RE: dummy rootless question...

Pierre CHATEL wrote: i can't figure out wich config file to edit in order to get X11 with Window Maker running in rootless mode (i already use wmaker). I saw that -rootless was an option to XWin but how to pass it to XWin at wmaker startup. In .xinitrc ?? I prefer this mechanism: I use startx

RE: Advocacy

I can't believe I'm actually chiming in on this one... If you add some sort of END marker, you might as well add a BEGIN marker of some sort as well, in case over-zealous corporate e-mail security-types get wind of what's going on. :-) Always be sure to point out that this isn't meant to defeat

RE: file name case sensitivity

Sorry this is getting a bit OT... Shankar Unni wrote: Very interesting. Once you do create such files [...], will regular Windows programs be able to even look at that directory? Or will they choke on those names [...] ? Obviously, you need to do something special to get at the files or there

RE: file name case sensitivity

Shankar Unni wrote: Yes, but in my opinion it could be of use to John Williams because he wanted to case sensitivity in filenames under Cygwin. No, it won't work, because if you remember, he said that he had files with the same name but different case *in the same directory*. This

RE: GPL Violation

cgf wrote: The standalone DLL that we support is cygwin1.dll. We don't support it for free, however, as much as people want us to. My mistake. Yes, that's exactly what I was talking about. I was thinking about open-source projects (which in this case they have to be) posting binary releases

RE: GPL Violation

I wrote: There is another side to this issue: the fact that RedHat is not in the business of supporting a standalone cygwin1.DLL, ^^^ I knew that I shouldn't have touched that one yet... I'm assuming that the standalone DLL that RedHat IS in the business of supporting (i.e.,

RE: GPL Violation

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please provide the Cygwin source that corresponds to the version of cygwin1.dll on the above web page at your earliest convenience. Not necessarily. See section 3 of the GPL (version 2) where other alternatives are listed. Good point. You are not required to

RE: Window Maker received signal 11

Patrick Knodle wrote: I just installed the latest version of XFree86 and made 2 changes to the startxwin.bat file to access our servers. When I open this file I get the message: I think I saw this when I was using text-mounted file systems. Switching to binary mounts corrected it for me. I'm

Re: hi

Marcel Telka wrote: cat filename:-) Of course, if you count cat as an editor, you have to count uudecode as a compiler. :-) -Jerry -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation:

Re: Cygwin official logo ?

Unless someone at least has some artwork to show, why are we still discussing alternative animals? I could give more reasons to choose a cygnet, but why waste the time? If cgf wants an otter, we should be looking into how to get a good drawing of one. Preferably a mean one, I guess. :-) I suppose

Re: cygwin official logo ?

Christopher Faylor wrote: Please grant me this one conceit. Linus likes penguins. I like otters. If there is going to be an animal mascot for cygwin it should be an otter. Bummer, I was going to suggest a baby swan (i.e., a cygnet). So, will it be a river otter or a sea otter? -Jerry --

Removing focus from X

I had meant to try this, but I'm having some build problems at the moment. I backed out my patch, and found that the build still fails on the CVS snapshot I took 2 weeks ago. It reports this error when I run make in xc/programs/Xserver: [...] gcc -o XWin.exe -O2 -fno-strength-reduce -Wall

Re: Removing focus from X

Thanks Harold, that change to win.h did the trick. Too bad my patch didn't work as well. :-( As per Harold's advice, I added a call to XCloseDisplay(). Here is the revised (still crude) patch to winwndproc.c: Index: winwndproc.c ===

Re: rootless mode and mousing to other windows

So how was it that you start rootless mode again? Just kidding. I guess I should have mentioned that I was about to go on vacation for over a week after I sent my last message. My impression of XOpenWin was that it was going to replace the low-level graphic calls from Windows with calls to X.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: swig-1.3.16-1

I've updated the version of SWIG to 1.3.16-1. Tarballs should be available on the Cygwin mirrors shortly. As per the SWIG web page (http://www.swig.org): SWIG (Simplified Wrapper Interface Generator) is a software development tool that connects programs written in C and C++ with a variety

RE: == operand not found

Scott Prive wrote: 1) Why is ash the default? At least on UNIX systems that use true sh -- usually just /bin/bash in /bin/sh compatibility mode But bash in compatibility mode isn't true Bourne shell. For instance, /bin/sh on a Solaris box doesn't support the == operator either. This is a

