mouse pointer disappearing w/ Thunderbird

2005-10-07 Thread Rob Siklos 

Hi All,

I don't quite know what to do with this, so I'll just tell you what I'm 
seeing and hopefully you'll be able to tell me what the next steps are.  I 
*think* this is a cygwin x bug.


I'm using Mozilla Thunderbird as my e-mail client, and I've noticed that if 
I move the mouse over top of an X window (say, an x-term) during the time 
that the new message notification popus up on my taskbar, my mouse pointer 
will disappear, and won't reappear over any other X window until I restart 
XWin.


Any idea what this could be?

Thanks,

Rob. 



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Re: mouse pointer disappearing w/ Thunderbird

2005-10-07 Thread Igor Pechtchanski 
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Rob Siklos wrote:

 Hi All,

 I don't quite know what to do with this, so I'll just tell you what I'm
 seeing and hopefully you'll be able to tell me what the next steps are.
 I *think* this is a cygwin x bug.

 I'm using Mozilla Thunderbird as my e-mail client, and I've noticed that
 if I move the mouse over top of an X window (say, an x-term) during the
 time that the new message notification popus up on my taskbar, my mouse
 pointer will disappear, and won't reappear over any other X window until
 I restart XWin.

 Any idea what this could be?

It probably is a Cygwin/X bug -- I've heard it mentioned before.  I don't
think there is a fix, but there *is* a workaround -- the X menu (which you
get by right-clicking on the X icon in the system tray) should have a
Show Cursor item, which will make the cursor reappear.
HTH,
Igor
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Re: mkdir: cannot create directory `/cygdrive/h': No such file or directory

2005-10-07 Thread Igor Pechtchanski 
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Todd Shoenfelt wrote:

 I've recently installed Cygwin to my XP machine for
 the first time.  When I launch the bash window, I get:

 snip
 mkdir: cannot create directory `/cygdrive/h': No such file or directory
 Copying skeleton files.
 These files are for the user to personalise their cygwin experience.

 These will never be overwritten.

 /usr/bin/install: cannot create directory `/cygdrive/h': No such file or 
 directory
 /usr/bin/install: cannot create directory `/cygdrive/h': No such file or 
 directory
 /usr/bin/install: cannot create directory `/cygdrive/h': No such file or 
 directory
 bash: cd: /cygdrive/h: No such file or directory

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/skel
 /snip

 It looks like Cygwin is trying to store some session data.  I do end up
 getting a functioning command line, but the 'h' directory isn't created.
 Cygwin is installed here: C:/cygwin/cygdrive.  I've done 'mkdir
 C:/cygwin/cygdrive/h', but the error persists.  How do I get these
 messages to go away?

First, this is a general Cygwin issue, and has nothing to do with
Cygwin/X.  I'm redirecting this reply to the main Cygwin list -- please
remove cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com from further discussion.  Note
that the cygwin-xfree list adds an extra Reply-To, so you'll have to
manually remove it if you get this message via that list.

Whenever you first run the Cygwin shell as a new user, some skeleton files
are copied into your home directory automatically.  The home directory (or
$HOME in Unix-speak) is determined according to the rules described at
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.home.

/cygdrive is a virtual directory, which is the parent directory for all
Windows drive letters.  IOW, even though / is C:/cygwin, /cygdrive/h
is NOT C:/cygwin/cygdrive/h, it's H:/.

For some reason, Cygwin thinks your $HOME is /cygdrive/h (or H:\).  If
you do have the HOME environment variable set in Windows, that could
explain your problem.  If you don't have the H: drive, simply unset the
HOME variable in the Windows environment -- it'll be set appropriately by
Cygwin.  If you do have the H: drive occasionally (e.g., it's a network
drive), and some other program needs this setting of the HOME environment
variable, you can edit /cygwin.bat to unset HOME before starting the
Cygwin shell.

HTH,
Igor
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