I am having two problems when I click the "XWin Server" item in the
Windows "Start Menu"
1.The "Cygwin X/Server" icon appears in the notification area.But if I
right click the notification icon, no menu appears.
2.The "X Applications Menu" (XDG Menu) icon does not appear in the
notification
Personally, I would invoke a variation of Linus's attitude to breaking user
space apps: the distribution should not break existing user's scripts, even if
they are not following "the rules".
If you want to speed up the scripts distributed by Cygwin, then I would suggest
modifying those
>From: Dave Kilroy [mailto:kilr...@googlemail.com]
>>On 23/10/2015 16:16, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote:
>> When I right click a folder in Windows Explorer and select "Bash
>> Prompt Here", a window opens briefly and then closes immediately.
> I suspect this
> From: Jon Turney [mailto:jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk]
> Sent: Monday, October 19, 2015 7:54
>
> The dependency chain is git-gui -> gitk -> font-adobe-dpi75
>
> It doesn't look like the fonts in xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 are available to
> fontconfig, so I've changed the dependency of gitk to
When I right click a folder in Windows Explorer and select "Bash Prompt Here",
a window opens briefly and then closes immediately. If I select "Applications
-> Xterm" from the Cygwin/X Server tray icon, XTerm opens fine.
Cygcheck and Xwin logs attached. Chere -lr output below.
A few days ago, I ran Setup to update my currently installed package, including
my git packages. Since then, whenever I run git gui, I get the following error:
$ git gui
assertion "font != NULL" failed: file
From: Andrey Repin
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.sshd-in-domain
Any suggestions if you can't get your domain admin to create a generic
cyg_server account for you?
I suspect some people in corporate environments may have trouble getting domain
admins to create a generic cyg_server
From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf
Of Matt Seitz (matseitz)
From: Jon TURNEY
If this is easy for you to reproduce, could you show me the logfile
produced on reproduction, after starting XWin with the '-logverbose 3'
option?
Thanks for getting
From: Jon TURNEY
If this is easy for you to reproduce, could you show me the logfile
produced on reproduction, after starting XWin with the '-logverbose 3'
option?
Thanks for getting back to me. I was unable to reproduce the issue this
morning, with or without the -logverbose 3 setting.
Steps to reproduce:
-Right click XWin notification tray icon
-Left click Exit...
Expected results: XWin notification tray icon disappears and process ends
Actual results: No change, XWin continues to run
cygcheck.out
Description: cygcheck.out
XWin.8.log
Description: XWin.8.log
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From: Thomas Dickey [mailto:dic...@his.com]
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 06:45:00PM +, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote:
From: Ola Strömfors [mailto:ola.stromf...@gmail.com]
After updating from 291-1 to 301-1 xterm starts /bin/sh instead of
my shell specified in /etc/passwd
From: Ola Strömfors [mailto:ola.stromf...@gmail.com]
After updating from 291-1 to 301-1 xterm starts /bin/sh instead of
my shell specified in /etc/passwd or in the SHELL environment variable.
The workaround I have found is to create /etc/shells with a list of
permitted shells, e.g.
From
On Behalf Of Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
en_US is the default, but if you chose another dictionary in the Options
dialog, you would need that aspell-* package instead. There is even a
none option there. So it's hard to say that git-gui really needs
aspell-en when it's up to the user as to which
P.S. sorry about the line wrapping. Microsoft Outlook is not cooperating with
me...
From: Thomas Dickey
I did consider providing a special resource value that would suppress the
xterm-specific icon (such as none or default), but decided to see what
type of feedback I'd get first.
I like having a specific xterm icon in the taskbar to make it clear which X
application is
Did this update change the XTerm icon that is displayed in the Windows task bar?
Previously, when I launched the XWin Server, I would see the x.org logo (a
black X with an orange ring) in the task bar as the icon for the XTerm window.
Today, I see the XTerm icon for the XTerm window: a red X
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
Cygwin updated perl to 5.14.2 on my system and now I can’t compile
XML::LibXML. It seems that
c:\lib\perl5\5.14\i686-cygwin-threads-64int\Config.pm
expects cc to be gcc-4. Gcc-4 doesn’t exist yet, it seems. What’s
going on
From: Paul Maier
I would like to start XWin automatically on Windows startup (Windows user
login).
I couldn't find any hint in the manual.
How about just adding the XWin Server shortcut to the Startup program group?
