Re: startxwin.bat absent after fresh install
I have found the problem: it was simply that I didn't realize those scripts form their own package, X-startup-scripts. This is the third time I install Cygwin/Xfree and I don't remember having to explicitly set those scripts to be included. Sorry about the distraction. Rodrigo
Re: installing a window manager - help please - answers to helpersquestions
Right, I finally managed to get somewhere. Not with fvwm, but at least with a window manager, openbox. In the end I had to: - edit startx so that defaultserverargs= because otherwise by default it will open in multiwindow mode which will conflict with any window manager, and then - provide a C:\.xinitrc file which just contains exec openbox I then got overconfident and tried to configure, make and install fvwm2 (the latest version, which is required if you want to use fvwm-themes), and it wasn't looking good so I decided I was being a bit fancy and cut my losses, reverting back to openbox. Maybe later. Thanks for the help anyway guys. cheers, Ian This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are intended only for the use of the addressee(s). It may contain information that is confidential and privileged. If you are not an intended recipient, any use, interference with, disclosure, distribution or copying of this material is unauthorised and prohibited. If you receive this in error, please notify the author by return e-mail or telephone +61-8-9273 7533. Information in this message not relating to the official business of DLI shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it. While every care is taken, it is recommended that you scan any attachments for viruses. DLI liability is limited to re-supplying affected attachments.
Clipboard problems with xemacs whole-line selection
Normally recent versions of XWin have reliable cut and paste between X and Windows. The application I run under X is xemacs. But I recently noticed that when triple-clicking a line of text in xemacs to select the whole line and put it in the clipboard, I couldn't paste it into Windows. The log file has some messages about UTF8String. Other ways of selecting the same text in xemacs set the Windows clipboard correctly. The text being pasted is just plain ASCII characters. Here is the XWin.log showing a few attempts by me to select some text by triple-clicking in xemacs and paste it into Firefox or Notepad. I also found that for a little while after I'd stopped doing anything XWin was still spewing 'XConvertSelection () failed' messages to its log once or twice a second. But it stopped eventually. Does the following log file have enough information or would you like me to do some more investigation? Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 6.7.0.0-12 Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] XWin was started with the following command line: /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin -clipboard -engine 1 -br ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1200 h 1600 winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1 (II) XF86Config is not supported (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 0007 winSetEngine - Using user's preference: 1 winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1194 height: 1547 depth: 32 winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff ff00 00ff winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 00ff ff00 00ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32 MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shared memory support in the kernel (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=250, rate=31 (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: 0809 (0809) (--) Using preset keyboard for English (United Kingdom) (809), type 4 Rules = xorg Model = pc105 Layout = gb Variant = (null) Options = (null) Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list! winPointerWarpCursor - Discarding first warp: 597 773 winProcEstablishConnection - Hello winInitClipboard () winProcEstablishConnection - winInitClipboard returned. winClipboardProc - Hello DetectUnicodeSupport - Windows NT/2000/XP winClipboardProc - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 winClipboardProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the display. winProcSetSelectionOwner - Clipboard not yet started, aborting. winProcSetSelectionOwner - Clipboard not yet started, aborting. winWindowProc - WM_DISPLAYCHANGE - orig bpp: 32, last bpp: 32, new bpp: 32 winWindowProc - WM_DISPLAYCHANGE - new width: 1200 new height: 1600 winWindowProc - WM_DISPLAYCHANGE - orig bpp: 32, last bpp: 32, new bpp: 32 winWindowProc - WM_DISPLAYCHANGE - new width: 1200 new height: 1600 winClipboardWindowProc - WM_DRAWCLIPBOARD - Nested calls detected. Bailing. winClipboardFlushXEvents - SelectionNotify - XConvertSelection () failed for CompoundText, aborting: 1 winClipboardFlushXEvents - SelectionNotify - XConvertSelection () failed for UTF8String, aborting: 1 winProcessXEventsTimeout - Call to select () failed: 0. Bailing. winClipboardFlushXEvents - SelectionNotify - XConvertSelection () failed for CompoundText, aborting: 1 winClipboardFlushXEvents - SelectionNotify - XConvertSelection () failed for UTF8String, aborting: 1 winProcessXEventsTimeout - Call to select () failed: 0. Bailing. winClipboardFlushXEvents - SelectionNotify - XConvertSelection () failed for CompoundText, aborting: 1 winClipboardFlushXEvents - SelectionNotify - XConvertSelection () failed for UTF8String, aborting: 1 winProcessXEventsTimeout - Call to select () failed: 0. Bailing. winClipboardFlushXEvents - SelectionNotify - XConvertSelection () failed for CompoundText, aborting: 1 winClipboardFlushXEvents - SelectionNotify - XConvertSelection () failed for UTF8String, aborting: 1 winProcessXEventsTimeout - Call to select () failed: 0. Bailing. winClipboardFlushXEvents - SelectionNotify - XConvertSelection () failed for CompoundText, aborting: 1 winClipboardFlushXEvents - SelectionNotify - XConvertSelection () failed for UTF8String, aborting: 1 winProcessXEventsTimeout - Call to select () failed: 0. Bailing. winClipboardFlushXEvents - SelectionNotify - XConvertSelection () failed for CompoundText, aborting: 1 winClipboardFlushXEvents - SelectionNotify - XConvertSelection () failed for UTF8String, aborting: 1 winProcessXEventsTimeout - Call to select () failed: 0. Bailing. winClipboardFlushXEvents - SelectionNotify -
Re: can't paste from Windows to X clients
I have this problem intermittently. It seems to only happen when I forget to hit Ctrl-C on the windows side. I forget that just highlighting the text isn't good enough after being spoiled on the X side. Andrew Schulman wrote: I run XWin.exe -multiwindow -clipboard -dpi 100 . I can copy and paste from X to Windows clients, but not from Windows to X clients. Windows to Windows and X to X copies also work fine. I know I've seen postings about this problem in the past, but I can't find anything recent about it and I don't know what the status is. The problem has persisted for me for a long time, on two different Windows XP boxes. Any help appreciated. cygcheck -svr is attached. Andrew.
Circular dependency between xorg-x11-bin and libxft makes uninstallation impossible
I'm not sure if this is the right mailing list for this, but it's about Cygwin X11 packages, so I think I'm in the right place. I've been trying to uninstall the X11 packages for Cygwin, but a circular dependency combined with the nature of setup.exe seems to make this impossible. xorg-x11-bin requires libXft and libXft requires xorg-x11-bin. So, if both are installed, they become very difficult to remove: First you select one for uninstallation, then when you go to select the other for uninstallation you must toggle from Keep to Reinstall first, which reselects the first one for installation. The only possible way to select two things at once is if both are in the same category, but in this case, they aren't, so it appears there really is no way out. The same circular dependency problem exists with xorg-x11-bin and libXft1. Like I said, I'm not sure if this is the right mailing list on which to point out this problem, and if the circular dependency can't be changed, perhaps what really needs changing is the toggling order in Setup.exe between Keep, Reinstall, Uninstall, etc. But for the time being, I just wanted to bring this to some attention (and also ask if there is any other way to uninstall X11). -Sridhar Ramesh
Re: Clipboard problems with xemacs whole-line selection
Ed Avis writes: Normally recent versions of XWin have reliable cut and paste between X and Windows. The application I run under X is xemacs. But I recently noticed that when triple-clicking a line of text in xemacs to select the whole line and put it in the clipboard, I couldn't paste it into Windows. The log file has some messages about UTF8String. Other ways of selecting the same text in xemacs set the Windows clipboard correctly. The text being pasted is just plain ASCII characters. I just checked and it works fine for me. Here is the XWin.log showing a few attempts by me to select some text by triple-clicking in xemacs and paste it into Firefox or Notepad. I also found that for a little while after I'd stopped doing anything XWin was still spewing 'XConvertSelection () failed' messages to its log once or twice a second. But it stopped eventually. Here is my XWin.log Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 