OpenOffice for Cygwin/Xfree
Folks, is there a version of OpenOffice for Xfree under Cygwin? I want to be able to run OpenOffice on X-Terminals served by my Win2K server running Xfree/Cygwin. -- TIA, Jim George
Cygwin as a Server to XClients
Folks, I realise that there has been a similar topic already posted in this group but I have a couple of twists to this that I think requires a new subject. I wish to use my Win2K Server as an xdm server for my daughters Linux box and wifes Mac OSX (running XDarwin). There are two reasons for this; 1) My daughters Linux box is _very_ slow and she may pick up some speed for certain applications that have been ported. 2) If there is a version of OpenOffice that I can run on the Cygwin server then my entire household could _finally_ share an office suite. Can anyone tell me if either or both of these are achievable and how I go about doing it? -- Thanks in advance, Jim
Re: Can't open display
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 16:14:40 -0700 Helmy, Ahmed A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I have installed the cygwin-xfree package. the bash shell is working fine but I can't get the x server to work. when I type xeyes or xclock it gave me a can't open display error message. although when I type X it opens a window that has nothing in it. could any body help Thanks Use startxwin.bat or, preferably, startxwin.sh from within a bash window. Both are in /usr/X11R6/bin Jim
Re: a small problem
On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 12:34:40 +0530 (IST) Rahul Amaram-RollNo.286 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jim, I've checked it out! There is no firewall present! Could u think of any other factors??? Rahul. On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Jim George wrote: On Sat, 17 Aug 2002 22:21:05 +0530 (IST) Rahul Amaram-RollNo.286 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am facing this problem whenever I connect to a remote system in linux and try exporting DISPLAY to the Xserver running on my local PC in windows. The details are below. First my pc is running cygwin-Xserver in Windows. Next I telnet to a remote machine in linux and run the command export DISPLAY=mypc_ip:0.0 Now when I run a command like xterm I get the following message Cant connect to mypc_ip:0.0 Xlib: No protocol specified Please note that I have already run 'xhost +' in startxwin file so that I give permission to all clients to access the Xserver. Could someone please help me out!!! Rahul. Rahul, at first sight this looks like a firewall issue. You appear to have X disabled. Jim -- Rahul, if it wasn't the firewall...are you able to run X applications on your local server? Try starting X using startxwin.sh or .bat then run xeyes or something from your xterm. What do you get when you echo $DISPLAY on your cygwin X-Server? What do you get when you echo $DISPLAY on your remote Linux system? Can you 'ping' mypc_ip from Linux? Jim
Re: a small problem
On Sat, 17 Aug 2002 22:21:05 +0530 (IST) Rahul Amaram-RollNo.286 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am facing this problem whenever I connect to a remote system in linux and try exporting DISPLAY to the Xserver running on my local PC in windows. The details are below. First my pc is running cygwin-Xserver in Windows. Next I telnet to a remote machine in linux and run the command export DISPLAY=mypc_ip:0.0 Now when I run a command like xterm I get the following message Cant connect to mypc_ip:0.0 Xlib: No protocol specified Please note that I have already run 'xhost +' in startxwin file so that I give permission to all clients to access the Xserver. Could someone please help me out!!! Rahul. Rahul, at first sight this looks like a firewall issue. You appear to have X disabled. Jim
imlib
Folks, I wanted imlib to give me image rendering support in slypheed and couldn't find it in packages, so I downloaded and compiled version 1.9.8.1 straight out of the box. The reason I tell you this is that I wasn't sure why this handy package didn't appear to be on the web site? Or did I have my eyes closed? I ask as I'm far less than confident in proposing a new package, and extremely dubious about my talents to maintain it. Kind thoughts as to how I should proceed please? Perhaps a link on the site to http://freshmeat.net/projects/imlib/?topic-id=809 ? Cheers, Jim
Re: Finally on Sylpheed
On Fri, 26 Jul 2002 04:21:19 -0700 (PDT) Nicholas Wourms [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that's a good idea! Has anyone heard what happened to the port of Evolution? Someone said (I think) that there was to be a port to cygwin? Jim, The last I heard, evolution has been around for millions of years, give or take an eon. Seriously though, I would be hard pressed to use that piece of s**t. That turncoat Miguel deIcaza is being quite the hypocrite by keeping the Exchange server access functionality closed source (and for a fee). You see I was in the community when the whole Rasterman/deIcaza merger happened and the e-desktop became gnome. I rember how he evangilized free software and the opensource movement, and scoffed at anyone who didn't release the source to the software they were working on. Personally, I will not use GNOME because of this [KDE is better anyhow], and if I could get away with it, I wouldn't use gtk either. As for evolution, it is too bulky, too buggy, and just plain ugly. Stick with Sylpheed or better yet, Pine! Cheers, Nicholas Nicholas, boy did I touch a nerve ;) As it happens I like both sylpheed and pine (especially the latter, if only that could become a GUI). However I have to say that Evolution is probably the strongest Linux x-mail client I've come across in all my years with Linux. It's a real shame that deIcaza should have sold out in this way as it would have been a real killer application in the workplace. Jim
Finally on Sylpheed
I say finally but of course the fun is just beginning for me:) I now have sylpheed (the X Mail Client) running under cygwin-X and it's very good, there are some items that could be beefed up/improved upon (and I shall offer whatever help I'm able to) but on the whole very good. So that this isn't one of those mails that just takes up bandwidth... To create it you need glib-1.2.10 and gtk.1.2.10 or above, also libiconv (this is already part of the main setup for cygwin, although you need to specifically select it), and of course you need sylpheed (current release is 0.8.0). You can get glib and gtk at ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/1.2 You can get sylpheed at http://sylpheed.good-day.net You need to make one alteration in the glib package for it to compile. Comment out line 705 of gstrfuncs.c and it will compile flawlessly. Can the lis let me know if there is interest in a X Mail Client for cygwin, in which case I'll investigate becoming a maintainter for the list? Cheers, Jim
