RE: Intermittent X clipboard failure

2009-02-18 Thread Marc Girod
WEEBER Bill wrote: I have always had problems with copy/paste as well. At least I didn't have these problems before last December, when my laptop was migrated from w2k to Vista, and I had to reinstall Cygwin from scratch, getting in fact both upgrades in the same time. But I confirm (again)

Re: /usr/bin/startx fails on new x.org install?

2009-02-18 Thread Jon TURNEY
Lloyd Wood wrote: Lloyd Wood wrote: XWin was started with the following command line: /usr/bin/X :0 -auth /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/lwood/.serverauth.3000 ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1400 h 1050 winInitializeDefaultScreens -

RE: Intermittent X clipboard failure

2009-02-18 Thread Williams, Chris (Marlboro)
Whatever the cause is, and it does appear to be related to the Office clipboard at this point, it would be nice to get some closure on this. This behavior has been reported by multiple people. Information to we need to get to developers to properly diag the problem? The goal as I see it should be

Re: /usr/bin/startx fails on new x.org install?

2009-02-18 Thread Jon TURNEY
Jon TURNEY wrote: Thanks for identifying this as a regression. I wasn't sure if this used to work or not. I think that the attached patch for startx should fix this problem, if you wouldn't mind testing it. Yaakov, Assuming this is the correct fix, attached is the corresponding patch to

Re: R: starxwin.bat always misfires the xterm once - it works!

2009-02-18 Thread Jon TURNEY
Owen Rees wrote: --On Monday, February 16, 2009 17:40:15 +0100 Franz di Coccio wrote: Marco, your suggestion to insert %CYGWIN_ROOT%\bin\sleep 4 before the xterm launch instruction %RUN% xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l in starxwin.bat did the trick! Thanks a lot! Grazie! F PS That's a weird

Re: /usr/bin/startx fails on new x.org install?

2009-02-18 Thread Lloyd Wood
Jon, thanks for your /usr/bin/startx patch. (repeated as text below since the cygwin mailing list bounces attachments, so probably didn't make it to the list.) Applying your patch allows startx to run and launch X - but in full desktop mode, rather than the multiwindow mode that startx did for

Re: -query not working on cygwin/windows

2009-02-18 Thread Jon TURNEY
km4hr wrote: I can't get -query to do anything. I only get a grey screen. Do you have disable firewalling, or open some ports, or whatever on the Windows box? I completely disabled my Windows firewall (I think) but still no joy. I'm completely illiterate on Windows. I don't care to know

Re: /usr/bin/startx fails on new x.org install?

2009-02-18 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Lloyd Wood wrote: startx -- -multiwindow works as xinit does, but is non-obvious to the user. I'd expect startx to default to multiwindow mode. startx is not Cygwin-specific, and as on other platforms, starts the X server in the rooted mode and

Re: R: starxwin.bat always misfires the xterm once - it works!

2009-02-18 Thread Dan Tsafrir
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Jon TURNEY jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk wrote: Making startxwin.bat just launch startx or xinit would also largely solve the problem of overwriting people's customisations to startxwin.bat, as it has defined places to put those. I would like to point out that

Testing for release 1.5.3-7

2009-02-18 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jon, I barely missed you on IRC this morning. Ports SVN r5753 is RC1 for 1.5.3-7; could you please svn up and test? Yaakov Cygwin/X -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -

Re: /usr/bin/startx fails on new x.org install?

2009-02-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 05:19:57PM +, Lloyd Wood wrote: thanks for your /usr/bin/startx patch. (repeated as text below since the cygwin mailing list bounces attachments, so probably didn't make it to the list.) The cygwin mailing list does not just generally bounce all attachments. In

RE: xdvi unexplained locale problem

2009-02-18 Thread Mike Ayers
From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Dan Tsafrir Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 2:01 PM On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Jon TURNEY jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk wrote: NLSPATH = 'C:\Programs\IBM\RunTime\%N;' You should probably

RE: starxwin.bat always misfires the xterm once - it works!

2009-02-18 Thread Mike Ayers
From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Franz di Coccio Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 8:40 AM PS That's a weird behaviour, anyway... I wonder why the pause is needed only for the first execution after the system boot. Whatever... Now it

Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font

2009-02-18 Thread Zdzislaw Meglicki
I have installed the latest version of Cygwin + X11 under Longhorn/Vista Ver 6.0 Build 6001 Service Pack 1, running under WOW64 on AMD64. Cygcheck says that Longhorn/Vista (not yet supported!) but things seem to work, so far. I have downloaded the lot today, Feb 18, 2009, and the version

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog cygwin.din posix.s ...

