Some users have been reporting that they cannot get an XDMCP login
screen on a remote *nix box from their Windows XP machines.
I was unable to figure out what was going on here until I enabled the
Windows Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) for my notebook when I was
out of town. Upon
I'm going out on a limb here, as my experience with xfree86 is extremely
limited. Perhaps there is an option to achieve what I'm suggesting here.
Oh well! :-)
xwinclip is clobbering the clipboard when I work w/e.g. OpenOffice:
- If I copy and paste a spreadsheet cell while xwinclip is running,
yvind,
yvind Harboe wrote:
I'm going out on a limb here, as my experience with xfree86 is extremely
limited. Perhaps there is an option to achieve what I'm suggesting here.
Oh well! :-)
xwinclip is clobbering the clipboard when I work w/e.g. OpenOffice:
- If I copy and paste a spreadsheet cell
Sorry for the wrong info.
In my previous mail quoted below, all comment out
must be uncomment.
Additionally I made sure the following appears in
/opt/kde3/share/config/Xaccess and /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess:
# The nicest way to run the chooser is to just ask it to broadcast
# requests to
The following CVS commit, made by Thomas Dickey, has no indication that
Thomas was either a) not involved at all in the patch or b) that Thomas
found Ralf Habacker's patch and committed a modified version of that patch.
The CVS log message says:
fixes for _XtInherit on cygwin.
The
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
The following CVS commit, made by Thomas Dickey, has no indication that
Thomas was either a) not involved at all in the patch or b) that Thomas
found Ralf Habacker's patch and committed a modified version of that patch.
The CVS log message says:
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
The following CVS commit, made by Thomas Dickey, has no indication that
Thomas was either a) not involved at all in the patch or b) that Thomas
found Ralf Habacker's patch and committed a modified version of that patch.
The CVS
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Your commit didn't mention this either.
Our change log is in our release notes, where the changes were
attributed to Ralf Habacker:
tsk, tsk: the actual commit on the code change bears only your name.
A casual reader of that commit (and of this
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Your commit didn't mention this either.
Our change log is in our release notes, where the changes were
attributed to Ralf Habacker:
tsk, tsk: the actual commit on the code change bears only your name.
A casual reader of that
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
XFree86 should be taking care not to steal credit for our patches by
committing them without proper attribution.
your standards are inconsistent: your committing the change rather than
offering commit access to someone who solved a problem that
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
XFree86 should be taking care not to steal credit for our patches by
committing them without proper attribution.
your standards are inconsistent: your committing the change rather than
offering commit access to someone who
Do any developers need books? I've got enough money for one or two
books in the fund. If you have contributed at least one patch before
and you need a book on X, Win32 API, compilers, build tools, or
something else related to Cygwin/X development, then I can help you out
in getting the books
Do you actually do anything useful? Or do you just steal other people's
code and then act annoying (and childish) when someone calls you on it?
Argh. That was supposed to go to our good friend Thomas Dickey.
Somebody in Pittsburgh, PA stop by and slap me.
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Brian E. Gallew wrote:
Do you actually do anything useful? Or do you just steal other people's
code and then act annoying (and childish) when someone calls you on it?
You can see for yourself what he does:
http://invisible-island.net/
ftp://invisible-island.net/
Thomas,
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Your commit didn't mention this either.
Our change log is in our release notes, where the changes were
attributed to Ralf Habacker:
tsk, tsk: the actual
On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 11:32, Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
XFree86 should be taking care not to steal credit for our patches by
committing them without proper attribution.
your standards are inconsistent: your committing the change rather than
Thomas, as a casual observer of your behavior in respect to Harold, your last name
would describe you better if it were shortened to Dick.
Here is a Quote from Mr. Dickeys webpage where he is whining about not getting credit
for patches he wrote:
This is a collection of some of the patches
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Eric Anholt wrote:
The only responsible thing for you to do would be to correct the
ChangeLog to attribute it to the patch's author.
well that's polite enough.
unlike Harold.
no problem.
--
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
No, that is not good enough. You should amend your change log entry to
attribute the patch to Ralf and you should apologize to the X community
at large for being so sloppy with attributing credit.
yes, you're right. now I'll have to scrutinize
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Put Ralf's name in the change log!!!
you first.
Ralf's name is already in our change log, but our change log is not in CVS.
