/tmp/.X0-lock problem

2009-01-02 Thread Charles Swenson
FAQ 3.4. Fatal server error: Can't read lock file /tmp/.X0-lock I just installed cygwin for the first time (newbie) on a XP-SP3 laptop to gain access to my Linux systems. Install was straight forward but I ran into this error as noted in the FAQ file upon launching X (Start menu or command line)

Re: multiwindow support for _NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_TASKBAR

2009-01-02 Thread Jon TURNEY
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: I have noticed that normal windows don't appear in the taskbar until they are refocused upon. Can you confirm? Ping? I'm not dead, just sleeping ;-) Yes, I see the same behaviour. When I looked into this, it seems to be because the

Re: /tmp/.X0-lock problem

2009-01-02 Thread Jon TURNEY
Charles Swenson wrote: FAQ 3.4. Fatal server error: Can't read lock file /tmp/.X0-lock I just installed cygwin for the first time (newbie) on a XP-SP3 laptop to gain access to my Linux systems. Install was straight forward but I ran into this error as noted in the FAQ file upon launching X

Re: (EE) Keyboardlayout Russian (00000419) is unknown

2009-01-02 Thread Jon TURNEY
Sergey Talchuk wrote: Hello, could you please help me to resolve the following problem: (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: 0419 (0419) (EE) Keyboardlayout Russian (0419) is unknown I'm using: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34 i686 Cygwin Keyboard model: Dell SK8115

Re: Updated: nedit-5.5-4

2009-01-02 Thread Jon TURNEY
David Monksfield wrote: The following package was updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** nedit-5.5-4 This release includes a patch for proper operation with X11R7.4. Since the X server update, some NEdit windows won't resize any more. I can't grab a corner, and the 'Resize' option in the

Re: PATCH:

2009-01-02 Thread Jon TURNEY
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Jon TURNEY wrote: Here's a small patch-set you could use to update cygports: http://www.dronecode.org.uk/cygwin/cygwin-xorg-server-patch-set-update-20081218.tar.bz2 In addition to the above, this includes patches: * an update to the keyboard layout mapping table

winsup/cygwin ChangeLog ChangeLog-2008

2009-01-02 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/uberbaum Module name:winsup Changes by: c...@sourceware.org 2009-01-03 02:27:46 Modified files: cygwin : ChangeLog Added files: cygwin : ChangeLog-2008 Log message: Year-end rollover. Patches:

winsup/cygwin ChangeLog Makefile.in assert.cc ...

2009-01-02 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/uberbaum Module name:winsup Changes by: c...@sourceware.org 2009-01-03 05:12:22 Modified files: cygwin : ChangeLog Makefile.in assert.cc cxx.cc cygthread.cc cygtls.cc cygtls.h dcrt0.cc debug.cc

winsup/cygwin ChangeLog

2009-01-02 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/uberbaum Module name:winsup Changes by: c...@sourceware.org 2009-01-03 05:13:35 Modified files: cygwin : ChangeLog Log message: correct Patches:

winsup/cygserver ChangeLog Makefile.in

2009-01-02 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/uberbaum Module name:winsup Changes by: c...@sourceware.org 2009-01-03 05:37:34 Modified files: cygserver : ChangeLog Makefile.in Log message: * Makefile.in (CFLAGS): Look in cygwin's build directory for header files. Patches:

Re: MinTTY

2009-01-02 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Andy Koppe ha scritto: So what do you do when you need the tilde in other applications, e.g. for typing the bitwise-not operator in C? As I have explained in my OP: AltGr+ì or ALT+126 code work just fine with other consoles and/or applications. For completeness, on MinTTY, AltGr+other keys

Re: MinTTY

2009-01-02 Thread Andy Koppe
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: -i on the shortcut's command line. That would be a nice one to have in the configuration dialogs, but I don't see how you avoid the registry in that case. Maybe just going with bash --login -i as the default if you don't tell it otherwise would be a 90% solution.

Re: MinTTY

2009-01-02 Thread Andy Koppe
As I have explained in my OP: AltGr+ì or ALT+126 code work just fine with other consoles and/or applications. If I switch my machine to the Italian keyboard, Windows applications such as Notepad, Word or Mozilla Thunderbird do nothing when I press AltGr+ì. (I can type the accented ì alright.)

cmd.exe from Cygwin

2009-01-02 Thread Jeenu V
Hi, I've to run some windows commands repeatedly. Since I'm familiar and comfortable with BASH, I thought I would perform the 'intelligent' decisions using BASH scripts and run rest using cmd.exe invoked from Cygwin bash shell. But this is the problem I face: The program I intend to run with

Re: cmd.exe from Cygwin

2009-01-02 Thread Lee
On 1/2/09, Jeenu V jee...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've to run some windows commands repeatedly. Since I'm familiar and comfortable with BASH, I thought I would perform the 'intelligent' decisions using BASH scripts and run rest using cmd.exe invoked from Cygwin bash shell. But this is the