RE: Python support for Tcl 8.0

Jason Tishler wrote: (I'm not entirely sure why Tcl/Tk is stuck at 8.0--I thought Cygwin was supported through 8.2 or 8.3. But that's another matter.) As Chris has already stated, it is in the archives. I know, but from the 80,000 foot view it looked like the pieces were there. The

RE: wmaker signal 11

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: $

RE: Viruses being transported with cygwin messages

Tim Prince wrote: Earthlink gave me immediate automatic acknowledgment that these were viruses originated by one of their customers. Sorry for the extra noise, but in case anyone's trying to track down the sources, I also got a message claiming to be from Christopher Faylor (though with the

Re: Application failed to initialize (0xc0000022)

Cross-posting the resolution... Christopher Faylor wrote: It's usually caused by the use of CYGWIN=ntsec and cygwin1.dll not having executable permissions, I believe. It's showed up here from time to time. So, doing something like: c:\set CYGWIN=ntsec c:\chmod a+rx /bin/* may help.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: swig-1.3.15-1

I've updated the version of SWIG to 1.3.15-1. Tarballs should be available on the Cygwin mirrors shortly. As per the SWIG web page (http://www.swig.org): SWIG (Simplified Wrapper Interface Generator) is a software development tool that connects programs written in C, C++, and Objective-C

RE: Application failed to initialize (0xc0000022)

Jason Tishler wrote: Is it possible that this is an aspect of the dreaded rebase issue? I don't think so. If it was, then you would have experienced fork() failures with messages (not dialogs) like the following: That was my initial impression also. But what could cause that error? Given

RE: Application failed to initialize (0xc0000022)

Now I'm pretty convinced it's not a rebase thing but some time of security/access issue. I found a few references in MSDN referring to this error message. They seem to have to do with access rights and directories searched for a DLL (e.g., if you don't have rights to a network drive in your

Application failed to initialize (0xc0000022)

I'm running Win2K and very recent full Cygwin install. I ran into this when I tried to install KDE, but it's not a KDE issue (I tried that list anyway to see if this had been seen). It involves XFree86, although I suspect it's not really an X issue, either. When I replace the X library with one

RE: swig-1.3.15-1: Ready for Upload

Just a gentle reminder... No rush, but I haven't heard gotten a response since I posted last Wednesday, and I want to make sure that it didn't fall into the bit bucket... :-) -Jerry Williams I wrote: A new version of the SWIG package (swig-1.3.15-1) is ready for upload from the following

swig-1.3.15-1: Ready for Upload

A new version of the SWIG package (swig-1.3.15-1) is ready for upload from the following locations: Binary: http://home.ptd.net/~gwilliam/cygwin_swig/swig-1.3.15-1.tar.bz2 Source: http://home.ptd.net/~gwilliam/cygwin_swig/swig-1.3.15-1-src.tar.bz2 Or follow the links from:

Customizing setup.exe

I find myself regularly customizing and rebuilding setup in order to dummy-proof it for our internal users. I'm specifically doing two things: - providing the correct defaults for our proxy server - pointing the mirror list at a local archive that I rsync periodically with the latest

RE: NTTY

Karen Oakley wrote: could you please tell me what NTTY stands for?? thanks I seem to remember this having something to do with low-level line control in Unix. The following web page calls it a Hardware Emulation Module (Google is your friend):

swig-1.3.13-1: Ready for Upload

A new version of the SWIG package (swig-1.3.13-1) is ready for upload from the following locations: Binary: http://home.ptd.net/~gwilliam/cygwin_swig/swig-1.3.13-1.tar.bz2 Source: http://home.ptd.net/~gwilliam/cygwin_swig/swig-1.3.13-1-src.tar.bz2 Or follow the links from:

RE: Trackpoint support?

Harold Hunt wrote: In this case you're going to have to do some investigation to find out how the Trackpoint driver emulates a mouse wheel. Done. I found out that there is a special configuration file for the trackpoint driver. It's in /WINNT/System32/tp4table.dat in my case, although it

Trackpoint support?