2009-02-18 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2009-02-18 17:38:17 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog cygwin.din posix.sgml winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin: version.h Log message: * cygwin.din: Export open_wmemstream. *

Re: SSH/SCREEN/REATTACH bug

2009-02-18 Thread eval
Hello Andrew, sorry to inform you, using Cygwin 1.7 yields the same result. Can't wait to see the recompile using pipes! Thanks eval Original-Nachricht Datum: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:13:59 +0100 Von: e...@gmx.com An: cygwin@cygwin.com Betreff: SSH/SCREEN/REATTACH bug hi

Re: editing crontab using gvim

2009-02-18 Thread Shai
Hi, Thanks for the response. About the quoting, that's a reply I'm just doing via Gmail, I don't recall actually doing anything special to have that quote the email. I'll see if there are other the things I can check, like the /tmp permissions. Shai On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:00 AM, Toby

Re: SSH/SCREEN/REATTACH bug

2009-02-18 Thread Andrew Schulman
sorry to inform you, using Cygwin 1.7 yields the same result. OK, too bad. Can't wait to see the recompile using pipes! I recompiled it yesterday in 1.7, and the configure script still found a broken fifo implementation, but in a gentler way than in 1.5 (without a nasty hang). So I'll report

Re: sshd w/o admin?

2009-02-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Aaron Davies wrote: is it possible to get sshd working w/o admin privs? Running 'ssh-host-config' requires adminstrative privileges to create users to run 'sshd' as a service (for W2K3 and later) and for privilege separation. If you don't want/need these, then you can bypass these as part of

libpng headaches!

2009-02-18 Thread David Karlgren
Hello dear Cygwin users, I hope I'm posting this to the right list. If not, then I sincerely apologize! I'm programming a game using SDL and I compile with gcc under Cygwin and link with the mingw libraries. I've done this for years, and it has worked fine all the time. But a short time ago I

Re: libpng headaches!

2009-02-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
David Karlgren wrote: Hello dear Cygwin users, I hope I'm posting this to the right list. If not, then I sincerely apologize! I'm programming a game using SDL and I compile with gcc under Cygwin and link with the mingw libraries. So you're really using MinGW then. The MinGW list would be

Re: libpng headaches!

2009-02-18 Thread Dave Korn
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: David Karlgren wrote: Hello dear Cygwin users, I hope I'm posting this to the right list. If not, then I sincerely apologize! I'm programming a game using SDL and I compile with gcc under Cygwin and link with the mingw libraries. So you're really using MinGW

Re: libpng headaches!

2009-02-18 Thread David Karlgren
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: David Karlgren wrote: Hello dear Cygwin users, I hope I'm posting this to the right list. If not, then I sincerely apologize! I'm programming a game using SDL and I compile with gcc under Cygwin and link with the mingw libraries. So you're really using MinGW

Revisiting Killed by signal 2 caused by ssh -X.

2009-02-18 Thread Chan Kar Heng
Hi all. I'm consistently getting Killed by signal 2 when I press ctrl-c in an ssh -X session. I've searched the forums it seems there hasn't been a solution for this? Is there a way to prevent getting Killed by signal 2 when I press ctrl-c in ssh -X sessions? For now, what I do is this:

Re: rsyncd cannot access volume shadow copy

2009-02-18 Thread Matthias Meyer
Matthias Meyer wrote: Hi, I run cygwin in Vista: I can create a volume shadow copy with vshadow from the Microsoft SDK as well as map it to drive B:. I can access /cygdrive/b (bash) as well as B: (cmd) from terminals of the same user which has mapped the shadow copy to the drive.

Strings command

2009-02-18 Thread Milko
Hi I'am a new user Cygwin. I have a question for your, which pachages i must install for a strings command and how install it. Sorry for my english, but I'am a Italian user. Regards Milko -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: Strings command

2009-02-18 Thread William Sutton
I assume that $ which strings returns nothing? As far as I can tell, it's default in my environment at /usr/bin/strings. William Sutton On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Milko wrote: Hi I'am a new user Cygwin. I have a question for your, which pachages i must install for a strings command and how

Re: Strings command

2009-02-18 Thread Dave Korn
Milko wrote: Hi I'am a new user Cygwin. I have a question for your, which pachages i must install for a strings command and how install it. Sorry for my english, but I'am a Italian user. You can search for strings.exe at http://cygwin.com/packages/, it will tell you which package to

