can't get either emacs or xemacs to work with Xwin in XP
Hi there, I've installed the latest cygwin with X11 and the emacs, emacs-X11 and Xemcas packages. I have a hard time getting either emacs or Xemacs to work in X mode. With emacs I get a frozen window and series of "Xlib: sequence lost" messages. With xemacs I have Warning: XtRemoveGrab asked to remove a widget not on the list Warning: XtRemoveGrab asked to remove a widget not on the list Error: LTHashTableForEachItem: NULL hash table specified. xterm and other X apps work fine and emacs works perfectly inside an xterm or rxvt. I've been through the faq's and the mailing list archives but I haven't found a solution. I have a standard win XP installation with SP2. Does anybody have an idea what could be wrong? thanks, Philippe
Re: startx hangs in sh.exe when initializing german keyboard
Hello the problem is solved: I installed the latest bug-fixes from windows today and now sh.exe does not hang anymore... Othmar On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Othmar Marti wrote: Hello, thanks for the message. I do ned the german keyboard, because the laptop has it (and I hate remembering the keys). bye Othmar Marti On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Othmar Marti wrote: Hello and thanks for the hint. It did not work. I am not using Zonelabs, I am using McAfee. remounting /tmp did not work either. Mayn personal firewalls and virus scanners alter the behaviour of the windows sockets. Because of the difficulty of the fork emulation the cygwin library relies on the standard bahaviour of the windows TCP/IP stack and may fail if it is changed unless someon who notices such problems starts to track the problem down. Playing around I discovered that setxkbmap.exe hangs with the same symptoms. The task manager shows sh.exe with 99% activity over minutes (until you stop it) If you don't need a non-us keyboard layout, you can disable the XKB extension and xkbcomp by adding the -kb parameter to the XWin commandline. bye ago -- Prof. Dr. Othmar Marti Secretary Experimental Physics University Ulm D-89069 Ulm Phone +49 731 50 23011 +49 731 50 23010 Fax +49 731 50 23037 +49 731 50 23036 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web http://wwwex.physik.uni-ulm.de http://servex.physik.uni-ulm.de/marti PGP-Key http://servex.physik.uni-ulm.de/marti/OthmarMarti.asc Advanced Materials Science http://www.uni-ulm.de/adv-mat USt.-IdNr. DE 173703203
Re: I need a rootless Xnest like application for Linux.
I am *hoping* that I will be able to use it with XDMX in a way that allows me to use both native application and desktop independent applications side by side. I am having trouble cross compiling Xming for Linux... I need to find library called libaclui.a. If any of you know what it is or where I might find it, please tell me. Thank you for your time, Arrummzen On 6/16/05, Kai Großjohann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Supancic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I need a rootless Xnest like application for Linux. Will xwin, the > > cygwin X11 server work for me? > > I'm puzzled. Why would you need that? Isn't just plain X11 good > enough? > > A rootless X11 server makes sense for people using a non-X11 windowing > system, like MS or Apple's Aqua. But for putting X11 windows on an > X11 desktop, you don't need an intermediate layer. > > Kai > > >
Re: I need a rootless Xnest like application for Linux.
James Supancic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need a rootless Xnest like application for Linux. Will xwin, the > cygwin X11 server work for me? I'm puzzled. Why would you need that? Isn't just plain X11 good enough? A rootless X11 server makes sense for people using a non-X11 windowing system, like MS or Apple's Aqua. But for putting X11 windows on an X11 desktop, you don't need an intermediate layer. Kai
Re: Back in Cygwin X world after ages...
cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com schrieb am 16.06.05 15:26:10: > > On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Andreas Eibach wrote: > > > - Most people would use startx to start the X Window session as they're > > used to it from Linux. > > Strangely though, startx does NOT open a "real" X main window, but an xterm > > ONLY. > > Is there a reason why? I think it's misleading. > > Many people requested that startx would use the multiwindow mode instead of > the > single window mode. So the startup scripts were changed to reflect that. > > > xinit, however, does the thing that *I* want, that is, a big window that > > fills the whole screen and launches an xterm on the upper left edge. > > you can customize how xinit (and startx) start xserver and clients. > > Add a $HOME/.xserverrc which start XWin without the -multiwindow option but > the > -scrollbars options and $HOME/.xinitrc which is the same as the one in > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc but which starts an additional windowmanager. Been through that already, but thanks anyway. :) > > Unfortunately, the window is not resizable. > > There is an option -scrollbars which might do that (resizable window and > scrollbars > to adjust the position) Yes! That helped. > > However, with the old framebuffer-based experimental X version, I remember > > a pre-installed window manager *with* pull-down menus. I managed to load a > > window manager (by typing /usr/X11R6/bin/twm &), but there were still no > > pull-down menus. I like(d) fvwm / fvwm2 a lot and it had everything I > > needed in X. > > The cygwin distribution contains windowmaker and I remember users which > used openbox too. Yes, thanks! Windowmaker is exactly what I need. (although I'd like to have fvwm2 too, I wonder why it is not offered ... ? My fuzzy memory tells me in the old alpha X version(s), fvwm2 was used indeed. But maybe my memory fails completely here.) > > I hope that I do not need Gnome to be able to work reasonably with X? I > > like menus, but I do not need a Windoze-ish task bar; I never needed it in > > Linux anyway. > > I also found all Cygwin-X start menu entries EMPTY, hence I assume that > > Cygwin X expects from me that I want Gnome (which I do not need in any > > case, at least not now :)) > > They usually contain links to programs from the xorg-x11-bin package. Ummm ... that would mean that I don't have those installed? But I checked and I do have indeed. (xorg-x11-bin* , all of them) Strangebut well for now, I can live with this. Thank you very much for your reply. -Andreas _ Mit der Gruppen-SMS von WEB.DE FreeMail können Sie eine SMS an alle Freunde gleichzeitig schicken: http://freemail.web.de/features/?mc=021179
Re: Some functional keys such as Enter, Tab, etc. works if only they are pressed twice
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Tarasov Alexey wrote: > Alexander Gottwald wrote: > > >I don't know. Please send what xev reports when you press those keys. > > > > > > > What is xev? xev is an event logger for the x11 protocol. it is installed with the xorg-x11-bin package and you can run it by typing xev in an xterm window. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
Re: Some functional keys such as Enter, Tab, etc. works if only they are pressed twice
Alexander Gottwald wrote: I don't know. Please send what xev reports when you press those keys. What is xev? Best regards, Alexey.
Re: cyg/lib DLL naming
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Peciva Jan wrote: > > As AGO pointed out, searching for libfreetype.dll is non-portable, > > dangerous, and silly. > > Not me, who is doing that, but one large SW open-source library. > Therefore it is clear, that it have to link with other libraries in the > system that it is using. Right, but that doesn't make the current approach any less dangerous, non-portable, or silly. You may want to contact the authors of Coin and let the know about this bug in their code. > Things turned in to the OS ideas. And I am not interrested in them, I > want to simply fix the incompatibility between Coin library and Cygwin. Not quite. These are dynamic loading ideas. Building a bridge DLL is hardly an OS-level thing. However, I can see your problem, as the code to look up the freetype DLL is probably hard-wired into Coin, and there isn't much you can do about it. As you mentioned, you could use some nasty workarounds (like providing your own stub libfreetype.dll in your application directory, which should be found first, and which links to the appropriate freetype DLL), but eventually Coin should be fixed. > Coin library is important for us, because we are using it for > visualization on our university (we are not the authors of the library). > > >> I think, you are missing the point. This compatibility library breaks the > >> compatibility with non-cygwin world (see the previous discussion). > > > > No, I believe *you* are missing the point. [...] > > :-) > > If I skip all offensive words, I have to thank you for the discussion. You're welcome. However, my profanity filter is overheating while trying to find any offensive words in my previous message. Would you mind letting me know what they were, so that I could add them to the filter? Or do you mean "If I skip all offensive words that come to mind"? :-) > Let me give you the last question: > If I understand it correctly, I can not link with cygwin based DLLs > without a special handling code. Am I true? In this context (linking from a pure Win32 application), yes, you need to put some initialization code in (with the latest snapshot, that is). A rejoinder question, though: if you're buidling a native Win32 application, why not use the native build of freetype as well? 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
Re: Back in Cygwin X world after ages...
