a loop looking to ch = *cmdbuf_ptr++;, which I guess is where it waits for me to type stuff... which seems like a good idea. My C/C++ is not too strong, and isn't good enough for me to know what the heck the problem is here. I see it is waiting for a buffer to fill, then going through it... I guess I'll try and figure out what the buffer is and why it needs to fill up! Any help from someone who KNOWS C would be appreciated (; -Yaron --
xfree doesn't work
Hi all My script works well on the PCs in our Lab on campus but doesn't at home (Roadrunner). Here is the script, named xg ~~ #!/bin/bash TERM=vt100 export TERM XWin.exe -query unix_sys_IP -from IP_working_on When i run this script, i only changed 'IP_working_on', nothing else. Below is the response when it is run at home (it took long time to finish): $ . xg ddxProcessArgument () ddxProcessArgument () _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows NT/2000 winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed winDetectSupportedEngines () - Allowing PrimaryDD winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw4 installed winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported engines 001f winSetEngine () - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL () - Using Windows display depth of 16 bits per pix el winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed () - WindowClient w 794 h 546 r 794 l 0 b 546 t 0 winAllocateFBShadowDDNL () - lPitch: 1588 winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Masks f800 07e0 001f BPRGB 6 d 16 winCreateDefColormap () - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap () winCloseScreenShadowDDNL () - Freeing screen resources winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows NT/2000 winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed winDetectSupportedEngines () - Allowing PrimaryDD winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw4 installed winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported engines 001f winSetEngine () - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed () - WindowClient w 794 h 546 r 794 l 0 b 546 t 0 winAllocateFBShadowDDNL () - lPitch: 1588 winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Masks f800 07e0 001f BPRGB 6 d 16 winCreateDefColormap () - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap () XDM: too many retransmissions XDM: too many retransmissions XDM: too many retransmissions XDM: too many retransmissions Fatal server error: XDMCP fatal error: Session failed Session 430752026 failed for display dhcp065-0 25-142-146.columbus.rr.com:0: Cannot open display Administrator@ALLELUJA /cygdrive/d $
