Re: always-on-top bug
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Jack Tanner wrote: Yes, this was in multiwindow mode. But multiwindow mode doesn't use the internal Windows window manager, does it? I had thought it used an emulation of it that tried to be as similar as possible. The multiwindow mode is the only mode which uses the builtin windowmanager. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
Re: Small clipboard bug triggered by gvim
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Michael Schaap wrote: Hi, I recently started using Cygwin/X a bit more, and it works amazingly well! I did, however, stumble upon a small bug using the built-in -clipboard handling: when using a GTK2 gvim, consecutive selections are not copied to the Windows clipboard. Here's how to recreate this: Build a GTK2 version of gvim. (Alternatively, just use a GTK2 gvim on a Linux box, for instance.) Start Cygwin/X, using run XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error (e.g. using the standard batch file). Start an xterm. Start Notepad (or some other native Win app). Start gvim. Type Hello, World! Select the string Hello in gvim. Middle-click in xterm. Result: Hello. Paste in Notepad. Result: Hello. Select the string World in gvim. Middle-click in xterm. Result: World. Paste in Notepad. Result: Hello. Oops... Select something in Notepad and copy it to the clipboard. Re-select the string World in gvim. Paste in Notepad. Result: World. Now it does work... This is most likely because gvim always holds the selection. There is no clipboard in X11, just an information which application holds the selection. If an application wants to insert the selection it sends an event to the selection owner and the owner sends back the selected data. This may change between calls. The clipboard manager does not receive information that the clipboard changed, so it will insert the old string regardless of changes in the client. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
Re: Multiple XWin.exe programs loading and no xterm
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Scott Cegielski wrote: Hello, Please help. This is my first time trying to start X windows using cygwin although I have been using cygwin for a while now. I am running it like this: 1. Open cygwin bash shell 2. Type startxwin.bat The problem is that not much happens after that except that an X icon shows up in the windows task bar. If I open the windows Task Manager, I can see that there are two XWin.exe programs running. There is also an xterm.exe running, although I cannot see it on my screen. I have tried killing one of the XWin.exe processes, but the xterm never opens. Do you have ZoneAlarm or other Personal Firewalls or Live Virusscanners installed? The interfere with the cygwin network handling and will break Cygwin/X. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
Re: Multiple XWin.exe programs loading and no xterm
I did also try startx. Please see my original email for the output of startx. thanks --- Steven Boothe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott Cegielski wrote: Hello, Please help. This is my first time trying to start X windows using cygwin although I have been using cygwin for a while now. I am running it like this: 1. Open cygwin bash shell 2. Type startxwin.bat Try typing startx at the command line. What happens then? Scott Cegielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/
problem with /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
Many of the variables used in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc must be placed within double quotes, otherwise home directory names with spaces are not handled properly, e.g. /home/Some One/ is treated as two separate tokens on the command line. I suggest the following : --- #!/bin/sh # $Xorg: xinitrc.cpp,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:54:30 cpqbld Exp $ userresources=$HOME/.Xresources usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap sysresources=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xresources sysmodmap=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap # merge in defaults and keymaps if [ -f $sysresources ]; then xrdb -merge $sysresources fi if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then xmodmap $sysmodmap fi if [ -f $userresources ]; then xrdb -merge $userresources fi if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then xmodmap $usermodmap fi # start some nice programs exec xterm -sl 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms red -fg yellow -bg black -e /usr/bin/bash -l --- Eyal Rozenberg PS - This may also be an issue with some other scripts.
