Re: xclipboard

2006-04-06 Thread Reid Thompson
David wrote: Hi, I have XWin 6.8.2.0-4 and am running on Windows2000 professional, starting it like this: XWin -multiplemonitors -clipboard -rootless -screen ... And, I am runing fvwm2 as the window manager, and a couple of xterms in it. So, I left mouse click to highlight some text, and

Re: (n00b question) How does one activate the scrollbar in an xterm?

2006-04-06 Thread Reid Thompson
Soong, SylokeJ wrote: I have not done this with cygwin-x before, but I do it with my sun solaris. Create .Xdefaults at home directory if does not already exists. google or man xterm should tell you more. Enter/append lines similar to these: xterm*scrollBar: true xterm*saveLines: 4000

Re: ITP: xsri

2006-04-05 Thread Reid Thompson
Charles Wilson wrote: However, given the above discussion, I'll wait a while longer before moving forward with rxvt-unicode-X, in the absence of a GTG. (The only person to have attempted to build it reported problems; I'm convinced those problems are resolved/PIBKAC, but he never followed

Re: ITP: rxvt-unicode-X

2006-03-21 Thread Reid Thompson
Charles Wilson wrote: = http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/ITP/rxvt-unicode-X-7.7-1-src.tar.bz2 http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/ITP/rxvt-unicode-X-7.7-1.tar.bz2 http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/ITP/rxvt-unicode-common-7.7-1.tar.bz2 http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/ITP/rxvt-unicode-X.hint

X server crashing -- winClipboardProc - Call to select () failed: -1. Bailing.

2006-03-02 Thread Reid Thompson
X windows had been stable for quite a while for me( in continuous use, days, sometimes weeks at at time). Over the past couple of weeks it's begun crashing fairly regularly. The XWin.log has these final statements in it: winClipboardProc - Call to select () failed: -1. Bailing.

Re: Remote client through telnet gives error 232

2006-03-02 Thread Reid Thompson
Simon Keen wrote: I am trying to run remote clients on an X server using telnet, but am encountering an error. My setup is as follows: - runnning X server on Cygwin_NT-5.1 on a windows XP Professional laptop. I initiate this by running the default startxwin.bat from the directory

Re: Printing man pages

2006-03-02 Thread Reid Thompson
George wrote: Generating a PDF from the grep man page, for example, using: man -t `man -w grep` | ps2pdf - grep.pdf which, by default, is actually /usr/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc `man -w grep` | ps2pdf - grep.pdf results in a fairly unattractive PDF file. The man page title is dropped

Re: Printing man pages

2006-03-02 Thread Reid Thompson
Reid Thompson wrote: George wrote: Generating a PDF from the grep man page, for example, using: man -t `man -w grep` | ps2pdf - grep.pdf which, by default, is actually /usr/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc `man -w grep` | ps2pdf - grep.pdf results in a fairly unattractive PDF file. The man

Re: Windows programs in Cygwin/X ?

2006-02-28 Thread Reid Thompson
Doug Bohl wrote: After much turmoil, I've managed to get a number of window managers running in Cygwin/X. What I'm wondering is this: Is it at all possible to allow my windows programs to be managed by my Cygwin/X window manager? Presently, if I'm in -fullscreen mode and I'm running some X

Re: BUG: ualarm(0,0) not clearing ualarms

2006-02-14 Thread Reid Thompson
I'm able to reproduce this on my machine, but only when I'm running it under rxvt. If I run it from cmd.exe or within a standard cygwin bash shell, then it completes without the '-- BOGUS ALARM --' warnings. $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.0 claus 1.5.19(0.150/4/2) 2006-01-20 13:28 i686 Cygwin $

Re: BUG: ualarm(0,0) not clearing ualarms

2006-02-14 Thread Reid Thompson
Robb, Sam wrote: From: Robb, Sam I'm able to reproduce this on my machine, but only when I'm running it under rxvt. If I run it from cmd.exe or within a standard cygwin bash shell, then it completes without the '-- BOGUS ALARM --' warnings. $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.0 claus

pdksh, set -o vi strange new behavior

2006-02-13 Thread Reid Thompson
After recent update rebaseall began having the following strange behavior. the command line sequence escape slash ( to search through history ( pdsh with set -o vi )) causes what appears to be two returns to be input... I.E, with cursor sitting after '$' as shown below ( my prompt is two