I'm using an IBM T21 Thinkpad w/Win2K Cygwin/XFree86 4.2.0 installed via Cygwin setup: My computer has a trackpoint mouse and a third button that is supposed to let it scroll like an enhanced wheel. But it doesn't work under X. Has anyone already looked into making something like this work

RE: mkpasswd (Win2K) cannot find the domain controller

Heribert Dahms wrote: maybe Jerry should improve his patch to make it runtime selectable like mkpasswd --use-netgetanydcname [...] Corinna Vinschen wrote: I'm somewhat reluctant to apply that patch to mkpasswd. The reason is... I don't know. I recalled that I'd once changed from using

RE: Best place for WindowMaker, Openbox, etc.?

it (before I put much effort into tweaking it, I'd like to check out some other window managers). -Jerry -O Gerald S. Williams, 55A-134A-E : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] O- -O AGERE SYSTEMS, 6755 SNOWDRIFT RD : office:610-712-8661 O- -O ALLENTOWN, PA, USA 18106-9353: mobile:908-672-7592 O-

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New Package: SWIG

The 'SWIG' package is now available via setup.exe. As per the SWIG web page (http://www.swig.org): SWIG (Simplified Wrapper Interface Generator) is a software development tool that connects programs written in C, C++, and Objective-C with a variety of high-level programming languages. SWIG is

RE: [RFC] SWIG package

up the web page my dial-up ISP supposedly provides. (Unfortunately, that will be going away shortly when I finally get my cable modem hookup.) :-) -Jerry -O Gerald S. Williams, 55A-134A-E : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] O- -O AGERE SYSTEMS, 6755 SNOWDRIFT RD : office:610-712-8661 O- -O ALLENTOWN, PA

RE: SWIG package maintainer?

Thanks. I had followed the FAQ to a post that wasn't quite as detailed as that. -Jerry -O Gerald S. Williams, 55A-134A-E : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] O- -O AGERE SYSTEMS, 6755 SNOWDRIFT RD : office:610-712-8661 O- -O ALLENTOWN, PA, USA 18106-9353: mobile:908-672-7592 O- -Original

[RFC] SWIG package

Wrapper Interface Generator. Generates wrappers for C/C++ modules, allowing them to be accessed from a variety of scripting languages. See http://www.swig.org for details. -O Gerald S. Williams, 55A-134A-E : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] O- -O AGERE SYSTEMS, 6755 SNOWDRIFT RD : office:610-712-8661 O- -O

RE: pthread_cond_wait does not relock mutex on release

sem_wait()'s not to wait). -Jerry -O Gerald S. Williams, 55A-134A-E : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] O- -O AGERE SYSTEMS, 6755 SNOWDRIFT RD : office:610-712-8661 O- -O ALLENTOWN, PA, USA 18106-9353: mobile:908-672-7592 O- Robert and Gerald: Both quite right.  Although adding

RE: sem_trywait returns EAGAIN (rather than returning -1 and setting errno)

(putting the error code in errno), since 0 is never a legal errno code. You may find it useful if you are using pthreads and semaphore code at the same time and want the return codes to work the same. -Jerry -O Gerald S. Williams, 22Y-103GA : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] O- -O AGERE SYSTEMS, 555

RE: Creating a local mirror for setup.exe

into an official release. BTW, Cygwin is not the only platform to have problems with pthreads. Another member of my group found a problem with the Solaris pthreads package that he had to work around. -Jerry -O Gerald S. Williams, 22Y-103GA : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] O- -O AGERE SYSTEMS, 555 UNION BLVD : office

RE: Creating a local mirror for setup.exe

Thanks, that was exactly what I needed. I can now update setup.ini (upset2 -u setup.ini) or simply download the setup.hint files from the FTP sites and build the whole file. Sorry if this was the wrong list for this sort of question... -Jerry -O Gerald S. Williams, 22Y-103GA : mailto:[EMAIL

Creating a local mirror for setup.exe

? Thanks, -Jerry -O Gerald S. Williams, 22Y-103GA : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] O- -O AGERE SYSTEMS, 555 UNION BLVD : office:610-712-8661 O- -O ALLENTOWN, PA, USA 18109-3286 : mobile:908-672-7592 O-

RE: /usr/bin/env - Incorrect parsing of #! line?

anything (i.e., find out if this is a win-win feature), although this is hardly likely to be on anyone's priority list soon. -Jerry -O Gerald S. Williams, 22Y-103GA : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] O- -O AGERE SYSTEMS, 555 UNION BLVD : office:610-712-8661 O- -O ALLENTOWN, PA, USA 18109-3286 : mobile:908

RE: /usr/bin/env - Incorrect parsing of #! line?

(such as the O'Reilly nutshell books) that rely on multiple arguments. -Jerry -O Gerald S. Williams, 22Y-103GA : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] O- -O AGERE SYSTEMS, 555 UNION BLVD : office:610-712-8661 O- -O ALLENTOWN, PA, USA 18109-3286 : mobile:908-672-7592 O- Christopher Faylor wrote: I think you're