Re: Drop textmode from setup?

2005-09-09 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi all, Gary R. Van Sickle writes: I've always seen it the opposite way: only use binary mounts if you know what you're doing, otherwise you'll constantly have two problems: - Text files created by Cygwin programs will trip up many native programs. - Text files created by native Windows

Re: Seeking initial reactions: Moving setup from CVS to

2004-08-23 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Reini, Reini Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So that you usually ssh to the cvs repo, move it there physically, and update your local cvs copy then. Don't you want to do a (physical) *copy* and than a cvs del? That way, you can still checkout older versions, while if you do a physical

Re: Seeking initial reactions: Moving setup from CVS to

2004-08-23 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Reini, Benjamin Riefenstahl schrieb: Don't you want to do a (physical) *copy* and than a cvs del? That way, you can still checkout older versions, while if you do a physical *move*, you loose that. Reini Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the revisions are kept solely in the ,v file

Re: Windows fonts - some observations

2004-05-11 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Alexander, Antony, On Mon, 10 May 2004, Antony Baxter wrote: works fine in with truetype fonts, black-on-black with .fon fonts. Alexander Gottwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Same for me. This seems to be a generic FreeType or Xft problem. I've cc'ed the xorg mailinglist. *.fon files are

Re: Windows fonts - some observations

2004-05-11 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Antony, Benjamin Riefenstahl wrote: *.fon files are not TrueType, they are legacy Windows bitmapped fonts, Antony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think FreeType does support them; it supports Windows FNT fonts which I presume are the same: http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/index.html

Problem with xlsfonts

2004-04-26 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi all, Does anybody know off the top of his head what may be wrong here? $ xlsfonts XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server 127.0.0.1:0.0 after 9 requests (8 known processed) with 0 events remaining. $ xfontsel XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset

Re: X/Cygwin icon proposal

2004-03-18 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Nahor, Nahor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Geeks (where I put Cygwin users), I assume, would have a recent machine as their working machine and older systems for support (firewall, server, ...). So I would think that there are more XP machines out there than you think. Now, is it majority? I

Re: x-start-menu-icons doesn't install on a W2K german OS

2004-03-13 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Igor, Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is probably an ASCII vs Unicode issue. Most of Cygwin calls the ASCII versions of the Windows API. I'm not sure Cygwin is even Unicode-aware. Windows uses Unicode internally to encode the filenames. It's probably that some program

Re: x-start-menu-icons doesn't install on a W2K german OS

2004-03-13 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Benjamin Riefenstahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: and IBM encodings are identified by their number in IBM's codepage and OEM encodings ...

Re: X/Cygwin icon proposal

2004-03-12 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Nahor, Alexander Gottwald wrote: It was (is) in CVS and I really like it. Even much better than the new one. Nahor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe one can add yet-another-option on the commandline and have several icons in the exe (or on a special library or whatever). Hm, is the full

Re: X/Cygwin icon proposal

2004-03-12 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Nahor, Nahor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, I don' think it would work. I don't know the details but right now, the icon is not a white square on older system. Older systems use a 1-bit transparency mask (I forgot how this works in detail). I am pretty sure that this is a separate item from

Re: X/Cygwin icon proposal

2004-03-12 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Alexander, Alexander Gottwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It was (is) in CVS and I really like it. Even much better than the new one. Thanks. I got it from CVS and noticed that the original version is in there. Harold had mentioned a bug with the 24x24 image and I had sent a new version

Re: X/Cygwin icon proposal

2004-03-11 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Nahor, Harold L Hunt II wrote: That new one you just made with the alpha channel is awesome! I'm not sure how this works, I assume the alpha channel is an XP feature? Anyway the new icon still has those ragged edges on my W2K system when viewed with a black background. Nahor [EMAIL

Re: X/Cygwin icon proposal

2004-03-11 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Nahor, Nahor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, the alpha channel is a new thing from XP. In other Windows systems, you should still get a slightly better icon than orginal icon (IMHO). [...] How does this one look in 24x24? Yes, it definitly is better here. The edges will be ragged

Re: cygwin-X: bits of .Xdefaults selectively ignored

2004-01-31 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Fergus, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [~/.Xdefaults ...] whatever I try, I can't get it to implement rxvt*font: Lucida Console-14 AFAICS, that is not a valid X11 font spec. You should be able to use xfontsel -print to get a valid font spec for the font that you want. benny

Re: Initiating a remote X session

2004-01-21 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Steve, Steve Howie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Great! This works fine, but we still get the ugly ssh-style password prompt - just a thought, but is there anything available under cygwin to front end this with a username/password pop-up window? That'd be ideal :) If you don't really care