I guess I need to show you that you actively took credit for the patch
again:
The
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Eric Anholt wrote:
The only responsible thing for you to do would be to correct the
ChangeLog to attribute it to the patch's author.
well that's polite enough.
unlike Harold.
I have not been rude in this discussion.
I have repeatedly asked you to
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 02:02:20PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
The following CVS commit, made by Thomas Dickey, has no indication that
Thomas was either a) not involved at all in the patch or b) that Thomas
found Ralf Habacker's patch and
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
No, that is not good enough. You should amend your change log entry to
attribute the patch to Ralf and you should apologize to the X community
at large for being so sloppy with attributing credit.
yes, you're right.
Thanks.
Alan Hourihane wrote:
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 02:02:20PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
The following CVS commit, made by Thomas Dickey, has no indication that
Thomas was either a) not involved at all in the patch or b) that Thomas
found Ralf
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Alan Hourihane wrote:
Thomas,
If you did get this code directly from Cygwin/X's tree then I'd of
expected at least the credit to be apportioned to Harold at the very
least, rather than putting your name against it. Ralf's name could have
been corrected later, with a
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Eric Anholt wrote:
The only responsible thing for you to do would be to correct the
ChangeLog to attribute it to the patch's author.
well that's polite enough.
unlike Harold.
I have not been
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Alan Hourihane wrote:
Thomas,
If you did get this code directly from Cygwin/X's tree then I'd of
expected at least the credit to be apportioned to Harold at the very
least, rather than putting your name against it. Ralf's name could have
been corrected
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Eric Anholt wrote:
The only responsible thing for you to do would be to correct the
ChangeLog to attribute it to the patch's author.
well that's polite enough.
unlike Harold.
I
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Eric Anholt wrote:
I see only minor inconsitency on his part, that the original commit of
that code didn't attribute it to its author in the CVS logs, while at
least some other commits do note authors of patches. However, he didn't
explicitly take credit for it, like you
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Eric Anholt wrote:
[snip]
announcement of new packages with those changes reflects the author
correctly. I don't see Harold Hunt asking for his name to be on the
patch in any way, only the patch's author's name (the members of the
Cygwin/X community in
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
been corrected later, with a follow email from Harold.
It's a simple change to put that right in the CHANGELOG. So I'll do that.
I had that on my next set of commits.
Then why not say so earlier?
There was no point in doing so.
--
Thomas
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
a lot of words.
--
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
been corrected later, with a follow email from Harold.
It's a simple change to put that right in the CHANGELOG. So I'll do that.
I had that on my next set of commits.
Then why not say so earlier?
There was no point in doing
Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
a lot of words.
The modus operandi of Thomas Dickey:
1) Stick head in sand
2) ???
Harold
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Sure there was: you would not have exposed yourself as a hypocrite by
doing exactly that which you denounce on your home page (pointed out by
Daniel Armburst). You lambast those egotistical plagiarists that
yes, I can imagine that you admire them.
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 05:34:46PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Sure there was: you would not have exposed yourself as a hypocrite by
doing exactly that which you denounce on your home page (pointed out by
Daniel Armburst). You lambast those egotistical
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Armbrust, Daniel C. wrote:
I've seen your postings before, and have no use for your opinions.
(that seems to be a common trait of Harold's friends - I don't have to
address each one of them).
--
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net
David Dawes wrote:
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 01:25:52PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
The following CVS commit, made by Thomas Dickey, has no indication that
Thomas was either a) not involved at all in the patch or b) that Thomas
found Ralf Habacker's patch and committed a modified version of
Wow, your still so pissed off about being wrong, now you are attacking all of Harold's
friends. Boy, you're a big powerful man. Let me bow before you.
#1. I do not know Harold. All I know about him is what I have learned by following
this list for about a year.
#2. I don't know you. All I
I didn't follow all of the discussion and I am not a friend of Harold,
but I would be happy to become his friend in the future. Harold seems to
be a really nice guy spending his free time on the Cygwin X development.
Dickey seems to be a really dick as somebody already noted, or a really
dangerous
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Alec Mihailovs wrote:
I didn't follow all of the discussion and I am not a friend
of Harold, but I would be happy to become his friend in the
future. Harold seems to be a really nice guy spending his
free time on the Cygwin X development.
Agreed.
Dickey seems to be a
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