Re: Xdmcp too slow with SOME Linux accounts.
Michel, One alternative you could try is ssh-ing to the host you want to run the programs on and invoking the programs directly and comparing the graphics-update performance. In essence this means issuing the following command: ssh -Y [EMAIL PROTECTED] program The 'Y' parameter is very important, don't forget it. All this hinges on whether or not the host has SSH enabled, and if it does, it must also have X forwarding enabled. Still, it won't cost you that much to try. In the past, I have tried to use xdmcp like you have only to encounter the same sluggish performance you've reported, so I've opted to use X tunneling over SSH instead, which works great. The IS a drawback though, it doesn't give you the full desktop with the background and everything you might be looking for, but in practice the things you really want are the apps, anyway. J On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 06:56 -0700, Michael Giroux wrote: Is there an alternative to XDCMP that I could try to see if that protocol is causing the problem? -- 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/ -- 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: Xdmcp too slow with SOME Linux accounts.
Michael, I am assuming you are invoking the ssh connection from a graphical xterm window, it won't work from a console-mode bash prompt. Other than that, it might mean that X forwarding is not enabled on the host you are connecting to. For the record, I just tried the scenario I outlined; ssh to a host and then invoking eclipse. It worked for me, so it has to be a configuration issue on your setup. J On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 07:45 -0700, Michael Giroux wrote: Thanks for the tip. I was able to use the ssh, but that generated errors on the console (below). Before running the ssh command, I started xwin, but perhaps I need to specify some options? Michael (eclipse:29698): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance (eclipse:29698): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_T YPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed (eclipse:29698): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_settings_get_for_screen: assertion `GDK_IS _SCREEN (screen)' failed (eclipse:29698): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_get: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed (eclipse:29698): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: value TRUE of type `gboolean' is inv alid or out of range for property `visible' of type `gboolean' -- 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/ -- 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: A thought about stuck keys
Harold, (are you still around?) OK, I know it's been a while, but I think I might have figured it out; If you look in Windows' Keyboard Control-Panel applet, you can set the Repeat Delay and the Repeat Rate for the keyboard... If on computerA you press a key and then let go of the key, that might get sent in a stream to distant computerB as a keydown followed by a keyup, but it is entirely possible that the two key messages might wind up in two adjacent packets in the tcp stream. If the second packet is lost for some reason, tcp will retransmit it, but not before a small time interval passes. So on the computerB, the first fragment of the keyboard stream arrives and is injected into the local keyboard input stream: keydown. Windows starts a timer in case you hold the key down. During this time, the next packet (the one with the keyup) in tcp's sliding-window is lost, but it takes a while before one of the endpoints detects this and the lost packet is retransmitted. While we wait for the retransmission, the keydown timer that was started on computerB goes off and Windows starts repeating the key at the rate programmed in the control panel applet. Eventually, tcp delivers the missing keyup to computerB, and Windows kills the key-repeat timer which was injecting the 'stuck' key. This seems to correspond to what I was experiencing. For a system that is being operated remotely over a high-latency link and is also under heavy CPU load, it is not hard to imagine this might be what is happening. So in the end, there is no bug in cygwin per-se, rather it is the behaviour of Windows' own keyboard driver timer programming (and the way netmeeting captures input) that was most likely causing the problem. Before you ask: No, I have not been obsessing about this problem for four years, I googled 'debouncing' for unrelated research and saw the original discussion thread for this problem, re-read it and suddenly it seemed like I saw a possible answer. Sort of funny, really. Thanks J From: Harold L Hunt II huntharo at msu dot edu * To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com * Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 17:55:59 -0500 * Jean-Claude, Heh... yes, I am sure that we will eventually understand this bug, but I spent long enough in the debugger on this one that I don't ever want to look at it again :) Harold -- 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: Cygwin X server 'reset' command
My xterm version is: $ xterm -v Cygwin 6.8.2.0(202) in console mode TERM is set like the following: TERM=cygwin In graphical mode TERM is set like the following: TERM=xterm Executing the following DOES clear the screen and the backscroll buffer in graphical mode (thanks, Mansoorali): printf \ec But in console mode it only clears the screen, not the backscroll buffer. -- 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/
Adding fonts
Hi, Is there a simple way to add fonts to Cygwin's X server? For example, I have a true-type font called TAHOMA.TTF that I would like to make available to the X Server. Are all the host operating system's fonts automatically available to the X server? Do I have to perform any special actions to enable them? Is there a formula for doing this? Thanks in advance, list. J -- 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: Ctrl got stuck
Tobias, if you were to type lots of AltGr key combinations, could you reproduce the problem every time? On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 16:21 +0200, Tobias Polzin wrote: Hi, first of all: Thanks for the great cygwin-xfree! I have one major problem with it: Occasionly (approx every 2 hours, sometimes every 5 minutes) it feels like the CTRL-modifier got stuck. I used cat and emacs to see, that in this situations pressing an a is interpreted as CTRL-a. If I press CTRL, the situation is back to normal, but pressing AltGr-something does not give the desired result and makes CTRL got stuck again. Using the funny Show Cursor option of the X-tray-icon repairs the behaviour... for some minutes or hours. Also starting a new xterm -window and closing it repaired the behaviour recently. I conjecture that it has something to do with AltGr. As I use the german keyboard-layout, I have to use AltGr a lot of times while programming C++. I start Xwin with: XWin -dpi 92 -multiwindow -clipboard -multiplemonitors -xkbvariant nodeadkeys -ac I mostly work with a Win2K (with desktop-twister) on a remote linux or colinux maschine. The AltGr hints in the FAQ did not help me, as they turn of AltGr completely and the problem is not the AltGr does not work correctly. In most cases it works. Any ideas? Regards, Tobias Polzin
Re: sshd and X
I've got a new observation: Before I installed the ssh daemon and subsequently changed my /etc/sshd_config settings, I used to log in locally the Windows 2000 machine, and then I would click the /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.bat to start the X server. A console window would pop up for a moment and then disappear, and then a graphical xterm window would pop up. Now, all that still works, but when the console windows pops up during startxwin.bat's execution, the first line displayed in it says access denied Then the rest of the procedure continues; the console window disappears and is replaced by a graphical xterm. Here's my /tmp/XWin.log - not the _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root message: Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 6.8.2.0-2 Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com XWin was started with the following command line: /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1024 h 768 winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root (II) XF86Config is not supported (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information (==) FontPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 2048 height: 768 depth: 32 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 winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Hello winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () 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 shared memory support in the kernel (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31 (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: 1009 (1009) (EE) Keyboardlayout Canadian French (1009) is unknown (--) 3 mouse buttons found Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list! winInitMultiWindowWM - pthread_mutex_lock () returned. winProcEstablishConnection - Hello winMultiWindowXMsgProc - pthread_mutex_lock () returned. winInitMultiWindowWM - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned. winInitClipboard () winMultiWindowXMsgProc - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned. winInitMultiWindowWM - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 winProcEstablishConnection - winInitClipboard returned. winClipboardProc - Hello winMultiWindowXMsgProc - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 DetectUnicodeSupport - Windows NT/2000/XP winInitMultiWindowWM - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the display. winClipboardProc - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 winMultiWindowXMsgProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the display. winClipboardProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the display. Also, why do I need to run xauth? I use the same machine to ssh to other hosts, and their X redirection works fine. Also, if I have to set the DISPLAY variable, what do I set it to, and where do I set that? Thanks On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 12:40 +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: Running an application gives a different error now also. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ xcalc X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). you need to run xauth + at your machine plus you have to set the display environment variable on the other machine. Check the handbook for the concequenses of above mentioned settings. Erich
sshd and X
Hello, I've installed the Cygwin/X ssh daemon as a service under Windows 2000. It works fine. I can go sit at Linux box and ssh into the machine running Windows 2000. ssh -Y [EMAIL PROTECTED] Once I am logged in, I'd like to run an X11 application. For example xcalc. If I execute xcalc, I get the following output $ xcalc Error: Can't open display: If I check the environment variables, there is no DISPLAY variable. Is there a way to make this work? Thank you.
Re: sshd and X
Thanks ago, I can't seem to change the settings in the config files. I am logged on to the machine a me/domain The user I am logged on as is in the W2K machine's Administrators group. But the config file is owned by SYSTEM and I can't seem to edit it. What's the best course of action? Thanks On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 14:09 +0200, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Wed, 25 May 2005, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: ssh -Y [EMAIL PROTECTED] Once I am logged in, I'd like to run an X11 application. For example xcalc. If I execute xcalc, I get the following output $ xcalc Error: Can't open display: If I check the environment variables, there is no DISPLAY variable. Either X11Forwarding is disabled in the server or some login scripts reset the DISPLAY variable. Check http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-ssh-no-x11forwarding bye ago
Re: sshd and X
ago, Are you sure the linux box id the problem? When I open an xterm on the linux box and type SET, I can see the DISPLAY variable is set correctly, and then if I use that xterm to ssh to any Linux host, I can run xcalc on the remote host and see the display locally on the machine I am logged in from. But when I take the xterm and try connecting to the Windows 2000 ssh server, I connect OK, but the DISPLAY variable is no longer exists in the bash shell the Windows 2000 box starts. Thanks On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 14:40 +0200, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Wed, 25 May 2005, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: Thanks ago, I can't seem to change the settings in the config files. I am logged on to the machine a me/domain The user I am logged on as is in the W2K machine's Administrators group. But the config file is owned by SYSTEM and I can't seem to edit it. What's the best course of action? You'll have to change the config files on the linux server bye ago
Re: sshd and X
Thanks, Ago. Using the instructions you provided, I was able to edit the file and enable X11Forwarding yes I've restarted the ssh daemon, but it still doesn,t work, the DISPLAY variable is still not set. One thing; I changed the file /etc/sshd_config NOT /etc/ssh/sshd_config There is no /etc/ssh/ folder. All the ssh-related files are in /etc Is that normal? Also, what should I try next? thanks. On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 15:25 +0200, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Wed, 25 May 2005, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: ago, Are you sure the linux box id the problem? Sorry, I assumed you were connecting from cygwin to linux and not the other way. I can't seem to change the settings in the config files. I am logged on to the machine a me/domain The user I am logged on as is in the W2K machine's Administrators group. But the config file is owned by SYSTEM and I can't seem to edit it. What's the best course of action? sshd is running as user SYSTEM and so they are owned by him. Changing the file permissions may help chmod go+w /etc/ssh/sshd_config vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config chmod go-w /etc/ssh/sshd_config But that's only a wild guess bye ago
Re: sshd and X
Thanks for trying, but it gives the same result. Maybe if I ask the question in a different way? Someone here MUST know this - How do you configure a Windows machine to receive ssh connections (done) and also run x applications and send the display back to the ssh client? Is there a how-to for this? I realize it is pretty specific to Cygwin/X Thanks On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 10:59 -0400, Jean-Sebastien Trottier wrote: Try using the -X switch as well: ssh -X -Y [EMAIL PROTECTED] If this works, then read man ssh_config to learn how to enable X11 forwarding by default on the client side. Cheers, Sebastien On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 10:07:40AM -0400, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: Thanks, Ago. Using the instructions you provided, I was able to edit the file and enable X11Forwarding yes I've restarted the ssh daemon, but it still doesn,t work, the DISPLAY variable is still not set. One thing; I changed the file /etc/sshd_config NOT /etc/ssh/sshd_config There is no /etc/ssh/ folder. All the ssh-related files are in /etc Is that normal? Also, what should I try next? thanks. On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 15:25 +0200, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Wed, 25 May 2005, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: ago, Are you sure the linux box id the problem? Sorry, I assumed you were connecting from cygwin to linux and not the other way. I can't seem to change the settings in the config files. I am logged on to the machine a me/domain The user I am logged on as is in the W2K machine's Administrators group. But the config file is owned by SYSTEM and I can't seem to edit it. What's the best course of action? sshd is running as user SYSTEM and so they are owned by him. Changing the file permissions may help chmod go+w /etc/ssh/sshd_config vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config chmod go-w /etc/ssh/sshd_config But that's only a wild guess bye ago
Re: sshd and X
Here's the output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ssh -v -Y neptune OpenSSH_4.0p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7g 11 Apr 2005 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: Connecting to neptune [192.168.1.10] port 22. debug1: Connection established. debug1: identity file /home/jcgervais/.ssh/identity type -1 debug1: identity file /home/jcgervais/.ssh/id_rsa type -1 debug1: identity file /home/jcgervais/.ssh/id_dsa type -1 debug1: Remote protocol version 1.99, remote software version OpenSSH_4.0 debug1: match: OpenSSH_4.0 pat OpenSSH* debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0 debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.0 debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received debug1: kex: server-client aes128-cbc hmac-md5 none debug1: kex: client-server aes128-cbc hmac-md5 none debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST(102410248192) sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY debug1: Host 'neptune' is known and matches the RSA host key. debug1: Found key in /home/jcgervais/.ssh/known_hosts:12 debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interacti ve debug1: Next authentication method: publickey debug1: Trying private key: /home/jcgervais/.ssh/identity debug1: Trying private key: /home/jcgervais/.ssh/id_rsa debug1: Trying private key: /home/jcgervais/.ssh/id_dsa debug1: Next authentication method: keyboard-interactive debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password,keyboard-interacti ve debug1: Next authentication method: password [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: debug1: Authentication succeeded (password). debug1: channel 0: new [client-session] debug1: Entering interactive session. debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing. Last login: Wed May 25 11:10:32 2005 from pluto Fanfare!!! You are successfully logged in to this server!!! basename: invalid option -- b Try `basename --help' for more information. -bash: [: =: unary operator expected [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 17:14 +0200, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Wed, 25 May 2005, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: Thanks for trying, but it gives the same result. Maybe if I ask the question in a different way? Someone here MUST know this - How do you configure a Windows machine to receive ssh connections (done) and also run x applications and send the display back to the ssh client? Is there a how-to for this? I realize it is pretty specific to Cygwin/X Setting up the X11 tunnel is a bit complicated as sshd must create an xauth cookie and ad it to ~/.Xauthorities. If this fails (either because xauth was not found or some dll is not available or the like) x11 forwarding will most likely be disabled. Maybe ssh -v -v -v wil give you a clue what is happening. bye ago
Re: sshd and X
There is no trace after the X11 forwarding request. Should there be? If there should be, what does this tell us? On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 11:23 -0400, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: debug1: Entering interactive session. debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing.
