RE: Starting X on a second monitor - kludge that works

2004-12-06 Thread Mark Fisher
excellent. my only query now is how do I programaticaly find out the offset of my second monitor, as I have it slightly raised from the primary, as opposed to simply placed side by side. thanks, mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Earle

RE: Starting X on a second monitor - kludge that works

2004-12-06 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Mark Fisher wrote: excellent. my only query now is how do I programaticaly find out the offset of my second monitor, as I have it slightly raised from the primary, as opposed to simply placed side by side. the windows function EnumDisplayMonitor will let you iterate over

RE: Starting X on a second monitor - kludge that works

2004-12-06 Thread Thomas Chadwick
[snip] -screen [EMAIL PROTECTED] which means a window of size 800x600 on monitor 2 Seems to me it's logical if the behavior is such that -screen 0 $W $H opens on the primary monitor, while -screen 1 $W $H opens on the secondary monitor. X-clients with DISPLAY=:0.0 will open on the primary

RE: Starting X on a second monitor - kludge that works

2004-12-06 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Thomas Chadwick wrote: [snip] -screen [EMAIL PROTECTED] which means a window of size 800x600 on monitor 2 Seems to me it's logical if the behavior is such that -screen 0 $W $H opens on the primary monitor, while -screen 1 $W $H opens on the secondary monitor.

Two Servers

2004-12-06 Thread Henry Camacho
I am trying now to get two xservers running. Each to linux hosts using X11 forwarding. I am not even sure what my command line should be to start the two xservers. Any help would greatly be appericated. HFC

Re: Two Servers

2004-12-06 Thread Ralf P. Gans
Hi, I use: X -ac -query IP1 :1 X -ac -query IP2 :2 and so on. I leave the :0 free for startxwin.bat. The -ac disable access control, the :2 tells X to create the screen on port localhost:2.0 X --help or the man page will show more help. Mit freundlichen Gruessen, Ralf Gans On Monday 06

FW: Update links to ViewCVS

2004-12-06 Thread Mark Fisher
Hi, Can someone update the viewcvs links on http://x.cygwin.com/devel/server/ please? The initial subdir xorg is missing and causes a view cvs error page on the links given. Thanks, Mark

Re: FW: Update links to ViewCVS

2004-12-06 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Mark Fisher wrote: Hi, Can someone update the viewcvs links on http://x.cygwin.com/devel/server/ please? The initial subdir xorg is missing and causes a view cvs error page on the links given. done. Thanks for reporting it. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Starting X on a second monitor - kludge that works

2004-12-06 Thread Earle F. Philhower, III
Howdy Mark, -- Original Message - Subject: RE: Starting X on a second monitor - kludge that works From: Mark Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] my only query now is how do I programaticaly find out the offset of my second monitor, as I have it slightly raised from the primary, as

RE: Starting X on a second monitor - kludge that works

2004-12-06 Thread Mark Fisher
Hi Earle, Funnily enough I'm just writing a patch for the @monitor, which involves me dusting off my old c hat. I've got the monitor reading information working, I'm just integrating it into winprocarg.c Should be done pretty soon... Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

dependency problem in font hint files

2004-12-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
Alexander, While attempting to install X on a system that was badly out of date, I got a number of Unable to find cygfontconfig.dll errors. I assume that this is due to the fact that the font pacakges rely on fontconfig but that wasn't reflected in their hint files. So, I added this dependency

Re: [Patch] fhandler.cc (pust_readahead): end-condition off.

2004-12-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 02:45:10AM +0100, Bas van Gompel wrote: Hi, A real bugfix this time. When fhandler_base::puts_readahead is given a (non -1) len-parameter, in the current implementation, not len characters are stowed, but len z-strings. This affects at least

Re: [Patch] fhandler.cc (pust_readahead): end-condition off.

