Re: nedit gives X-error of failed request - also issues with (x)emacs
Hello again, Thanks for the help and feedback so far. However, I am still struggling with the keyboard issue, i.e. I cannot use it in any editor after updating the X11 package earlier this week. I have just updated once more (reinstalling the X11 package), rebooted, but that did not help either. I also ran ash and did /bin/rebaseall, but that did not change. I have no Microsoft Services for Unix installed either. The tmp/XWin.log looks similar as the one I sent two days ago. I am no expert whatsoever as I use cygwin as an extremely useful tool rather than a developer, so I would highly appreciate if someone could point me how I can sort this out in an easy way, by either suggestions to correct it or by steps to take to go back to the previous version. That would be highly apprciated ! From the reports, it seems that many people have issues after updating. As mentioned, updates typically go very smooth with cygwin, except this time for me. Looking forward to hearing from you, With best regards / Vennlig hilsen Maarten On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Maarten Vanneste [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am currently at home (where I have not yet updated for a few days). I usually start it by double-clicking the XWin starter followed by the cygwin both on the desktop (coming from the installation). My .bashrc looks fairly simply, as I do not set anything in particular (except some GMT and SeismicUnix). Nothing like these parameters you specify. I would nevertheless expect to have the latest setup, as this is something I do weekly. Again, no problems until this update this morning, neither at home nor at the office. I have noticed that the icon indeed has changed, as mentioned, suggesting it to have updated. With best regards / Vennlig hilsen Maarten On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Maarten Vanneste wrote: Thanks for your quick reply and suggestions. The nedit suggestion does the trick. I notice that the fonts are a bit messed up, as the text appears very big (much larger than the original setting). The keyboard issue is not sorted out (and it does not work with nedit either). Cannot find this XKEY..., neither in the window environment nor using cygcheck -c -s -r Are you using MSFU? http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#microsoft-services-for-unix Or do you have these variables set in your Cygwin environment (e.g. in ~/.bashrc)? You shouldn't need to set them. Yaakov Cygwin/X -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEAREIAAYFAkkbDWMACgkQpiWmPGlmQSND2QCghqQbcGlU1qREidk6gQ7bp1wG CPAAoPuNIYco3wJOnvz9IN1OQoIkRdHp =YBGn -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- 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: nedit gives X-error of failed request - also issues with (x)emacs
Hello, Interesting. I quit cygwin including killing the X-server. Restarted my cygwin by double clicking the cygwin icon, executed startxwin.sh, which prompted an X-window to open, in which I can now type ! Going back to the cygwin window in which I typed the startxwin.sh command, I can now open xemacs successfully and can edit. This seems like a solution. So, the x-server shortcut on the desktop may be at odds. This one has the following characteristics: Target type: MS-DOS batch file Target location: Singular Target: C:\cygwin\lib\Singular\startxserver.bat Start in: C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin Should I change somethings there ? The cygwin shortcut has the following properties: Target type: MS-DOS batch file Target location: cygwin Target: C:\cygwin\cygwin.bat Start in: (left blank) I have now made sure to have the full X11 package as well, as I noticed that some (only a handful) were not yet selected. However, I doubt whether this was the reason as cygwin prompts when dependencies occur. The keyboard is set up as American per default, as I think this is much easier to work with over the Norwegian one (or French or whatever). Greatly appreciated ! With best regards / Vennlig hilsen Maarten On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Jon TURNEY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maarten Vanneste wrote: Hello again, Thanks for the help and feedback so far. However, I am still struggling with the keyboard issue, i.e. I cannot use it in any editor after updating the X11 package earlier this week. I have just updated once more (reinstalling the X11 package), rebooted, but that did not help either. I also ran ash and did /bin/rebaseall, but that did not change. I have no Microsoft Services for Unix installed either. The tmp/XWin.log looks similar as the one I sent two days ago. Hi Maarten, Sorry to see you are still having problems. Can you start a cygwin bash shell, run startxwin.sh and then copy and paste the output into a mail? Also confirm that your keyboard doesn't work for you when the X server is started in this fashion. Oh, and satisfy my curiosity, are you really using a US keyboard, or a Norwegian one? -- 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: nedit gives X-error of failed request - also issues with (x)emacs