Re: sshd and X
OK, the machine hadn't rebooted, that was causing a problem. After reboot, the login responses have changed: error in locking authority file /cygdrive/y/jcgervais/.Xauthority [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ssh -Y neptune [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Last login: Wed May 25 23:37:00 2005 from pluto Fanfare!!! You are successfully logged in to this server!!! /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth: error in locking authority file /cygdrive/y/me/.Xauthority basename: invalid option -- b Try `basename --help' for more information. -bash: [: =: unary operator expected Running an application gives a different error now also. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ xcalc X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 12:37 -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 25 May 2005, Boaz Harrosh wrote: Alexander Gottwald wrote: Maybe ssh -v -v -v wil give you a clue what is happening. Right!! try running sshd in a consul in the foreground. (Check what switch makes it run in the foreground (-d?)) Both -D and -d do (Cygwin's ssh-host-config uses the -D option for the service). -d is much more verbose (into the system log, which by default is the Windows Event Log), and will only accept one connection. Than see what prints you have. If this works it is not the end. SYSTEM user is different than the foreground user, sshd is very picky about permissions been to low or to high. You can run sshd from a SYSTEM-owned shell (Google for system owned shell shortcut). Igor
Re: gaim 'BadWindow' crashes fixed
Danilo, If you have the uncompressed TIFFs handy, could you please send them to me? Or if there is an easier way to fix the problem, please, someone speak up. Thanks. On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 11:01, Danilo Turina wrote: I also think so. In fact when I used WindowMaker (now I go with -multiwindow) I had the same problem and it was caused by lz77 compressed tiff icons. If I remember well (but I usually don't), I converted the broken TIFFs with IrfanView to uncompressed (or non-lz77 compressed) TIFFs. Ciao, Danilo Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: You wouldn't happen to know how to fix the WindowMaker Preferences Utility corrupted icons bug, would you? Maybe this is the long standing bug with lz77 compressed tiff files in the windowmaker package with libtiff without lz77 algorithm. But i don't use windowmaker and can't tell exactly. bye ago
Re: gaim 'BadWindow' crashes fixed
Thank you, Alexander. I was searching for the solution to the bug in relation with Gaim, which is the only application I had problems with: Mozilla and Evolution both worked fine, only Gaim crashed. You wouldn't happen to know how to fix the WindowMaker Preferences Utility corrupted icons bug, would you? I did find one or two messages on the subject, but no one seemed to have a solution. On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 04:23, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: It turns out that the key to avoiding this is invoking the SSH connection with the '-Y' option, and NOT the '-X' option, like this - ssh -C -Y [EMAIL PROTECTED] Once again, after a lot of searching (and swearing) it was Harold L. Hunt who came up with the answer: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-03/msg00701.html Thanks, Harold. PS - I KNOW that this is obviously OLD news, but I only ended up stumbling on the solution almost by chance, and I thought it was worth repeating here, in case someone else is having the same problem. It is stated in the FAQ for some months now. bye ago
gaim 'BadWindow' crashes fixed
Hello, I've been having the same problem: Every time I float my mouse pointer over a widget that produces a bubble-help-text, gaim would exit with a X crash. This would only happen when tunneling X over SSH from a Windows box running Cygwin to a Linux box where gaim executes. It turns out that the key to avoiding this is invoking the SSH connection with the '-Y' option, and NOT the '-X' option, like this - ssh -C -Y [EMAIL PROTECTED] Once again, after a lot of searching (and swearing) it was Harold L. Hunt who came up with the answer: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-03/msg00701.html Thanks, Harold. PS - I KNOW that this is obviously OLD news, but I only ended up stumbling on the solution almost by chance, and I thought it was worth repeating here, in case someone else is having the same problem. PPS - Now if I could only get the WindowMaker Preferences Utility to display its icons, I'd be halfway home. Thanks, all.
GTK
Hi, A year or so ago, to compile GTK apps to run under Cygwin, you had to patch the GTK source and the glib sources. I was just wondering if this is still the case? I've googled a bit, but found mostly dead links. Anyone have some info on the subject? Thanks.
cygpcre-0.dll missing from default install
Hello and thanks in advance! I installed cygwin using www.cygwin.com/setup.exe and default packages selected on a computer running Windows 2000 that has never had Cygwin installed on it. tried running less after and --- less.exe - Unable To Locate DLL --- The dynamic link library cygpcre-0.dll could not be found in the specified path C:\cygwin\bin;.;C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT\system;C:\WINNT;C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin;C:\cygwin\bin;C:\cygwin\bin;C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin;c:\WINNT\system32;c:\WINNT;c:\WINNT\System32\Wbem --- OK --- Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Mon Dec 29 19:32:37 2003 Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 4 Path: C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin C:\cygwin\bin C:\cygwin\bin C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin c:\WINNT\system32 c:\WINNT c:\WINNT\System32\Wbem c:\Program Files\Common Files\Adaptec Shared\System C:\cygwin\bin Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (nontsec) UID: 1000(JC) GID: 513(None) 513(None) Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (ntsec) UID: 1000(JC) GID: 513(None) 513(None)544(Administrators) 545(Users) SysDir: C:\WINNT\system32 WinDir: C:\WINNT HOME = `C:\cygwin\home\JC' MAKE_MODE = `unix' PWD = `/home/JC' USER = `JC' ALLUSERSPROFILE = `C:\Documents and Settings\All Users' APPDATA = `C:\Documents and Settings\JC.THOR\Application Data' COMMONPROGRAMFILES = `C:\Program Files\Common Files' COMPUTERNAME = `THOR' COMSPEC = `C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe' CVS_RSH = `/bin/ssh' HOMEDRIVE = `C:' HOMEPATH = `\Documents and Settings\JC.THOR' HOSTNAME = `thor' INFOPATH = `/usr/local/info:/usr/info:/usr/share/info:/usr/autotool/devel/info:/usr/autotool/stable/info:' LOGONSERVER = `\\THOR' MANPATH = `/usr/local/man:/usr/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/autotool/devel/man:' NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS = `1' OLDPWD = `/usr/bin' OS2LIBPATH = `C:\WINNT\system32\os2\dll;' OS = `Windows_NT' PATHEXT = `.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH' PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE = `x86' PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER = `x86 Family 6 Model 5 Stepping 2, GenuineIntel' PROCESSOR_LEVEL = `6' PROCESSOR_REVISION = `0502' PROGRAMFILES = `C:\Program Files' PROMPT = `$P$G' PS1 = `\[\033]0;\w\007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\] $ ' SHLVL = `1' SYSTEMDRIVE = `C:' SYSTEMROOT = `C:\WINNT' TEMP = `c:\DOCUME~1\JC40BE~1.THO\LOCALS~1\Temp' TERM = `cygwin' TMP = `c:\DOCUME~1\JC40BE~1.THO\LOCALS~1\Temp' USERDOMAIN = `THOR' USERNAME = `JC' USERPROFILE = `C:\Documents and Settings\JC.THOR' WINDIR = `C:\WINNT' _ = `/usr/bin/cygcheck' HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2 (default) = `/cygdrive' cygdrive flags = 0x0022 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/ (default) = `C:\cygwin' flags = 0x000a HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/bin (default) = `C:\cygwin/bin' flags = 0x000a HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/lib (default) = `C:\cygwin/lib' flags = 0x000a HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options a: fd N/AN/A c: hd NTFS9781Mb 22% CP CS UN PA FC d: hd NTFS 76340Mb 99% CP CS UN PA FC DATA2 e: cd CDFS 440Mb 100%CS UN CDROM f: net NTFS 117202Mb 19% CP CSPAhdb1 g: net NTFS 2Mb 73% CP CSPAhdd1 h: net NTFS 57351Mb 53% CP CSPAjc C:\cygwin / system binmode C:\cygwin/bin /usr/bin system binmode C:\cygwin/lib /usr/lib system binmode . /cygdrive system binmode,cygdrive Found: C:\cygwin\bin\awk.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cat.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cp.exe Not Found: cpp (good!) Found: C:\cygwin\bin\find.exe Not Found: gcc Not Found: gdb Found: C:\cygwin\bin\grep.exe Not Found: ld Found: C:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe Not Found: make Found: C:\cygwin\bin\mv.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\rm.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\sed.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\tar.exe 45k 2001/04/25 C:\cygwin\bin\cygform5.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 cygform5.dll v0.0 ts=2001/4/25 1:28 35k 2002/01/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygform6.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 cygform6.dll v0.0 ts=2002/1/9 1:03 48k 2003/08/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygform7.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 cygform7.dll v0.0 ts=2003/8/9 5:25 28k 2003/07/20 C:\cygwin\bin\cyggdbm-3.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 cyggdbm-3.dll v0.0 ts=2003/7/20 3:58 30k 2003/08/11
Re: Cygwin Setup 99%
A bit of bad luck here: I'm reinstalling Cygwin on a newly formatted machine this morning. So what do I do to get it installed now? The setup is hung. Do I cancel and run it again? What? Thanks. On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 18:13, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Wayne, While we can't expect everyone to do a thorough mailing list archive search before posting, we do at least expect them to look at the posts from today. You problem has been reported before, and was, in fact, reported again today: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-10/msg00134.html The problem is known. You can just move /etc/postinstall/XFree86-bin-icons.sh to /etc/postinstall/XFree86-bin-icons.sh.done. Then, from a Cygwin bash shell run '/usr/XFree86/bin/XFree86-bin-icons.sh'. That should create the icons for you. The problem right now is that one of the utilities we use hangs when we run the script from setup.exe, but it does not hang when we run the script from a bash shell. The problem is being looked into. Harold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to install cygwin/xFree86. The install program runs to 99% but does not finish. It stops at 'Running...' the /etc/postinstall/XFree86-bin-icons.sh Any suggestions? Wayne Harpenau Sony Disc Manufacturing [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Fwd: Send loss of focus notification when changing focus to a Windows app?]
Um, does anyone here have a clue to what I'm referring to? I tried to be as clear as possible. On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 13:23, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: Is it possible to tell X that it has lost focus when a Windows app gains focus? __ From: Jean-Claude Gervais [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Cygwin-XFree [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Send loss of focus notification when changing focus to a Windows app? Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 17:36:42 -0400 Hi, I'm runnng the WindowMaker that comes with Cygwin XFree with the following options: XWin -nowinkill -multiplemonitors -nodecoraion -rootless -clipboard And I've noticed one small detail: When changing from window to window on X, WindowMaker sems to be able to track who is active who is inactive OK. But when I switch away from an X app to say, Notepad, WindoMaker still seems to think that the last X window that was active is STILL active. Windowmaker is correct in one sense, of course, but more importantly, would it be posible to send a focus-loss notification to WindowMaker when a Windows app gains focus? I don't know how X would handle being told that no one has the focus... Or failing that, maybe it should be told that the hidden root window has the focus, I don't know. The problem is that the way it stands now, when you glance at your screen(s) you have trouble knowing where the input will go if you type something. Will what I type go to what seems to be the currently active X window, or will it go to a Windows app? By looking for the active window, it is hard know. Is there a way to fix this? Any ideas or solutions appreciated.
Re: [Fwd: Send loss of focus notification when changing focus to a Windowsapp?]
Thomas, I see. I have to say first: I don't know X that well, but I wonder if the message notification you're talking about would work. The WM_MOUSELEAVE message might not be the one to handle this. The message to notify a window when it has lost/gained focus is WM_ACTIVATE. That message really tells you that a window has been activated/deactivated. If I remember well, XWin really only creates ONE window to simulate all the X Windows. Well, it might be presumptuous for me to state the following, but what the heck: When the XWin window receives a WM_ACTIVATE (or WM_ACTIVATEAPP), it could then notify X that it has either gained focus or lost it. 'course, I'm not 100% certain this can work, and maybe someone else here has some brilliant insight why this would/wouldn't work... Thanks for taking the time to ponder the problem, Thomas. On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 13:37, Thomas Chadwick wrote: FWIW - If you run xev with XWin in -rootless or -multiwindow mode, when you leave the X client window and enter Windows territory, sometimes you get a LeaveNotify event, but sometimes you don't. It seems to depend on how fast the mouse is moving when you cross the border. I see in winwndproc.c (and winmultiwindowwndproc.c) that there is code to handle WM_MOUSELEAVE events. Seems to me this would be a good place to stick code that generates a LeaveNotify event in the X client. From: Jean-Claude Gervais [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Cygwin-XFree [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Fwd: Send loss of focus notification when changing focus to aWindowsapp?] Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 13:23:33 -0400 Is it possible to tell X that it has lost focus when a Windows app gains focus? message3.txt _ Add MSN 8 Internet Software to your existing Internet access and enjoy patented spam protection and more. Sign up now! http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/byoa
Re: Send loss of focus notification ...
Quite true, Ago. I *did* try compiling XWin a while ago, but there was a problem with CVS and some other thing and I gave up. I promise to try again! I use Cygwin-XFree all the time, and I think it is absolutely great! Thanks. On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 15:09, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: Um, does anyone here have a clue to what I'm referring to? I tried to be as clear as possible. Sorry, it seems no one researches this with a high priority. So the best thing would be to examine the problem yourself and to send a patch. bye ago
Re: [Fwd: Send loss of focus notification when changing focus to a Windows app?]
Harold, Cool! OK, I'll look that up for you, and that way, we both profit; you get an easier time maintaining, and I learn a bit about X. Deal. Thanks for the info to get me started! On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 15:25, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Jean-Claude, Yes, I know what you are talking about. The short answer is that it can be done. In fact, it is already done in MultiWindow mode. It was easy to do in MultiWindow mode because our application is the window manager so sending ourself a message to say remove the focus from the current window is easy. However, doing this for Rootless mode would be (off the top of my head) harder (at least from the standpoint of having to lookup how to do this in a manual somewhere) because we have to send a message to the currently running window manager application saying to set the focus to the root window (I think). So, it can be done. You didn't get a response because I like to give more precise responses than the above and I have not had time to lookup the information that I talked about above in various manuals to see if I am actually correct or not. You would be much more likely to get this feature if you look in the ICCCM (Inter-Client Communications Conventions Manual) and in window manager documentation to see how to send a message to set the focus to the root window. I might be able to implement the feature in a few minutes with that information. Otherwise, it will have to wait a while. Harold Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: Um, does anyone here have a clue to what I'm referring to? I tried to be as clear as possible. On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 13:23, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: Is it possible to tell X that it has lost focus when a Windows app gains focus? __ From: Jean-Claude Gervais [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Cygwin-XFree [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Send loss of focus notification when changing focus to a Windows app? Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 17:36:42 -0400 Hi, I'm runnng the WindowMaker that comes with Cygwin XFree with the following options: XWin -nowinkill -multiplemonitors -nodecoraion -rootless -clipboard And I've noticed one small detail: When changing from window to window on X, WindowMaker sems to be able to track who is active who is inactive OK. But when I switch away from an X app to say, Notepad, WindoMaker still seems to think that the last X window that was active is STILL active. Windowmaker is correct in one sense, of course, but more importantly, would it be posible to send a focus-loss notification to WindowMaker when a Windows app gains focus? I don't know how X would handle being told that no one has the focus... Or failing that, maybe it should be told that the hidden root window has the focus, I don't know. The problem is that the way it stands now, when you glance at your screen(s) you have trouble knowing where the input will go if you type something. Will what I type go to what seems to be the currently active X window, or will it go to a Windows app? By looking for the active window, it is hard know. Is there a way to fix this? Any ideas or solutions appreciated.
[Fwd: Send loss of focus notification when changing focus to a Windows app?]
Is it possible to tell X that it has lost focus when a Windows app gains focus? ---BeginMessage--- Hi, I'm runnng the WindowMaker that comes with Cygwin XFree with the following options: XWin -nowinkill -multiplemonitors -nodecoraion -rootless -clipboard And I've noticed one small detail: When changing from window to window on X, WindowMaker sems to be able to track who is active who is inactive OK. But when I switch away from an X app to say, Notepad, WindoMaker still seems to think that the last X window that was active is STILL active. Windowmaker is correct in one sense, of course, but more importantly, would it be posible to send a focus-loss notification to WindowMaker when a Windows app gains focus? I don't know how X would handle being told that no one has the focus... Or failing that, maybe it should be told that the hidden root window has the focus, I don't know. The problem is that the way it stands now, when you glance at your screen(s) you have trouble knowing where the input will go if you type something. Will what I type go to what seems to be the currently active X window, or will it go to a Windows app? By looking for the active window, it is hard know. Is there a way to fix this? Any ideas or solutions appreciated. ---End Message---
Send loss of focus notification when changing focus to a Windows app?
