Re: Mintty 2.4.0 and Deja Vu Sans Mono 2.35: issue with bold

Am 12.07.2016 um 22:35 schrieb Michael Enright: On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: Mintty generates "faux-bold" by overstriking with a pixel offset of 1. Maybe it should scale the thickness with the font size (like it does now for manual underline and VT100 line drawing

GeoIP-database 20160711-1

The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * GeoIP-database-20160711-1 GeoIP is an API that enables the user to find geographical and network information of an IP address. The free GeoLite databases are similar to the commercial GeoIP databases, but are slightly

[ANNOUNCEMENT] GeoIP-database 20160711-1

The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * GeoIP-database-20160711-1 GeoIP is an API that enables the user to find geographical and network information of an IP address. The free GeoLite databases are similar to the commercial GeoIP databases, but are slightly

[ANNOUNCEMENT] ncurses 6.0-6.20160709

The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * ncurses-6.0-6.20160709 * ncurses-demo-6.0-6.20160709 * libncursesw10-6.0-6.20160709 * libncurses-devel-6.0-6.20160709 * terminfo-6.0-6.20160709 * terminfo-extra-6.0-6.20160709 * mingw64-i686-ncurses-6.0-6.20160709 *

ncurses 6.0-6.20160709

The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: * ncurses-6.0-6.20160709 * ncurses-demo-6.0-6.20160709 * libncursesw10-6.0-6.20160709 * libncurses-devel-6.0-6.20160709 * terminfo-6.0-6.20160709 * terminfo-extra-6.0-6.20160709 * mingw64-i686-ncurses-6.0-6.20160709 *

Re: Repairing permissions after windows reinstall

> In fact I see _two_ raw SIDs when I look at the security tab for any > directory in the old cygwin tree: one has Full control, and the other > just Read & execute. > If everyone else's posts don't get you where you want, I have a recently-written program that can do a search/replace on a SID

[ANNOUNCEMENT] GNOME 3.18 updates

The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * clutter-gst3.0-3.0.18-1 * easytag-2.4.2-1 * eog-3.18.2-1 * eog-plugins-3.16.4-1 * evolution-3.18.5.2-1 * evolution-data-server-3.18.5-1 * evolution-ews-3.18.5-1 * folks-0.11.2-1 * gdk-pixbuf2.0-2.32.3-1 * gedit-3.18.3-1 *

GNOME 3.18 updates

The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * clutter-gst3.0-3.0.18-1 * easytag-2.4.2-1 * eog-3.18.2-1 * eog-plugins-3.16.4-1 * evolution-3.18.5.2-1 * evolution-data-server-3.18.5-1 * evolution-ews-3.18.5-1 * folks-0.11.2-1 * gdk-pixbuf2.0-2.32.3-1 * gedit-3.18.3-1 *

Re: [ITP] words - Dictionary file

On 12/07/2016 23:22, David Stacey wrote: My good deed for the day. See https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00129.html Based heavily on the Fedora package of the same name. Schtoopid Thunderbird. Let's try those links again. # noarch:

[ITP] words - Dictionary file

My good deed for the day. See https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00129.html Based heavily on the Fedora package of the same name. # noarch: BASEURL=https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/119453582/Cygwin/noarch/release

Re: Error Message

On 12/07/2016 22:53, George Phillies wrote: on activating cygdrive/c/Users/(me) by clicking on PGI workstation I received the error message 1 [main] bash 17992 find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD pointer. Please report this problem to the public mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com I

Error Message

on activating cygdrive/c/Users/(me) by clicking on PGI workstation I received the error message 1 [main] bash 17992 find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD pointer. Please report this problem to the public mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com I have now reported it as requested. I am

Re: Mintty 2.4.0 and Deja Vu Sans Mono 2.35: issue with bold

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: > > Mintty generates "faux-bold" by overstriking with a pixel offset of 1. Maybe > it should scale the thickness with the font size (like it does now for > manual underline and VT100 line drawing graphics), at increased risk of > clipping,