2004-12-06 Thread Bas van Gompel
Op Mon, 6 Dec 2004 10:16:19 -0500 schreef Christopher Faylor in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: : On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 02:45:10AM +0100, Bas van Gompel wrote: [...] : * fhandler.cc (fhandler_base::puts_readahead): Fix end-condition. : : This patch changes things so that len characters are always

Re: User name with spaces and Cygwin web site suggestion

2004-12-06 Thread Nick Coghlan
Rodrigo de Salvo Braz wrote: On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: So you should do what the faq says. Thanks for the clarifications, Pierre, they will solve my problem. But one of the motivations of my original post was that I thought I had done what the faq says. I suggest it gets

Re: Apache-Cygwin problem

2004-12-06 Thread Brian Dessent
inscr dupont wrote: I know this subject has already been approached many times, but i still haven't found solutions before writing to this list. I've installed apache-1.3.24-4 and apache-php-4.2.0-2 1. cygwin-apps is the wrong mailing list for this. You want cygwin at cygwin dot com.

find prints wrong file size for files 2GB

2004-12-06 Thread Jacek Trzmiel
Win2kSP4+patches, cygwin1.dll 1.5.11, findutils 4.1.7-4 Test case below. $ cat truncate.c EOF #include unistd.h #include stdio.h #include stdlib.h #include errno.h int main(int argc, char **argv) { off_t size; char *endptr = argv[2]; if (argc != 3) { fprintf(stderr, usage:

Re: find prints wrong file size for files 2GB

2004-12-06 Thread Brian Dessent
Jacek Trzmiel wrote: $ ls -l aaa -rw-r--r--1 sc0rpNone 47 Dec 6 10:54 aaa $ find ./aaa -printf %10s %p\n 405032704 ./aaa GNU findutils does have largefile support as of 4.1.5. See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-findutils/2004-07/msg00012.html. There is a

Bad physical memory value detected

2004-12-06 Thread os . turlan
Hello, cygwin has been installed on a Windows 2000 server and it detected 2Gb of memory, correct value at this time. But some days ago we have increased the physical memory from 2Gb to 4Gb. The problem is that cygwin continue to see only 2Gb (top and vmstat commands results). Can somebody help

Re: Bad physical memory value detected

2004-12-06 Thread Brian Dessent
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cygwin has been installed on a Windows 2000 server and it detected 2Gb of memory, correct value at this time. But some days ago we have increased the physical memory from 2Gb to 4Gb. The problem is that cygwin continue to see only 2Gb (top and vmstat commands

Re: Firing up latest zsh with latest cygwin OOPS!

2004-12-06 Thread Andrew Markebo
zshoutshort.txt.gz Description: Shortened logfile -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Suggestions

2004-12-06 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 21:22:14 -0600 (CST), Rodrigo de Salvo Braz wrote: I would like to suggest that the words Keep, Prev, Curr and Exp be changed in the Cygwin Setup. I believe they are too abbreviated when there is room for clearer words. But, more importantly, I believe that the choice of

RE: Suggestions

2004-12-06 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Joshua Daniel Franklin Sent: 06 December 2004 14:58 On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 21:22:14 -0600 (CST), Rodrigo de Salvo Braz wrote: I would like to suggest that the words Keep, Prev, Curr and Exp be changed in the Cygwin Setup. I believe

Re: commands not found

2004-12-06 Thread David Baron
I cured it when I had to, for other reasons, reinstall. Place the setups in one directory and should be OK. Having a separate setup in a package directory caused the problem. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: User name with spaces and Cygwin web site suggestion

2004-12-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 07:11:43PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: Now I just need someone to give CGF a hyperthreaded system so he can work out what the heck is going on with hyperthreading, and all will be wonderful ;) Yeah, if only someone could do that. Then the thousands of people using cygwin

Re: What depends on less and what man depends on.

2004-12-06 Thread Reini Urban
Joshua Daniel Franklin schrieb: On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 08:13:34 +0100 (MET), Bas van Gompel wrote: These scripts you've made seem both cool and useful to me. It would be even better if we had this functionality in some of the cygwin utils, though, like cygcheck. Any interest in that? I'm also

Re: Suggestions

2004-12-06 Thread Rodrigo de Salvo Braz
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 21:22:14 -0600 (CST), Rodrigo de Salvo Braz wrote: I would like to suggest that the words Keep, Prev, Curr and Exp be changed in the Cygwin Setup. I believe they are too abbreviated when there is room for clearer words.