Hi, I'm runnng the WindowMaker that comes with Cygwin XFree with the following options: XWin -nowinkill -multiplemonitors -nodecoraion -rootless -clipboard And I've noticed one small detail: When changing from window to window on X, WindowMaker sems to be able to track who is active who is inactive OK. But when I switch away from an X app to say, Notepad, WindoMaker still seems to think that the last X window that was active is STILL active. Windowmaker is correct in one sense, of course, but more importantly, would it be posible to send a focus-loss notification to WindowMaker when a Windows app gains focus? I don't know how X would handle being told that no one has the focus... Or failing that, maybe it should be told that the hidden root window has the focus, I don't know. The problem is that the way it stands now, when you glance at your screen(s) you have trouble knowing where the input will go if you type something. Will what I type go to what seems to be the currently active X window, or will it go to a Windows app? By looking for the active window, it is hard know. Is there a way to fix this? Any ideas or solutions appreciated.
XWin and -multiplemonitors works once, but not twice?
When I run XWin with the following: start /B XWin -engine 1 -nowinkill -multiplemonitors -nodecoration -rootless -clipboard It does open and span both my monitors. If I close XWin and start it again, however, it only displays on the first monitor. The log file claims that both monitors are not running at the same resolution/bit depth. This is untrue. Any ideas why this might be happening? Thanks!
RE: OT - Terminal embedded in desktop
Hi Igor, OK, so you've basically resolved ONE question for me; there is NO existing app/terminal/window-manager that does what I want. As for your suggestion that I code one myself, I think that that is the only direction to take. If it were for Windows, I have no doubt that I could manage it, because I know Win32 well enough, but for X, it's another matter altogether; I wouldn't really know where to start... Possibly looking at XEarth and ETerm or ATerm. Have you any suggestions? Thanks. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 9:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: OT - Terminal embedded in desktop Umm, Jean-Claude, most likely I'm missing something, but shouldn't you be able to create one yourself rather easily by taking the code for a stock xterm (the simpler - the better), removing the call that creates the window, and using root drawing calls instead of window drawing calls? I know it won't be *that* simple, but as a general direction, does the above look feasible? Igor On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: Hi Biju, Thanks for taking the time to try and understand. I know I am not totally clear. I'm not looking for something for Windows. It's something for X, Gnome, KDE, or whatever other X thingie I'd need to run it where the desktop is a normal Linux X desktop, with icons and things on it, but at the same time, it is a terminal window. The terminal window is transparent, yes. But not transparent like a lot of X terminals I've seen that only put the same bitmap that the X root window is using in their client area. With normal terminals, you see a fake transparence; it simulates transparence by using the desktop bitmap as a background in its (the terminal's) window. I'm talking about a desktop applet (maybe an applet, maybe something else, I'm not sure) that is a terminal window, covering the desktop, but really transparent. And if you click on an item on the desktop, you can activate it. Does that make any sense? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Biju G C Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 3:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT - Terminal embedded in desktop --- Jean-Claude Gervais [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Also, the terminal window, since it is the desktop, would not have a border, would take up the entire desktop and could not be moved. It would not appear in the window list of the window manager. Is there such an animal? Is it an application, a window manager or a combination of the two? Thanks. R u looking some thing like the following They are not X Window manger, But May be use it along with XWin.exe (I have not tried) http://blueboxshell.org/ http://bb4win.org/news.php http://www.litestep.net/ http://indiestep.sourceforge.net/ http://www.lokai.org/ http://www.geoshellx.com/ http://geoshell.sourceforge.net/GeoWiki http://carbon.shellscape.org/ http://shells.lokai.net/ -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster. -- Patrick Naughton
RE: OT - Terminal embedded in desktop
Hi Biju, Thanks for taking the time to try and understand. I know I am not totally clear. I'm not looking for something for Windows. It's something for X, Gnome, KDE, or whatever other X thingie I'd need to run it where the desktop is a normal Linux X desktop, with icons and things on it, but at the same time, it is a terminal window. The terminal window is transparent, yes. But not transparent like a lot of X terminals I've seen that only put the same bitmap that the X root window is using in their client area. With normal terminals, you see a fake transparence; it simulates transparence by using the desktop bitmap as a background in its (the terminal's) window. I'm talking about a desktop applet (maybe an applet, maybe something else, I'm not sure) that is a terminal window, covering the desktop, but really transparent. And if you click on an item on the desktop, you can activate it. Does that make any sense? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Biju G C Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 3:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT - Terminal embedded in desktop --- Jean-Claude Gervais [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Also, the terminal window, since it is the desktop, would not have a border, would take up the entire desktop and could not be moved. It would not appear in the window list of the window manager. Is there such an animal? Is it an application, a window manager or a combination of the two? Thanks. R u looking some thing like the following They are not X Window manger, But May be use it along with XWin.exe (I have not tried) http://blueboxshell.org/ http://bb4win.org/news.php http://www.litestep.net/ http://indiestep.sourceforge.net/ http://www.lokai.org/ http://www.geoshellx.com/ http://geoshell.sourceforge.net/GeoWiki http://carbon.shellscape.org/ http://shells.lokai.net/ __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com
OT - Terminal embedded in desktop
Hello, I am looking for a tool or window manager, Im not really sure, that lets you do what Windows does with Active Desktop. That is, I am trying to set it up so that my term window IS the desktop. That means that Icons on the desktop would appear on top of the terminal window, but that the terminal output would be written on a layer above the icons, but below any other application window. Also, the terminal window, since it is the desktop, would not have a border, would take up the entire desktop and could not be moved. It would not appear in the window list of the window manager. Is there such an animal? Is it an application, a window manager or a combination of the two? Thanks.
RE: transparent + tinted terminal aterm compiled works OK
Raphaël, Cool! Is the Term window only displays contents when you move or resize it bug also fixed? Thanks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Raphaël Mugneret Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2003 4:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: transparent + tinted terminal aterm compiled works OK Hi, I have compiled the Afterstep terminal ATERM (0.4.2) under the latest Cygwin and Xfree86. To get rid of the bug that causes aterm to use 90% of cpu and not refresh properly, pick-up the latest source file command.c (v1.9) at this address: http://cvs.afterstep.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/aterm/src/?only_with_tag=HEAD; The bug was fixed monthes ago but never released. Cheers Raphaël _ MSN Messenger : discutez en direct avec vos amis ! http://www.msn.fr/msger/default.asp
RE: Transparent terminal window?
Thanks Biju, Simon. Simon, you're right; ATerm builds easily on Cygwin, but it does have the display problem you mentioned. And on my system, with a very recent fresh install of Cygwin, it maxes out the CPU the second you start it. I haven't even tried to get it to display the transparent background though, have you? I will send a note to ATerm's author to tell him about the CPU bug. Thanks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Simon Dong Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 11:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Transparent terminal window? Aterm doens't work properly on Cygwin/XFree86. It has a problem refreshing the screen. Whatever you type in will not be echoed until you move/resize the window. I got ETerm compile on Cygwin with transparent background. I couldn't get the background image to work (because I couldn't get imlib2 compiled with dll support, I think), but I really don't need it. I had to jump through a lot of hoops though, and didn't get the process documented. For what I can remember, I need to compile edb1.0.3 freetype-1.3.1 imlib2-1.0.6 And apply the kde patch to cygwin for shared mem support, which can be found at kde/cygwin's website. Then I can get Eterm built. -Simon - Original Message - From: Biju G C [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 5:26 PM Subject: Re: Transparent terminal window? I have not seen any binary avialable on cygwin try to compile http://aterm.sourceforge.net/ for more screenshots http://xplanet.sourceforge.net/ cheers biju CyGNOME = Cygwin + GNOME http://cygnome.sourceforge.net/ --- Jean-Claude Gervais [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm running WindowMaker, and I was wondering; does anyone know how to get transparent terminal windows? Can you do it with stock Cygwin-XFree or do you have to download and compile a specific terminal emulator? Thanks in advance. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com
Transparent terminal window?
Hi, I'm running WindowMaker, and I was wondering; does anyone know how to get transparent terminal windows? Can you do it with stock Cygwin-XFree or do you have to download and compile a specific terminal emulator? Thanks in advance.
Clipboard bug - Crash
Hi, I hope this hasn't already been reported; Steps to reproduce: Use the latest release version of Cygwin-XFree Start any text editor. Repeatedly paste a block of text into the editor until there is more than 30-40 KB of text in there. Select all the text. XWin will fault and be closed by Windows. I am running Windows XP in multiple-monitor mode, although I doubt that really has any effect on this. Thanks.
RE: Latest release observations
Just in case someone else out there is having this same problem; both video cards must be set to the same bit depth for -multiplemonitors to work properly. Now if I could just get XWin compiled to see if the WM_DISPLAYCHANGE fix will work... -Original Message- Subject: Latest release observations Hi, I have just reinstalled my machine and therefore had to do a fresh install of Cygwin. -multiplemonitors now works fine on my home machine, but for some reason, it still only uses one display on my computer at work. I'll have a look at the log file and post back when I get a chance. One thing I have noticed, that might be a nice simple feature to add is this - If I start Xwin in -rootless mode at 1024x768, it creates an invisible root window at screen coordinates 0,0 If I then play a DirectX game that changes the display's resolution to 800x600, when I exit the game, the XWin invisible root window is now shifted over to the right. My fix would be simple: If running in rootless mode and the resolution changes, move the invisible root window back to 0,0. Thanks.
RE: Latest release observations
Hi Harold,
Thanks for piping up.
I think you may have inadvertently put your finger on the problem:
I'm using -engine 1, because I view the machine running XWin through
Netmeeting, and the Direct-Draw engine's rendering doesn't get picked up by
this remote tool.
So perhaps the code needs to also do something for the GDI engine when a
WM_DISPLAYCHANGE happens.
Does that make any sense?
In any case, I'd appreciate any light you can shed on it; I've downloaded
XFree from CVS and will soon start trying to debug the code myself, but I
expect a somewhat-steep learning curve.
Thanks.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Harold L Hunt II
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 9:32 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Latest release observations
Jean-Claude,
I know it seems like this would be a simple change, but it isn't. There are
already 169 lines handling WM_DISPLAYCHANGE messages. It seems that your
message should already be handled, because we drop and recreate the
DirectDraw surface when the display size changes. The rootless mode uses
the Shadow DirectDraw Non-Locking engine by default, so the surface should
be being recreated at the correct point.
I don't think that this problem has anything to do with WM_DISPLAYCHANGE
processing. Someone will have to step through this in a debugger to find
out what is happening.
Harold
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jean-Claude Gervais
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 12:06 PM
To: Cygwin-XFree
Subject: RE: Latest release observations
One thing I might mention; I did some digging, and the XWin
window seems to
be receiving a
WM_DISPLAYCHANGE
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/g
di/pantdra
w_2qzp.asp
when the display changes resolution, so I'm guessing here, but maybe a bit
of code in the function called
winTopLevelWindowProc
in
xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xwin/winmultiwindowwindow.c
That would do something like
case WM_DISPLAYCHANGE:
if ( IsMultiMonitorMode( hWnd ) ) {
MoveWindow( hWnd, 0, 0, iCurrentWidth,
iCurrentHeight, TRUE );
}
break;
Of course, I only took a quick look at the code and I'm not entirely sure
how it all hangs together yet, but something like this should do
the trick.
Thanks.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Jean-Claude Gervais
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 7:47 AM
To: Cygwin-XFree
Subject: Latest release observations
Hi,
I have just reinstalled my machine and therefore had to do a fresh
install
of Cygwin.
-multiplemonitors now works fine on my home machine, but for some
reason,
it still only uses one display on my computer at work. I'll have a look at
the log file and post back when I get a chance.
One thing I have noticed, that might be a nice simple
feature to add
is
this -
If I start Xwin in -rootless mode at 1024x768, it creates an
invisible root
window at screen coordinates 0,0
If I then play a DirectX game that changes the display's resolution to
800x600, when I exit the game, the XWin invisible root window is
now shifted
over to the right.
My fix would be simple:
If running in rootless mode and the resolution changes, move the invisible
root window back to 0,0.
Thanks.
Latest release observations
Hi, I have just reinstalled my machine and therefore had to do a fresh install of Cygwin. -multiplemonitors now works fine on my home machine, but for some reason, it still only uses one display on my computer at work. I'll have a look at the log file and post back when I get a chance. One thing I have noticed, that might be a nice simple feature to add is this - If I start Xwin in -rootless mode at 1024x768, it creates an invisible root window at screen coordinates 0,0 If I then play a DirectX game that changes the display's resolution to 800x600, when I exit the game, the XWin invisible root window is now shifted over to the right. My fix would be simple: If running in rootless mode and the resolution changes, move the invisible root window back to 0,0. Thanks.
A thought about stuck keys
Hi, I am using Microsoft Netmeeting to control a box running Cygwin XFree, and like some of you have already noted, occasionally whatever is typed on the keyboard gets echoed several times, acting almost like a stuck key. This seems to happen to me MUCH, MUCH more when I am working remotely as I am than when I am logged in locally or have a one-hop connection. I don't know XWindows very well, but it almost looks like the X keyboard event-handler is getting fooled because of the extra latency the communications channel is adding to the event times. For example, it seems like X sees a keydown message and responds to it, sees another (duplicate) keydown message (for the same key) and doesn't make sure there has been an intervening keyup message between the two. A de-bouncing algorithm could do the job here. Maybe this is normal; that multiple keydown messages will get sent if you hold down a key, but I am curious to know if this is something that can be configured away. So, in summary, I'd like to know if it is possible to configure XFree to NOT generate multiple keydown messages for ONE keypress. Thanks.
