Re: XServer draws to incorrect window when using VirtuaWin

2010-09-03 Thread Pete
On 13 August 2010 11:38, Pete sneakypet...@gmail.com wrote: VirtuaWin (http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net/) is a virtual desktop manager for Windows that lets you switch between several virtual desktops, similar to those provided in KDE Gnome. When switching between desktops that have CygwinX

Re: No xauth program

2010-09-03 Thread Scott T. Marshall
Brilliant!!! That did the trick. Thanks so much. This was really driving me crazy. Cheers, -Scott On 9/2/2010 6:48 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 9/2/2010 11:11 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 01/09/2010 20:29, Scott T. Marshall wrote: when I connect using ssh -Yv localhost the last few lines of output

Re: SIGSEGV in xorg-1.8.2.0 during -resize operation

2010-09-03 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 8/31/2010 7:00 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: Okay, I think I have worked out the correct thing to do do to handle bpp changes in the RANDR code, and I've uploaded a test build at [1]. Perhaps you could try it and see if it works for you? Note that you will need to use -resize with this build to

Re: 1.7.5: Occasional failure of CreatePipe or signal handing due to thread-unsafe code in cwdstuff::set

2010-09-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 2 23:32, John Carey wrote: On Aug 12 01:11, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 12 06:54, Andy Koppe wrote: On 11 August 2010 20:55, John Carey wrote: So is your idea that if SetCurrentDirectory() fails because of path length or permissions, then Cygwin would just accept the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: OpenSSH-5.6p1-1

2010-09-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 2 23:49, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 23/08/2010 16:15, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I've just updated the Cygwin version of OpenSSH to 5.6p1-1. This is a new major upstream release. The Cygwin release is created from the vanilla sources. It looks like this update has reverted the default

Re: Inability to delete *or rename* CWD of any program driving me nuts

2010-09-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 2 14:33, Daniel Colascione wrote: I keep bumping into Cygwin's new inability rename or delete directories that are the CWD of any program. In particular, Emacs will often start background processes like aspell in whatever directory happens to be the default-directory for the current

Re: simulating console input

2010-09-03 Thread Peter Münster
On Thu, Sep 02 2010, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: How could I simulate the Y keypress? echo Y | DosProgram.exe does not work... The keypress is accepted only in a dos-console. Read http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-effectively.html#using-console. Then add this fact - the SSH server

Re: simulating console input

2010-09-03 Thread Andy Koppe
On 3 September 2010 08:53, Peter Münster wrote: Read http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-effectively.html#using-console. Then add this fact - the SSH server uses ptys.  So your program will not work with a single character put in the input buffer.  One could envision using 'yes' to fill the

Re: simulating console input

2010-09-03 Thread Oleksandr Gavenko
On 03.09.2010 10:53, Peter Münster wrote: So my questions are: - Is it possible to write such a program: ConsoleKeypressSimulator.exe ? Try http://www.autohotkey.com/ Or try VBScript/JScript: $ cat command.js var process = WScript.CreateObject(WScript.Shell);

How 'exec 1-; exec 2-' work?

2010-09-03 Thread Oleksandr Gavenko
I develop gtk app under Windows and in order to run it I need start Cygwin X Windows. To start X Windows I use Makefile rule: .PHONY: cygwin-startx cygwin-startx: XWin -multiwindow But when I invoke this target in native GNU Emacs by M-x compile in *Compilation* buffer I see XWin

Re: .exe magic in Cygwin

2010-09-03 Thread Al
Cygport is rather similar to emerge/ebuild already.  You might find it worthwhile to give it a look. I am aware of this. I want come to a solution, that builds me from sources on any of Windows, Mac and Linux. One to rule them all. I did only find Gentoo Prefix to be able to do this. If all

Re: simulating console input

2010-09-03 Thread Peter Münster
On Fri, Sep 03 2010, Andy Koppe wrote: I've written a utility called 'conin' that translates pty input to console events. Perhaps that'll do the job. See here: http://groups.google.com/group/mintty-discuss/browse_thread/thread/1f9cf480117b8a0b Great, it works! It's as easy as echo y |

Re: .exe magic in Cygwin

2010-09-03 Thread Al
Right. I applied it the traditional way.  Ah, you have to understand this about cygport patches: they only contain patches for the source files, not the autogenerated ones.  So they have patches for e.g. Makefile.am, configure.ac; but not for configure or even Makefile.in.  It's vitally

Re: How does one change the default shell?