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On Behalf Of Ryan Johnson
`mkpasswd` and `mkpasswd -l -U0-2' produce the same output
(neither
includes the SMB user); the drive is mapped in Windows as z: and I can
also access it directly from the cygwin prompt.
What is the output is you run:
mkpasswd -l samba-server-hostname -U
I decided to try using the CLI git fetch command instead. That worked
fine. Since then, I have performed other fetch operations using
git-gui without any more errors.
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I recently upgraded to a new laptop. After upgrading, I copied some git
repositories from my old laptop to my new laptop. I then installed
Cygwin on my new laptop.
I was able to use git-gui to commit changes into 2 local repositories.
However, when I then tried using git-gui to fetch changes
What is a better way I can give context (and credit) when I am
responding to a message, without implying that I expect a reply from the
original author?
I've been a Usenet user since 1988, and I've never heard of the
convention of quoting implies request for reply. Replies from the
original
From: Cygwin-L On Behalf Of Warren Young
I would say that the vast majority of the packages in the Cygwin
distribution could not reasonably make use of 64-bit data spaces.
However, one of your arguments in this thread cuts both ways: the fact
that there are a few packages that reasonably
From: Cygwin-L: On Behalf
Of marco atzeri
Until we work and deploy a 64bit cygwin1.dll the idea to build any 64 bit
cygwin program is pure academic and not very useful.
If you want to propose patches for 64 bit cygwin cygwin-developers is the
right mailing list.
Sorry if I wasn't clear.
Andrew DeFaria and...@defaria.com wrote in message
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On 5/21/2012 1:48 PM, Warren Young wrote:
On 5/21/2012 11:34 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
Consider a 32-bit executable that is 4 GB in size.
Do you know of one 32-bit executable that is 4 GB in size?
Ah, I didn't realize some people interpret quoting a post as expecting a
response from the author of the post.
When I quote from someone else's post, I do it for the purpose of giving
the context of my response. I'm not necessarily expecting a response
from the author of the previous post.
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Greetings, Nick Lowe!
Is SMB encrypted in this case?
You need to make some serious configuration tweaking to make it NOT
encrypted.
Are you referring to the authentication part of the SESSION_SETUP?
The only part of SMB that remember seeing encrypted are the
From: m...@kalani.com [mailto:m...@kalani.com]
When I enter:
admin@mypc ~
$cd
admin@mypc ~
$
The Cygwin/POSIX cd command is different from the Windows cd
command.
Cygwin/POSIX cd without arguments: change the current directory to
the user's home directory
Windows cd without
From: Corinna Vinschen
Use the Services MMC-SnapIn, or use the sc command in an elevated shell:
$ sc config sshd start= demand
Thanks, will do.
What is the best way to change the sshd service to Manual start if it
is already installed using Automatic start?
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From: Robert Miles
Does it always require xinit, or only sometimes?
Sometimes.
If only sometimes, why
should it always be installed even for computers where there is no
need
for it?
It should be always be installed if the benefits of always installing it
outweigh the benefits of not
From: Christopher Faylor
For the record, I don't think Yaakov, Corinna, or I are really
interested in spending our time adding some sort of suggestion
mechanism
to setup.exe. This would have ramifications both for setup.exe, for
the
script which updates setup.ini, and for the genini
From: Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
I haven't seen any questions that I haven't already answered (although
it would help if your mail client was capable of preserving a thread).
Sorry about that. Hopefully I've cleared up the threading problem now. Please
let me know if you are still seeing a
From: Achim Gratz [mailto:strom...@nexgo.de]
I do and FTR: I don't want the cygwin Xorg server to be a dependency
to
all programs that might use X because that would pull in a lot of
packages that I have no use for on most systems.
Right, that would be a disadvantage of making xinit a
From: Luke Kendall [mailto:luke.kend...@cisra.canon.com.au]
I'm no expert, but I thought any JPEG 2000 implementation required use
of patented technologies. Do the implementers make some statement about
the patent situation for openjpeg?
Does this help?
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
Using X requires user intervention to start an X server first. No
amount of automatic dependencies will change this, and therefore I
don't
expect that the number of questions would change one iota.
You don't think that Setup telling the user package xyz requires
Christopher Faylor wrote:
In the meantime, if people are piling on to suggest this because they
think it will cause someone to add xinit as a dependency to something
please be assured that this will not happen.
OK, what would cause someone to add xinit as a dependency to something?
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
In the meantime, if people are piling on to suggest this because they
think it will cause someone to add xinit as a dependency to something
please be assured that this will not happen.