RE: A thought about stuck keys
No problem Harold, Such a gallant answer to my query deserves every bit of assistance I can offer. To answer your question; YES, this does happen outside of XTerm, to ME at least, when I am running Gaim. I am controlling/using the Redhat version of Gaim (native Linux, in other words) through Cygwin's XFree on my Windows XP box (over a 100MB network), which is in turn being controlled remotely by Netmeeting over a high-latency network (the Internet) OK, yes, I do seem to remember your original posts about this, which I don't yet have enough X-savvy to understand totally, but I was trying to maybe spark some idea by coming from a different direction. In any case, if we can rule out my hypothesis, then that is good too: It will be ONE down and X others to go, and eventually we WILL understand what is going on here and we'll be able to fix it, I am sure. Thanks. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Harold L Hunt II Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 2:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: A thought about stuck keys Jean-Claude, Unfortunately, it is nowhere near that simple. Search the message archives for my notes on this. I sent at least one rather long and detailed message about this. In brief, I ran XWin.exe in a debugger and watched the keypresses being handled. The problem with your theory is that a single keypress message results in a several function calls that drill deeper and deeper into the generic X code... I drilled all the way down as far as I could (following a single keypress message, mind you) and BAM! two key presses show up in xterm from the processing of a single keypress message. So, we definitely don't need any kind of debouncing algorithm at the Cygwin/XFree86 level. This problem is either deep inside the generic X code (I couldn't find anywhere where the keypress was being duplicated) or it was happening in some Cygwin code. I would not doubt it if this was due to something in Cygwin... since the problem only comes out when the machine is under very heavy load (such as running the Native GDI engine for XWin.exe) or perhaps when working remotely. This indicates to me that the bug is either due to a race or some sort of key repeat feature in Cygwin that is looking at the time difference between the key press message (is it peeking at that or does it have it cached somewhere?) and the time that the Cygwin keyboard handler gets called. I could be talking total nonsense here, but this seems plausible to me. Here is a question: have you ever seen this happen in a program other than xterm or a program that is running inside an xterm? If not, then this may be a problem in xterm, not in Cygwin. I would really like to know the answer to this one. Harold Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: Hi, I am using Microsoft Netmeeting to control a box running Cygwin XFree, and like some of you have already noted, occasionally whatever is typed on the keyboard gets echoed several times, acting almost like a stuck key. This seems to happen to me MUCH, MUCH more when I am working remotely as I am than when I am logged in locally or have a one-hop connection. I don't know XWindows very well, but it almost looks like the X keyboard event-handler is getting fooled because of the extra latency the communications channel is adding to the event times. For example, it seems like X sees a keydown message and responds to it, sees another (duplicate) keydown message (for the same key) and doesn't make sure there has been an intervening keyup message between the two. A de-bouncing algorithm could do the job here. Maybe this is normal; that multiple keydown messages will get sent if you hold down a key, but I am curious to know if this is something that can be configured away. So, in summary, I'd like to know if it is possible to configure XFree to NOT generate multiple keydown messages for ONE keypress. Thanks.
Errors running setup updater
Hi, Running the updater as I do periodically, tonight it gave me a series of errors. It actually did this on two machines that I keep up to date. Any ideas why this is happening and how to fix it? LOG INCLUDED --- -- 2002/12/17 22:50:46 Starting cygwin install, version 2.249.2.5 2002/12/17 22:50:46 Current Directory: D:\Documents and Settings\JC\Desktop 2002/12/17 22:50:48 source: network install 2002/12/17 22:50:49 root: d:\cygwin binary system 2002/12/17 22:50:50 Selected local directory: D:\Documents and Settings\JC\Desktop\Cygwin 2002/12/17 22:50:52 net: IE5 2002/12/17 22:50:54 site: ftp://archive.progeny.com/cygwin 2002/12/17 22:50:56 compress_bz::error called 2002/12/17 22:50:56 compress_bz::error called 2002/12/17 22:51:05 Downloaded D:\Documents and Settings\JC\Desktop\Cygwin/ftp%3a%2f%2farchive.progeny.com%2fcygwin/release/ gcc-mingw/gcc-mingw-20020817-3.tar.bz2 2002/12/17 22:51:18 Downloaded D:\Documents and Settings\JC\Desktop\Cygwin/ftp%3a%2f%2farchive.progeny.com%2fcygwin/release/ gdb/gdb-20021215-1.tar.bz2 2002/12/17 22:51:24 Downloaded D:\Documents and Settings\JC\Desktop\Cygwin/ftp%3a%2f%2farchive.progeny.com%2fcygwin/release/ groff/groff-1.18.1-1.tar.bz2 2002/12/17 22:51:25 Downloaded D:\Documents and Settings\JC\Desktop\Cygwin/ftp%3a%2f%2farchive.progeny.com%2fcygwin/release/ less/less-378-1.tar.bz2 2002/12/17 22:51:26 Downloaded D:\Documents and Settings\JC\Desktop\Cygwin/ftp%3a%2f%2farchive.progeny.com%2fcygwin/release/ patch/patch-2.5.8-2.tar.bz2 2002/12/17 22:51:26 Downloaded D:\Documents and Settings\JC\Desktop\Cygwin/ftp%3a%2f%2farchive.progeny.com%2fcygwin/release/ sysvinit/sysvinit-2.84-2.tar.bz2 2002/12/17 22:51:29 mbox yesno: Download Incomplete. Try again? 2002/12/17 22:51:31 Uninstalling cpio 2002/12/17 22:51:31 Uninstalling gcc-mingw 2002/12/17 22:51:31 running: d:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/preremove/gcc-mingw.sh 2002/12/17 22:51:31 Uninstalling gdb 2002/12/17 22:51:36 Uninstalling groff 2002/12/17 22:51:37 Uninstalling less 2002/12/17 22:51:37 Uninstalling patch 2002/12/17 22:51:38 Uninstalling sysvinit 2002/12/17 22:51:38 Uninstalling _update-info-dir 2002/12/17 22:51:38 mbox note: Can't open (null) for reading: No such file 2002/12/17 22:51:39 Installing file://D:\Documents and Settings\JC\Desktop\Cygwin/ftp%3a%2f%2farchive.progeny.com%2fcygwin/release/ gcc-mingw/gcc-mingw-20020817-3.tar.bz2 2002/12/17 22:51:39 compress_bz::error called 2002/12/17 22:51:41 Installing file://D:\Documents and Settings\JC\Desktop\Cygwin/ftp%3a%2f%2farchive.progeny.com%2fcygwin/release/ gdb/gdb-20021215-1.tar.bz2 2002/12/17 22:51:41 compress_bz::error called 2002/12/17 22:52:07 Installing file://D:\Documents and Settings\JC\Desktop\Cygwin/ftp%3a%2f%2farchive.progeny.com%2fcygwin/release/ groff/groff-1.18.1-1.tar.bz2 2002/12/17 22:52:07 compress_bz::error called 2002/12/17 22:52:14 Installing file://D:\Documents and Settings\JC\Desktop\Cygwin/ftp%3a%2f%2farchive.progeny.com%2fcygwin/release/ less/less-378-1.tar.bz2 2002/12/17 22:52:14 compress_bz::error called 2002/12/17 22:52:14 Installing file://D:\Documents and Settings\JC\Desktop\Cygwin/ftp%3a%2f%2farchive.progeny.com%2fcygwin/release/ patch/patch-2.5.8-2.tar.bz2 2002/12/17 22:52:14 compress_bz::error called 2002/12/17 22:52:15 Installing file://D:\Documents and Settings\JC\Desktop\Cygwin/ftp%3a%2f%2farchive.progeny.com%2fcygwin/release/ sysvinit/sysvinit-2.84-2.tar.bz2 2002/12/17 22:52:15 compress_bz::error called 2002/12/17 22:52:15 mbox note: Can't open (null) for reading: No such file 2002/12/17 22:52:20 running: d:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/gcc-mingw.sh 2002/12/17 22:52:24 running: d:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/sysvinit.sh 2002/12/17 22:52:26 mbox note: Installation incomplete. Check /setup.log.full for details 2002/12/17 22:52:29 Ending cygwin install
RE: Cygwin GNOME 1.4 binary packages
At most it only seems to be a configuration problem, and not a bug. Like if it can't find your fonts? I'm no expert. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Fraser Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 3:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cygwin GNOME 1.4 binary packages Ian Harcombe wrote: Just to voice a quick vote of thanks to all involved in getting this working. I am now happily running Gnome 1.4 (with all the extra bits n bobs you've provided) under Cygwin on a Windows XP Professional laptop as my normal development environment at work. It is clean and responsive, and now that sawfish is running properly, very pretty indeed. My vote of thanks too! But I can't get it to work, would appreciate any comments. It seems to be a problem with the goad_server which seems to be something to do with CORBA/COMM. Is there any way I can debug it? I have attached the startup log below. BTW, I installed it using the cygwin setup utility, not the installpkg script, could this be a problem? Thanks David starting gnome on display :0 _IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root _IceTransmkdir: Mode of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to 1777 SESSION_MANAGER=local/auga:/tmp/.ICE-unix/1868 env: gnome-upgrade.py: No such file or directory /bin/bash: line 1: aumix-minimal: command not found can't load fixed font during initialisationxscreensaver-command: not found xscreensaver: not found Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1 ** WARNING **: goad_server_activate: goad.c 673: unexpected exception IDL:CORBA/ COMM_FAILURE:1.0: ** WARNING **: sysex: IDL:CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0. ** WARNING **: usrex: IDL:CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0.
RE: Rootless mode
This may be obvious, but the difference between the two is that Windows sends you a bunch of messages when you're dragging the window when fulldrag is in effect... So it might be some message handler repositioning the window during one of those notifications... Maybe a WM_SIZE or WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGING... Anyhow, I think running spy and just looking in on the stream of messages that a window doing fulldrag receives could be a way to figure out which message. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Harold L Hunt Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 1:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Rootless mode Kensuke, Hmm... that sounds about right. Windows 2000 and Windows XP have that option on by default, I believe. Are you going to try to debug this? Harold Matsuzaki Kensuke [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Harold, I could not reproduce that bug, but now I found that this bug occur when Show window contents while dragging enabled. Maximizing a window never stop too. Matsuzaki Kensuke
RE: Rootless mode
Other than the WM_PAINT message, I don't think Windows ever sends the same message again. On a WM_PAINT, if you do not mark validate the region by calling BeginPaint and EndPaint and return from processing the WM_PAINT, you WILL receive a WM_PAINT again. On the other hand, if you call GetMessage without PM_REMOVE, the message retrieved is not removed from the queue. But if that were the case, the SAME message would keep being retrieved because the Windows message queue is more or less a FIFO structure. There might be some recursion at work here though, because if the child windows notify the parent and in response the parent posts or sends the same message again, things could get hairy. Probably not though, because they flood of messages does stop, right? I'm sure running Spy++ would yield interesting information. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Harold L Hunt II Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 5:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Rootless mode Looking at Kensuke's code, he uses an internal queue to store messages that need to be processed by child windows. For some reason this queue is not being properly reset when the messages are processed. Or, it could be as simple as returning the wrong value after processing these messages, causing Windows to send them again. Harold -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jean-Claude Gervais Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 1:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Rootless mode This may be obvious, but the difference between the two is that Windows sends you a bunch of messages when you're dragging the window when fulldrag is in effect... So it might be some message handler repositioning the window during one of those notifications... Maybe a WM_SIZE or WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGING... Anyhow, I think running spy and just looking in on the stream of messages that a window doing fulldrag receives could be a way to figure out which message. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Harold L Hunt Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 1:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Rootless mode Kensuke, Hmm... that sounds about right. Windows 2000 and Windows XP have that option on by default, I believe. Are you going to try to debug this? Harold Matsuzaki Kensuke [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Harold, I could not reproduce that bug, but now I found that this bug occur when Show window contents while dragging enabled. Maximizing a window never stop too. Matsuzaki Kensuke
RE: SSH XFree86
Hi John, I use SSH the same way that you do, and although I can't be sure to solve your problem, here are a couple recommendations; Use the -C parameter with SSH so that it will compress your data, this will speed your sessions. Make sure your DISPLAY environment variable is set to 127.0.0.1:0.0 in your local shell before issuing your connection request, because if it is not, you won't be able to receive the X stream back along the SSH conduit. Other than that, I can't think of anything... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Burkhart Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 1:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SSH XFree86 To whomever may have the knowledge (aka HH?), I am using XFree86 running on a win98 machine to access a remote Unix system. My machine is behind a router, therefore when i run ssh with the parameters : ssh -X -l username hostname I get the follwing error: Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. Subsequently the remote machine gives me a can't open display error whenever I try to run anything like xmgr or even and xterm on the remote machine. Do I need to use port forwarding? If so, how do I do this? The router has a public IP address, but the IP on my computer is invisible to the WAN as far as I can tell. Thank you, john
RE: Preventing X server resets
if a machine running an X server is rebooted then the server is lost, and there's typically no way to tell the clients where to reconnect to Isn't that what xmove does?
RE: XWin.exe -- xinit link
Thanks Thomas, The thing is, no matter what I put in those files, it either starts XWin with a border, or not at all. And when I do get it to start up, there is always a console mode window hanging around until I close it, and that closes XWin... *sigh* I AM trying to understand how all this stuff fits together, but I'm not having very much luck. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Thomas Chadwick Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 10:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: XWin.exe -- xinit link RTFM! Do man xinit from the Cygwin command-line and read the 1st 3 paragraphs. From: Jean-Claude Gervais [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: XWin.exe -- xinit link Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 10:08:07 -0500 Thanks Artur, But that's not quite the info I was looking for; You see, when I type startxwin.bat or startxwin.sh, I get a DIFFERENT result than from starting xinit by itself. Yet, xinit does start XWin, only it is starting it in windowed mode... Which is OK, but I'm just wondering WHERE does xinit get this from? Is it executing a script? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Artur Hefczyc Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 9:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: XWin.exe -- xinit link What parameters does it use to start XWin? Where does it get the parameters? You can find manual and parameters for XWin from command: man XWin Is it executing a script? /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.bat /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh Artur Hefczyc -- Artur Hefczyc http://wttools.sf.net/ _ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail
XWin.exe -- xinit link
Hello, If I start xinit, it in turn seems to start XWin. My question is What parameters does it use to start XWin? Where does it get the parameters? Is it executing a script?
RE: XWin.exe -- xinit link
Thanks Artur, But that's not quite the info I was looking for; You see, when I type startxwin.bat or startxwin.sh, I get a DIFFERENT result than from starting xinit by itself. Yet, xinit does start XWin, only it is starting it in windowed mode... Which is OK, but I'm just wondering WHERE does xinit get this from? Is it executing a script? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Artur Hefczyc Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 9:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: XWin.exe -- xinit link What parameters does it use to start XWin? Where does it get the parameters? You can find manual and parameters for XWin from command: man XWin Is it executing a script? /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.bat /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh Artur Hefczyc -- Artur Hefczyc http://wttools.sf.net/
Newbie question -
Is there a way to invoke XDMCP AFTER the fact? Once I have started a local window manager, I'd like to do an XDMCP query, but running XWin again creates a second instance of X that is independent of my current window session. I tried running XDM ?!? And it replies only root wants to run xdm... But there is no user called root on my system... Thanks.
RE: Preventing X server resets
Hi, Would xmove also be a possibility? From what I understand, xmove can be used to disconnect an X session from a host without the session actually closing. You can then move the display to another machineand resume where you left off.. You can also simply reattach to the X session from the machine that originally requested it. Is that what you're after? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner;cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Rasjid Wilcox Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 6:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Oliver, Peter; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: Preventing X server resets On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 2:41 am, Oliver, Peter wrote: I'm using XDMCP for my session, from where I run X applications on various different servers. If the machine I logged onto with XDMCP is rebooted, or suffers network difficulties, the X server resets and I loose my whole session. I would prefer the X server and it's remaining clients to continue running, so that I can just start a window manager on a different box and carry on working. Is there some way to prevent this reset from happening? I gave the -noreset option a try but it made no difference. As other posts have indicated, you can't solve this with XDMCP. The only (open source) solution that I'm aware of is to use VNC. There are several different VNC versions out there. http://www.realvnc.com is the new version by the original developers. (There is also Tridia VNC, Tight VNC, esVNC and probably others.) This adds an extra layer between the user and the applications. In essence VNC runs a virtual X-Server on the machine running the applications. (Actually, it could be some other machine, but lets keep this simple.) To illustrate, suppose you have a machine 'Server', and a machine 'Desktop'. The user is sitting in front of 'Desktop', and the applications live on 'Server'. With XDMCP: Process Machine Application AServer | | X Protocol | X-ServerDesktop With VNC: ProcessMachine Application A Server | | X Protocol | VNC Server Server | | VNC Protocol | VNC Client Desktop | | X Protocol | X-Server Desktop If the 'Desktop' is running Windows, you don't need the last step, since there is a native Windows VNC Client. The advantage with VNC is you can kill the VNC client and not lose you X-Session. You can for example, log in at work (using VNC), leave stuff running but kill the VNC client, go home, and re-connect with a new VNC client at home, and still be running the original session you left going at work. The disadvantage (over a LAN) is the 'smoothness' of the display, although I believe the new versions are pretty good. You also can't use XDMCP, so no nice login screen. But for keeping an X-Session going even when your desktop crashes, it is just what the doctor ordered. (VNC is also useful for low bandwidth connections.) Anyway, since there is a Win32 VNC Client (and server), this is not somewhat offtop for this list. OTOH, I wonder what the performance of the *nix vnc client would be under XFree-Cygwin? Might have a look sometime. Cheers, Rasjid.