Re: BUG: ualarm(0,0) not clearing ualarms

2006-02-13 Thread Reid Thompson
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: [snip] I get the same can't-duplicate as Chris does, on 'uname -a'= CYGWIN_NT-5.1 DFW5RB41 1.5.20s(0.153/4/2) 20060209 14:37:47 i686 Cygwin I don't have any of this stuff in $CYGWIN, might be worth a try to ditch it: CYGWIN = 'server

Re: Bash Window Geometry

2006-02-06 Thread Reid Thompson
rxvt takes -geometry as a parameter -- it also provides a much better interface than CMD.EXE -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: Bash Window Geometry

2006-02-06 Thread Reid Thompson
Reid Thompson wrote: rxvt takes -geometry as a parameter -- it also provides a much better interface than CMD.EXE forgot to mention that rxvt will run natively or with X. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

Re: where is SCP

2006-01-30 Thread Reid Thompson
Scott Purcell wrote: Hello, I need to scp some files to a remote machine on our network, and I cannot find the scp module? When I loaded cygwin, I loaded most default stuff, but even today, I am trying to search for it, and cannot find scp? Thanks, -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Tcsh .history file growing out of control

2006-01-26 Thread Reid Thompson
Bruce Dobrin wrote: Hi All, This is generally a minor headache, But routinely for about the last 2 years while running rxvt and tcsh, I'll have a problem where I can't start a new shell and I'll find that I have a .history file that is 4 to 5 gig's. I blow the thing away and all is once

Re: Have anyone compiled splitvt ?

2006-01-06 Thread Reid Thompson
steven woody wrote: splitvt is tool which can split terminal screen into two part and let you run commands independently in each of parts. it is so handy when you want to do something on a program and see response of another program. i compiled splitvt with no error. but when i run it, it did

Re: Have anyone compiled splitvt ?

2006-01-06 Thread Reid Thompson
Reid Thompson wrote: steven woody wrote: splitvt is tool which can split terminal screen into two part and let you run commands independently in each of parts. it is so handy when you want to do something on a program and see response of another program. i compiled splitvt with no error

Re: mailx + cygwin

2006-01-02 Thread Reid Thompson
Igor Peshansky wrote: On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Crawford, Carl wrote: Igor, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE. I'm forwarding this to the appropriate mailing list, and setting the Reply-To accordingly -- please make sure your mailer honors it. Did you find a port of mailx to

Re: mailx + cygwin

2006-01-02 Thread Reid Thompson
Crawford, Carl wrote: thanks. nice replacement. i am able to read mailx mailboxes. how do you set up mutt to send email thru a pop server, particularly one that has password protection? --carl edit .muttrc per /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/mutt-1.4.2.1i.README can also reference...

Re: Help:Can not edit crontab becuase of vi not found

2005-12-29 Thread Reid Thompson
Brian Dessent wrote: lin q wrote: Hi Brian, I attach the log from cygcheck. I do not see anything obviously wrong as I am not familiar with it. Since there are some personal data in it, please do not reply to the public email alias, I appreciate your help very much. That's

Re: System Tray

2005-12-13 Thread Reid Thompson
Lst Recv wrote: Gary, could you post a few links to some of those libraries? Yes, that's exactly what I'd like to do. Why? It's a great way for unobtrusive, yet noticeable, notifications. My immediate goal is to script a little unit test runner in the background, which constantly runs, and

Re: XTerm problem- xinit

2005-12-06 Thread Reid Thompson
Afro_PL wrote: Hello there. I have little problem when in XTerm i write xinit: A fatal error has ocurred and Cygwin/X will now exit. Please open /tmp/Xwin.log for more information. Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 6.8.2.0-4 Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com XWin was started with the

Re: Making the command console stay on top

2005-11-15 Thread Reid Thompson
Terry Dabbs wrote: I have an application written and compiled using gcc and ncurses (for the colors), in the cygwin environment. This application gets information from a database, and displays it to an operator running a machine telling them what program to input (among other things). The