2010-09-03 Thread Dave No, not /that/ one! Korn
On 02/09/2010 23:29, risin...@nationwide. wrote: I use pdksh as my login shell - I have been using the Korn shell (thanks Dave!) See From: header! cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: How to get a script file to use bash and ssh

2010-09-03 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Jeremy Bopp! Assuming, of course, that the necessary entry in /etc/passwd is set correctly. Even if not. Or not set. $ grep $USER /etc/passwd [...]:/cygdrive/c/home/Daemon:/bin/bash $ ls -l /cygdrive/c/home/Daemon ls: cannot access /cygdrive/c/home/Daemon: No such file or

Re: .exe magic in Cygwin

2010-09-03 Thread Al
2010/9/3 Al oss.el...@googlemail.com: Right. I applied it the traditional way.  Ah, you have to understand this about cygport patches: they only contain patches for the source files, not the autogenerated ones.  So they have patches for e.g. Makefile.am, configure.ac; but not for configure or

Re: .exe magic in Cygwin

2010-09-03 Thread Al
2010/9/3 Al oss.el...@googlemail.com: 2010/9/3 Al oss.el...@googlemail.com: Right. I applied it the traditional way.  Ah, you have to understand this about cygport patches: they only contain patches for the source files, not the autogenerated ones.  So they have patches for e.g. Makefile.am,

Re: How 'exec 1-; exec 2-' work?

2010-09-03 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/03/2010 02:47 AM, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote: I intuitively change command to exec 1-; exec 2-; XWin -multiwindow I really don't understand what magic exec do. How could it be intuition if you don't know what it does? A better description would be calling it what it was to you at the

Re: How to get a script file to use bash and ssh

2010-09-03 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 9/3/2010 4:50 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Jeremy Bopp! Assuming, of course, that the necessary entry in /etc/passwd is set correctly. Even if not. Or not set. $ grep $USER /etc/passwd [...]:/cygdrive/c/home/Daemon:/bin/bash $ ls -l /cygdrive/c/home/Daemon ls: cannot

Re: export DISPLAY={localWorkstationIP} in mintty

2010-09-03 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 9/2/2010 8:37 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 09/02/2010 03:37 PM, Jeremy Bopp wrote: On 9/2/2010 5:12 PM, PaulHR wrote: I got the standard error. Error: Can't open display: I made sure xWin Server was running Did a -vvv on the ssh and saw nothing for X11 What else can I look at? It

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {libtool/libltdl7}-2.2.11a-1

2010-09-03 Thread Charles Wilson
GNU libtool is a generic library support script. Libtool hides the complexity of using shared libraries behind a consistent, portable interface. This is a bugfix and feature enhancement update. [[ compiled using gcc-4.3.4-3 ]] CHANGES SINCE 2.2.7a-15 = * Updated

R: Packaging error with Octave 3.2.4?

2010-09-03 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Ven 3/9/10, Peter Schuerch ha scritto: Hi, I'm trying to run octave from Cygwin and I'm experiencing problems with apparently missing files. I reported the problem on the octave mailing list, where people suggested it might be a packaging problem

Re: How does one change the default shell?

2010-09-03 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/03/2010 09:52 AM, Paul McFerrin wrote: How about the obviousChange the shell listed in the /etc/passwd file for the affected user. I for years had pdksh as my default shell. Yes, I was a long time ATTer, where the ksh was invented. Quit top-posting, and

Re: Inability to delete *or rename* CWD of any program driving me nuts

2010-09-03 Thread Daniel Colascione
On 9/3/10 12:45 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: If you read the announcement and followed the discussions on this list, you know why we had to do it. If it helps to share the pain, I don't like it either. Not the faintest. Of course I have, and I understand the workaround. What I don't

RE: 1.7.5: Occasional failure of CreatePipe or signal handing due to thread-unsafe code in cwdstuff::set

2010-09-03 Thread John Carey
On Sep 03 12:37 Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sep 2 23:32, John Carey wrote: In Aug 17 10:15, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I just released 1.7.6-1. ... What changed since Cygwin 1.7.5: - Cygwin handles the current working directory entirely on its own.