Re: User name with spaces and Cygwin web site suggestion

2004-12-06 Thread Rodrigo de Salvo Braz
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Nick Coghlan wrote: Opening up /etc/passwd in a text editor and doing a search and replace for Nick Coghlan - NickCoghlan worked fine for me. It makes Cygwin happy, and Windows gets to continue on in blithe ignorance of what is going on. Yes. I think that's the best

Re: find prints wrong file size for files 2GB

2004-12-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 03:11:21AM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: However, the timestamp on Cygwin's findutils package is 19-May-2002, which was before Cygwin 1.5.0 was released (10-Jul-2003), which was the first version to include 64bit file io support. Thus it may just be that findutils needs to

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: findutils-4.2.10-2

2004-12-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've made a new version of 'findutils' available for installation. This updates the package to the latest version available from alpha.gnu.org. This version is notable in that it seems to properly support files greater than 2G. It also includes a fix for the missing tempfile program in updatedb.

Re: Firing up latest zsh with latest cygwin OOPS!

2004-12-06 Thread Andrew Markebo
Some more questions.. Anyone else who can't read the written contents of the Firing up latest zsh with latest cygwin mails? Reading them with Gnus I only see: [1. Shortened logfile --- application/x-gzip; zshoutshort.txt.gz]... [2. text/plain] /Andy -- Democracy is two

RE: strange problems with cvs

2004-12-06 Thread Nuno Lopes
Just a note to inform you that I've downgrade my cygwin dll (to 1.5.11-1), and now cvs is working perfectly again. So, the problem is in the new dll release! Nuno -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: Environment variables system privilages

2004-12-06 Thread Brian Dessent
Jason Pearce wrote: Thanks. This works well enough. But I take it there is no universal command to check for system permissions. The procedure is just try a command that needs system privilages and watch the exit status. Well, if you really want to check for this you could try comparing the

Re: Environment variables system privilages

2004-12-06 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Brian Dessent wrote: Jason Pearce wrote: Thanks. This works well enough. But I take it there is no universal command to check for system permissions. The procedure is just try a command that needs system privilages and watch the exit status. Well, if you really

Re: $TEMP directory appears absent

2004-12-06 Thread Guillaume Marceau
I am trying to compile my sourceforge project under cygwin. I have a fresh installation of the latest version of cygwin. Unfortunately, something about the configuration of the TEMP directory seems to be broken. When the programs I run try to create a temp file, they complain that the temp

RE: commands not found

2004-12-06 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of cygwin Sent: 06 December 2004 19:14 To: cygwin Subject: Re: commands not found I've attached the cygcheck, and also the output of env. The wrong directories definitely seem to be in my path. I am used to changing that with

RE: commands not found

2004-12-06 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Dave Korn Sent: 06 December 2004 19:21 -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of cygwin Sent: 06 December 2004 19:14 To: cygwin Subject: Re: commands not found I've attached the cygcheck, and also the

Re: Firing up latest zsh with latest cygwin OOPS!

2004-12-06 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Andrew Markebo wrote: Some more questions.. Anyone else who can't read the written contents of the Firing up latest zsh with latest cygwin mails? Reading them with Gnus I only see: [1. Shortened logfile --- application/x-gzip; zshoutshort.txt.gz]... [2. text/plain] Hi

Re: Firing up latest zsh with latest cygwin OOPS!

2004-12-06 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Andrew Markebo wrote: Some more questions.. Anyone else who can't read the written contents of the Firing up latest zsh with latest cygwin mails? Reading them with Gnus I only see: [1. Shortened logfile --- application/x-gzip; zshoutshort.txt.gz]... [2. text/plain] One

Re: commands not found

2004-12-06 Thread Ken Dibble
I don't know a lot about this, but the following line is in the attached cygcheck.out Warning: There are multiple cygwin1.dlls on your path If I recall correctly, this is a bad thing. Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Dave Korn Sent: 06 December 2004

Re: Need help compiling gaim-1.1.0 (Was: gaim-1.0.2)