Re: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-38 Request for Test Results

2004-01-12 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Harold, OS: Windows 2000, SP4 Language: English, German keyboard Win32-X11 Copy and Paste, X11-Win32 Copy and Paste: Latin-1 works Non-Latin-1 (Unicode) doesn't work (doesn't work with xwinclip either, though) Xdmcp: Did Not Try benny

Re: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-38 Request for Test Results

2004-01-12 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Harold, Walter, Walter Haidinger wrote: winTopLevelWindowProc - BitBlt failed: Das Handle ist ungültig Harold L Hunt II [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have not localized the error messages to German. That part of the error message looks like it was converted from a Windows error code with

Re: FW: I've given up on XF86, can' t make my AltGr keys work

2003-11-21 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Alexander, Henrik, Alexander Gottwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If someone could donate an old sparc or HP-UX machine I'd be willing to debug the problems with xdmcp, fonts and keyboardlayouts with those machines. Wouldn't it be enough to get a temporary SSH account on a Sparc machine to

Re: antiword-0.34

2003-10-09 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Gerrit, Gerrit P. Haase [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: cp1250.txt:0x81 #UNDEFINED Undefined is meaningfull. Think of the difference of NULL and '0' (e.g. in SQL). Why does Word makes use of undefined characters? Are you sure it does? The error messages seems to come from the

Re: Copy and Paste with iconv

2003-10-09 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi, Harold L Hunt II [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there anyway that you can figure out the -winencoding parameter from Windows? char label[20]; sprintf( label, CP%d, (int) GetACP() ); Or something similar, you get the idea. E.g. for SHIFT_JIS you should get CP932, which is in the iconv

Re: X11, Tcl and Tk for Windows

2003-09-18 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Mark, Mark Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am looking for Tcl/Tk v8.0 and a compatible version of Xlib, for a port of an application developed originally for a Unix platform. You may want to discuss Tcl/Tk issues on comp.lang.tcl. There are much more people with specific Tcl/Tk knowledge

Re: Alternative icon

2003-09-15 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Harold, Harold L Hunt II [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The 24 x 24 16 color icon is blue rather than black. Oops, sorry, corrected in the attachment, I hope. Still looking for a decent free icon editor that doesn't let me make mistakes like that and doesn't have too many bugs. I am not so

Re: minimize emacs

2003-09-12 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Jason, all, Jason Dufair [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I suspect whatever tricks are being done with -multiwindow prevent iconify from behaving correctly. Maybe this is connected to the fact that xterm -iconic doesn't work on my system. I am also using -multiwindow. benny

Re: minimize emacs

2003-09-12 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Harold, Harold L Hunt II [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If either of these things work when not using -multiwindow and instead using twm or another window manager, then yes, that would be the reason. Confirmed. xterm -iconic works fine with twm here. benny

Re: Setup Query for Gary: FreeResource

2003-08-02 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi all, On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 05:16, Max Bowsher wrote: According to the MS docs, FreeResource is an obsolete 16-bit compatibility function. Do we really want/need to use it? Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MS recommend using DeleteIcon etc rather than it for new code - and yes,

Re: TEST: patch-2.5.8-4 (package maintainers, please note)

2003-07-25 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
David Rothenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't think it's done through newlib headers. That was my thought initially, too, when I was investigating the patch problem, but I did run gcc -E on some source and the result still called fdopen. Good, I was beginning to wonder ;-). After all

Re: Setup.exe: Font issue

2003-06-24 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Robert, Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We have a user base of a few thousand, the error has been reported by, oh, 10 users, and it's been tested on even less machines (AFAIK). 10 bug reports (if it were that much) in a few thousand seems quite a lot to me. I don't even want to

Re: Setup.exe: Font issue

2003-06-23 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Robert, Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm still a little leery, as the already pointed out limitations - are there machines with vector instead of bitmaps Dlg fonts. As I already mentioned before, that is not the issue at all. It's nice for debugging to wonder if the actual

Re: Homogenizing include guards - and copyright comments

2003-06-21 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Glenn, Max, Glenn Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: implementation specific symbols, e.g. include guards, should begin with '_' to avoid namespace pollution Pardon me if I try to clarify: By implementation you probably mean the compiler headers, like stdio.h, including POSIX headers like

Re: freopen fails w/o complaining

2003-06-21 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Rolf, Cygwin-xfree is the wrong list for this, where did you get the idea that it was the right place? I'll CC this to the right list, but note that I myself am not subscribed there, so please CC me. Rolf Maier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: freopen does not always work, [...] Here is an