Hi cygwin

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xfig-3.2.5c-3 fails in displaying text

xfig-3.2.5c-3 displays all fonts with the same vanilla font. This happens for new drawings or for old .xfig files. Rodrigo Medina I already posted this, but the email subject was not very informative. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Mintty 2.4.0 and Deja Vu Sans Mono 2.35: issue with bold

Am 12.07.2016 um 17:27 schrieb Warren Young: ... Windows reports the font metrics of the bold font sometimes slightly differently than the normal font. Due to rounding, it depends on the font size, e.g. with DejaVu it happens with 12pt, 14pt, and larger, but not with 13pt, 11pt, and smaller.

Re: xfig doc files permissions

> Marco Atzeri writes: > back in the mailing list > On 12/07/2016 16:30, Eliot Moss wrote: >> On 7/12/2016 10:20 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote: >>> On 12/07/2016 16:08, Eliot Moss wrote: This is to the cygwin maintainer of xfig. Whenever there is a new >> release

Re: ITA: GNU miscfiles

On Jul 12, 2016, at 11:06 AM, Warren Young wrote: > > NAME=miscfiles > VERSION=1.5 > RELEASE=1 Late addition: ARCH=noarch

ITA: GNU miscfiles

Per https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-07/msg00160.html …I would like to adopt the GNU miscfiles package. I have constructed the following cygport file, which seems to do the trick: NAME=miscfiles VERSION=1.5 RELEASE=1 SUMMARY="Miscellaneous data files"

Re: Mintty 2.4.0 and Deja Vu Sans Mono 2.35: issue with bold

Warren Young etr-usa.com> writes: > On Jul 11, 2016, at 2:43 PM, Thomas Wolff towo.net> wrote: >> Am 11.07.2016 um 20:52 schrieb Henry S. Thompson: >>> To see what I'm talking about, look at whatever test page you like which >>> includes both bold and non-bold text (I use gnus). > I think the

Re: look: no words file

David Arnstein pobox.com> writes: > Wnen I type something like > look mental > I get > look: /usr/share/dict/words: No such file or directory > In fact, directory /usr/share/dict does not even exist. > Rather than trying to diagnose this problem, I would like to re-install the >

Re: Mintty 2.4.0 and Deja Vu Sans Mono 2.35: issue with bold

On Jul 12, 2016, at 9:09 AM, Henry S. Thompson wrote: > > Much easier: > >> export PS1='\[\033[1m\]\h\[\033[0m\]<\!>:' > > and your machine name should be bold. That is indeed what I see. > But I have a further (bizarre) observation: This problem is > size and/or

Re: Mintty 2.4.0 and Deja Vu Sans Mono 2.35: issue with bold

Warren Young writes: > If you open the Fonts control panel, in the default Large Icons view, > do you see all four variants of Deja Vu Sans Mono stacked together? Yes. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB,

Re: xfig doc files permissions

back in the mailing list On 12/07/2016 16:30, Eliot Moss wrote: On 7/12/2016 10:20 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote: On 12/07/2016 16:08, Eliot Moss wrote: This is to the cygwin maintainer of xfig. Whenever there is a new release and I update the doc files in /usr/share/doc/xfig, my backup program

Re: Mintty 2.4.0 and Deja Vu Sans Mono 2.35: issue with bold

Thomas Wolff writes: > What "gnus" test page? Sorry, missed that question first time. I first noticed the problem when using gnus via ssh, not a very helpful test. Much easier: > export PS1='\[\033[1m\]\h\[\033[0m\]<\!>:' and your machine name should be bold. But I have a further

Re: Mintty 2.4.0 and Deja Vu Sans Mono 2.35: issue with bold

On Jul 11, 2016, at 2:43 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: > > Am 11.07.2016 um 20:52 schrieb Henry S. Thompson: >> >> To see what I'm talking about, look at whatever test page you like which >> includes both bold and non-bold text (I use gnus). > What "gnus" test page? gnus is a