RE: cscope compilation error in cygwin

2005-10-31 Thread Reid Thompson
Original Message From: frank [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 1:59 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: cscope compilation error in cygwin hi, I try to use cscope in cygwin. My pc is win2000. the cygwin version is $ cygcheck -V cygcheck version 1.64 System

RE: CYGWIN Intsallation-VIM

2005-10-28 Thread Reid Thompson
Original Message From: S.Sunil Kumar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 8:32 AM To: CYGWIN@CYGWIN.COM Subject: CYGWIN Intsallation-VIM Hi, I have checked the following links. http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.what-packages

RE: KSH Mode in CYGWIN CPU-Usage

2005-10-28 Thread Reid Thompson
Original Message From: S.Sunil Kumar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 8:43 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: KSH Mode in CYGWIN CPU-Usage Hi ..., If I enter KSH for KORN-Shell mode , CYGWIN is not responding. And when I start CYGWIN the CPU-Usage rises

RE: CYGWIN Intsallation-VIM-Thanks

2005-10-28 Thread Reid Thompson
Original Message From: S.Sunil Kumar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 10:26 AM To: HELP-Cygwin Subject: Re: CYGWIN Intsallation-VIM-Thanks Hi Alexander zzapper Dave Reid, As you guys instructed I will run the SETUP Program and Uninstall all packages and

Re: undefined references compiling gcc with ncurses

2005-10-25 Thread Reid Thompson
Jeff Scudder wrote: Greetings, I am a curses newbie and having trouble running a simple curses program. I haven't run into a discussion thus far on the specific problem I'm having and I imagine there is a simple solution. My program is named ctest.c and is as follows: #includestdio.h

Re: web browser for cgywin

2005-10-23 Thread Reid Thompson
Charles Li wrote: Can someone recommend a decent, and easy to build, web browser for cgywinX? Thanks. __ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: X-Query (imp urgent)

2005-10-21 Thread Reid Thompson
Alec stewart wrote: Hello All, I have installed g++ for Windows on my System and was trying to build a project on the same. It is like this that when I disable the GUI portion from my project my project builds very fine and executable works fine also but when I want to enable the GUI portion

RE: how to install dillo on cygwinX

2005-10-18 Thread Reid Thompson
Charles Li wrote: Hi, I would like to install dillo browser on cygwinx. Is there a document one of you can point me to? Or a general page for installing softwares on cygwinX. On the download site, it has: Debian, GNU-Darwin, Slackware and RPMs Which one should I use? Thanks.

Re: I can not get cygwin to work on my PC

2005-10-18 Thread Reid Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am receiving the following errors when I attempt to access Cygwin. (Embedded image moved to file: pic13966.jpg) Tom Sherman CTC Communications NOC Tech 781-522-8752 [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTICE OF

RE: xterm pointer color

2005-10-17 Thread Reid Thompson
Jack Tanner wrote: startxwin.bat invokes xterm with the -ms red switch, which sets the (mouse) pointer color to red. Is it possible to specify the same value using a resource in .Xdefaults? $ xterm -version Cygwin 6.8.2.0(202) Rxvt.cursorColor:red xterm.cursorColor:red or

Re: Best place to put new envvars?

2005-10-07 Thread Reid Thompson
Matthew O. Persico wrote: I am sharing a Cygwin installation in a NetWare drive among a number of developers. I want to put export CVSROOT=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/cvs/repository in one profile that is run by everyone AND I don't want it overwritten if I update Cygwin. i'd put

RE: Cygwin X file structure

2005-10-05 Thread Reid Thompson
Andy Little wrote: Hi to the Folks at Cygwin-X, I am trying to get XWindows running on my WinXP box using Cygwin. I am hoping to write some C++ applications using it. I am however totally confused by what to do after building the XWindows sources. 1) Should I copy the

Re: Running X Server

2005-09-29 Thread Reid Thompson
Shah Sharif wrote: Hi, I was trying to run X server after my I have intalled the cygwin. I have chosen to install 'all' the packages. In order to run the X server I have typed in the following command: /usr/X11R6/bin/startx use /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh -- Unsubscribe info:

