Re: running CygwinX with a limited user account
Igor Peshansky wrote: For each user, execute mount -u SOMEUSERSPECIFICDIR /tmp (as man mount would have told you). Are we sure that this works with startxwin.bat ? Some time ago I tried to mount /tmp in an user directory (I used also %TEMP%, i.e. C:\Doc...\%USERNAME%\..\Temp) but it did not worked with startxwin.bat: it tries to remove \cygwin\tmp\.X11-unix\X0 which, apparently, does not know about the mount. Instead the mount works fine if one uses startx or startxwin.sh! But in these cases one should first start cygwin.bat and the possibility to start the X server from a link on the desktop is more hard. Cheers, angelo. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: running CygwinX with a limited user account
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Igor Peshansky wrote: For each user, execute mount -u SOMEUSERSPECIFICDIR /tmp (as man mount would have told you). Are we sure that this works with startxwin.bat ? Some time ago I tried to mount /tmp in an user directory (I used also %TEMP%, i.e. C:\Doc...\%USERNAME%\..\Temp) but it did not worked with startxwin.bat: it tries to remove \cygwin\tmp\.X11-unix\X0 which, apparently, does not know about the mount. Right. One could rewrite startxwin.bat to do that using cmd.exe extended syntax, but then it'd stop working on Win9x. Alternatively, use 'rm -f' instead of 'del', and it should understand the mount just fine. Instead the mount works fine if one uses startx or startxwin.sh! Yes, because you're running from a Cygwin shell. But in these cases one should first start cygwin.bat and the possibility to start the X server from a link on the desktop is more hard. Just put 'c:\cygwin\bin\bash --login -c /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh' in the desktop shortcut. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte. But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that! -- Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
ideal Norton Internet Security 2006 config with Cygwin/X
Out of the box, NIS 2006 slows down Cygwin/X. I open XWin.exe to run a bash shell. When I type at the command prompt: ls -h | sort -r The command prompt freezes on my Windows box for awhile. That is no longer the case with the following tweaks to NIS2006: 1. Right click on the Norton Internet Security Tray icon. Select 'Open Norton Internet Security'. 2. Using the drop down arrow on the Options button, select 'Norton Anti- Virus'. 3. In the upper left hand corner, click on 'Auto-Protect'. 4. Click on 'Exclusions'. 5. Click the 'New' button. Type 'C:\cygwin' and check 'Include subfolders'. Click 'OK'. 6. Under the 'Auto-Protect' menu, click on 'Bloodhound'. Uncheck 'Turn Bloodhound heuristics on'. Click 'OK' and you're done! This has made a significant difference in the speed of the bash shell for me. HTH someone. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Cygwin X fails to start
All, I've been trying to install Cygwin X on a Win XP machine for the last 2 days and can't get it to work. I've done google searches for possible solutions but the posts I've found seem outdated and no longer apply. This appears to be a problem with the could not open default font 'fixed' error message. All of the posts I've seen regarding this imply there is a problem with the mounts, but I've got 2 other installs here that do not mount the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts directory. So I'm not sure if those errors still apply. I'm not sure what to try next as the instructions here http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-error-font-eof don't seem to solve the problem for me. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Here is my /tmp/XWin.log: Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 6.8.99.901-4 Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com XWin was started with the following command line: XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error (WW) /tmp mounted int textmode _XSERVTransmkdir: ERROR: euid != 0,directory /tmp/.X11-unix will not be created. 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 - Multi Window or Rootless = ShadowGDI winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1024 height: 768 depth: 32 winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff ff00 00ff winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 00ff ff00 00ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32 null screen fn ReparentWindow null screen fn RestackWindow InitQueue - Calling pthread_mutex_init InitQueue - pthread_mutex_init returned InitQueue - Calling pthread_cond_init InitQueue - pthread_cond_init returned winInitMultiWindowWM - Hello winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Hello winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shar ed memory support in the kernel (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31 (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: 0409 (0409) (--) Using preset keyboard for English (USA) (409), type 4 Rules = xorg Model = pc105 Layout = us Variant = (null) Options = (null ) (--) 3 mouse buttons found Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from li st! Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' -- Javier Delgadillo javi at javidel.org http://javidel.org/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
keyboard problem : upper numeric keys don' t work
Hello all! Xfree runs OK but upper numeric keys (not num keypad) do not work well. Also TAB and BACKSPACE seem not to work well too. My keyboard map seems to be OK because all other keys are OK. I had a similar problem with an PC emulator called QEMU. So, I beleive this is a problem of some Windows API. I fixed QEMU problem telling it to use directx instead of windib. I could not found any way to fix this on Xfree, and I don't even know if Xfree uses windib. Numeric keys shows: 1 = h 2 = , 3 = 0~ (yes, 2 caracters) 4 = , 5 to 0 nothing appears. any ideas ? thanks, Alex -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: keyboard problem : upper numeric keys don' t work
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, cirrus75 wrote: Hello all! Xfree runs OK but upper numeric keys (not num keypad) do not work well. Also TAB and BACKSPACE seem not to work well too. My keyboard map seems to be OK because all other keys are OK. I had a similar problem with an PC emulator called QEMU. So, I beleive this is a problem of some Windows API. I fixed QEMU problem telling it to use directx instead of windib. I could not found any way to fix this on Xfree, and I don't even know if Xfree uses windib. Numeric keys shows: 1 = h 2 = , 3 = 0~ (yes, 2 caracters) 4 = , 5 to 0 nothing appears. any ideas ? http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#numlock-modifier? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte. But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that! -- Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