RE: Running XDMCP server
*snort* I can't help but laugh, David! No, not at your predicament, but rather at the funny coincidence that you and I are both looking at the same problem but from opposite ends! LOL So I take it that you're running Windows, and you'd like Windows to be the server (you're right - probably the wrong terminology here) and permit Linux boxes to XDMCP to your Windows machine? If that is the case, I *think* your Windows machine should run Xnest and your Linux machines should then connect to it. Looks like I'm probably backward... OK, more reading of the docs is in order. I will get back to you if I figure anything out. Please do the same. Thanks Jean-Claude -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner;cygwin.com]On Behalf Of David Fraser Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 5:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Running XDMCP server Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: I tried running XDM ?!? And it replies only root wants to run xdm... But there is no user called root on my system... Thanks. An equal and opposite reaction... Is it possible to run XDMCP as a server (sorry probably wrong terminology) on the cygwin side, so I can run say Xnest from Linux, connect to XDMCP on Cygwin, login...? And what does the xdm running as root message mean ... I even tried creating a user called root and that didn't work... Just out of interest David
RE: Newbie question -
Hi Harold! OK, I'll tell you what I'm up to: What I do these days is start XWin -rootless -query host I have the host set up so that I log in using gnome, and I have set the remote Gnome to NOT set a background. That way, all I have is the Gnome taskbar, which I dock on the top of my monitor while the Windows taskbar is docked at the bottom of the monitor. That way, it really is quite like being logged onto both computers simultaneously. The only thing is, I haven't figured out how to run local X applications at the same time. I'd like WindowMaker's desktop launcher come up on the display also. I could probably run a bash shell as a Windows console mode app and from it start some X applications, but this seems inelegant. I'm trying to get all three at the same time, and then, (hopefully) hook Xwinclip into the chain and be able to paste data from one computer to another... Does that sound cogent? I can't really be sure, often I've noticed there are even better ways of doing what I want with *nix, only I am still ignorant of many of them. Thanks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner;cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Harold L Hunt II Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 5:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Newbie question - Jean-Claude, No. XDMCP manages your entire X Windows session. Either you use it at startup or you don't use it at all. If all you want is a local window manager and remote applications, then you should launch XWin with your local window manager, then ssh into your remote host with X forwarding enabled and launch your X Clients in the background (e.g. ``xterm''). What did you envision would happen if you were running a local window manager and you logged into a remote XDMCP session at the same time, assuming that this was possible? Did you assume that the window managers would share the screen, that a new window would popup with the XDMCP session? What were you envisioning? Harold Harold Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: Is there a way to invoke XDMCP AFTER the fact? Once I have started a local window manager, I'd like to do an XDMCP query, but running XWin again creates a second instance of X that is independent of my current window session. I tried running XDM ?!? And it replies only root wants to run xdm... But there is no user called root on my system... Thanks.
RE: Quake3 Arena Dedicated
A hopeless case! I love it. Seriously, Mario, are you trying to simply run Quake3 or are you trying to port it? I think you might be able to get Quake3 to run natively on Cygwin easily, if you had its source code and simply recompiled it. After all, it's mostly a question of running the 3D calculation engine, not doing the rendering, and serving UDP sockets, which Cygwin can do quite well, I'm certain. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner;cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Mario Ohnewald Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 3:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Quake3 Arena Dedicated Hello! I tried to run Quake3 dedicated under Cygwin, this is what i get: -- Administrator@SPIEKEY ~/quake3_arena $ ./linuxq3apoint-1.32.x86.run Verifying archive integrity...OK Uncompressing Quake III Arena Point Release 1.32 ... .. source: not found This installation doesn't support glibc-2.1 on CYGWIN_NT-5.0 / x86 (tried to run setup) Fatal error, no tech support email configured in this setup The setup program seems to have failed on x86/glibc-2.1 Fatal error, no tech support email configured in this setup The program returned an error code (1) -- Has someone an idea how to solve this? Cheers, Mario
RE: Running multiple servers from Windows Terminal Server
Hi Salah, I can attest that XWin will work over RDP and over Netmeeting too. One thing, I usually use -engine 1, so that the drawing will be done by GDI because RDP didn't seem to be able to get the data (all I would get was a big white square or a big transparent square). I use these on a workstation though, either Windows XP, sharing its desktop or Windows 2000 with Netmeeting Remote Desktop Sharing (they are two different things). Both work fine. As for Windows Terminal Server, I can't say. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner;cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Salah Zerrougui Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 2:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Running multiple servers from Windows Terminal Server Hello, I have used Cygwin/Xfree86 on PCs for around a year now, without any problems. Now i have some users who run their applications on Thin clients Terminals hooked to a Windows NT 4 (Terminal server edition) (RDP protocol). I installed the latest version of Cygwin/Xfree86 and created two batch files : X0.bat -- SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 . . start /B XWin -ac -query peis07 -screen 0 1024x768x16 -engine 4 And X1.bat SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:1.1 . . start /B XWin -ac -query peis07 -screen 1 1024x768x16 -engine 4 I set two Terminals one running X0.bat and the other one X1.bat, now each of them works fine as long as i don't launch the other. Probably TCP Port problem ??? My questions are : 1) Can this work properly ? is there any other parameters to pass to Xwin ? 2) Is someone using Cygwin/Xfree86 in a Terminal Server Environement ? What are the issues that you may have encounter, and what solutions did you implement to solve them ? Thank you for your help in advance, Salah Zerrougui __ Do you Yahoo!? U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive greatest hits videos http://launch.yahoo.com/u2
Rootless mode with Query mode
Hi, If I start XWin with the following parameters, :0 -rootless -query hostname I get the Redhat login dialog box, which appears with NO background. This is good. Then when I log in, whether I select GNOME or KDE, the KDE/GNOME desktop background always appears. Is there a way to prevent this? I'd like to have the Gnome or KDE taskbar and start menu, but not a desktop like it does. And even if I configure KDE/GNOME to have NO desktop, they both still want to at least draw a color background. Anyone?
RE: XFree leaking memory?
BoundsChecker. I use it all the time to find memory leaks. I wonder if you can use it on something compiled with GCC... It should be able to see bad parameters and leaks resulting from calls to the Win32 API, but I wonder if that would be the extent of what it can trap. In other words, it might not be able to follow NEW or MALLOC, because the object format might be too different. Tell you what, unless someone has actually tried BoundsChecker on GCC code and has a capsule about how well it works, I'll give it a shot and post back results. PS - I should say that I am NOT affiliated with the makers of BoundsChecker in any way, and on the whole, I find BoundsChecker pretty buggy itself and not very reliable that it won't crash during a run, so don't bother pointing that out. ;-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner;cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Harold L Hunt II Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 11:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: XFree leaking memory? Konstantin, Interesting. So, this appears to be a new memory leak that has nothing to do with rootless mode. At this point I think we will need suggestions from others as to how we can find the source of this memory leak. There are not too many calls in the Windows-specific portion of XWin.exe that could result in continual memory leaks like this. However, I hope that the bug is in the Windows-specific portion of XWin.exe and not in either the rest of the XWin.exe code or in cygwin1.dll. Finding a memory leak in either of those would be tedious. Anybody got any suggestions? Harold -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner;cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Konstantin N. Kudin Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 8:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: XFree leaking memory? Harold I do not think I am using -rootless since I am running the standard *.bat file supplied with XFree and have a separate workspace for X. So this leak appears to be a separate issue. Is there a way to generate memory usage statistics for X? Konstantin On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, it was written: Konstantin, Are you using the ``-rootless'' command-line parameter? If so, the developer of that feature mentioned that there was a memory leak and that he was working on fixing it. If not, then we might need to look into your problem as a previously unknown problem. Harold Konstantin N. Kudin wrote: Hi all I am using the cygwin + xfree combination for my X server. I run the program for days on a W2k laptop and put the machine on stand by every night. W2k and xfree are restarted quite infrequently (once every 2-4 weeks). I have noticed in Task Manager that XWin process slowly but surely grows in size adding about 2Mb every day. It starts from 13 Mb but over the course of few days may become as large as 150 Mb (I have seen that). I tried to update XFree to the latest version a couple of weeks ago yet it did not stop growing in size. I mostly run fvwm and 2-3 xterms. I also occasionally display xterms and other things from other machines. I am curious if the developers are aware of/working on this issue? I could provide more details if needed/technically possible. Sincerely, Konstantin
RE: XFree leaking memory?
Thanks Ralf, There is also this tool - http://devel-home.kde.org/~sewardj/ Not sure if it can be used on Cygwin, but I think it might. Anyhow, I'll run some tests and report back. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner;cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Ralf Habacker Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 3:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: XFree leaking memory? In other words, it might not be able to follow NEW or MALLOC, because the object format might be too different. Try the mem_watch tool in the kde-cygwin cvs area http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=27249, which hooks any memory relating call. $ less README Memory Watcher == This is a little library for tracing memory related api calls on win32 using gcc. Features: - detection of unfree'd memory regions - traces each malloc(), calloc(), realloc() and free() call - collects size and addresses of allocated area - runtime switchable logging support of hooked function See INSTALL for installation hints. The only thing you have to do is to adding a call after main() and perhaps one call for printing the results at the end of main(). Try $cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/kde-cygwin login empty password $cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/kde-cy gwin co tools/mem_watch $ make $ make check $ test.exe
RE: xfree leaking memory? - XWin trace.zip
I ran XWin under Boundschecker with the following parameters: :0 -engine 1 -rootless -lesspointer Note that I didn't recompile or modify XWin from its current distribution version to do this. After starting it, I ran another instance of Boundschecker and under this one, I started WMAKER. Once both of these were under way, I opened three XTerms, and then closed them again. Then I closed both apps by right-clicking the XWin taskbar icon and selecting close. The really strange thing is that Wmaker generated NO WARNINGS OR LEAKS AT ALL! That really is odd... I've no idea why this would happen, because as a rule, Boundschecker usually gives at least a few false reports of errors and leaks. In the case of XWin, the results are different. Many errors and leaks were reported, but a lot of these are in fact false alarms often times caused by Boundschecker being unmapped from memory before it can see an application (or one of its dependant DLLs) releasing an allocation the module made previously. So I've included the output, but I must warn - Since I didn't have the freshly-compiled applications, the stack information is rudimentary. Also, events reported as taking place in CYGWIN1.DLL might best be ignored, as they probably represent cases of false alarms as mentioned above. I will at some point recompile XWin and give it another go, but it might take a little time. PS - Here's hoping the attachment will make it through. PPS - Personally, I think the leaks reported resulting from calls to CreatePopupMenu and CreateRectRgn may in fact be genuine. Jean-Claude XWin trace.zip Description: Zip compressed data
RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin/XFree86 Package: x2x-1.27-2
Great news Thomas, Um, since you know so much about dual-displays, maybe you could help me? I'm running Cygwin XFree on a machine inside which I have installed two video cards; this in effect creates a really large Windows desktop. I'm just wondering if you know of any way to get the Cygwin XFree display to either use the full desktop surface, or failing that, is there a way to get Cygwin XFree to start up on the right-hand side of the display, because it never seems to want to start on the second display... Thanks in advance. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner;cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Thomas Chadwick Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 9:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin/XFree86 Package: x2x-1.27-2 ANNOUCEMENT An update to the Cygwin/XFree86 package 'x2x' is now available. DESCRIPTION The usefulness of this utility will become apparent to anyone with a PC side-by-side with an *ix workstation. Simply bring up an XWindows session on each machine, run x2x on the PC, and use your PC's mouse and keyboard to control your *ix workstation's display. Works better and is cheaper than a KVM (Keyboard/Video/Mouse) switch. It also works much like a multi-headed X session. RELEASE HISTORY x2x-1.27-2 (current release): Bugfix and enhancement release. Changes are: 1) Fixed problem in which x2x consumes nearly 100% of the CPU. This was due to a problem in setting up a call to select(), which was causing it to be non-blocking. 2) Added some includes and cleaned-up some code to cut down on compiler warnings. 3) Added a whole new feature! Invoking x2d with a command-line flag of -capslockhackcauses it to wrap Shift key Press/ Release events around alpha keystrokes. I discovered I needed this feature because the to display I have uses the state of CapsLock on its attached keyboard to determine if CapsLock is on (instead of obeying the CapsLock Press/Release keyboard events). x2x-1.27-1: Initial Release. Vendor code built and package as-is. KNOWN BUGS Doesn't work very well with the new rootless mode of XWin. I plan to fix this in a future release. INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS To update your installation, click on the Install Cygwin now link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions and pick up 'x2x' from the 'XFree86' category. You may need to click the Full button if it doesn't show up. Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't allowed due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update. In the US, ftp://archive.progeny.com/cygwin/ is a reliable high bandwidth connection. In Japan, ftp://ftp.u-aizu.ac.jp/pub/gnu/gnu-win32/ is usually up-to-date. In DK, http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/cygwin/ is usually up-to-date. If one of the above doesn't have the latest version of this package you can either wait for the site to be updated or find another mirror. Please send questions or comments to the Cygwin/XFree86 mailing list (mailto:cygwin-xfree;sources.redhat.com). If you want to subscribe go to http://cygwin.com/lists.html. I would appreciate it if you would use the mailing list rather than emailing me directly. This includes ideas and comments about the setup utility or Cygwin/XFree86 in general. If you want to make a point or ask a question, the Cygwin/XFree86 mailing list is the appropriate place. _ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963
RE: Fun weekend