What I forgot to mention: There is no output generated by executing startxwin.sh, just an x-window opening that I can use as a terminal. Can you start a cygwin bash shell, run startxwin.sh and then copy and paste the output into a mail? Also confirm that your keyboard doesn't work for you when the X server is started in this fashion. With best regards / Vennlig hilsen Maarten On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Maarten Vanneste [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Interesting. I quit cygwin including killing the X-server. Restarted my cygwin by double clicking the cygwin icon, executed startxwin.sh, which prompted an X-window to open, in which I can now type ! Going back to the cygwin window in which I typed the startxwin.sh command, I can now open xemacs successfully and can edit. This seems like a solution. So, the x-server shortcut on the desktop may be at odds. This one has the following characteristics: Target type: MS-DOS batch file Target location: Singular Target: C:\cygwin\lib\Singular\startxserver.bat Start in: C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin Should I change somethings there ? The cygwin shortcut has the following properties: Target type: MS-DOS batch file Target location: cygwin Target: C:\cygwin\cygwin.bat Start in: (left blank) I have now made sure to have the full X11 package as well, as I noticed that some (only a handful) were not yet selected. However, I doubt whether this was the reason as cygwin prompts when dependencies occur. The keyboard is set up as American per default, as I think this is much easier to work with over the Norwegian one (or French or whatever). Greatly appreciated ! With best regards / Vennlig hilsen Maarten On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Jon TURNEY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maarten Vanneste wrote: Hello again, Thanks for the help and feedback so far. However, I am still struggling with the keyboard issue, i.e. I cannot use it in any editor after updating the X11 package earlier this week. I have just updated once more (reinstalling the X11 package), rebooted, but that did not help either. I also ran ash and did /bin/rebaseall, but that did not change. I have no Microsoft Services for Unix installed either. The tmp/XWin.log looks similar as the one I sent two days ago. Hi Maarten, Sorry to see you are still having problems. Can you start a cygwin bash shell, run startxwin.sh and then copy and paste the output into a mail? Also confirm that your keyboard doesn't work for you when the X server is started in this fashion. Oh, and satisfy my curiosity, are you really using a US keyboard, or a Norwegian one? -- 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: nedit gives X-error of failed request - also issues with (x)emacs
I can confirm that it works indeed. The only difference is that another window pups up. Great help ! Thanks, and enjoy the weekend ! Maarten On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Jon TURNEY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marco Atzeri wrote: --- Maarten Vanneste ha scritto: Hello, Interesting. I quit cygwin including killing the X-server. Restarted my cygwin by double clicking the cygwin icon, executed startxwin.sh, which prompted an X-window to open, in which I can now type ! Going back to the cygwin window in which I typed the startxwin.sh command, I can now open xemacs successfully and can edit. This seems like a solution. So, the x-server shortcut on the desktop may be at odds. This one has the following characteristics: Target type: MS-DOS batch file Target location: Singular Target: C:\cygwin\lib\Singular\startxserver.bat Start in: C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin Aha! This script is provided by the package singular-icons, and is in need of a small update (or just redirecting to point at the startxwin.bat script) Should I change somethings there ? I assume Target: C:\cygwin\bin\startxwin.bat Start in: C:\cygwin\bin That should work. -- 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: nedit gives X-error of failed request - also issues with (x)emacs
Hello, I have attached the file requested. I would hope that there will be a patch released soon that sorts out these issues automatically. That would certainly help for those (as me) who are no experts on these matters (but find cygwin extremely useful). Thanks for your feedback ! Maarten On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Jon TURNEY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jon TURNEY wrote: Maarten Vanneste wrote: I am not doing anything different as before. The Xemacs editor opens fine, however, I had to install additional fonts as it became nearly impossible to read the scripts. I just found out that I however cannot type into the editor, same for emacs. The problem where the keyboard doesn't appear to work may be caused if you have XKEYSYMDB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB environment variable. The startxwin.bat batch file should have been updated to remove this by the upgrade, but if you have a different way of starting the server it may still be in your environment. If it is, remove it :-) But rather than relying on my wild guesses, it might be better if you posted your /tmp/Xwin.log to see if that says anything useful... -- 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/ XWin.log Description: Binary data -- 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: nedit gives X-error of failed request - also issues with (x)emacs