Re: US-Intl keymap

2003-06-20 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Stefan, --- Alexander Gottwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: in /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h Stefan Heinzmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I didn't have that installed, thanks for the hint. Do I assume correctly that the defines use the Unicode encodings? Not in general. X11 keysyms are a

Re: X server acting funny when displaying remote KDE session

2003-06-16 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Stefan, I can only comment on some of the points, I hope others have more experience with KDE. Stefan Heinzmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: o When exiting the X server it crashes. I have that too sometimes, but I haven't yet investigated what's up. I log into a Debian Linux machine on the

Re: X server acting funny when displaying remote KDE session

2003-06-16 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Stefan, Stefan Heinzmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My Win2K is german, but I use a US keyboard with it (A Happy Hacking Keyboard, to be precise). I use the US-international layout because it has all the dead keys you need for various major european languages Here's the output of

Re: X server acting funny when displaying remote KDE session

2003-06-16 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Stefan, Stefan Heinzmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I see more chance for success when analyzing the SSH_CLIENT variable that is left behind by ssh. It contains the client's IP address, which could be grafted into the DISPLAY variable. I'm not a shell script guru, but I could try to put

Re: Multiwindow mode problem with Mozilla/Phoenix on Solaris

2003-06-05 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Harold, Harold L Hunt II [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is a temporary release of XWin.exe available that watches our for more NULL pointer dereferences. Please try it out and report your results: That's the way I like it, JIT-fixes ;-) I had started to get crashes with the new Emacs I

Re: Multiwindow mode problem with Mozilla/Phoenix on Solaris

2003-06-05 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Harold, Harold L Hunt II [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Okay, I will release this debug version as soon as I get a chance. Cool. BTW, I forgot to mention that the icons are *much* better now, that bit also works. so long, benny

Re: Server Test 88

2003-06-03 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Harold, Harold L Hunt II [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was able to make a pretty good 24 x 24 - 16 color icon without much trouble. I also made a 24 x 24 - 256 color icon. Now I suppose we should change the patch that Colin sent in to load the 24 x 24 icon instead of the 16 x 16 icon for

Re: Updated on sourceware: XFree86-xserv-4.2.0-42

2003-06-03 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Harold, Harold L Hunt II [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1) winconfig.c - Change nodeadkeys default to NULL for the German (Germany) keyboard layout. (Alexander Gottwald, Benjamin Riefenstahl) 2) X.ico - Add 24 x 24 - 256 color and 24 x 24 - 16 color icons. (Harold L Hunt II, Benjamin

Re: Updated on sourceware: XFree86-xserv-4.2.0-42

2003-06-03 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Harold, Harold L Hunt II [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can't confirm that the icon in XWin.exe hasn't changed. How did you extract the icon and view its contents? You do have an icon editor/viewer that is capable of listing the multiple icons with the file, right? Visual Studio will only

Re: Code reorganization heads up

2003-06-03 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Alexander, all, Alexander Gottwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The was a question on the list about the dll renaming. So I guess Benjamin(?) also compiled from cvs. Yes, I just took the XFree86 CVS, and than dumped the test server sources into the right directory. I didn't use a branch for

Re: Server Test 88

2003-06-02 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Lev, Lev Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On a related note, even the default 'X' icon that's used for xterms, etc, and is presumably built into xwin.exe, well it looks fine when alt-tabbing and on the taskbar, but the version on the windows title-bar and the version in the system tray,

Re: XWin Icon Fidelity

2003-06-02 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Harold, Harold L Hunt II [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That wonky/antialiased coloring comes when you upsize an icon from, say, 256 colors to true color. You then have to go back in and get rid of a lot of the antialiasing and shrink the mask back down. I think you want some white or gray

Re: (no)deadkeys keyboard default setting

2003-06-02 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Harold, Would you mind applying this? I like to play with the test servers, but this is slightly annoying for me... TIA, benny Alexander Gottwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alexander Gottwald wrote: @Harold: Can you please apply this patch? It changes the default keyboard layout for

Re: Setup.exe: Font issue

2003-06-01 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Gary, Sorry for this long reply. ;-) Gary R. Van Sickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm guessing that the real problem isn't the particular font used, but rather some code somewhere that isn't doing the ridiculously arcane Dialog Units - Pixels - Font Size conversions quite right and/or

Re: Setup.exe: Mouse wheel

2003-06-01 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Robert, Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lack of time, and lack of feedback - there's been no commentary. Sure, understood. Finally it's not obviously the Right Thing to do. It seems to me we'd want to trap those events and translate them in the rest of the choose event loop,

Re: [PATCH] Setup.exe: Mouse wheel

2003-05-31 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi all, Benjamin Riefenstahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Attached a simple patch to choose.cc to do this. Is nobody interested? so long, benny