RE: Basic question 2 - Copy from Windows and paste to cygwin or X

2005-09-28 Thread Reid Thompson
Herbert Eppel wrote: On 28.09.2005 13:43 UK Time, Soong, SylokeJ wrote: I am already doing that (-clipboard), among others: run XWin -screen 0 1750 1350 -multiplemonitors -emulate3buttons -scrollbars -clipboard -silent-dup-error Thanks, but would you mind elaborating a little? As I

RE: Basic question 2 - Copy from Windows and paste to cygwin or X

2005-09-28 Thread Reid Thompson
Reid Thompson wrote: Herbert Eppel wrote: On 28.09.2005 13:43 UK Time, Soong, SylokeJ wrote: I am already doing that (-clipboard), among others: run XWin -screen 0 1750 1350 -multiplemonitors -emulate3buttons -scrollbars -clipboard -silent-dup-error Thanks, but would you mind elaborating

RE: Basic question 3 - system tray icon

2005-09-28 Thread Reid Thompson
Herbert Eppel wrote: On 28.09.2005 16:48 UK Time, Reid Thompson wrote: Herbert Eppel wrote: Can the cygwin X server be prevented from placing an icon in the Windows system tray? Thank you. highlight with left mouse button, paste with middlebutton/scrollwheel Highlight what

RE: Basic question 3 - system tray icon

2005-09-28 Thread Reid Thompson
- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Herbert Eppel Sent: Wed, September 28, 2005 12:08 PM To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Basic question 3 - system tray icon On 28.09.2005 16:48 UK Time, Reid Thompson wrote: Herbert Eppel wrote: Can the cygwin X server be prevented from placing an icon

RE: Basic question 3 - system tray icon

2005-09-28 Thread Reid Thompson
Herbert Eppel wrote: On 28.09.2005 17:45 UK Time, Reid Thompson wrote: highlight with left mouse button, paste with middlebutton/scrollwheel Highlight what? Are we talking about the same thing, or are you referring to my Basic question 2??? sorry -- meant to post that to the copy

RE: Basic question X - whatever

2005-09-28 Thread Reid Thompson
Herbert Eppel wrote: On 28.09.2005 18:04 UK Time, Soong, SylokeJ wrote: With the clipboard enabled, do you know how to highlight, copy paste Nice subject line - I'm not really sure why I started this Basic Question no. nonsense - it was bound to lead to confusion, sorry! between win/xp

Re: rxvt/bash immediately exits

2005-09-18 Thread Reid Thompson
No, I haven't upgraded. I installed RealPlayer, the R statistical system, Kerberos for Windows, and KLP (for Kerberos printing), but I doubt those are related to the issue, and I also need this software more than I need bash to directly work in rxvt. I usually just use a shortcut to a script

Re: could not find /tmp

2005-09-17 Thread Reid Thompson
dorth wrote: hi all, how to resolve this error, please advise, thank you bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create! bash-2.05b$ creating /tmp should resolve it. mkdir /tmp -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

RE: Can't display remote clients

2005-09-15 Thread Reid Thompson
John Ormerod wrote: you have to give permissions for remotes hosts to open apps on your server. in a cygwin bash prompt enter $ xhost + note that this will give 'everyone' permissions to open a window on your server. you could do $ xhost ip-addr-of-machine-you-want-to-allow-to-open-apps or

RE: Can't display remote clients

2005-09-15 Thread Reid Thompson
Soong, SylokeJ wrote: When I first downloaded and installed cygwin my ulterior motive was - if there are free complex stuffs like FTP servers, J2EE servers, Java IDEs, etc, there must be a free piece of software for X/Win on Windows. My ulterior was, where I would prove to those charging an

RE: Documentation on functions

2005-09-15 Thread Reid Thompson
Siegfried Heintze wrote: Is there documentation on the documentation? In other words, is the process of submitting documentation documented? Does one use the GNU texi or SGML docbook or some other format? I've been curious about these tools for years but have never used them. Are there

RE: Is my X Servier not fully started (Rel: 6.8.2.0-4)

2005-09-14 Thread Reid Thompson
John Ormerod wrote: Hello I've been struggling all day in what is a new world for me. I need to have GUI access to a Linux system that runs in a did you comment out this line from your .bat file? If you did, uncomment it. run xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l ...snip REM Startup the X Server