2004-12-06 Thread Doug Poland
Thanks for helping me in my attempt to get gaim-1.02 to compile under cygwin. I was having problems with my cygwin install so I decided today (06 Dec 2004) to dump my cygwin and do a fresh retrieve and install. So far the results have been very encouraging. I'm using gaim-1.1.0 as my source

w32api usr/include/sqlext.h bad macros

2004-12-06 Thread Eric Sharkey
The following was rejected on cygwin-patches. I'm intentionally posting to the wrong list now because I shouldn't have to subscribe to a mailing list just to report a bug! Eric --- Forwarded Message To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Eric Sharkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no

Re: What depends on less and what man depends on.

2004-12-06 Thread Bas van Gompel
Op Sun, 5 Dec 2004 17:57:32 -0800 schreef Joshua Daniel Franklin in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: : On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 08:13:34 +0100 (MET), Bas van Gompel wrote: : Sometimes one wants to know what depends on a package or vice versa. : : To find out, using the local setup.inis, I wrote following script.

findutils-4.2.10-2

2004-12-06 Thread fergus
Upgraded today to findutils-4.2.10-1 and then it seems almost immediately to findutils-4.2.10-2. I now find that moderately short lists of the style find dirname | xargs md5sum find dirname | xargs file etc die with find: xargs: list too long. In the past (yesterday) such commands generated

Re: w32api usr/include/sqlext.h bad macros

2004-12-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 04:41:02PM -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote: The following was rejected on cygwin-patches. I'm intentionally posting to the wrong list now because I shouldn't have to subscribe to a mailing list just to report a bug! Since cygwin-patches isn't a bug reporting mailing list and

Re: findutils-4.2.10-2

2004-12-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 10:09:57PM +, fergus wrote: Upgraded today to findutils-4.2.10-1 and then it seems almost immediately to findutils-4.2.10-2. The announcement for findutils states: Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: findutils-4.2.10-2 I now find that moderately short lists of the

no such file or directory

2004-12-06 Thread Kevin Smith
Upon trying to build mozilla, after following directions to the T, I get this error when trying to build: /cygdrive/c/mozilla/ no such file or directory I can cd to this very directory Is this perhaps a path problem? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

Re: w32api usr/include/sqlext.h bad macros

2004-12-06 Thread Eric Sharkey
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 04:41:02PM -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote: The following was rejected on cygwin-patches. I'm intentionally posting to the wrong list now because I shouldn't have to subscribe to a mailing list just to report a bug! Since cygwin-patches isn't a bug reporting mailing list

Suppressing linking errors with GCC/G++/ld under Cygwin

2004-12-06 Thread Robert McLeay
Hi, (Sorry if this is OT, I'm trying to find out the Cygwin equivalent of a GCC flag from other platforms.) I'm trying to compile a library for Qu-Prolog that will be linked at run-time with program internals. As it will be linked at run time, I would like to suppress all undefined reference

Re: commands not found

2004-12-06 Thread cygwin
I ran the bash login from dos (bash --login -i -x)and it logged me in just fine, there was no output. It still says that commands can't be found but the output is a little different. Now it puts a + and the command before telling me that it can't be found. Something that concerns me, aside from

Xfce4.1.99 build problems.

2004-12-06 Thread Toufeeq Hussain
Hello, While trying to build Xfce4.1.99 , in the package libxfce4util-4.1.99.1 I get the following error. Cannot export R: symbol not defined Cannot export _xfce_builtin_license_BSD: symbol not defined Cannot export _xfce_builtin_license_GPL: symbol not defined Cannot export

Re: findutils-4.2.10-2

2004-12-06 Thread fergus
I was going to say WJFFM and point you to http://cygwin.com/problems.html Fair comment. but then I remembered that I have my /bin directory mounted with the -X option ... I'll release a new version which fixes this problem Thanks very much for responding so rapidly. I have installed

Updated: findutils-4.2.10-2

2004-12-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've made a new version of 'findutils' available for installation. This updates the package to the latest version available from alpha.gnu.org. This version is notable in that it seems to properly support files greater than 2G. It also includes a fix for the missing tempfile program in updatedb.