Re: Strings command

2009-02-18 Thread Milko
Return no strings in (/usr/local/bin:... A packages in binutils but how i can install it. sorry but i'am a nuwbie regards Milko William Sutton ha scritto: I assume that $ which strings returns nothing? As far as I can tell, it's default in my environment at /usr/bin/strings. William

Re: Strings command

2009-02-18 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Mer 18/2/09, ha scritto: Da: Milko Oggetto: Re: Strings command A: Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Data: Mercoledì 18 febbraio 2009, 21:53 Return no strings in (/usr/local/bin:... A packages in binutils but how i can install it. sorry but i'am a nuwbie regards Milko As newbie

rsyncd cannot access volume shadow copy

2009-02-18 Thread Matthias Meyer
Hi, I run cygwin in Vista: I can create a volume shadow copy with vshadow from the Microsoft SDK as well as map it to drive B:. I can access /cygdrive/b (bash) as well as B: (cmd) from terminals of the same user which has mapped the shadow copy to the drive. But I can not access the shadow

Re: rsyncd cannot access volume shadow copy

2009-02-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Matthias Meyer wrote: Hi, I run cygwin in Vista: I can create a volume shadow copy with vshadow from the Microsoft SDK as well as map it to drive B:. I can access /cygdrive/b (bash) as well as B: (cmd) from terminals of the same user which has mapped the shadow copy to the drive. But I can

Re: rsyncd cannot access volume shadow copy

2009-02-18 Thread Matthias Meyer
Am Mittwoch 18 Februar 2009 schrieb Larry Hall (Cygwin): Is there something of significance here that differs from http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-02/msg00404.html? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK

Re: rsyncd cannot access volume shadow copy

2009-02-18 Thread Matthias Meyer
Am Mittwoch 18 Februar 2009 schrieb Matthias Meyer: Am Mittwoch 18 Februar 2009 schrieb Larry Hall (Cygwin): Is there something of significance here that differs from http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-02/msg00404.html? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com

Can't find show-paren-mode under XEmacs

2009-02-18 Thread Bill Klein
I am new to Cygwin and XEmacs, but when I installed XEmacs and tried using several features that I found documented, several places say that they can't find show-paren-mode (or that the function is void). I have searched online thinking (in my non-Lisp, non-XEmacs way), that there may be a

Mirror List Inconsistencies

2009-02-18 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
A few quibbles on the mirror list http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html: Germany is listed twice. - The first is as a country in Europe having 15 mirrors. - The second as a region, having one country, called Europe, that has a single mirror, http://cygwin.abdaal.com/pub/. Canada is listed as it's

Re: Attempting build of setup.exe from source-tarball fail (no joy)

2009-02-18 Thread Linda Walsh
Dave Korn wrote: And then, in order to comply with my GPL obligations, I uploaded a copy of the source, which you can get from http://rapidshare.com/files/196432438/setup-2.573.2.3.tar.bz2 --- Not to cause problems or anything and not anything would likely come of it anyway, but I

Re: sshd w/o admin?

2009-02-18 Thread Aaron Davies
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:33 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: Aaron Davies wrote: is it possible to get sshd working w/o admin privs? Running 'ssh-host-config' requires adminstrative privileges to create users to run 'sshd' as a service (for W2K3 and later)

Re: sshd w/o admin?

2009-02-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Aaron Davies wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:33 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) XX wrote: ^^ http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR Thanks! Aaron Davies wrote: is it possible to get sshd working w/o admin privs? Running 'ssh-host-config' requires adminstrative privileges to

Re: RFE?: CygWinDir in ENV? (was Re: How does one find where Cygwin was installed from Windows?)

2009-02-18 Thread rhubbell
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:47:10 -0500 Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: rhubbell wrote: Are you and Linda married by any chance? Now that's funny! :-) I'm glad you laughed, whew! That exchange had me a little worried about the list. But now I see all's fine. In

Re: sshd w/o admin?

2009-02-18 Thread Aaron Davies
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Aaron Davies wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:33 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: ^^ http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR Thanks! is this even possible in gmail? if not, i'll do it manually for now. Aaron Davies

Re: RFE?: CygWinDir in ENV? (was Re: How does one find where Cygwin was installed from Windows?)

2009-02-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
rhubbell wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:47:10 -0500 Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. rhubbell wrote: Are you and Linda married by any chance? Now that's funny! :-) I'm glad you laughed, whew! That exchange

Re: sshd w/o admin?

2009-02-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Aaron Davies wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Aaron Davies wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:33 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: ^^ http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR Thanks! is this even possible in gmail? if not, i'll do it manually for