Really cool post-mortem Harold! I've also got an 80GB HD (UDMA) and a Radeon All-In-Wonder (but the older model) And yeah, been there, done that too! When Windows gets in a funk like that, there isn't a whole lot to do. If I remember correctly though, you can run Regedit in DOS mode and make changes to the registry. At least you could, some time ago; MS had built Regedit with a DOS-mode stub that could spit the registry out to a textfile or read a text file and apply the changes in it to the system registry. This stub is usually a little program that says This program requires Microsoft Windows to run, but you can actually use a different stub (of your own creation) if you want to when you build your app. Anyhow, I'm not sure if even that could have saved you :-O -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner;cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Harold L Hunt II Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 11:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fun weekend This weekend was interesting. On Saturday I picked up a Samsung SyncMaster 191T, using the funds that have been donated by the generous Cygwin/XFree86 supporters (I also chipped in a substantial amount of money on my own, for anyone keeping score :) This gives me a nice readable display and it replaces the hideous 15 inch LCD that I had caused two permanent vertical lines (one blue, one yellow) by not wiping off the windex before it ran down under the bezel (stupid, stupid me). I hated looking at the monitor because it reminded me of my own stupidity. :) I then ran back to the store and picked up an ATI All In Wonder Radeon 8500 DV since it has a DVI-I output. This was necessary because I was getting some interference patterns when running in 1280x1024 with the analog DB-15 input. The DVI input cleared up the interference completely and my display is now beautifuly. However, getting the display to work perfectly took about 8 hours, as it was dropping frames when playing DVDs (the motion was extremely jerky) and recording video was dropping tons of frames as well. I was misled by the ATI documentation and utilities into thinking that this was either due to a misconfiguration of the hard drive interface (i.e., UDMA may not be enabled) or due to a poorly synchronized clock on my sound card (which is used for decoding the audio). I stumbled upon the correct solution, more on that below, after an entire day of poking around. I thought that the solution was the hard drive drivers, but I was wrong. Anyway, on Sunday morning I booted up the machine, after having spent all of Saturday and Saturday night until 3:00 AM configuring it. Windows reported that WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM could not be found. Great. I ran setup to a repair, but setup could not find my Windows installation. So, I ran the recovery console. All of my data was still there, but chkdsk reported errors. This totally agrees with the fact that running some executables over the past two weeks would completely lock the machine. These executables were most likely corrupt. In any case, I needed a new hard drive. (Luckily, I could copy data from the damaged drive to the Zip drive). I returned to the store again and bought an 80 GB Western Digital HD. I reinstalled Windows 2000, only to find that the drive letter assigned to the new drive was F and the old drive was C. So, I changed the old drive to C, and reinstalled Windows 2000 again (since it will not let you change the drive letter of the boot drive, yay). Now the new drive was C and the old drive was D, perfect. I then copied over all of my data. Thank god none of that was lost. Unfortunately, I had lost the entire weekend due to computer troubles. As for the video problems, I would have known exactly what was wrong had I tried to run XWin.exe at any point during my attempts to fix the jerky DVDs and video recording. The first time I ran XWin.exe after setting up the new hard drive, I noticed that the X background took about 4 seconds to draw, and directory listings were visibly crawling. This new card was 10 times slower than my old card when using the DirectDraw engines; the GDI engine, on the other hand, ran very quickly. So, I uninstalled my graphics card drivers (keeping the Hardware Manager applet open, otherwise this does not work), then reran the setup.exe for the updated ATI drivers that I had downloaded. I then rebooted the machine and the DirectDraw engines were as blazingly fast as expected. The problems with the DVD playback and video recording were also fixed. I had originally installed the downloaded drivers, thinking that they would not be overwritten with an older version when I installed the ATI software from the enclosed CD-ROM, but the drivers were, in fact, overwritten with an older version. That older version has terrible performance. The newer version is amazing. In sum total, I now have a machine that I can actually stand to use for programming again. You could
RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin/XFree86 Package: x2x-1.27-2
Thomas - Yes, I've tried invoking XWin from the second display, but no dice. Harold - Yup, of course; all good things take time. I'm currently learning more and more about X anyway, so I might even be able to help out at some point; It seems that to be able to contribute to a project like Cygwin, you have to know Win32 and *nix equally well. Here's the work-around that I've found; brace yourselves - I grab the taskbar and drag it onto the second display (the reason for this will become clearer in a moment) Using the -engine 1, I start XWin in rootless mode (Yay! Rootless mode rocks!) I drag the taskbar back to the primary display, now that XWin has calculated the window-size excluding the task-bar. I right-click on XWin's taskbar icon and select MOVE, then I use the arrow-keys to move XWin's display across to the other screen, and press enter once it's properly positioned. Alternatively, I could just LEAVE the taskbar on the second display, but then I have a problem remote-controlling the box with another Microsoft gem, Netmeeting. Thanks for your reading. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner;cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Harold L Hunt II Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 10:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin/XFree86 Package: x2x-1.27-2 Jean-Claude, No, there is not way for Cygwin/XFree86 to use the entire area of the dual-display; that is pretty much a limitation of DirectDraw, if I recall correctly (I seem to remember that a surface can only span a single physical monitor). You could probably pass the ``-engine 1'' argument to use the GDI-based blitter, but that would still be limited to a single physical display because Cygwin/XFree86 trims the specified size to fit on the primary monitor. We would need some sort of new command-line argument to indicate that the specified size is not to be trimmed in anyway, or we could have a flag that says to use the entire virtual desktop size. I prefer the later. In any case, some coding will need to happen before your request can be realized. Harold Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: Great news Thomas, Um, since you know so much about dual-displays, maybe you could help me? I'm running Cygwin XFree on a machine inside which I have installed two video cards; this in effect creates a really large Windows desktop. I'm just wondering if you know of any way to get the Cygwin XFree display to either use the full desktop surface, or failing that, is there a way to get Cygwin XFree to start up on the right-hand side of the display, because it never seems to want to start on the second display... Thanks in advance. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner;cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Thomas Chadwick Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 9:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin/XFree86 Package: x2x-1.27-2 ANNOUCEMENT An update to the Cygwin/XFree86 package 'x2x' is now available. DESCRIPTION The usefulness of this utility will become apparent to anyone with a PC side-by-side with an *ix workstation. Simply bring up an XWindows session on each machine, run x2x on the PC, and use your PC's mouse and keyboard to control your *ix workstation's display. Works better and is cheaper than a KVM (Keyboard/Video/Mouse) switch. It also works much like a multi-headed X session. RELEASE HISTORY x2x-1.27-2 (current release): Bugfix and enhancement release. Changes are: 1) Fixed problem in which x2x consumes nearly 100% of the CPU. This was due to a problem in setting up a call to select(), which was causing it to be non-blocking. 2) Added some includes and cleaned-up some code to cut down on compiler warnings. 3) Added a whole new feature! Invoking x2d with a command-line flag of -capslockhackcauses it to wrap Shift key Press/ Release events around alpha keystrokes. I discovered I needed this feature because the to display I have uses the state of CapsLock on its attached keyboard to determine if CapsLock is on (instead of obeying the CapsLock Press/Release keyboard events). x2x-1.27-1: Initial Release. Vendor code built and package as-is. KNOWN BUGS Doesn't work very well with the new rootless mode of XWin. I plan to fix this in a future release. INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS To update your installation, click on the Install Cygwin now link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions and pick up 'x2x' from the 'XFree86' category. You may need to click the Full button if it doesn't show up. Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't allowed due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has
RE: Multiple monitors
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner;cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Harold L Hunt II Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 12:23 PM So, what you really want is to be able to say ``start screen 0 on physical monitor x'', right? That way the rootless X would pop up on the desired monitor. Additionally, you want to make sure that the sreen size is not reduced by the size of the taskbar, which is not present on the pysical monitor that X will be displayed on? I think I can work something like that. EXACLTY! Also, calling GetSystemMetrics( SM_CXVIRTUALSCREEN ), GetSystemMetrics( SM_CXVIRTUALSCREEN ), when the -engine 1 option is in effect can yield the TRUE size of the display, so if the -engine 1 option and say, he -wholedesktop option is ALSO in effect, maybe XWin could create a window that would fill both displays?
True-type Fonts on *nixes and Cygwin XFree also?
Hi, I recently read this article http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ And applied the procedure to my Linux machine. My question is, how relevant is this to Cygwin? Meaning, does Cygwin use True-Type and anti-aliased fonts? If Cygwin can use anti-aliased fonts, how do you get that working? The installation procedure has a few steps that pertain to the RPM module. I tried downloading the Cygwin port of it, and the link seems to be broken. Does anyone have information on anti-aliased fonts on Cygwin?
XWinClip
Hi, I've followed the posted instructions for downloading and installing XWinClip, but for some odd reason, I get the following error when trying to extract the .EXE: bunzip2 xwinclip-Test06.exe.bz2 bunzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out. Possible reason follows. bunzip2: Permission denied Input file = xwinclip-Test06.exe.bz2, output file = xwinclip-Test06.exe bunzip2: Deleting output file xwinclip-Test06.exe, if it exists. /home/jc I've also tried this on a totally different computer and gotten the same result. Anyone have a clue as to what the problem is?
RE: Rootless: how to get wm menu?
If you are running WindowMaker, pressing F12 gets the root menu. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner;cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Jehan Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 11:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Rootless: how to get wm menu? Keith D. Tyler wrote: You could run an app that shows some root window space. Try running Xeyes. The rootless mode doesnt include the X shape mask of xeyes in the Windows shape map for rootless mode, so the corners of xeyes should be usable as root window click-space. That's not true anymore. The latest release of XWin (4.2.0-15) support shapes in rootless mode. Jehan
RE: XWinClip
Hi Bradey, Thanks for helping. Nope, it's not that. For one thing, this IS happening on a local drive. The NTFS security and permissions and ownership are set properly. As for the Cygwin ownership and rights, I am the file's owner and have all rights to it. As an aside, I went though the whole user/password procedure a while ago when I couldn't start X anymore because the user I was logged on as did not exist as a local user (domain user), and Cygwin's policy concerning such a situation had changed. Maybe this is another manifestation of the problem that that policy change caused. Um, could someone send me the XWinClip Test 06 source code in a zip file and I'll build it... Anyhow, I'm not sure what version of XWinClip I'm currently running, but after a paste or two, it starts taking a lot of CPU and doesn't work anymore. If that is still going on in the Test 06 source, I might perform an analysis and figure what is going wrong with it. J -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner;cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Bradey Honsinger Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 2:13 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: XWinClip I saw that just the other day--I didn't have the appropriate permissions to a directory on a network share, so bunzip2 couldn't create the new file without the .bz2 extension. The Permission denied message is a hint, I think :) Try copying the file to a local directory that you know you have permissions on--Cygwin's /tmp is a good candidate. Double-check the permissions in Explorer, and make sure you're the owner of the directory. You may also want to double-check that you've run mkpasswd -d /etc/passwd if you're in a domain. - Bradey -Original Message- From: Jean-Claude Gervais [mailto:jc.gervais;videotron.ca] Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 7:56 AM To: Cygwin-XFree Subject: XWinClip Hi, I've followed the posted instructions for downloading and installing XWinClip, but for some odd reason, I get the following error when trying to extract the .EXE: bunzip2 xwinclip-Test06.exe.bz2 bunzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out. Possible reason follows. bunzip2: Permission denied Input file = xwinclip-Test06.exe.bz2, output file = xwinclip-Test06.exe bunzip2: Deleting output file xwinclip-Test06.exe, if it exists. /home/jc I've also tried this on a totally different computer and gotten the same result. Anyone have a clue as to what the problem is?
RE: No Taskbar Icon (Was: Re: -Rootless AND -NoDecoration)
Here's a heretic opinion: I want a taskbar icon for EACH X application! Nyah! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner;cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Randall R Schulz Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 1:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: No Taskbar Icon (Was: Re: -Rootless AND -NoDecoration) Harold, At 10:24 2002-10-25, you wrote: Randall, No, there is no such combination of flags. How do you intend to set the focus to Cygwin/XFree86 without a taskbar entry? I mean, you could minimize it and not be able to get it back. Without a taskbar icon, I don't know how XWin could get minimized. Would ALT-SPACE N while the X server layer (as I think of it in -rootless mode) was active do it? Also, the Windows SETI@home GUI shows that a window with no taskbar icon can still show up in the ALT-TAB list of icons. In the future, when we write the Windows-based window manager, I intend to make Cygwin/XFree86 use a system tray icon rather than a taskbar icon, but only when using the Windows-based window manager. That would be nice, but I'd still like to avoid the taskbar icon even when I'm using an X-based window manager. Now, from the perspective of building a correct application, can't you see that it would be incredibly non-standard of us to allow Cygwin/XFree86 to not have a taskbar icon? No other Windows application that needs to be minimized/restored/closed has that behavior. Typically, only applications that are either closed or open are in the system tray. Can you see my point? I suppose you could code such a feature if you wanted that did not change the default behavior, but I'm not sure how much use it would be to others... Not at all. There are applications that show windows without taskbar icons when the application writer deemed it appropriate. Since the Windows API makes it possible, it was clearly seen as a viable option that might be desirable in some contexts. Perhaps others could weigh in on whether they'd like to have the option to avoid a taskbar icon? Harold Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA Randall R Schulz wrote: Hi, Please forgive my creative capitalization in the Subject line. I had hoped that using -nodecoration with -rootless would prevent the XWin server getting a taskbar icon, but alas, no. Is there a combination of options or a configuration file or environment setting that will suppress the taskbar icon in rootless mode? Oh, yeah... Rootless Rocks! Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA
RE: XWinClip - bunzip2 - problem solved!
Bing!!! Give that man a cigar! Nope, better than that, I'm going to register my copy of Cygwin, dammit! Thanks Harold. J -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner;cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Harold L Hunt II Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 3:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: XWinClip Make sure that you have the latest cygwin1.dll from yesterday's release (run setup.exe again). Several issues related to the now default ``ntsec'' option were corrected, and one of these fixes may resolve your problems. Harold Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: Hi Bradey, Thanks for helping. Nope, it's not that. For one thing, this IS happening on a local drive. The NTFS security and permissions and ownership are set properly. As for the Cygwin ownership and rights, I am the file's owner and have all rights to it. As an aside, I went though the whole user/password procedure a while ago when I couldn't start X anymore because the user I was logged on as did not exist as a local user (domain user), and Cygwin's policy concerning such a situation had changed. Maybe this is another manifestation of the problem that that policy change caused. Um, could someone send me the XWinClip Test 06 source code in a zip file and I'll build it... Anyhow, I'm not sure what version of XWinClip I'm currently running, but after a paste or two, it starts taking a lot of CPU and doesn't work anymore. If that is still going on in the Test 06 source, I might perform an analysis and figure what is going wrong with it. J -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner;cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Bradey Honsinger Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 2:13 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: XWinClip I saw that just the other day--I didn't have the appropriate permissions to a directory on a network share, so bunzip2 couldn't create the new file without the .bz2 extension. The Permission denied message is a hint, I think :) Try copying the file to a local directory that you know you have permissions on--Cygwin's /tmp is a good candidate. Double-check the permissions in Explorer, and make sure you're the owner of the directory. You may also want to double-check that you've run mkpasswd -d /etc/passwd if you're in a domain. - Bradey -Original Message- From: Jean-Claude Gervais [mailto:jc.gervais;videotron.ca] Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 7:56 AM To: Cygwin-XFree Subject: XWinClip Hi, I've followed the posted instructions for downloading and installing XWinClip, but for some odd reason, I get the following error when trying to extract the .EXE: bunzip2 xwinclip-Test06.exe.bz2 bunzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out. Possible reason follows. bunzip2: Permission denied Input file = xwinclip-Test06.exe.bz2, output file = xwinclip-Test06.exe bunzip2: Deleting output file xwinclip-Test06.exe, if it exists. /home/jc I've also tried this on a totally different computer and gotten the same result. Anyone have a clue as to what the problem is?