Re: Is my X Server not fully started? (Rel: 6.8.2.0-4)

2005-09-14 Thread Reid Thompson
Try the following. Open a cygwin bash shell, using cygwin.bat. make sure that X is not running,,, $ ps -ef | grep X should not list Xwin from the command line call $ startxwin.sh what does this result in? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

RE: Documentation on functions

2005-09-14 Thread Reid Thompson
Siegfried Heintze wrote: This is the third time I have mailed this to Cygwin@cygwin.com and it has not showed up yet in the list. I am subscribed. Obviously, if you are seeing this, then it succeeded. What a mystery. Anyway... I noticed that when I boot fedora core 4, the function

RE: Documentation on functions

2005-09-14 Thread Reid Thompson
Eric Blake wrote: Followup - for standard functions, like readdir or pthread_attr_init, I usually refer directly to POSIX (http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/toc.htm) to at great pointer -- thanks reid -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

Re: Bash login breaks if too many environment variables are set

2005-09-12 Thread Reid Thompson
Hommersom, Fred wrote: My startup of cygwin is a .bat file with contents call bigsetup.bat set HOME=C:\Data\locations\tc50_custy00 c:\cygwin\bin\bash --login -i The file bigsetup.bat contains a huge amount environment variables. For a medium number (~ 600) everything works fine For a larger

Re: error in running startx

2005-09-10 Thread Reid Thompson
Johan Grönqvist wrote: I get exactly the same error message when I try to start X while already having X running. My guess is therefore that you have already started x successfully, but you do not know it. Try starting xterm instead and see if it works. You may have to set a DISPLAY variable

RE: setup PATH variable by PATH=%PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin

2005-09-01 Thread Reid Thompson
Mark Paulus wrote: The statement should read: PATH=%PATH%:/usr/X11R6/bin Note the trailing % on PATH. That is a Windowism. On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 12:33:23 -0400 (EDT), PoWah Wong wrote: I want to setup my PATH variable by following the instructions of Chapter 4. Using Cygwin/X, section

RE: setup PATH variable by PATH=%PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin

2005-09-01 Thread Reid Thompson
Mark Paulus wrote: The statement should read: PATH=%PATH%:/usr/X11R6/bin Note the trailing % on PATH. That is a Windowism. yep -- that's a typo -- $ PATH=%PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin should be $ PATH=$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin reid -- Unsubscribe info:

RE: How to set a variable with a space in the value?

2005-08-30 Thread Reid Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a JDK installed in c:\Java SDK directory. I am trying to export the JAVA_HOME in cygwin but it seems is crancking out on the space. export JAVA_HOME=c:\Java\\ SDK export JAVA_HOME=c:\Java SDK\ and, export JAVA_HOME=c:/Java SDK/ all fails. Please

Re: How to set a variable with a space in the value?

2005-08-30 Thread Reid Thompson
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Reid Thompson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: huh! That shouldn't have happened -- I use QuoteFix when using Outlook... will have to check to see a crash or something re-configured some of my settings -- Unsubscribe info: http

Re: Remote login, then nothing happens

2005-08-29 Thread Reid Thompson
Andy Schmidgall wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: (and then a bunch of options) cygwin-prompt DISPLAY=:0 ssh -Y [EMAIL PROTECTED] do you then get a Password: prompt? If you do, and you enter your linux password, do you then get a prompt on your linux box? If not, this question is

Re: C lueless why X86... wont start

2005-08-26 Thread Reid Thompson
Rob wrote: Here is my XWin error message. I have searched archives and FAQ's and have found nothing on this. Perhaps I missed something. All I get is and xterm window. No Windowmaker. I understand that -multiwindow is not to be used with an externer window manager but I cannot find the

Re: readline completion

2005-08-17 Thread Reid Thompson
Sam Steingold wrote: * Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-08-17 19:30:14 +]: Mounts are persistent. Running the command just once will make it affect all future cygwin startups, until you rerun mount or umount. thanks! (Just like Unix mount points.) Not on linux. mount

Re: OT: Krazy USB Kameras (RE: Programatically finding value of cygdrive prefix)

