Re: Cannot start xterm

2010-01-11 Thread Paul Loewenstein
See startxwin(.exe) man page. Run startxwin from a login shell. Paul Ryan Mcdowell (rymcdowe) wrote: Please ignore this email, anti-virus was killing some of the installation scripts :( -Original Message- From: Ryan Mcdowell (rymcdowe) Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 4:46 PM To:

Unrecognisable file format errors running setup.exe

2010-01-04 Thread Paul Loewenstein
Because I install Cygwin on multiple systems, I initially run setup.exe under wine (fedora 11) to download the files into a Samba-accessible directory (Distribution/Cygwin/ on Cambridge), into which I also place setup.exe. On a Vista system (I haven't tried to reproduce on XP), I then run

Re: X server fails to start on Vista

2009-05-07 Thread Paul Loewenstein
And make sure the icon isn't hidden (I set Vista to always show the X Windows icon). Paul Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote: Kim Goldov wrote: I downloaded Cygwin-X per the instructions in http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/setup-cygwin-x-installing.html When selecting Cygwin-X - XWin Server in the

[PATCHES] Re: keypad assignments

2009-03-31 Thread Paul Loewenstein
To Cygwin maintainers: Attached are two unidiff files for correcting the problem of translating numeric keypad navigation keys to editing keypad navigation keys. Editing keypad navigation is now only forced in the absence of a scancode. Paul Paul Loewenstein wrote: Thomas, I believe I

Re: keypad assignments

2009-03-30 Thread Paul Loewenstein
Thomas, I believe I have fixed the problem. What program do you use for displaying the keycodes so I can test the fix before sending in the patch? Paul Thomas Wolff wrote: Hello, I've managed to re-activate my Cygwin/XFree (there had been this disabled keyboard problem with a non-cygwin

Re: keypad assignments

2009-03-26 Thread Paul Loewenstein
Thomas, That may be my fault in fixing a problem with speech recognition and Cygwin. I'll have a look at that part of the special case table and undo that change if that is responsible. Paul Thomas Wolff wrote: Hello, I've managed to re-activate my Cygwin/XFree (there had been this

Re: cygwin rxvt problems on Windows 7 64bit

2009-03-07 Thread Paul Loewenstein
Boba, Have you run rebaseall? I found I needed to run it with double the default offset. Paul BOBA FETT wrote: Hey guys, I just installed Windows 7 64bit beta and am trying to get my cygwin env to run on it. Basically cygwin installed fine and I can start the normal cygwin shell and use

Re: Cygwin-X on Windows 7 Beta Success!

2009-02-24 Thread Paul Loewenstein
Fredrik, Thanks! I got it working with a reinstall and a rebaseall with double the default offset. GNUemacs does not survive rebaseall. Paul Fredrik Staxeng wrote: Paul Loewenstein paul.loewenst...@gmail.com writes: Fredrik, On 64-bit Windows 7, I cannot get Cygwin/X windows

Re: Cygwin-X on Windows 7 Beta Success!

2009-02-15 Thread Paul Loewenstein
Fredrik, On 64-bit Windows 7, I cannot get Cygwin/X windows to accept keyboard input. Are you using 32-bit or 64-bit? Paul Fredrik Staxeng wrote: I have been running Cygwin with X on Windows 7 Beta for a few weeks. It works. I think it works rather well considering what it does. I had to

Re: [patch 4/7] Cygwin/X: Invent a scan code if we dont have one

2009-01-19 Thread Paul Loewenstein
Yaakov, Attached is the single unidiff file. I hope the path is relative to the correct directory. Paul Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Paul Loewenstein wrote: Sorry, I did the diff backwards. You can tell I don't do this often. Corrected

Re: [patch 4/7] Cygwin/X: Invent a scan code if we dont have one

2009-01-17 Thread Paul Loewenstein
for left/right-specific shift/control/alt. I have not tested the left/right-specific entries. You may want to check that I have put the correct codes in the correct rows (that correspond to the codes). Paul Paul Loewenstein wrote: I plan to do a reasonably thorough investigation of what scan

Re: [patch 4/7] Cygwin/X: Invent a scan code if we dont have one

2009-01-17 Thread Paul Loewenstein
Jon, Sorry, I did the diff backwards. You can tell I don't do this often. Corrected .diffs attached, so you don't have to use the patch reverse option. Paul Paul Loewenstein wrote: Jon, Attached are my final patches. MAPVK_VK_TO_VSC_EX (which is 4, not 3) did not help with the numeric

Re: [patch 4/7] Cygwin/X: Invent a scan code if we dont have one

2009-01-16 Thread Paul Loewenstein
Loewenstein at least in the patch who came up with this idea. Jon TURNEY wrote: Reini Urban wrote: Shouldn't we properly attribute Paul Loewenstein at least in the patch who came up with this idea. Indeed, thanks for pointing out this oversight. Revised patch attached. That's what happens to people

Windows Vista Speech Recognition and Cygwin/X

2009-01-10 Thread Paul Loewenstein
The XWin server uses primarily hardware scan codes for interpreting the windows WM_KEYDOWN and WM_SYSKEYDOWN messages. Unfortunately, Vista speech recognition (WSR) doesn't bother to fill in the scancode field in the lParam entry. Neither does SendKeys.SendWait(), which is what Vocola 3, a

cygwin-xfree

2003-07-26 Thread Paul Loewenstein
I am suffering repeated xwin.exe crashes due to BadWindow (see attached /tmp/XWin.log). I am running Windows 2000. I am also running Dragon NaturallySpeaking 6.1, which I suspect has something to do with increasing the likelihood of applications receiving bad window handles. Is there any way