[GTG] [ITP] nas

2008-11-17 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Yaakov writes: I propose to add the Network Audio System to the Cygwin distribution. A previous version is in Debian etch, with the current version in lenny and sid. This will be a dependency for Qt3 and Qt4 to provide sound support.

Re: [ITP] Macaulay2 1.1

2008-11-17 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Daniel R Grayson writes: Dear Cygwin, We'd like to distribute Macaulay 2 as an official cygwin package. The package is used by hundreds of mathematicians as part of their research, and hundreds of published research papers, listed on our web site have cited it. It has

RE: XWin won't respond to keyboard

2008-11-17 Thread Morche Matthias
Hi Eric, Your XKEYSYMDB points to a wrong path. Either set it to the right one: export XKEYSYMDB=/usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB or delete it from Your environment setup. The path has changed with the new X11-version. best regards, matthias -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How can I go back from X11 version 7.2 to version 6.99 ?

2008-11-17 Thread didi
After updating from version 6.99 to the new 7.2 last week, nothing works like before. Now I need to go back to a former version, but it seems , there is no easy way button in the setup-GUI. How can I go back ? Is there any possibility to create an installable image from another machine with

X 7.4 ignores most keyboard input

2008-11-17 Thread Mike Conley
Hi. After upgrading my X server, I find that X programs ignore most keyboard input entirely, with the exception of the numeric keypad. I tried again with a fresh install and got the same results. Log file (generated by starting XWin from inside a non-X cygwin shell) below. Any ideas? Welcome

Re: X 7.4 ignores most keyboard input

2008-11-17 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Mike Conley wrote: Hi. After upgrading my X server, I find that X programs ignore most keyboard input entirely, with the exception of the numeric keypad. I tried again with a fresh install and got the same results. Log file (generated by

Re: Connecting to an XServer with XWin

2008-11-17 Thread Jon TURNEY
jose isaias cabrera wrote: Greetings! I just ran setup and upgraded to the new cygwin and something has broke. I was able to run this command before, xwin :0.0 -clipboard -query 13.142.6.222 -fp tcp/13.142.6.222:7100 I'm a bit suspicious of this command line as the server is called

Re: X 7.4 ignores most keyboard input

2008-11-17 Thread Jon TURNEY
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Mike Conley wrote: Hi. After upgrading my X server, I find that X programs ignore most keyboard input entirely, with the exception of the numeric keypad. I tried again with a fresh install and got the same results. Log file (generated by starting XWin from

Re: Connecting to an XServer with XWin

2008-11-17 Thread Scott Fordin
You might also want to check your firewall settings. Firewalls tend to get real touchy when the signatures for binary files change. Scott Jon TURNEY wrote: jose isaias cabrera wrote: Greetings! I just ran setup and upgraded to the new cygwin and something has broke. I was able to run this

Re: XWin Server starting everything offscreen

2008-11-17 Thread Mark A . Ziesemer
Jon TURNEY jon.turney at dronecode.org.uk writes: I think what you are seeing here is the fact that an X screen must be rectangular. A rectangle which doesn't cover the taskbar on one monitor can't cover the matching area on an adjacent monitor. Or have I misunderstood what you are

[Solved]: XWin Server starting everything offscreen

2008-11-17 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Jon TURNEY jon.turney at dronecode.org.uk writes: Or have I misunderstood what you are describing? I think I have fix. I had the same and very annoying behavior that every new x11 window or frame appeared 'hidden' and had to brought into view via RightMouse - Move followed by cursor keys. I

Re: XWin Server starting everything offscreen

2008-11-17 Thread Mark A. Ziesemer
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: I think that patch was already committed[1], but the code has clearly changed significantly from then. [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-05/msg00210.html So can someone look into this, or at acknowledge that it's probably something that needs to be

Re: XWin Server starting everything offscreen

2008-11-17 Thread Mark A. Ziesemer
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: I think that patch was already committed[1], but the code has clearly changed significantly from then. [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-05/msg00210.html So can someone look into this, or at acknowledge that it's probably something that needs to be

Re: [Solved]: XWin Server starting everything offscreen

2008-11-17 Thread Mark A. Ziesemer
Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: I think I have fix. I had the same and very annoying behavior that every new x11 window or frame appeared 'hidden' and had to brought into view via RightMouse - Move followed by cursor keys. I have a four-monitor setup. It appears that where the 'primary' screen is