Re: cmd.exe from Cygwin

2009-01-02 Thread Jeenu V
Thanks for the reply. The backslash is an escape character, so you need to get it treated as a character somehow - escaping (\\) or inside quotes works for me: I'm aware of this. N:\src\CEDAR\GENERIC\base\bsp\hwip_arm\rvemuboard\ct1136\testcmd /c bldmake bldfiles ARMV6 sh:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.5] Updated: {gettext/gettext-devel/libgettextpo0/libintl8/libasprintf0}-0.17-3

2009-01-02 Thread cygwin
gettext is the GNU package which provides 'national language support' for other programs. It includes a number of utility programs. This is a packaging and bugfix update of the gettext package(s). This will most likely be the final gettext update for the cygwin-1.5 distribution; future

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {gettext/gettext-devel/libgettextpo0/libintl8/libasprintf0}-0.17-10

2009-01-02 Thread cygwin
gettext is the GNU package which provides 'national language support' for other programs. It includes a number of utility programs. This is the first release specific for cygwin-1.7. The only differences between this package and the simultaneously-released gettext-0.17-3 for cygwin-1.5 are (1)

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {libiconv/libiconv2/libcharset1}-0.12-10

2009-01-02 Thread cygwin
The GNU libiconv package provides an iconv() implementation, for use on systems which don't have one, or whose implementation cannot convert from/to Unicode. This is the first release specific for cygwin-1.7. The only differences between this package and the earlier libiconv-0.12-1 (released for

RE: MinTTY

2009-01-02 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Thorsten Kampe wrote on Thursday, January 01, 2009 11:37 AM: * Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] (Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:03:48 -0500) Thorsten Kampe wrote on Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:40 AM: you have to use start. Or cygstart.exe? Right. Although there is no real advantage to use that

Re: 1.5.25: Cygwin, LAPACK, and ssh -- output swallowed

2009-01-02 Thread Jim Kramer
Eric Hui wrote: Jim Kramer wrote: Concise problem description: A C/C++ program that incorporates LAPACK functions swallows program output when run (as a command) over an ssh connection. This may be an issue with your path. In your example 1, try ssh hollyberry echo '$PATH' The

Re: MinTTY

2009-01-02 Thread Andy Koppe
Christopher Faylor wrote: I finally played around with this a little. It is nice. It reminds me a little bit of Console2 - http://console.sourceforge.net/. One thing that Console2 does is provide a true console interface which doesn't rely on anything like Cygwin's ptys. On the other

Re: xterm and cut paste

2009-01-02 Thread Brian Salter-Duke
On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:56:23 +, Fergus fer...@bonhard.uklinux.net wrote: Include -clipboard as an option for XWin. e.g. run XWin -clipboard -nolisten local -multiwindow 2nul and then selected text in xterm is automatically copied to the clipboard for onward pasting. Fergus Thanks

Re: MinTTY

2009-01-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 10:10:33PM +, Andy Koppe wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: I finally played around with this a little. It is nice. It reminds me a little bit of Console2 - http://console.sourceforge.net/. One thing that Console2 does is provide a true console interface which

Re: MinTTY

2009-01-02 Thread Andy Koppe
Christopher Faylor wrote: It accesses the console's screen contents through Win32's GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo() and displays it in its own window while hiding the actual console. I can't see a way to combine this sort of approach with ptys. If you have a captured interface then a windows

Re: cmd.exe from Cygwin

2009-01-02 Thread Dave Korn
Jeenu V wrote: The program I intend to run with cmd.exe (with /c switch) fails to run as it couldn't access some Windows paths. Please take a look like this command, for example: N:\src\CEDAR\GENERIC\base\bsp\hwip_arm\rvemuboard\ct1136\testcmd /c bldmake bldfiles ARMV6 sh:

Re: Inconsistency with sort -n?

2009-01-02 Thread Dave Korn
Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: `sort -n' and `sort -g' work inconsistently with 0 and -0 if there are leading spaces. Sometimes -0 is before 0, as I would expect, and sometimes it is afterwards. Adding `-b' does not seem to help. Is this where I should report it or should I go

Re: Re: 1.5.25: Cygwin, LAPACK, and ssh -- output swallowed

2009-01-02 Thread Eric Hui
Jim Kramer wrote: Eric Hui wrote: Jim Kramer wrote: Concise problem description: A C/C++ program that incorporates LAPACK functions swallows program output when run (as a command) over an ssh connection. This may be an issue with your path. In your example 1, try ssh hollyberry echo

Re: Re: 1.5.25: Cygwin, LAPACK, and ssh -- output swallowed

2009-01-02 Thread Eric Hui
Jim Kramer wrote: Eric Hui wrote: Jim Kramer wrote: Concise problem description: A C/C++ program that incorporates LAPACK functions swallows program output when run (as a command) over an ssh connection. This may be an issue with your path. In your example 1, try ssh hollyberry echo

[1.7] Updated: {gettext/gettext-devel/libgettextpo0/libintl8/libasprintf0}-0.17-10

2009-01-02 Thread cygwin
gettext is the GNU package which provides 'national language support' for other programs. It includes a number of utility programs. This is the first release specific for cygwin-1.7. The only differences between this package and the simultaneously-released gettext-0.17-3 for cygwin-1.5 are (1)