2005-08-16 Thread Reid Thompson
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: [snip] NOTE: A digital camera shows up as an USB drive, i.e. a DOS drive - e.g. /cygdrive/next free letter - and is available so long as the camera stays ON (it eventually WILL go OFF after last use, just as your screen blanker! Depending on how you've set it or

Re: Starting Xwin - Shell Window Remains

2005-08-15 Thread Reid Thompson
As info I start X by using a shortcut to open an rxvt window running bash ( see below for contents of shortcut scripts ). (If you do not have rxvt, use setup to get it, it is unbelievable to me that with billions of dollars MS cannot include a decent command prompt.) Then,

NOMACHINE NX client uses cygwin

2005-07-29 Thread Reid Thompson
as info.. uses cygwin and cygwin X http://www.nomachine.com/screenshots1.php WS-XP-4960: /C/Program Files/NX Client for Windows $ find . . ./bin ./bin/cygcrypto-0.9.8.dll ./bin/cygjpeg-62.dll ./bin/cygminires.dll ./bin/cygpng12.dll ./bin/cygserver.exe ./bin/cygwin1.dll ./bin/cygXcomp.dll

RE: Initial run of BASH doesn't initialize home directory

2005-07-13 Thread Reid Thompson
Tom Smith wrote: With all due respect, Igor, I think you missed my point. The point is this: 1) I ran the Cygwin setup.exe and the Cygwin/X setup.exe (a distinction made by the cygwin.com web site itself) on the same computer. It's the same installer, just linked to different pages with

RE: Problems running OpenGL program on Cygwin

2005-07-06 Thread Reid Thompson
Larry Griffith wrote: Dear List Members, I'm a newbie to Cygwin who is trying to learn how to run an OpenGL program under Cygwin-X. I used a standard program written by SGI (called cube.c) that I know runs correctly under Solaris 9, using gcc and the Mesa library, so I don't think the

RE: Path Statement Not Being Evaluated by Bash in Cygwin

2005-07-05 Thread Reid Thompson
Ross MacGillivray wrote: I am trying to test KDE 3.4 (and Qt 3.3) on Cygwin. I have installed the additional packages needed for KDE 3.4 and I even did a complete re-install of all packages to ensure that I have a clean system. when I start bash and enter 'echo $path'. This is the path

RE: Cygwin x windows working fine for 5 of our Solaris 2.8 boxes, but can't get CDE login screen up for one other box - can anyone help

2005-06-29 Thread Reid Thompson
Griffey Matthew wrote: XWin.log Hi, I am getting the attached log file produced in the Cygwin/tmp directory on my PC when i try to run x against one of our Solaris 2.8 boxes - although it can connect fine to the other similar Solaris boxes. It opens a window but doesn't get as far as

RE: Changing colours of XTerm

2005-06-27 Thread Reid Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have begun to use Cygwin on Windows and I have tried every technique I could find on the web for changing from the default black-on-white colours of Xterm (and perhaps other X applications) to something that's easier to look at. None of the techniques

RE: rxvt 2.7.10-6: bash Control-C exits all backgrounded children rxvt processes as well as foreground process/command

2005-06-27 Thread Reid Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have some wrappers to invoke a telnet or an ssh within an rxvt window so that I can label it with the host I'm connecting to. I love rxvt because it has real vt emulation, and also gives me X-like middle mouse cut and paste operations that I'm used to from my Sun

Re: More robust color terminal

2005-06-25 Thread Reid Thompson
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Reid Thompson wrote: Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Both rxvt and the cmd.exe window only support 16 colors. Welcome to 1983. I at least hope they include those horrid CGA colors. -- Gary R. Van Sickle recompiling rxvt

RE: More robust color terminal

2005-06-24 Thread Reid Thompson
Alternatively, you could compile (and, hopefully, contribute) gvim. :-) Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'

RE: More robust color terminal

2005-06-24 Thread Reid Thompson
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Both rxvt and the cmd.exe window only support 16 colors. Welcome to 1983. I at least hope they include those horrid CGA colors. -- Gary R. Van Sickle recompiling rxvt for 256 colors is not hard. $ ./rxvt -help |head Rxvt v2.7.10 - released: 26 MARCH 2003

RE: Mouse button copy/paste not working

2005-06-21 Thread Reid Thompson
Charles Packer wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#remote (please read the whole section). Igor Typical Unix-head response (Read the whole book...). There is nothing in the FAQ that deals with this problem. However, perusing the