RE: Rootless mode only works on one monitor
I see. I'm using two graphics adapters on Windows 2000, but I can't get XWin to come up on the second display, no matter what I try. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner;cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Marcus Lindblom Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2002 4:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Rootless mode only works on one monitor I sort of did that, didn't I? ;) Note that I am running both monitors from the same graphics adapter, and use driver software to link them together as one big screen. I haven't tested using the WinXP-multimon feature, or using two separate adapters. (I have a voodoo2 which I used with a GF1 before I got the GF4). I think XWin tries to open one maximized window (albeit transparent or non-existant, whatever, anyway it uses that as a measure on how big the screen is), and only create subwindows within that border. As you probably know, maximizing a window with Windows-multimon only put's it on one screen, so XWin only get's one screen. As I said, I use nView (nVidia driver thingy) to get one big monitor, so windows doesn't know that it's two of them, thus no problem in running xwin on two monitors, as it is only one. This is a bit silly if you're running rootless though, but I do believe that is why it works for me. (It fits the problems and my solutions to it below, i.e. I had to start xwin-test67.exe non-rootless and tell nview to allow it to maximize to both screens, then I could get rootless windows on both monitors.) /Marcus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner;cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Jean-Claude Gervais Sent: den 20 oktober 2002 21:54 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Rootless mode only works on one monitor Marcus, Could you post the details of how you get multiple-monitors to work with X? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner;cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Marcus Lindblom Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2002 3:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Rootless mode only works on one monitor Problems solved! The first was my bad (told nView not to let apps span two screens when maximizing, do'h!). '-engine 1' took care of the redraw problem, which appeared with rootless as well. /Marcus From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try it with the ``-engine 1'' parameter and report your results. Harold Marcus Lindblom wrote: Hi! Am running Cygwin and Test67 of XWin.exe, a GF4 Ti4200 and a nView-enhanced desktop (which windows sees as one monitor at 2560x1024, not as two 1280x1024). Rootless mode is really cool, but the windows only shows on one of the screens (the primary). Also, when running with a root window, I can get it to strectch across both screens, but I get the same bug that was reported a while ago: a white part on the right side. Looks like only the 2048 leftmost pixel columns are redrawn, and the rest are missed out (they get redrawn sometimes, but very seldom.) /Marcus
RE: Need help
http://themes.freshmeat.net/articles/view/465/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner;cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Carlton Teel Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 4:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Need help Greetings all, I have been trying to locate the steps needed to use the fvwm distributed with Cygwin, but I have not found the silver bullet yet. Can you point to where I need to look or provide me with the necessary steps? Once fvwm is in place, how do I integrate in another theme for fvwm to use? Your assistance would be greatly appreciated :) BTW - Thanks for providing this product! Carlton
RE: wmaker signal 11
I can report that if you install Cygwin and choose DOS files instead of UNIX files as a setup option, wmaker crashes on startup as a matter of course. 'course I don't really know WHY that is, but I did observe the fact. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Harold L Hunt II Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 11:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: wmaker signal 11 Did I build the wmaker package? I am guessing that I did... in that case, I should be linking automode.o with the wmaker executable so that we are not dependent upon binary mounts. Any objections? Harold Gerald S. Williams wrote: Vikram [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: I downloaded cygwin afresh on a new box yesterday. For the first time decided to try out wmaker.exe wmaker got signal 11 everytime I started. I had similar problems at first. I believe I had to switch to a binary mount point. Something like this: $ mount -f -s -b C:/cygwin / But make sure you know what you're doing before you try it. :-) -Jerry
Dual-display
I have a machine with two video cards in it (forms one 2048x768 desktop). Id like to make XWin start on the second display, is there a way to do that? I think I once read that on Windows, when you have multiple video cards, only the first one is accelerated. So the command line would have to contain engine 1 Proposed feature addition: The display switch. Default would be display 1 and in my case you would use it like this: display 2 Or possibly the DISPLAY environment variable. Ex: DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.2
RE: Cygwin Remote: Want to implement a Citrix Metaframe alternative
Whoah! Does that actually work Thomas? Slick! Thanks for the tip! I may not have originally asked the question, but I can definitely use your solution! Thanks again. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Thomas Chadwick Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 2:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cygwin Remote: Want to implement a Citrix Metaframe alternative From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cygwin Remote: Want to implement a Citrix Metaframe alternative Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 09:41:45 +0200 Hi all, I am a Newbee to the X11 System (ok i can configure an compiled it) but, the Steps for Remote Working (like an ICA Metraframe Client) for Cygwin/Xfree86 is not really easy. In Think i have two choices: 1) Remoteauthentication via the Remote Dektopmanager Control Protocol, (But Everyon tells me it is complex an still unsecure?) 2) Using the sure way over an OpenBSD SSH-Shell (thins is the actually configuration, but not a Release Candidate. The SSH way works fine, but the Problem is the Logon Interface (Bash shell) add xhost, DISPLAY=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:0.0; export DISPLAY startkde (catch an Error) Wow! My Boss is killing me for this nasty Way. Ok, iam a Programmer, and i think (write a little Windows Application for Logon to the X-Remote Server (but still the non-interactive SSH Shell is bugging me. (I have read from empty Keyphrase Trick???) Ok Guys, what the best and fastest Way (non commercial, Software must be free)? I think I follow what you're trying to do in #2 above. May I suggest the following? On the remote system, create a shell script which contains something like the following: #!/bin/sh # Launch an Xterm (run in the pack ground) xterm -title `whoami`@`hostname` # Launch WindowManager (run in the foreground) mwm On the local (Cygwin) system, create a shell script that contains something similar to the following, and save it as .xinitrc in your home directory: #!/bin/sh ssh -X remoteusername@remotehostname pathtoremotescript The pathtoremotescript is referring to the script on the remote system I suggested above. On the local (Cygwin) system, edit the file .bash_profile in your home directory and add /usr/X11R6/bin to your path: export PATH=$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin Finally, on the Cygwin system, create a Windows shortcut with the following target: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -c xinit -- -nodecoration When you double click the shortcut, the following sequence of events will happen: 1) Windows will run bash. The --login parameter tells it to source your .bash_profile file, adding /usr/X11R6/bin to your PATH. 2) Bash will run xinit, which will start up the X server, then source the .xinitrc file. 3) .xinitrc will execute ssh. 4) ssh will connect to the remote system and prompt you for a password. It will then enable X11 Forwarding, assign the appropriate value to DISPLAY, and will execute the remote shell script. 5) The remote shell script will run, launching an xterm and window manager which will appear on your Cygwin X server screen. 6) Close things down by quitting the window manager on the remote system or by killing the Cygwin X server with Alt-F4. _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx
RE: RE Cygwin List posts
As long as we are at it, I want to know what color your dog is. Also, I am glad Pookie is feeling better. Geert had mentioned something about Pookie's posterior being hurt. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Harold L Hunt II Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 10:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RE Cygwin List posts Geert, I don't know what you are trying to say here. My response to Jean-Claude was light-hearted (I said my dog was fine): http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-09/msg00279.html Ben responded to me throwing my hands in the air with a much more detailed account of his situation (notice that the message subject changed back to RH 7.3 from our off-list subject of Cygwin List Posts): http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-09/msg00280.html I then responded with some information that was probably helpful: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-09/msg00281.html After that there was no response, so I can only assume that the 1024x768x65535 was causing the problem (or his RedHat machine was not in runlevel 5). So Geert, I have misunderstood your postings before... what have I misunderstood this time? Harold Pille Geert (bizvdm) wrote: I have learned from a reliable source, that Harold has (repeat: HAS) a pain in the ass. Which sometimes explains a person's emotional reactions. But one must admit that Ben did not help to ease the pain. -Original Message- From: Jean-Claude Gervais [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: woensdag 25 september 2002 21:21 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: RE Cygwin List posts Having problems with your dog, Harold? ;-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Harold L Hunt II Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 4:16 PM To: Benjamin Simmons Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RE Cygwin List posts Ben, See, you aren't telling me what you have had success in doing. What do you mean ``They all work fine''? Does that mean that you have successfully done an XDMCP session, used ssh to display remote clients, and used telnet to display remote clients? If so, then say exactly that. I'm not just going to ``elaborate'' about the wonderful things that you can do with XDMCP and ssh --- I could write about them all day long. You have to ask a specific question about precisely what it is that you want to do. We cannot read your mind. Imagine for a moment that your dog cannot walk and that I am a vet. If you come to me and say, ``my dog has a broken leg, can you fix it?'', then I am very likely to help you. If, on the other hand, you come to me and say, ``My dog needs to [mumble mumble mumble]... can you tell me about the many things that dogs can do?'', then I'm going to kick you out of my office. Harold P.S. - This is going back on [EMAIL PROTECTED] because it seems to me like you are trying to waste my time since you are being vague about both your questions and your answers. Don't reply to me personally, only send your questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Benjamin Simmons wrote: thank you sir for your reply, at this point I would love to gain some further instruction on either option you present. I have multiple RHLinux 7.2 boxes setup so that I can do your first option. They all work fine. I am having the difficulty in setting up a RH Linux 7.3 box in the same manner. I did the things you discuss in the guide, and any further elaboration is greatly appreciated. Thank you, Ben Simmons Harold L Hunt II wrote: Ben, I have been reading the list and it looks to me like you asked the same question over again. Rasjid gave you the same answer that I gave you --- which defeats the purpose of writing a User's Guide, since I wrote the User's Guide to explain this very question once and for all. You say that you need to connect to multiple machines. Is that the specific part that you are having trouble with? Are you able to connect to one machine at a time, but not to multiple machines at once? If so, I can help you with that. Please be clear on whether you are trying to run a remote session via XDMCP (where you are presented by a login box and one Cygwin/XFree86 window is owned entirely by one remote machine) or whether you are trying to display remote clients via ssh (in which case you can ssh to multiple remote machines and have them all display X Clients in one Cygwin/XFree86 window - or in multiple Cygwin/XFree86 windows). Harold Benjamin Simmons wrote: If you had ben paying attention to the list today, you would have seen an excahnge between myself and Rasjid Wilcox. If you were paying attention to this exchange, you would have noticed that he has offered further details. I did read through what you sent me, and found it to cover exactly what I had already done. Since I had used your information, but felt that I needed further details, I responded to someone
RE: How do you gentleuser's start your X stuff?
Hi Frank, This list is really all about the Cygwin implementation of X and issues concerning that. If you have generic questions about X development, www.x.org might be a place to start. The comp.windows.x newsgroup might have some people on it that could help you. As an aside, your question about linking X calls to your cygwin app does seem legit to me, but I cannot answer it. Sorry. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lane, Frank L Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 12:19 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: How do you gentleuser's start your X stuff? OK. If my questions about xfree aren't welcome on this list where should I go to ask them? Also, the fact that new user questions aren't welcome here is not obvious from the project page description. Thanks, Frank -Original Message- From: Alexander Gottwald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 11:13 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: How do you gentleuser's start your X stuff? On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Lane, Frank L wrote: Second question, as I'm interested in learning everything I can about X, I'm trying to write some beginner programs. When I compile using gcc I get a message about unresolved calls to _XSimpleWindow and some other functions. I've tried including -L/usr/X11R6/bin/libX11.dll but that doesn't help. Any suggestions? Is there anyway I can see if the function xsimplewindow is in the libX11.dll or what files exist in what dll's? bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
x2x or XWin -screen 0 2048 768 ?
Hi, Can anyone point me in the right direction? I've added a second video card to my computer and am running Windows with a large (2048x768) desktop. I'd like to run XWin like that too, but it and all the other apps only maximize on ONE of the screens. Although if a window is not maximized and can be sized, I can stretch it across both screens, I figure there must be a better way. Does anyone here know anything about this? Jean-Claude
RE: x2x or XWin -screen 0 2048 768 ?
Hello, Yes, I have run XWin -screen 0 2048 768 And it maximizes on the current screen. Actually, if I use any resolution that exceeds the width of the primary display, the X display always seems to be 1024 pixels wide. I've tried using -scrollbars , but that option doesn't seem to exist! If I use it on XWin's command line, XWin exits immediately. An additional command-line parameter? Well, how about -spanmultiplemonitors x or -dualdisplay x Where x would be the number of contiguous display you'd allow XWin to take up? Of course, it could get a little tricky: each monitor can be set to a different resolution, can be spatially arranged vertically or horizontally in relation to the other monitor(s), which can result in some pretty funky geometries... I seem to remember that dual-head video cards (one adapter with two or more SVGA outputs on it) didn't have these problems, because other than allowing you to place the screens vertically or horizontally, each screen had to run at the same resolution as the others and the system really only saw the configuration as a single, rectangular display anyhow. All that aside, it would be an interesting feature to implement user window-sizing to arbitrary resolutions via the -scrollbars parameter so that a user might stretch the X display to the size s/he wants. But I'm not clear on whether or not X allows resizing once an X 'console' has started. Does it? Thanks a lot for your consideration. Jean-Claude -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Harold L Hunt II Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 7:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: x2x or XWin -screen 0 2048 768 ? Jean-Claude, Have you run Cygwin/XFree86 as follows? XWin -screen 0 2048 768 Does that work at all? Are you able to size the window using the mouse so that it displays at up to 2048x768? If not, perhaps we can change that behavior later. As far as maximization size, you will notice that all other Windows applications only size to the size of the current monitor when you click the maximize button. Thus, we are following the standard behavior. Also, think about the limited options that we have here. Pretty much our only other option would be to create a screen large enough to fill both monitors on startup, say 2048x768, and display that size by default. Well, what if the user doesn't want to have their screen stretched across two displays, then that is just too bad for them, they have to have it stretched across two displays. I don't think that would be acceptable as the default behavior. If you propose an extremely detailed new default behavior scheme, that can actually be implemented, and that doesn't do anything detrimental to the 99% of users that use the default behavior, then I will most likely implement your proposed new logic. Or, you can propose a detailed new command-line parameter if you wish that provides a different behavior for multiple-monitor systems. More than likely you will realize that we are doing pretty much what other Windows applications do and that there isn't a default behavior that is much better. Of course, I may just be overlooking some simple improvement. Hope that helps. Harold Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: Hi, Can anyone point me in the right direction? I've added a second video card to my computer and am running Windows with a large (2048x768) desktop. I'd like to run XWin like that too, but it and all the other apps only maximize on ONE of the screens. Although if a window is not maximized and can be sized, I can stretch it across both screens, I figure there must be a better way. Does anyone here know anything about this? Jean-Claude
RE: x2x or XWin -screen 0 2048 768 ?