OK, what would cause someone to add xinit as a dependency
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Maybe it's better if the code tests the permissions first, along these
lines:
Thanks. I would feel better with a solution that doesn't change my
permissions if they don't really need to be changed.
Here's another thought: is the problem only with the /home directory
Christopher Faylor wrote:
Yaakov posted the rationale. You responded to it. Additional
messages
insisting how much you want this are really pretty pointless.
Sorry, I don't mean to be a pest. I'll wait and see if Yaakov replies
to my latest questions.
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Corinna Vinschen wrote news:
On Mar 1 10:16, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote:
Here's another thought: is the problem only with the /home
directory
that Cygwin setup creates (ex: /cygdrive/c/cygwin/home)? If so,
would
it be possible to only modify that original /home directory
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
David, instead of setting tmp/temp, What about adding the following
line
to /etc/profile?
setfacl -m d:g::r-x,d:o:r-x /home /tmp /usr/tmp /var/log /var/run
/var/tmp 2/dev/null
Will that cause problems if I have:
$ mount | grep home
C:/Documents and Settings on
Christopher Faylor wrote:
The only thing that apparently needs addressing is that you read the
list and comprehend what's going on. I wish we could address that by
making more people do that. :-)
Would it help to add xinit to the requirements for tcl-tk and other
packages that now require
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
Remember that using X requires some level of manual intervention,
namely
that you have to *start* the server and set DISPLAY before actually
using it.
So installing xorg-server as a dependency isn't going to
prevent these questions one bit.
Good point. Would
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
xorg-server is not specified as a runtime dependency of libX11 or
libxcb
for several reasons:
Should xorg-server be specified as a runtime dependency of gitk?
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Feb 24 11:26, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote:
Should xorg-server be specified as a runtime dependency of gitk?
The X server is no hard requirement. Consider:
$ DISPLAY=my_linux_box:0 gitk
True. But would the benefit (helping new users) outweigh the cost
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
Nobody that doesn't need or want it has to install the X-Server. If
one uses gitk though, one has now moved into the category of
need/want
the X-Server if one wasn't already in that category. ;-)
Well, they certainly will need/want AN X-Server. But I thought
Earnie Boyd wrote:
While this resolves an immediate issue you should determine the fix
for platform determination in the upstream source so that the correct
file is created in the first place.
Yes, I have also suggested exactly that on the upstream mailing list:
Eric Blake (cygwin) wrote:
This release should cater to the fact that tcl is now X-based. Before
reporting any problems with gitk or git-gui, first check that you are
running an X server. Also, gitk will complain if your ~/.gitk has a
line 'set uicolor SystemButtonFace'; there's nothing I
Arnon Moscona forwardmosc...@gmail.com wrote in message
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I never needed an X server before, and gitk
displayed fine up until now. So why should I need to run an X server
now?
See:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 05:17:18PM -0800, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote:
Today I sent a couple of bug reports. I based my Subject on the
Good
examples given at:
http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Since all the good examples had a cygwin1.dll version at the front, I
Eric Blake wrote:
I'm working on packaging
a new git release, which should squelch this warning.
Thanks, I appreciate your quick response. I will look forward to your
fix.
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Same thing in 1.7.9.
Please lets not just put 1.7.10 in front of every bug report.
What is the proper procedure?
Today I sent a couple of bug reports. I based my Subject on the Good
examples given at:
David Rothenberger daver...@acm.org wrote in message
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apr1 has been updated to the latest upstream release. It includes a
fix for CVE-2011-1928.
Does this update introduce a dependence on the file and libserf
packages?
When I run setup.exe and view the
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On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:42:03AM -0700, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote:
In the future, would you make available a list of changes that does
not
require first installing the package? I like
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A detailed list of bugfixes and changes in this release can be
found in the ChangeLog included in the package.
In the future, would you make available a list of changes that does
Roe, Kevin L. wrote:
I know Windows explorer is supposed to pass the location to minty, so
why do I need to jump through these hoops?
I'm curious. Why are you editing the registry by hand instead of using
chere?
http://code.google.com/p/mintty/wiki/Tips#Creating_a_folder_context_menu
Where may I find a description of the changes in base-cygwin 3.0-1?
Setup is reporting that there base-cygwin 3.0-1 is now available, but I
haven't been able to find a release announcement on the mailing lists.