Re: Setup.exe: Font issue

2003-05-31 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Gary, Gary R. Van Sickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A lot of people have been having this problem, it'd be great if we could fix this. So what's up? What more can I do to help? so long, benny

Re: default XKB settings

2003-02-24 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi all, Jeremy Wilkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It doesn't work (seems to print has followed by carrige return); * local rxvt * local xterm * remote xterm (ssh from Solaris box) The pound is U+00A3 according to charmap.exe. Are you sure that it's not just a wrong readline setting? The

Re: GDI DIB Engine Failing in 24 Bits Per Pixel Color

2003-01-22 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Harold, Harold L Hunt II [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I recall seeing somewhere that the GDI DIB documentation is wrong when it comes to 24 bit DIBs and that instead of the pixels being packed, they are actually aligned on 32 bit word boundaries, just like a 32 bit DIB. Am I crazy? Did I

Re: Connect from Unix to Windows via ssh and start an applycation which is using the windows display

2003-01-13 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Axel, Axel Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Of course I know about the mechanisms of forwarding displays under unix/linux (like: xhost + hostname, export DISPLAY= hostname:x.x,,... ), but this seems not to work, because I want to connect to a display of a windows host and not to another

Re: xwinclip-Test06

2002-12-30 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Harold, Harold L Hunt II [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, I will leave in the messaging window as it is needed by many people that are working on patches, so it would be silly to remove all of that framework. Of course. I will try to make a new release of xwinclip shortly. Looks

xwinclip-Test06

2002-12-28 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi all, Harold, I just figured out a problem that I have had with xwinclip-Test06. The Windows PeekMessage() message loop doesn't process all messages. When a message gets sent that is not processed, xwinclip starts an endless loop alternating between select() and PeekMessage(). The reason is

Re: Xwinclip doesn't work with Konsole

2002-11-23 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Harold, Harold L Hunt II [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just want a solution that works identically to the dozen or so commerical implementations that have conquered this very problem. I won't be satisfied until we have clipboard support that rivals the commercial X Servers for MS Windows.

Re: Building Eterm - please more help

2002-10-31 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Harold, Harold L Hunt II [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: #if defined(PATH_MAX) (PATH_MAX 255) # undef PATH_MAX #endif #ifndef PATH_MAX # define PATH_MAX 255 #endif Now, I cannot say that the (PATH_MAX 255) conditional is actually going to mean anything to the C preprocessor that we

Re: Building Eterm - please more help

2002-10-31 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Robert, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: gcc -g -O2 -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -o Eterm main.o .libs/libEterm.a -last -lImlib2 -lttf -lSM -lICE -lXext -lX11 -lipc -last -lImlib2 -lttf -lSM -lICE -lXext -lX11 -lipc -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/lib:/usr/lib/Eterm -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/lib:/usr/lib/Eterm

Re: Building Eterm - please more help

2002-10-31 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Harold, Harold L Hunt II [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was not talking about whether or not PATH_MAX was defined... I was referring to the ``''. I cannot guarantee that such a condition would work on Cygwin because: 1) I have not seen it used before 2) I have not tried it myself I'd

Re: Ported X11 soft from Solaris

2002-10-26 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Max, Max Buvry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LIB = -lSM -lXpm -lXaw -lXmu -lXt -lX11 -lXext -lm -lc -lpq Don't specify the C runtime libraries, they are implied and adding them here can only do harm. IOW drop -lm -lc. CFLAGS = -I/usr/include/ -I/usr/X11R6/include/ Same with C

Re: [CONT] Xlib: No protocol specified (connection refused by server)

2002-05-25 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Wout, Using ssh -X -l wout 10.0.0.2 on a suse linux 7.1 host You mean you are connecting *from* your W2K box *to* your Linux host? Otherwise I don't understand. wout@sapwas:~ xterm -display 10.0.0.4:0 That's wrong, you shouldn't add the -display option. You need to have the DISPLAY

Re: cygwin/xfree86 setup.exe packages available for comments and testing

2002-04-19 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Harold Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Excellent idea. Now I just need someone to write that script. Shouldn't be too hard. Any takers? How about fontdir=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts wfontdir=`cygpath -w $fontdir` mount -bfs $wfontdir $fontdir 2 /dev/null || mount -bfu $wfontdir $fontdir

Re: cygwin/xfree86 setup.exe packages available for comments and testing

2002-04-19 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Harold Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Excellent idea. Now I just need someone to write that script. Shouldn't be too hard. Any takers? How about fontdir=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts wfontdir=`cygpath -w $fontdir` mount -bfs $wfontdir $fontdir 2 /dev/null || mount -bfu $wfontdir $fontdir