Re: XWin Server starting everything offscreen

2008-11-17 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Mark A. Ziesemer wrote: I don't have a multihead setup, so I'm unable to test any of this. I'm sorry. Do you just not have one, or you don't want one? :-) http://cygwin.com/donations.html :-) Yaakov Cygwin/X -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [Solved]: XWin Server starting everything offscreen

2008-11-17 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Mark A. Ziesemer online at mark.ziesemer.com writes: Sorry, but I don't consider this a solution. None of the other It is imperfect, but at least as a stop-gap measure, it allows me to get work done rathern than having to drag windows into view by hand. I also had rather bad instability of

Re: XWin Server starting everything offscreen

2008-11-17 Thread Jon TURNEY
Mark A. Ziesemer wrote: Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: I think that patch was already committed[1], but the code has clearly changed significantly from then. [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-05/msg00210.html So can someone look into this, or at acknowledge that it's probably

Small update for X server 1.5.3 patch set

2008-11-17 Thread Jon TURNEY
Yaakov, Please find at the URL below a small update to the xorg server patch set. http://www.dronecode.org.uk/cygwin/cygwin-xorg-server-patch-set-update-20081117.tar.bz2 This should fix: * The issue with initial window placement being offscreen on multimonitor systems when some monitors have

Re: Connecting to an XServer with XWin

2008-11-17 Thread jose isaias cabrera
xwin :0.0 -clipboard -query 13.142.6.222 -fp tcp/13.142.6.222:7100 I'm a bit suspicious of this command line as the server is called XWin Tried, XWin... same difference. Are you looking for XWin.log in /var/log ? No. /tmp. If you open a cygwin bash shell, type the command to run the X

Re: Connecting to an XServer with XWin

2008-11-17 Thread jose isaias cabrera
You might also want to check your firewall settings. Firewalls tend to get real touchy when the signatures for binary files change. With the firewall turned it off, (just XP) and same problem occurrs... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: Upgrade failed now remote X11 fails :-(

2008-11-17 Thread Jon TURNEY
Duane Ellis wrote: I use cygwin/X to connect to a remote linux box via SSH. I run KDE via that remote connection. (By remote: I mean, in the same building - down the hall in a server room) I forward the X11 session to my local machine via SSH in the standard way. To be clear: It worked

Re: Connecting to an XServer with XWin

2008-11-17 Thread Scott Fordin
You know, as it so happens, I've been tracking down a solution to a similar problem I just started experiencing today. In my case though, I just upgraded from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10, and I'm trying to connect to a Solaris 10 box. I can connect, and certain applications work just fine, but a couple

Re: Connecting to an XServer with XWin

2008-11-17 Thread Jon TURNEY
Jon TURNEY wrote: jose isaias cabrera wrote: exits the login screen once I hit any key in the user textbox. Is there any way to get the previous setup? Maybe it has to do with the keyboard problem I have read very little of... No, I think problem is that the XDM (if that's what it is)

Re: Connecting to an XServer with XWin

2008-11-17 Thread jose isaias cabrera
Scott Fordin wrote... You know, as it so happens, I've been tracking down a solution to a similar problem I just started experiencing today. In my case though, I just upgraded from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10, and I'm trying to connect to a Solaris 10 box. I can connect, and certain applications work

Re: Connecting to an XServer with XWin

2008-11-17 Thread jose isaias cabrera
From: Jon TURNEY wrote... jose isaias cabrera wrote: Are you looking for XWin.log in /var/log ? No. /tmp. Ok, please look for /var/log/XWin.log; does it contain anything interesting? Attached... If you open a cygwin bash shell, type the command to run the X server, you get no output

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rxvt-20050409-9

2008-11-17 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Charles Wilson ha scritto: Marco Atzeri wrote: W11/wrap/wrap.c has still a reference to /usr/X11R6/bin/ Yes, because it looks for the libX11-*.dll in a number of different places, when trying to dlopen it for X-mode operation. You didn't want me to BREAK rxvt for those people

Downloading (parts of) Cygwin for later local install?

2008-11-17 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, is there an easy way of pre-downloading whatever is necessary to do a later local Cygwin install? Note: the recommended method of using Cygwin itself is not available to me, since I only have a GNU/Linux computer on the Net (lucky me ;-)

Root Permissions - Vista Home Edition

2008-11-17 Thread David Halstead
Hi, I have spent a week trying to find how to 'su' or login as root, and have failed abysmally. Could you please help me resolve this. It appears that there is no way to grant the permissions stated in Corinnas Document, but there has to be some way round the problem. rgds david halstead --