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When compiled out of the box, the upstream git maintainers
cater to older cygwin releases, and intentionally disable
certain features that have been reported on their mailing
list, even though they work with the latest cygwin.
Therefore, this build turns those features back on.
What is
Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL
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It's nice that people have found other uses for cygwin1.dll and the packages
which go into the distribution found at http://cygwin.com/ but I think
it is unrealistic to expect that people here will be cheerfully
Does the setup.exe home page at
http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html; need to be updated? It says
that CLI arguments are an under-development feature, and the link it
references says:
'Does the current http://cygwin.com/setup.exe have any [CLI arguments]?'
No, or at least, not
From: Marc Girod
I started a 'mkpasswd -d -l passwd.ld' process last Friday
around 15:30, and this one completed today (Wednesday) at 8:42.
The size of the file produced is 3 MB, or 20142 lines.
I ran into similar problems with mkpasswd taking a long time on a large
Active Directory
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Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote:
This problem and a proposed solution was mentioned in an
earlier e'mail (http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/1998-09/msg00839.html). Is
there a known solution to this issue?
You
From: Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote:
Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote:
This problem and a proposed solution was mentioned in an earlier
e'mail
(http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/1998-09/msg00839.html).
Ah, yes, the mounted CIFS share is reported as a FAT file
When I run tar -czlvf backup . in my home directory (/home/matseitz) , tar
accesses a subdirectory (/home/matseitz/sjc-filer03a) that mounts a remote CIFS
share. This problem and a proposed solution was mentioned in an earlier e'mail
(http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/1998-09/msg00839.html). Is
I noticed the following message in my event log. Can someone give me
more details on what it means?
Event Type: Information
Event Source: sshd
Event Category: None
Event ID: 0
Date: 9/28/2007
Time: 7:17:06 AM
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer:
From: Brian Dessent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes, those symlinks in /etc are explicitly created with Win32
paths by the base-files postinstall script. I think the
reasoning here is that if a POSIX path were used for the
target of the symlink then it would have to be updated if the
From: Brian Dessent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
That would be up to the base-files package maintainer,
however I don't think it's necessary. As I said the current
DLL code already normalizes symlink targets so if you use a
snapshot you will see those links in POSIX form with ls -l
even
What do you think of changing ls -l to display symbolic links using
POSIX style paths instead of Windows style?
When I run ls -l /etc, the symbolic links are displayed using Windows
format (C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts). It would be easier to
copy and paste the output to a cd command if
When I run git commit to check in changes to my
/cygdrive/c/windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts file, I receive the
following error messages like the following (Note: I've changed the
host name and IP addresses to protect its identity):
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c/windows/system32/drivers/etc
$
Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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In other words, _somebody_ (not
me) thought that because windows permissions can't be relied on, that
ALL git
hooks should be enabled by default; whereas on Linux, where
permissions are
reliable, ALL git hooks are disabled
From: DePriest, Jason R. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Try using a tool like psgetsid from Sysinternal's to get the
SIDs of the users you want to access your Cygwin system, then
manually build your own entries for your /etc/passwd file.
See
From: DePriest, Jason R. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 7/13/07, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote:
runas /netonly /user:machine2\userB followed by mkpasswd -d
machine2 -u userB: fails
If the server is stand alone, wouldn't mkpasswd -l be more
appropriate than mkpasswd -d?
That requires
From: Dave Korn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you aren't
logged into the domain, there's no way it should let you know
things like user and group lists.
Sorry, I wasn't clear. I did log into the stand-alone (non-domain) file
server first using runas /netonly
/user:machine\user. But then
From: Dave Korn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Let me repeat myself:
If you aren't
logged into the domain
^^
Logging into the local machine and logging into the domain
are two different
things. When you are not logged in to the domain, it would
be very
From: Long, Phillip GOSS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[...]what I did was to use 'runas' in a CMD window to log on as the
user in the other (untrusted,
IIRC) domain and run 'mkpasswd' and 'mkgroup' from there, [...]
Thank you very much! Using:
runas /netonly /user:domain\user cmd
and then:
Long, Phillip GOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in
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tional.com...
Maybe if U map a drive to a share on a machine in the neopath domain
using a neopath domain account, the security token your process gets
will let U access that domain. I /think/ that's what I've done in
I am trying to use mkpasswd and mkgroup to add entries for my user
account in an AD domain that is different my workstation login domain.
There is no trust relationship between the domains, and the user name is
different in each domain. When I try this, I receive an error:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc
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