Re: 1.7.5: Occasional failure of CreatePipe or signal handing due to thread-unsafe code in cwdstuff::set

2010-09-03 Thread Andy Koppe
On 3 September 2010 08:37, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I still don't like the final workaround, which is, to set the Win32 CWD to the Cygwin CWD.  It would be nice if we could revert that change to the pre-1.7.6 behaviour in a Vista-friendly way.  If you ever find out how to make sure that the new

Re: ssh access violation [was: ssh simply prints Aborted]

2010-09-03 Thread René Berber
Forwarding some messages from Gonzalo that the list is rejecting because of his company's disclaimer. More reports are coming with this problem, and they are asking Gonzalo if he found a solution. There is an Access Violation C005 exception that reminds me of the problems with programs

1.7.7: Cannot unmount certain user bind mounts

2010-09-03 Thread John Carey
A user mount whose only non-default option is bind cannot be unmounted if its target is a system mount; please see the end of this email for a test case. It looks to me as if the MOUNT_SYSTEM bit is copied from the bind target by mount() in winsup/cygwin/mount.cc. Perhaps the fix would be to

Re: ssh access violation [was: ssh simply prints Aborted]

2010-09-03 Thread René Berber
One more forwarded message, before this we had found that we are both running Cygwin dll 1.7.7, where the access violation occurs, but the difference is that I have some old libraries (which setup.exe failed to install): cygcrypto, cygz, cyggcc_s, and cygssp. [Fwd: RE: ssh simply prints Aborted]

Setup.exe bug: leaving .new files uninstalled

2010-09-03 Thread René Berber
Hi, I've changed setup.exe just about every time it says there is a new version, so I usually run the latest. Today I found that some of my programs and libraries are not the latest I thought I installed, and the following shows the problem: $ for f in `ls /usr/bin/*.new`; do ls -al $f

Re: Inability to delete *or rename* CWD of any program driving me nuts

2010-09-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 09:22:40AM -0700, Daniel Colascione wrote: On 9/3/10 12:45 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: If you read the announcement and followed the discussions on this list, you know why we had to do it. If it helps to share the pain, I don't like it either. Not the faintest. Of course

Re: simulating console input

2010-09-03 Thread Andy Koppe
On 3 September 2010 10:01, Peter Münster wrote: On Fri, Sep 03 2010, Andy Koppe wrote: I've written a utility called 'conin' that translates pty input to console events. Perhaps that'll do the job. See here: http://groups.google.com/group/mintty-discuss/browse_thread/thread/1f9cf480117b8a0b

Re: Network drives ssh access

2010-09-03 Thread Quanah Gibson-Mount
--On Tuesday, August 24, 2010 1:35 PM -0700 Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: --On Tuesday, August 24, 2010 1:19 PM -0400 Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: A missing password is likely your problem, since that's at the heart of your original problem really. But I actually wasn't thinking of this option

Re: setup.exe version 2.721 crashes when performing a reinstall

2010-09-03 Thread KJ
Accidentially I hit thread http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-09/msg00064.html because I saw the very same messages INVALID PACKAGE in my logfiles. There was also a length mismatch as mentioned in the thread above. After removing the gcc4 directory and downloading it again setup.exe no longer

Re: Setup.exe bug: leaving .new files uninstalled

2010-09-03 Thread René Berber
René Berber wrote: I seem to remember there was something at least similar reported, but since some of those files are recent it looks like the error, if it was the same, is still present. Additional info... The old bug was Setup 2.693 unable to replace files through reboot. Currently I have

Re: Network drives ssh access

2010-09-03 Thread Quanah Gibson-Mount
--On Friday, September 03, 2010 12:28 PM -0700 Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: --On Tuesday, August 24, 2010 1:35 PM -0700 Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: The CIFS mount now uses the same username/password as the windows user. I have used passwd -R to store the user's password in the registry. The

Re: problem with PATH set by libtool for uninstalled pixman library

2010-09-03 Thread Charles Wilson
On 7/29/2010 4:20 AM, Charles Wilson wrote: On 7/28/2010 2:24 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: I have a tinderbox which does daily builds of the X.Org stack for cygwin, and I've come across a something I don't understand with the way libtool is working when building the pixman library, and I hope

Updated: {libtool/libltdl7}-2.2.11a-1

2010-09-03 Thread Charles Wilson
GNU libtool is a generic library support script. Libtool hides the complexity of using shared libraries behind a consistent, portable interface. This is a bugfix and feature enhancement update. [[ compiled using gcc-4.3.4-3 ]] CHANGES SINCE 2.2.7a-15 = * Updated