Re: Mintty 2.4.0 and Deja Vu Sans Mono 2.35: issue with bold

On Jul 11, 2016, at 12:52 PM, Henry S. Thompson wrote: > > To see what I'm talking about, look at whatever test page you like which > includes both bold and non-bold text (I use gnus). I used vttest: http://invisible-island.net/vttest/vttest.html About halfway through

xfig doc files permissions

This is to the cygwin maintainer of xfig. Whenever there is a new release and I update the doc files in /usr/share/doc/xfig, my backup program cannot read most of the file. This is because their permissions are 700, and the backup tool does not run as me (it wants SYSTEM access). 700 does not

Re: How to build Emacs in Cygwin environment?

On 7/12/2016 5:17 AM, Andy Moreton wrote: On Tue 12 Jul 2016, Xi Shen wrote: Thanks it worked. After configure --with-w32 and build, I tried to invoke (w32notify-add-watch), but it seems it is still not available. Any other tricks to apply? Because I want to add a new build-in lisp function

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: octave-4.0.3-1

New versions 4.0.3-1 of octave, octave-devel, octave-doc are available in the Cygwin distribution: CHANGES Upstream bugfix release https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/fixes-4-0-3.html Full changes: http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/NEWS-4.0.html GENERAL 4.0.x NOTE there are 2

Updated: octave-4.0.3-1

New versions 4.0.3-1 of octave, octave-devel, octave-doc are available in the Cygwin distribution: CHANGES Upstream bugfix release https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/fixes-4-0-3.html Full changes: http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/NEWS-4.0.html GENERAL 4.0.x NOTE there are 2

Re: Midnight Commander is very slow when starting and changing directories

On 12/07/2016 15:24, Krzysztof Bociurko wrote: Recompiled mc on cygwin with default and --without-vfs, did not fix issue Tried to install the unofficial win32 mc build that is not using cygwin - and this issue is still there! I guess it is some BLODA. Cygwin can not really slow down a native

Re: Latest Ghostscript 9.19.1 problematic

On 12/07/2016 15:09, Fergus Daly wrote: I have had huge problems with the presentation of graphics (figures, diagrams, graphs) since the GPL Post script update from 9.15 to 9.19. (Won't go into details as it's external software.) Reverting to 9.15, everything works again except that I am being

Re: Midnight Commander is very slow when starting and changing directories

Recompiled mc on cygwin with default and --without-vfs, did not fix issue Tried to install the unofficial win32 mc build that is not using cygwin - and this issue is still there! I think this is not an issue with cygwin. Will try with MC's issue tracker/mailing list/whatever they got. Could

Latest Ghostscript 9.19.1 problematic

I have had huge problems with the presentation of graphics (figures, diagrams, graphs) since the GPL Post script update from 9.15 to 9.19. (Won't go into details as it's external software.) Reverting to 9.15, everything works again except that I am being nagged for a missing fle > GPL

Launch windows program with windows env var

Greetings, is it possible to launch windows program with windows environment over ssh? The Cygwin overwrites few needed variables (like TERM). Sure, it's would be possible to call it `TERM=xxx program` but that would means that I would have to manage the variables twice, once for calling from

Re: How to build Emacs in Cygwin environment?

On Tue 12 Jul 2016, Xi Shen wrote: > Thanks it worked. After configure --with-w32 and build, I tried to > invoke (w32notify-add-watch), but it seems it is still not available. > Any other tricks to apply? Because I want to add a new build-in lisp > function for Emacs for Windows, so I think it

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-server-1.18.3-1

On 11/07/2016 23:13, Jack wrote: On 2016.07.11 16:31, Marco Atzeri wrote: On 21/06/2016 19:04, Jon Turney wrote: The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** xorg-server-*1.18.3-1 These packages contain XWin and the other X.Org X11 servers. In addition to