Mailing list question

2005-06-03 Thread Reid Thompson
Do the cygwin mail lists support 'suspend'? Is there a command to get the available commands from the mailing list? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

RE: print.exe

2005-06-01 Thread Reid Thompson
Dave Korn wrote: Original Message From: Evert Coetzee Sent: 01 June 2005 19:18 I hate to point to the infamous competitor but this script that I have was intended for the use with mks toolkit (which is a not-so-free alternative to cygwin):

RE: print.exe

2005-06-01 Thread Reid Thompson
Dave Korn wrote: Original Message From: Evert Coetzee Sent: 01 June 2005 19:18 I hate to point to the infamous competitor but this script that I have was intended for the use with mks toolkit (which is a not-so-free alternative to cygwin):

RE: Windows XP SP2

2005-05-25 Thread Reid Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have an application which uses Cygwin (1.5.12(0.116/4/2)) to interact with a Sun workstation, e.g., rsh, rcp, awk, etc. Everything was working fine until I installed Windows XP SP2. The firewall is disabled, but the Cygwin commands aren't working properly. On

Setup does not offer uninstall of emacs ( which I did not knowingly install in the first place )

2005-05-15 Thread Reid Thompson
Somehow, my installation has decided that emacs is a required download and is not to be uninstalled. Could someone shed some light on this? Is it uninstallable due to some other package that I've downloaded, or for some other reason? Can setup be configured so that I can uninstall emacs

bunzip2 cygwin1-20050511.dll.bz2 yields 8911171 byte sized cygwin1-20050511.dl

2005-05-12 Thread Reid Thompson
what am i missing/doing wrong. from the snapshots page cygwin1-*.dll.bz2 is a compressed cygwin1.dll without debug information. cygwin1-20050511.dll.bz21,964 Kb $ bunzip2 cygwin1-20050511.dll.bz2 $ ll cygwin1-20050511.dll -rwx-- 1 Reid.Thompson Domain Users 8911171 May 12 12:06

Re: Static destructors not running

2005-05-09 Thread Reid Thompson
William M. (Mike) Miller wrote: I'm sure this is the result of my having done something stupid with the setup application, but suddenly static destructors no longer run. That is, for the following program: #include stdio.h struct S { S(); ~S(); } s; S::S() { printf(In

Re: Static destructors not running

2005-05-09 Thread Reid Thompson
William M. (Mike) Miller wrote: I'm sure this is the result of my having done something stupid with the setup application, but suddenly static destructors no longer run. That is, for the following program: #include stdio.h struct S { S(); ~S(); } s; S::S() { printf(In

RE: Hippo icon!

2005-05-03 Thread Reid Thompson
Brian Dessent wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: green-n-black C to a roaring hippo. http://www.cygwin.com/hippo.jpg It's to shake off the impression that Cygwin is bloated and slow. No, wait Yes, sure, that's right. The hippo's the second fastest animal ever, right after the

RE: Re: Hippo icon!

2005-05-03 Thread Reid Thompson
Chris Herborth wrote: Chris January wrote: I noticed that the icon for Cygwin on the website has changed from the green-n-black C to a roaring hippo. http://www.cygwin.com/hippo.jpg It's to shake off the impression that Cygwin is bloated and slow. No, wait Hippos are bloated and

RE: Re: Hippo icon!

2005-05-03 Thread Reid Thompson
Chris Herborth wrote: Chris January wrote: I noticed that the icon for Cygwin on the website has changed from the green-n-black C to a roaring hippo. http://www.cygwin.com/hippo.jpg It's to shake off the impression that Cygwin is bloated and slow. No, wait Hippos are bloated and

RE: Problem with cygwin setup

2005-05-02 Thread Reid Thompson
jds wrote: Sorry, my question is very basic, but I have to ask it. Short Version: Could someone tell me the target for the cygwin shortcut that should get installed? Long Version: Basically, my problem is that when I install cygwin it gets stuck on this screen: are you sure it's

RE: Re: Basic test

2005-04-28 Thread Reid Thompson
René Berber wrote: maggi wrote: I have installed cygwin, and I am able to launch the console with the promt bash2.05b$ But when entering ls or other comands, I get always bash-2.05b$ ls bash: ls: command not found bash-2.05b$ dir bash: dir: command not found That's strange, I think the

RE: vi installation

2005-04-21 Thread Reid Thompson
Lars Zeb wrote: How do I install the vi editor in the cygwin environment? Where can I get vi from? How can I tell the bash shell about it? I am used to the EDITOR shell variable in the Korn shell pointing to the editor of choice. There does not seem to be anything like that in bash.

