Re: Setup not asking for proxy user,password / was Resend: pdfseparate does nothing for me?

Ian Lambert writes: > Setup is not as lucky, is unable to get setup.ini, and never asks for user, > password. > It also only lists the download site I last used. It's quite clear that setup and your proxy miscommunicate about the authentication. > myuser@mypc ~/junk/cygwin > $ wget

Re: Pre-compiled Perl::Critic ?

Jim Reisert AD1C writes: > Would it be possible to release a pre-compiled version of > Perl::Critic? I built it yesterday from CPAN sources, and it took > about nine *hours* to finish! The laptop I built it on has an Intel > I7-6600U, 16 GB of memory and an SSD, so I don't know why it should >

[patch] /etc/postinstall/GeoIP-database.sh terminates with exit code 1

Hello, The file /etc/postinstall/GeoIP-database.sh has an error; it needs an absolute path in the first existence test (line 4 below). The correct contents of the file becomes: $ cat -n /tmp/GeoIP-database.sh 1 for f in /usr/share/GeoIP/*.dat; do 2 case ${f##*/} in 3

Re: Setup not asking for proxy user,password / was Resend: pdfseparate does nothing for me?

On 2016-12-01 10:10, Ian Lambert wrote: > On Thu, 11/17/16, Achim Gratz wrote: > Ian Lambert writes: >> Explorer is using a proxy configuration script, defined by others. > Looking back at your older posts it seems your proxy requires a > password. I have no idea how the

Pre-compiled Perl::Critic ?

Would it be possible to release a pre-compiled version of Perl::Critic? I built it yesterday from CPAN sources, and it took about nine *hours* to finish! The laptop I built it on has an Intel I7-6600U, 16 GB of memory and an SSD, so I don't know why it should have taken so long! Thanks - Jim

Re: Fullscreen application with Cygwin/X in multiwindow mode

On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 6:23 AM, Jon Turney wrote: > Patches are always welcome. > > I think this should be pretty straightforward to add, although it might be a > bit tedious. > > [1],[2] should help you get started :) > > Looking at this in a little more detail, I

Re: Fullscreen application with Cygwin/X in multiwindow mode

On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 5:37 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Depends, what you mean by "fullscreen". All too often people say "fullscreen" > when in fact they mean "borderless windowed". Greetings Andrey. Perhaps I'm using the incorrect term, but I think a borderless maximized

RE: Installer names not meaningful enough

Lee Dilkie sent the following at Thursday, December 01, 2016 7:19 AM >On 12/1/2016 5:51 AM, Roberto Ríos Gallardo wrote: >> Please give the installers more meaningful names. In particular, make >> sure "cygwin" is part of it. "setup-x86_64.exe" is not very obvious. >> A version number would be

Re: Installer names not meaningful enough

On 12/1/2016 8:25 AM, Vlado wrote: > On 1.12.2016 13:51, Eliot Moss wrote: >> I think that including the version of the setup program could be helpful >> - I tend >> to add it (renaming the file by hand). However, clearly we've lived >> with things this >> way for a long time ... More than a

Re: Installer names not meaningful enough

On 1.12.2016 13:51, Eliot Moss wrote: I think that including the version of the setup program could be helpful - I tend to add it (renaming the file by hand). However, clearly we've lived with things this way for a long time ... I disagree. I have a script to update Cygwin. This script checks

Re: Installer names not meaningful enough

On 12/1/2016 7:18 AM, Lee Dilkie wrote: > > > On 12/1/2016 5:51 AM, Roberto Ríos Gallardo wrote: >> Please give the installers more meaningful names. In particular, make >> sure "cygwin" is part of it. "setup-x86_64.exe" is not very obvious. A >> version number would be nice too. >> > > I'd agree

Re: Fullscreen application with Cygwin/X in multiwindow mode

On 29/11/2016 11:37, Andrey Repin wrote: But ideally this would be fixed by adding support for _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN to the WM. Any idea how much effort would be required to implement the fullscreen support? Any major hurdles to overcome? It may be something I could work on in my spare

Re: Installer names not meaningful enough

On 12/1/2016 5:51 AM, Roberto Ríos Gallardo wrote: Please give the installers more meaningful names. In particular, make sure "cygwin" is part of it. "setup-x86_64.exe" is not very obvious. A version number would be nice too. I'd agree that adding "cygwin" to the setup program would be nice

Installer names not meaningful enough

Please give the installers more meaningful names. In particular, make sure "cygwin" is part of it. "setup-x86_64.exe" is not very obvious. A version number would be nice too. -- Delay not, Caesar. Read it instantly. -- Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar" 3,1 Here is a letter, read it at your leisure.

Re: remote GTK apps nor workin correctly in Cygwin/X

Hi David, On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 1:36 PM, David Cunningham wrote: > *** BUG *** > In pixman_region32_init_rect: Invalid rectangle passed > Set a breakpoint on '_pixman_log_error' to debug I got this exact same message on my Ubuntu LTS 14.04 system, which hasn't even heard of Cygwin. (It was