Harold, OK then. I'd say the reasonable trade-off that wouldn't hinder existing users would be that you get to specify the size of the X display, to any resolution you want, and ONLY if you have -scrollbars specified, then you can scroll the window around to see all of it OR you can also stretch the window up to the maximum you specified. If you DON'T specify -scrollbars, then if your width or height are bigger than the actual display you're running on, your window get clipped to the maximum X or Y value the display supports. This is what it already does now. Does that sound OK? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Harold Hunt Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 8:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: x2x or XWin -screen 0 2048 768 ? Jean-Claude, All that aside, it would be an interesting feature to implement user window-sizing to arbitrary resolutions via the -scrollbars parameter so that a user might stretch the X display to the size s/he wants. But I'm not clear on whether or not X allows resizing once an X 'console' has started. Does it? Oops, that was one of the things I was going to mention. It is not possible to resize the X display after it has been initialized. The RandR extension will eventually allow this, but I am not sure if it is stable/complete yet. Harold
RE: RE Cygwin List posts
Having problems with your dog, Harold? ;-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Harold L Hunt II Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 4:16 PM To: Benjamin Simmons Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RE Cygwin List posts Ben, See, you aren't telling me what you have had success in doing. What do you mean ``They all work fine''? Does that mean that you have successfully done an XDMCP session, used ssh to display remote clients, and used telnet to display remote clients? If so, then say exactly that. I'm not just going to ``elaborate'' about the wonderful things that you can do with XDMCP and ssh --- I could write about them all day long. You have to ask a specific question about precisely what it is that you want to do. We cannot read your mind. Imagine for a moment that your dog cannot walk and that I am a vet. If you come to me and say, ``my dog has a broken leg, can you fix it?'', then I am very likely to help you. If, on the other hand, you come to me and say, ``My dog needs to [mumble mumble mumble]... can you tell me about the many things that dogs can do?'', then I'm going to kick you out of my office. Harold P.S. - This is going back on [EMAIL PROTECTED] because it seems to me like you are trying to waste my time since you are being vague about both your questions and your answers. Don't reply to me personally, only send your questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Benjamin Simmons wrote: thank you sir for your reply, at this point I would love to gain some further instruction on either option you present. I have multiple RHLinux 7.2 boxes setup so that I can do your first option. They all work fine. I am having the difficulty in setting up a RH Linux 7.3 box in the same manner. I did the things you discuss in the guide, and any further elaboration is greatly appreciated. Thank you, Ben Simmons Harold L Hunt II wrote: Ben, I have been reading the list and it looks to me like you asked the same question over again. Rasjid gave you the same answer that I gave you --- which defeats the purpose of writing a User's Guide, since I wrote the User's Guide to explain this very question once and for all. You say that you need to connect to multiple machines. Is that the specific part that you are having trouble with? Are you able to connect to one machine at a time, but not to multiple machines at once? If so, I can help you with that. Please be clear on whether you are trying to run a remote session via XDMCP (where you are presented by a login box and one Cygwin/XFree86 window is owned entirely by one remote machine) or whether you are trying to display remote clients via ssh (in which case you can ssh to multiple remote machines and have them all display X Clients in one Cygwin/XFree86 window - or in multiple Cygwin/XFree86 windows). Harold Benjamin Simmons wrote: If you had ben paying attention to the list today, you would have seen an excahnge between myself and Rasjid Wilcox. If you were paying attention to this exchange, you would have noticed that he has offered further details. I did read through what you sent me, and found it to cover exactly what I had already done. Since I had used your information, but felt that I needed further details, I responded to someone that was willing to provide them. If you are having a problem with my exchange on this topic, please feel free to ignore all further posts to this message, otherwise, I would like to personally thank you for your assistance. I have gotten frustrated with my inability to connect the final piece of this puzzle. To clarify, I do work for and am a student at The University of Memphis. I am currently performing research and need to access multiple linux machines remotely to complete my dissertation. Thank you again for your help, Ben Simmons
RE: XOpenWin
The only reason I have for Win2X is that it takes Windows output and sends it to X... Maybe we could call it. OpenWin2X Either way. XopenWin is also nice. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Fraser Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 2:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: XOpenWin Yes, but then I posted some other alternatives and suggested this name and nobody seemed to mind. I could always reapply for the project under a different name... I just thought a huge discussion about the name would take time... but if people generally want Win2X we can do that I guess. Pros/cons? Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: Um, was Win2X pitched as a name? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Fraser Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 1:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: XOpenWin Submitted an application to source forge to create project XOpenWin. Will post again when it is set up (takes a while for them to process) David
RE: Cygwin-XFree -- RDP -- Cygwin-XFree
Quite right; the scrollbars option should take care of the resizing problem. I will test and let you know. What about the display surfaces becoming unavailable? I mean when you connect and disconnect RDP and the Xwin window becomes transparent? Any ideas for that? Might be a thorny one... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Harold Hunt Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 11:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Cygwin-XFree -- RDP -- Cygwin-XFree Jean-Claude, Yes, I saw your post. However, I don't see what I can do about it. On the other hand, I am wondering why you haven't done any testing using the -scrollbars command-line option. That would seem like it might prevent the Cygwin/XFree86 window from ever being stretched or squashed in the first place. Let me know how -scrollbars works. Harold -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jean-Claude Gervais Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 9:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cygwin-XFree -- RDP -- Cygwin-XFree Harold, Did you get the results of the Cygwin-XFree -- RDP -- Cygwin-XFree tests I posted last week?
XWinClip
Please forgive the newbie-type question: Using Cygwin-XFree to connect (in query mode) to a Linux box, I couldn't seem to select text from the Linux applications and paste them to Windows. Should I be able to? Is there a web-page somewhere that explains how to get this done with Cygwin and XWinClip?
RE: X client wrapper for Win apps?
Wine translates GDI calls to X, doesn't it? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alexander Gottwald Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 12:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: X client wrapper for Win apps? On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: It COULD be done! Admittedly, it might not be a snap, but Wine already uses a POSIX layer to accomplish what it needs to do. In our case, it would use Cygwin! wine is in most parts the same as replacing kernel32.dll user32.dll and some other system dependent libraries. So you won't achive anything if you run the windows application in a wine subsystem. The goal is not to replace the windows dlls with the wine dlls but to translate the GDI calls to X11. This has nothing to do with the POSIX layer. If someone is going into this, than start with the wine x11drv. Unfortunately no one from wine-devel commented that concept. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
RE: X client wrapper for Win apps?
You could hook only the drawing calls and pass anything else through to the original handler. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alexander Gottwald Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 2:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: X client wrapper for Win apps? On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: Wine translates GDI calls to X, doesn't it? Yes, and a lot of other things more. The GDI-X translation is only a small part of wine. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
Cygwin-XFree -- RDP -- Cygwin-XFree
Harold, Did you get the results of the Cygwin-XFree -- RDP -- Cygwin-XFree tests I posted last week?
RE: Bug in IMake - Doesn't use DESTLIB
Alexander, I've changed my Imakefile based on the recommendations both you and Han N. Nguyen have made. The only problem is that even though the shared library IS copied to the proper destination, it's import-linking file (.a or .lib in Win32) is STILL only being copied to the X folders: Here's the Imakefile - #include Library.tmpl LibraryObjectRule() LIBNAME = ldlib SRCS = ldlib.cpp OBJS = $(SRCS:.cpp=.o) CC = g++ SOREV = 1.0 INCLUDES = -I../../include DESTLIB = ../../lib/Release/Cygwin BINDIR = ../../bin/Release/Cygwin LOCALLIB = ../../lib/Release/Cygwin SharedLibraryTarget($(LIBNAME),$(SOREV),$(OBJS),.,.) InstallSharedLibrary($(LIBNAME),$(SOREV),$(DESTLIB)) DependTarget() LintTarget() - And here is the output it produces: make install install -c -m 0644 libldlib.a /usr/X11R6/lib/libldlib.a install -c -m 0644 libldlib.dll ../../bin/Release/Cygwin/libldlib.dll install in . done Have you any idea how to make the .a file go to ../../lib/Release/Cygwin instead? Thank you. Jean-Claude -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alexander Gottwald Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 6:25 AM To: Cygwin-XFree Subject: Re: Bug in IMake - Doesn't use DESTLIB On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: I've been trying to write an Imakefile that copies the shared-library I'm building to a directory specified using the DESTLIB variable when the 'make install' target is invoked. Although this works fine on Linux, invoking the 'make install' rule on Cygwin results in the DLL being copied to X11's 'bin' directory. Is this a know bug, and what should I do? Hm, actually the dlls must be in the searchpath when the binary is started. So it makes sense to locate in the bindir. I they are installed in DESTBIN. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
RE: Bug report: Using Cygwin-Xfree through Remote Desktop Sharing (RDP)
Desktop Sharing (RDP) Jean-Claude, Repeat the entire scenario you described, but start XWin with the ``-engine 1'' parameter, e.g. XWin -engine 1 The default graphics engine on Windows 2000/XP will be DirectDraw 4.0; DirectDraw will probably have a problem with RDP --- I am surprised that it works at all. The ``-engine 1'' parameter will tell XWin to use GDI DIBs (Device Independent Bitamps) and regular GDI BLTs (Bit-Block Transfers) as the graphics engine; GDI will be less prone to having a problem with RDP. If RDP works with the GDI engine then I know exactly what to fix; if not, I will have to pump you for some more information. Harold Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: This is complicated, so I'll try to be clear. Let's say you have machine A, which is a Windows XP machine that has Cygwin and Cygwin-XFree installed on it. You use A to connect to B. B is a machine running Linux and X. Everything so far works. Then you use machine C (a machine running Windows 2000) to remote-control machine A with Windows XP Remote Desktop Client (RDP). Machine C can use machine A's Cygwin-XFree connection and view machine B. No problem. However, when machine C breaks its connection to machine A, machine A's Cygwin-XFree will no longer display machine B. It will instead display a white screen in Cygwin-XFree. Although I am pretty sure that A is still connected and controlling B, it can no longer see B's display. It seems like Remote Desktop Client mucks-up Cygwin-XFree. I hope that that was clear enough. Thanks.
RE: Bug report: Using Cygwin-Xfree through Remote Desktop Sharing (RDP)
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Thomas Chadwick Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 12:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bug report: Using Cygwin-Xfree through Remote Desktop Sharing (RDP) Sounds similar to this problem I reported a while back... http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-06/msg00373.html What's in /tmp/XWin.log? This - ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1024 h 768 winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed winDetectSupportedEngines - Allowing PrimaryDD winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 001f winSetEngine - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - Not changing video mode winAllocateFBShadowDDNL - lPitch: 4096 winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff ff00 00ff winInitVisualsShadowDDNL - Masks 00ff ff00 00ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32 winCreateDefColormap - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap () winScreenInit - returning winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt reported that the primary surface was lost, trying to restore, retry: 1winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt reported that the primary surface was lost, trying to restore, retry: 2 winShadowUpdateDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt () failed: 887601c2 winShadowUpdateDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt () failed: 887601c2 winShadowUpdateDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt () failed: 887601c2 winShadowUpdateDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt () failed: 887601c2 A lot of these deleted, but there were TONS of them. winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt reported that the primary surface was lost, trying to restore, retry: 1winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt reported that the primary surface was lost, trying to restore, retry: 2 winShadowUpdateDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt () failed: 887601c2 winShadowUpdateDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt () failed: 887601c2 winShadowUpdateDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt () failed: 887601c2 ... More of these lines deleted ... winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt reported that the primary surface was lost, trying to restore, retry: 1winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt reported that the primary surface was lost, trying to restore, retry: 2 winShadowUpdateDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt () failed: 887601c2 winShadowUpdateDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt () failed: 887601c2 winShadowUpdateDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt () failed: 887601c2 ... More of these lines deleted ... winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt reported that the primary surface was lost, trying to restore, retry: 1winBltExposedRegionsShadowDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt reported that the primary surface was lost, trying to restore, retry: 2winShadowUpdateDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt () failed: 887601c2 winShadowUpdateDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt () failed: 887601c2 winShadowUpdateDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt () failed: 887601c2 winShadowUpdateDDNL - IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt () failed: 887601c2 And on and on... From: Jean-Claude Gervais [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Cygwin-XFree [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bug report: Using Cygwin-Xfree through Remote Desktop Sharing (RDP) Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 11:00:28 -0400 This is complicated, so I'll try to be clear. Let's say you have machine A, which is a Windows XP machine that has Cygwin and Cygwin-XFree installed on it. You use A to connect to B. B is a machine running Linux and X. Everything so far works. Then you use machine C (a machine running Windows 2000) to remote-control machine A with Windows XP Remote Desktop Client (RDP). Machine C can use machine A's Cygwin-XFree connection and view machine B. No problem. However, when machine C breaks its connection to machine A, machine A's Cygwin-XFree will no longer display machine B. It will instead display a white screen in Cygwin-XFree. Although I am pretty sure that A is still connected and controlling B, it can no longer see B's display. It seems like Remote Desktop Client mucks-up Cygwin-XFree. I hope that that was clear enough. Thanks. _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
Bug in IMake - Doesn't use DESTLIB
Hello, I've been trying to write an Imakefile that copies the shared-library I'm building to a directory specified using the DESTLIB variable when the 'make install' target is invoked. Although this works fine on Linux, invoking the 'make install' rule on Cygwin results in the DLL being copied to X11's 'bin' directory. Is this a know bug, and what should I do? Thanks Jean-Claude
Bug in IMake - Doesn't use DESTLIB
I'm sorry; I sent this to the list because imake is part of XFree. Is there a way for me to reach imake's maintainer if this query doesn't belong here? Thanks -Original Message- Hello, I've been trying to write an Imakefile that copies the shared-library I'm building to a directory specified using the DESTLIB variable when the 'make install' target is invoked. Although this works fine on Linux, invoking the 'make install' rule on Cygwin results in the DLL being copied to X11's 'bin' directory. Is this a known bug, and what should I do? Thanks Jean-Claude
Sorta OT - Imakefiles
Hi, Does anyone know how to tell an Imakefile to copy a shared-library and it's lib file to a user-specified location instead of the X directories? For example, I have the following Imakefile, and I'd like for the .DLL file to go to one directory, and its complimentary .LIB file to go to another directory; SRCS = ldlib.cpp OBJS = ldlib.o LIBNAME = ldlib CC = g++ -mno-cygwin SOREV = 1.0 INCLUDES = -I../../include DependTarget() SharedLibraryTarget($(LIBNAME),$(SOREV),$(OBJS),.,.) InstallSharedLibrary($(LIBNAME),$(SOREV),.) How do you get the InstallSharedLibrary target to copy the files to alternate destinations and not the default ones?
GDB, for XFree???
Hi, I'm trying to debug an X application with GDB, more specifically, a wxWindows application running under Cygwin Xfree. The problem is that if I invoke my application inside X, by typing gdb app.exe, a Windows application (GDB) pops up with my app loaded in it, but then my application never seems to be able to run. Is there a trick to this, or is GDB only for character mode applications? Thanks.
RE: Help with fixing x2x...
Sounds like one of the sockets in the FD set is not a socket? Could you post enough of the code so we could see? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Conrad Scott Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 3:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Help with fixing x2x... Thomas Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After doing this, select is still non-blocking, returning -1, and the value returned by WSAGetLastError() is 10038, which seems to correspond to the #define WSAENOTSOCK in winsock.h. Any idea what this error code means and what steps I might take to fix it? It would be (perhaps more) instructive to print out errno (rather than the WSA errno) since errno is what select(2) sets. As a matter of interest (since I'm currently fiddling around with some similar code), are the two file descriptors UNIX domain sockets? HTH // Conrad
XRoaches
Hi, Just wondering; has anyone gotten xroach to work on Cygwin/XFree? It compiles fine, but when you run it, you don't get any roaches... Thanks.
RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 61
I second that. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Franz Wolfhagen Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 3:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 61 Your long changelogs are doing a very nice educational reading for me at least - I appreciate them very much... Med venlig hilsen / Regards Franz Wolfhagen
RE: Cut down xfree server for XDMCP only
I'm trying to run gdbx, and I need cygwinb19.dll to do it. Where can I find that file? I've tried renaming to cygwin1.dll to cygwinb19.dll, but when gdbx starts, the CPU goes to 100% load and gdbx never appears, so that doesn't work. TIA
wxWindows
Hi, Has anyone here been able to compile wxWindows on Cygwin? Specifically, producing a build of wxWindows that runs under Cygwin's XFree environment? I'd like to share notes on it if you have. Thanks.