RE: setup.exe keeps hanging

2005-04-20 Thread Reid Thompson
Alan Ning wrote: I just tried it now, and I have the same problem. My CPU usage was at 100%, and it was running multiple instance of sh.exe. I ran setup.exe again, same thing happened. ... Alan Reid Thompson wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Original Message From: Jurgen

RE: setup.exe keeps hanging

2005-04-18 Thread Reid Thompson
Dave Korn wrote: Original Message From: Jurgen Defurne Sent: 14 April 2005 13:38 I still have the following problems : - The installation of cygwin1.dll keeps hanging at 78 % -- Probably because the installation is not complete, i cannot get access to my D: drive (which is just

RE: cron.hourly

2005-04-15 Thread Reid Thompson
Totte Karlsson wrote: Hi, I have started cron as a service under Windows 2000. I 'naively' created a directory, /etc/cron.hourly and put a script in there. I had hoped that cron would execute the script once every hour but it does not work. How do I get the folders /etc/cron.hourly,

RE: cron.hourly

2005-04-15 Thread Reid Thompson
Totte Karlsson wrote: Hi, I have started cron as a service under Windows 2000. I 'naively' created a directory, /etc/cron.hourly and put a script in there. I had hoped that cron would execute the script once every hour but it does not work. How do I get the folders /etc/cron.hourly,

RE: cron.hourly

2005-04-15 Thread Reid Thompson
Reid Thompson wrote: Totte Karlsson wrote: Hi, I have started cron as a service under Windows 2000. I 'naively' created a directory, /etc/cron.hourly and put a script in there. I had hoped that cron would execute the script once every hour but it does not work. How do I get the folders

RE: irc

2005-04-11 Thread Reid Thompson
beau wrote: Hi all, I had just gotten used to irssi when I had to give up the debian box; anyone know how hard it is to get it going on cygwin? Also, I don't seem to have a man page for the irc that I've got. Thanks, beau $ tar xvfj irssi-0.8.9.tar.bz2 $ cd irssi-0.8.9 $ ./configure

RE: Postgres 7.2

2005-03-25 Thread Reid Thompson
there id the option of just downloading the srcs from www.postgresql.org for 7.2.X and building them yourself. reid -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

RE: Re: rxvt problem: Prompt doesn't look very nice

2005-03-24 Thread Reid Thompson
Thanks for the link, now it looks much better. Now I just need to find a font I like. Thanks for replying so quickly Jonathan with such excellent help, it helps make this world a kinder place. Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold at buddydog dot org) Amazing Developments

RE: does rxvt support cut and paste?

2005-03-23 Thread Reid Thompson
Daniel B. wrote: Does the rxvt application support cutting and pasting? If so, how (what keystrokes)? If not, does anyone know why not? Thanks, Daniel highlight text, click in window to paste to, click middle mouse button( wheel). reid -- Unsubscribe info:

RE: Using vi in UNIX mode instead of DOS mode

2005-03-21 Thread Reid Thompson
Auteria Wally Winzer Jr. wrote: Is there anyway of telling vi to use UNIX-mode editing as supposed to DOS-mode? I want to avoid all the ^M's when transferring files from Windows to UNIX, even though I use dos2unix to remove them, I want to just simply avoid that step. Any and all

RE: Using vi in UNIX mode instead of DOS mode

2005-03-21 Thread Reid Thompson
at one time i'd pulled these from somewhere also -- currently they are commented out in my .*vimrc. au BufReadPre * if (ff == dos) |au BufReadPost * set fileformat=unix |au BufReadPost * %s/^M\+$// | endif au BufReadPost * if (ff == dos) | set ff=unix | %s/^M\+$// | endif reid -- Unsubscribe

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