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Andreas Eibach wrote: > - Most people would use startx to start the X Window session as they're used > to it from Linux. > Strangely though, startx does NOT open a "real" X main window, but an xterm > ONLY. > Is there a reason why? I think it's misleading. Many people requested that startx would use the multiwindow mode instead of the single window mode. So the startup scripts were changed to reflect that. > xinit, however, does the thing that *I* want, that is, a big window that > fills the whole screen and launches an xterm on the upper left edge. you can customize how xinit (and startx) start xserver and clients. Add a $HOME/.xserverrc which start XWin without the -multiwindow option but the -scrollbars options and $HOME/.xinitrc which is the same as the one in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc but which starts an additional windowmanager. > Unfortunately, the window is not resizable. There is an option -scrollbars which might do that (resizable window and scrollbars to adjust the position) > However, with the old framebuffer-based experimental X version, I remember a > pre-installed window manager *with* pull-down menus. I managed to load a > window manager (by typing /usr/X11R6/bin/twm &), but there were still no > pull-down menus. I like(d) fvwm / fvwm2 a lot and it had everything I needed > in X. The cygwin distribution contains windowmaker and I remember users which used openbox too. > I hope that I do not need Gnome to be able to work reasonably with X? I like > menus, but I do not need a Windoze-ish task bar; I never needed it in Linux > anyway. > I also found all Cygwin-X start menu entries EMPTY, hence I assume that > Cygwin X expects from me that I want Gnome (which I do not need in any case, > at least not now :)) They usually contain links to programs from the xorg-x11-bin package. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
Re: cyg/lib DLL naming
> As AGO pointed out, searching for libfreetype.dll is non-portable, > dangerous, and silly. Not me, who is doing that, but one large SW open-source library. Therefore it is clear, that it have to link with other libraries in the system that it is using. Things turned in to the OS ideas. And I am not interrested in them, I want to simply fix the incompatibility between Coin library and Cygwin. Coin library is important for us, because we are using it for visualization on our university (we are not the authors of the library). >> I think, you are missing the point. This compatibility library breaks the >> compatibility with non-cygwin world (see the previous discussion). > > No, I believe *you* are missing the point. [...] :-) If I skip all offensive words, I have to thank you for the discussion. Let me give you the last question: If I understand it correctly, I can not link with cygwin based DLLs without a special handling code. Am I true? John
Back in Cygwin X world after ages...
Yeah, as I have to work a lot with Windows at the moment and I can't just switch to Linux "for a moment", I decided to delve back into cygwin world (after 3 years of abstinence!). Whoa, this was kinda experimental stuff back then! I remember this framebuffer-based X Window on top of Cygwin, working perfectly, that guy with the complicated Arabic (?) surname I got the latest alpha builds from, and, of course, Harold and Alexander, without whom this package would not be this advanced as it is now. Everything is installed, runs nicely, but there's a few thoughts anyway: - Most people would use startx to start the X Window session as they're used to it from Linux. Strangely though, startx does NOT open a "real" X main window, but an xterm ONLY. Is there a reason why? I think it's misleading. xinit, however, does the thing that *I* want, that is, a big window that fills the whole screen and launches an xterm on the upper left edge. Unfortunately, the window is not resizable. However, with the old framebuffer-based experimental X version, I remember a pre-installed window manager *with* pull-down menus. I managed to load a window manager (by typing /usr/X11R6/bin/twm &), but there were still no pull-down menus. I like(d) fvwm / fvwm2 a lot and it had everything I needed in X. I hope that I do not need Gnome to be able to work reasonably with X? I like menus, but I do not need a Windoze-ish task bar; I never needed it in Linux anyway. I also found all Cygwin-X start menu entries EMPTY, hence I assume that Cygwin X expects from me that I want Gnome (which I do not need in any case, at least not now :)) A few suggestions would be nice, in any case thanks for the awesome work. -Andreas __ Verschicken Sie romantische, coole und witzige Bilder per SMS! Jetzt bei WEB.DE FreeMail: http://f.web.de/?mc=021193