6.7.0.0-12 Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] XWin was started with the following command line: X -ac -nodecoration -rootless -nowinkill -clipboard -fp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X1 1R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi /,/usr/local/share/emacs/fonts/,/dev/c/WINNT/Fonts/,/usr/local/share/fonts/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Ethiopic/,/usr/X11R6 /lib/X11/fonts/TTF/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/ ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1024 h 768 winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1 (II) XF86Config is not supported (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 0007 winSetEngine - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff ff00 00ff (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=250, rate=31 (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: 0407 (0407) (--) Using preset keyboard for German (Germany) (407), type 4 Rules = xorg Model = pc105 Layout = de Variant = (null) Options = (null) winPointerWarpCursor - Discarding first warp: 512 383 winProcEstablishConnection - Hello winInitClipboard () winProcEstablishConnection - winInitClipboard returned. winClipboardProc - Hello DetectUnicodeSupport - Windows NT/2000/XP winClipboardProc - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 winClipboardProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the display. Ed Avis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ciao Volker
Re: Circular dependency between xorg-x11-bin and libxft makes uninstallation impossible
Hello Sridhar, Am Dienstag, 10. August 2004 um 21:37 schriebst du: I'm not sure if this is the right mailing list for this, but it's about Cygwin X11 packages, so I think I'm in the right place. I've been trying to uninstall the X11 packages for Cygwin, but a circular dependency combined with the nature of setup.exe seems to make this impossible. xorg-x11-bin requires libXft and libXft requires xorg-x11-bin. So, if both are installed, they become very difficult to remove: First you select one for uninstallation, then when you go to select the other for uninstallation you must toggle from Keep to Reinstall first, which reselects the first one for installation. The only possible way to select two things at once is if both are in the same category, but in this case, they aren't, so it appears there really is no way out. The same circular dependency problem exists with xorg-x11-bin and libXft1. Like I said, I'm not sure if this is the right mailing list on which to point out this problem, and if the circular dependency can't be changed, perhaps what really needs changing is the toggling order in Setup.exe between Keep, Reinstall, Uninstall, etc. But for the time being, I just wanted to bring this to some attention (and also ask if there is any other way to uninstall X11). Run setup.exe twice? Gerrit -- =^..^=
XWin and xauth
I'm having the weirdest time getting XWin to grant my solaris/linux login display rights. first, my host PC translates its own name differently than the unix machines do, so I get something like this: cygin$ xauth list nyfitw957952.leh.lbcorp.lehman.com:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 081b3d50145b5525317315327a715f62 but: solaris$ xauth list nyfitw957952.lehman.com:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 081b3d50145b5525317315327a715f62 solaris$ echo $DISPLAY nyfitw957952.lehman.com:0 solaris$ xterm Xlib: connection to nyfitw957952.lehman.com:0.0 refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key xterm Xt error: Can't open display: nyfitw957952.lehman.com:0 then, if by some miracle I get past that, after a certain amount of time, the connection stop working, even if I already have an xterm running, I can't start another!!?! what's a poor boy to do? -- Louis Rayman -- This message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the designated recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. This communication is for information purposes only and should not be regarded as an offer to sell or as a solicitation of an offer to buy any financial product, an official confirmation of any transaction, or as an official statement of Lehman Brothers. Email transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free. Therefore, we do not represent that this information is complete or accurate and it should not be relied upon as such. All information is subject to change without notice. Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Tue Aug 10 17:42:25 2004 Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1 Path: h:\bin h:\cygwin\usr\local\bin h:\cygwin\bin h:\cygwin\bin h:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin . h:\cygwin\bin h:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin c:\WINDOWS\system32 c:\WINDOWS c:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem c:\DBMS\Sybase\ODBC\4.0 c:\DBMS\sybase\Open Client\12.5\OCS-12_5\dll c:\DBMS\sybase\Open Client\12.5\OCS-12_5\bin c:\DBMS\sybase\Open Client\12.5\OCS-12_5\lib3p C:\Program Files\Hummingbird\Connectivity\7.10\Accessories\ C:\Program Files\Hummingbird\Connectivity\7.10\NFSClient c:\TIBCO\TIBRV\BIN C:\Program Files\TIBCO\TIBRV\bin C:\Program Files\IONA\asp\6.1\bin C:\Program Files\IONA\bin C:\Program Files\JavaSoft\JRE\1.3.1\bin\hotspot c:\progra~1\iona\orbix Runtime\334\COMet\bin c:\progra~1\iona\orbix Runtime\334\bin c:\jwsdp-1.3\jwsdp-shared\bin c:\jwsdp-1.3\apache-ant\bin c:\jwsdp-1.3\jwsdp-shared\bin c:\jwsdp-1.3\bin c:\j2sdk1.4.2_03\bin C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\MSDev98\Bin C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\bin C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\Tools c:\lehman\alg Output from h:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (nontsec) UID: 158230(lrayman) GID: 545(Users) 544(Administrators) 545(Users) Output from h:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (ntsec) UID: 158230(lrayman) GID: 545(Users) 0(root) 544(Administrators) 545(Users) SysDir: C:\WINDOWS\System32 WinDir: C:\WINDOWS HOME = `h:\' MAKE_MODE = `unix' PWD = `/cygdrive/h' USER = `lrayman' !EXITCODE = `' ALLUSERSPROFILE = `C:\Documents and Settings\All Users' APPDATA = `C:\Documents and Settings\lrayman\Application Data' CI_HOLOS_CLI = `C:\Program Files\Seagate Software\Open Olap\' CLASSPATH = `C:\TIBCO\TIBRV\LIB\tibrvj.jar' CLIENTNAME = `Console' COMMONPROGRAMFILES = `C:\Program Files\Common Files' COMPUTERNAME = `NYFITW957952' COMSPEC = `C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe' CVS_RSH = `/bin/ssh' CYGWIN_ROOT = `\cygwin' DISPLAY = `127.0.0.1:0.0' FIDS_FINLIB_DEFINITIONS = `C:\Program Files\Lehman\FID Definitions\finlib.def' FIDS_INSTRUMENTLIB_DEFINITIONS = `C:\Program Files\Lehman\FID Definitions\instrumentlib.def' FINLIB_DAT = `C:\Program Files\Lehman\FID Definitions\finlib.def' HOMEDRIVE = `H:' HOMEPATH = `\' HOMESHARE = `\\leh\fid\USERS1\lrayman' HOSTNAME = `nyfitw957952' HTTP_PROXY = `http://webhost.lehman.com:80' INCLUDE = `C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\atl\include;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\mfc\include;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\include' INFOPATH = `/usr/local/info:/usr/info:/usr/share/info:/usr/autotool/devel/info:/usr/autotool/stable/info:' IT_CONFIG_PATH = `c:\progra~1\iona\orbix Runtime\334\config' IT_IDLGEN_CONFIG_FILE = `c:\progra~1\iona\orbix Runtime\334\config\idlgen.cfg' IT_LICENSE_FILE = `C:\Program Files\Iona\OrbixE2aDevelop\5.1\etc\license.txt' IT_PRODUCT_DIR = `C:\Program Files\Iona\OrbixE2aDevelop\5.1;C:\Program Files\IONA' JAVA_HOME = `C:\Program Files\java\j2re1.4.2_03' LESS =
Re: Circular dependency between xorg-x11-bin and libxft makes uninstallation impossible
Unfortunately, at the start of a second run of setup.exe, setup will notice the missing package and reselect it for installation, it being a dependency of the non-missing package. Therefore, the second run of setup.exe starts off the same way the first run of setup.exe does, and so the second run of setup.exe can leave one no better off than the first one can. -Sridhar Ramesh Hello Sridhar, Am Dienstag, 10. August 2004 um 21:37 schriebst du: I'm not sure if this is the right mailing list for this, but it's about Cygwin X11 packages, so I think I'm in the right place. I've been trying to uninstall the X11 packages for Cygwin, but a circular dependency combined with the nature of setup.exe seems to make this impossible. xorg-x11-bin requires libXft and libXft requires xorg-x11-bin. So, if both are installed, they become very difficult to remove: First you select one for uninstallation, then when you go to select the other for uninstallation you must toggle from Keep to Reinstall first, which reselects the first one for installation. The only possible way to select two things at once is if both are in the same category, but in this case, they aren't, so it appears there really is no way out. The same circular dependency problem exists with xorg-x11-bin and libXft1. Like I said, I'm not sure if this is the right mailing list on which to point out this problem, and if the circular dependency can't be changed, perhaps what really needs changing is the toggling order in Setup.exe between Keep, Reinstall, Uninstall, etc. But for the time being, I just wanted to bring this to some attention (and also ask if there is any other way to uninstall X11). Run setup.exe twice? Gerrit -- =^..^=
