[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-server-1.13.1-1
The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** xorg-server-*1.13.1-1 These packages contain XWin and the other X.Org X11 servers. In addition to upstream fixes [1][2], the following cygwin-specific changes have been made since 1.13.0-1: * Use Win32 CryptoAPI instead of gcrypt for SHA-1 to reduce dependencies (Thanks to Yaakov Selkowitz for patch) * Fix the temporary directory used for files passed to xkbcomp when TMP is set but TEMP is not * Fix code which was supposed to bring the X screen window to the front on a single left-click on the tray icon in windowed mode, but has never worked * Improve the way that pressed modifier keys are restored when an X window gains focus: Left and right ctrl and shift keys are now handled independently (See [3] etc.) * Fix the checking of _NET_WM_STATE to consider atoms other than the first one in the list * Don't configure with --with-os-name=Cygwin, so Xorg reports the full build time uname * Various build fixes for MinGW (Thanks to Yaakov Selkowitz for patches) * Various distcheck fixes * Some internal WM utility code is now made available as a static library in the xorg-server-devel package, for use with XtoW d653de3d09470f10e5b674fa9fdf835c *xorg-server-1.13.1-1.tar.bz2 b9d0ce0bc7806406793bb7a22f7801f6 *xorg-server-common-1.13.1-1.tar.bz2 2c7dbc207b6b18191dd6f63ba582735d *xorg-server-debuginfo-1.13.1-1.tar.bz2 3d6a8ce4d49a5e4ff97ac141be584b78 *xorg-server-devel-1.13.1-1.tar.bz2 26f39e489d87dac1f480662934ae52d7 *xorg-server-dmx-1.13.1-1.tar.bz2 d667e621f29b2334e861beb194894419 *xorg-server-extra-1.13.1-1.tar.bz2 6fb55842afbbf7d1f3ebad3cce4f8a59 *xorg-server-1.13.1-1-src.tar.bz2 [1] http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2012-December/002104.html [2] http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2012-December/002102.html [3] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2012-11/msg00036.html -- 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/
nedit on Cygwin
I've used NEdit on Cygwin/X for a couple of years without significant problems. Last night I updated to the latest release (it had probably been a year or more); now when I invoke NEdit (directly or by incanting nc) it starts, and seems to work OK, however I get the error message UTF8 locale not supported. and command line control is not returned to the shell until the NEdit window is killed. I see old messages about NEdit not supporting UTF8, but none of them describe this behavior. Any suggestions? (Note that editor preference is a theological issue, so responses praising whatever editor you happen to worship would not be helpful. As Apu Nahasapeemapetilon once said, Please do not offer my god a peanut.) Cygwin/X 1.13.0, NEdit 5.5 (Nov. 18 build), on Windows 7 Home Premium. Thanks. -- Mark Jackson - http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~mjackson I cannot understand what it means to call a theory beautiful if it is not true. - Niels Bohr -- 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/
[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: XtoW, a native compositing window manager (experimental)
The following packages have been added to the Cygwin distribution: *** XtoW-20121220-1 *** libxcwm0-20121220-1 *** libxcwm-devel-20121220-1 xtow is a window manager using the libxcwm library [1], which is: * native: it integrates with native window management by putting each top-level X window in it's own Windows window (similar to XWin -multiwindow) * compositing: X windows with per-pixel alpha are composited into the native DWM desktop on Windows Vista and later (e.g. a native window can be seen through a semi-transparent X window placed over it) At this stage, these packages will only be of interest to people who are going to fix or report crashes. There are lots of missing features compared to XWin -multiwindow. Notably, there is no clipboard synchronization (although xwinclip should work). You will notice that drawing is noticeably slower, especially of large areas, because the image has to be fetched over the socket from the X server (this could be avoided by putting the image in shared memory, or a shared texture) To use: * write an /etc/X11/xorg.conf file which specifies the dummy driver and a screen size which is the same size as the native desktop * start Xorg * start xtow * start some X clients (e.g. 'urxvt -depth 32 -bg rgba:rgba:///' for a transparent terminal) 21df1209a2fdafff97dcf60286aa7473 *XtoW-20121220-1.tar.bz2 5c85ec85e290854e877164f12f83f7bb *XtoW-20121220-1-src.tar.bz2 dc3c73f79c73a13dc6f1979094581228 *XtoW-debuginfo-20121220-1.tar.bz2 e5c03a840998e171e85a29c33edd37af *libxcwm0-20121220-1.tar.bz2 aaeeb74beed792182e44e832f8129e9c *libxcwm-20121220-1-src.tar.bz2 a879a3488617917530d90183a137952c *libxcwm-debuginfo-20121220-1.tar.bz2 1652bfa0b82fa5e6f6b7329fa7b01bc5 *libxcwm-devel-20121220-1.tar.bz2 [1] http://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2012/XDC2012AbstractJessVanDerwalker -- 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/