Hello again, Thanks for your quick reply and suggestions. The nedit suggestion does the trick. I notice that the fonts are a bit messed up, as the text appears very big (much larger than the original setting). The keyboard issue is not sorted out (and it does not work with nedit either). Cannot find this XKEY..., neither in the window environment nor using cygcheck -c -s -r A bit strange. Is it an option to go back to the previous X11 installation, if possible ? With best regards / Vennlig hilsen Maarten On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Jon TURNEY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maarten Vanneste wrote: Dear all, I have just updated my cygwin settings, something I do on a weekly basis. This typically goes without any trouble. Now I have noticed that there was a substantial update on X11. After the update, the nedit editor fails to operate, returning the following error message: X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) Major opcode of failed request: 70 (X_PolyFillRectangle) Serial number of failed request: 289 Current serial number in output stream: 299 (The last two numbers change after rebooting). nedit needs rebuilding with a patch to work around an issue in lesstif with the latest X server. It appears this hasn't happened yet. If I am understanding this mail [1] correctly, until this happens, you can work around the issue by having XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS in your enviroment, e.g. try running nedit like this... $ export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 $ nedit and this appears to work for me when I try it. [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2008-11/msg00078.html -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
nedit gives X-error of failed request - also issues with (x)emacs
Dear all, I have just updated my cygwin settings, something I do on a weekly basis. This typically goes without any trouble. Now I have noticed that there was a substantial update on X11. After the update, the nedit editor fails to operate, returning the following error message: X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) Major opcode of failed request: 70 (X_PolyFillRectangle) Serial number of failed request: 289 Current serial number in output stream: 299 (The last two numbers change after rebooting). I am not doing anything different as before. The Xemacs editor opens fine, however, I had to install additional fonts as it became nearly impossible to read the scripts. I just found out that I however cannot type into the editor, same for emacs. I am quite keen on nedit for some reason or another, so I would prefer using nedit instead. I have not encountered anything like this prior to the latest update, but it is quite frustrating. After the first failure, I have reinstalled the entire X11 package successfully. I have also reinstalled nedit, but this did not sort out this problem. Obviously, something went wrong but I have no clue what happened. Running cygcheck -c returns no errors or incomplete installations. Any advice or suggestions ? With best regards / Vennlig hilsen Maarten -- 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: nedit gives X-error of failed request - also issues with (x)emacs
Hello, I am currently at home (where I have not yet updated for a few days). I usually start it by double-clicking the XWin starter followed by the cygwin both on the desktop (coming from the installation). My .bashrc looks fairly simply, as I do not set anything in particular (except some GMT and SeismicUnix). Nothing like these parameters you specify. I would nevertheless expect to have the latest setup, as this is something I do weekly. Again, no problems until this update this morning, neither at home nor at the office. I have noticed that the icon indeed has changed, as mentioned, suggesting it to have updated. With best regards / Vennlig hilsen Maarten On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Maarten Vanneste wrote: Thanks for your quick reply and suggestions. The nedit suggestion does the trick. I notice that the fonts are a bit messed up, as the text appears very big (much larger than the original setting). The keyboard issue is not sorted out (and it does not work with nedit either). Cannot find this XKEY..., neither in the window environment nor using cygcheck -c -s -r Are you using MSFU? http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#microsoft-services-for-unix Or do you have these variables set in your Cygwin environment (e.g. in ~/.bashrc)? You shouldn't need to set them. Yaakov Cygwin/X -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEAREIAAYFAkkbDWMACgkQpiWmPGlmQSND2QCghqQbcGlU1qREidk6gQ7bp1wG CPAAoPuNIYco3wJOnvz9IN1OQoIkRdHp =YBGn -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- 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/