RE: Multiple XWin.exe programs loading and no xterm
This happens to me all the time - I usually have to launch the X stuff 2 or 3 times before it actually works. I have to manually kill off all xterm.exe, bash.exe, and other cygwin programs in between the launches. I keep meaning to look into it more, but since I start it less than once a week, I haven't had enough incentive to dig deeper yet. I just set up cygwin on another machine this week, and it suffers the same problem. Dan
Re: always-on-top bug
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Jack Tanner wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: The splashscreen of an app being displayed over ssh X11 forwarding stays on top of other windows instead of going to background when I select a Windows window. Normally, I would've never noticed this since splashscreens usually whiz by, but I was on a slow connection, and this was very noticeable. Was this in multiwindow mode, or in rootless/rooted mode? If the former, then AFAIU this is expected behavior -- the windows are managed by the Yes, this was in multiwindow mode. But multiwindow mode doesn't use the internal Windows window manager, does it? I had thought it used an emulation of it that tried to be as similar as possible. As Alexander said, multiwindow mode is a thin layer on top of the internal Windows window manager. All of the X hints and attributes (like always-on-top) are translated to the corresponding Windows hints and attributes by the multiwindow layer. A native Windows OpenOffice.org starts with a splashscreen that I can send to the background by clicking on a different window. An X11-forwarded OOo starts with a splashscreen that stays on top no matter what. Does this mean that the Windows OOo doesn't draw its splashscreen with an always-on-top instruction? Possibly. You'd need to look at the source to find that out. They do use different windowing libraries, so I wouldn't be surprised if the code that deals with splash screens is radically different... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Question about X-Windows and Perl
I am currently working on a program for school that I must write in Perl. The program is to code something that will create a new X-Windows application. Inorder to test my program I need to use an X-Windows environment, I installed CygwinX and when I run my perl code using the following command perl tkdemo.pl the following error appears Can't locate Tk.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin /usr/lib/perl5/5.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/cygwin /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8/cygwin /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8 .) at tkdemo.pl line 3. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at tkdemo.pl line 3 I know for a fact the code is correct as it runs perfectly fine on the school Unix boxes. I however have a windows box, and cannot seem to get this work. Any and all help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you
Re: Multiple XWin.exe programs loading and no xterm
Armbrust, Daniel C. wrote: This happens to me all the time - I usually have to launch the X stuff 2 or 3 times before it actually works. I have to manually kill off all xterm.exe, bash.exe, and other cygwin programs in between the launches. I keep meaning to look into it more, but since I start it less than once a week, I haven't had enough incentive to dig deeper yet. I guess I'm not alone. I've managed to solve this problem with the following hack: I add a pause command to the end of startxwin.bat. I forget why I tried this, but it works.
Re: Small clipboard bug triggered by gvim
On 29-Mar-2005 13:06, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Michael Schaap wrote: Hi, I recently started using Cygwin/X a bit more, and it works amazingly well! I did, however, stumble upon a small bug using the built-in -clipboard handling: when using a GTK2 gvim, consecutive selections are not copied to the Windows clipboard. This is most likely because gvim always holds the selection. There is no clipboard in X11, just an information which application holds the selection. If an application wants to insert the selection it sends an event to the selection owner and the owner sends back the selected data. This may change between calls. The clipboard manager does not receive information that the clipboard changed, so it will insert the old string regardless of changes in the client. Yeah, that'd do it... :-( (This also explains why the standalone xwinclip doesn't have this problem: it keeps stealing the selection.) Thanks, Michael
Re: Multiple XWin.exe programs loading and no xterm
For me, putting a pause at the end of startxwin.bat does not make it work. However, I have found something that does seem to work for me. When I launch statxwin.bat, in addition to the 2 XWin.exe processes, there is also a sh.exe process that starts which I assume is from the MS-DOS shell that the .bat is run from. Even though the shell window closes after the script finishes, the sh.exe process is still running. If I open the task manger and end the sh.exe process, the xterm pops open and the extra XWin.exe goes away. Does anyone know why this sh.exe process whould linger around or how to kill it without having to open the task manager and mouse to it every time? --- Jack Tanner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Armbrust, Daniel C. wrote: This happens to me all the time - I usually have to launch the X stuff 2 or 3 times before it actually works. I have to manually kill off all xterm.exe, bash.exe, and other cygwin programs in between the launches. I keep meaning to look into it more, but since I start it less than once a week, I haven't had enough incentive to dig deeper yet. I guess I'm not alone. I've managed to solve this problem with the following hack: I add a pause command to the end of startxwin.bat. I forget why I tried this, but it works. Scott Cegielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