Re: Root Permissions - Vista Home Edition

2008-11-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
David Halstead wrote: Hi, I have spent a week trying to find how to 'su' or login as root, and have failed abysmally. Could you please help me resolve this. root doesn't mean anything on Windows natively. Administrator is a close (but still quite different) substitute. In any case, try

Re: Root Permissions - Vista Home Edition

2008-11-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:34:49AM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: David Halstead wrote: Hi, I have spent a week trying to find how to 'su' or login as root, and have failed abysmally. Could you please help me resolve this. root doesn't mean anything on Windows natively. Administrator

Re: Root Permissions - Vista Home Edition

2008-11-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:34:49AM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: David Halstead wrote: Hi, I have spent a week trying to find how to 'su' or login as root, and have failed abysmally. Could you please help me resolve this. root doesn't mean anything on Windows

Small documention addenda

2008-11-17 Thread Valerio Bigiani
I need to reference in my thesis the fact that setup.ini isn't (by default) updated automatically via crontab, but you need to manually run setup.exe to update the package list. I tried googling a bit for variations of setup.ini cygwin update (and running similar searches on the mailing list

Re: gnuplot on ggi failure

2008-11-17 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Marco Atzeri writes: I was trying to use gnuplot with ggi terminal but gnuplot close with this unclear output: Terminal type set to 'ggi' gnuplot plot [-1:1] sin(x) LibGGI: No explicit target specified. LibGGI: Try to use display-directx... Init Backup Failed

Back, for a while

2008-11-17 Thread Morgan Gangwere
I havent a cygwin install around anymore (i've moved to real operating systems) But i'll be around to help now. -- Morgan Gangwere -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

SFTP doesn't work with ChrootDirectory option set

2008-11-17 Thread TheO
Hi, I have Cygwin with OpenSSH version 5.1p1-9 installed. I managed to make ssh with chroot to work by using ChrootDirectory in sshd_config and copying /bin/bash to the chroot directory. But I can't make it work for SFTP even when I tried to set: ChrootDirectory / which I expect should be

Re: 1.7 - noacl for cygdrive

2008-11-17 Thread Rob Bosch
On 11/15/2008, Richard Ivarson wrote: Corinna, thanks to your post I did that now, but unfortunately RSYNC still resets my NT permissions. Like Rob I use cygdrive paths. Rob, how did you manage to keep the NT permissions with your RSYNC? For me it always sets own permissions, which then

1.7 preallocate issue?

2008-11-17 Thread Rob Bosch
On Nov 14 10:38, Corinna Vinschen wrote: It shouldn't be hard to replicate if you modify the rsync statement to rsync only one such file. The strace would be interesting in the first place. You should get an error code from a function called fhandler_disk_file::ftruncate. I can't replicate

Issue with setup.exe 2.573.2.3? (experimental mode)

2008-11-17 Thread Andreas Eibach
Hi there, can anyone please tell me what I'm doing wrong here? I'm *quite* sure that with previous versions, it was possible to select Experimental mode instead of 'Current' and be able to install ALL packages. Actually I do _not_ want all, but since somehow it does not work to select Install in

Re: Issue with setup.exe 2.573.2.3? (experimental mode)

2008-11-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Andreas Eibach wrote: Hi there, can anyone please tell me what I'm doing wrong here? I'm *quite* sure that with previous versions, it was possible to select Experimental mode instead of 'Current' and be able to install ALL packages. By this do you mean all packages regardless of whether the

Re: Downloading (parts of) Cygwin for later local install?

2008-11-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there an easy way of pre-downloading whatever is necessary to do a later local Cygwin install? Note: the recommended method of using Cygwin itself is not available to me, since I only have a GNU/Linux computer on the Net (lucky me ;-) Wgetting all of

Re: Issue with setup.exe 2.573.2.3? (experimental mode)

2008-11-17 Thread Andreas Eibach
- Original Message - From: Larry Hall (Cygwin) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cygwin@cygwin.com Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 1:20 AM Subject: Re: Issue with setup.exe 2.573.2.3? (experimental mode) Andreas Eibach wrote: Hi there, can anyone please tell me what I'm doing wrong here?

Re: SFTP doesn't work with ChrootDirectory option set

2008-11-17 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to TheO on 11/17/2008 2:24 PM: Hi, I have Cygwin with OpenSSH version 5.1p1-9 installed. I managed to make ssh with chroot to work by using ChrootDirectory in sshd_config and copying /bin/bash to the chroot directory. chroot on

Re: Downloading (parts of) Cygwin for later local install?

2008-11-17 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 07:25:13PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there an easy way of pre-downloading whatever is necessary to do a later local Cygwin install? [...] No magic download munging, no. 'wget' will