[Fwd: Updated: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-48]

2004-02-28 Thread Harold L Hunt II
I forgot to mention that XF86Config support is disabled in this release. It may be possible to get XF86Config support building again, but Alexander recently added some command-line options that should be a useable replacement for most users. In addition, the keyboard autoconfiguration seems

RE: errors when switching users (security hole?)

2004-02-28 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
Alexander, dont you think startxwin.bat should exit if XWin fails to start ? This should be pretty easy to support in a batch file : start XWin -multiwindow if not errorlevel 0 goto badexit --- Kris Thielemans [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : This is normal behaviour. well, I doubt that you

[rboulet: Man not finding pages]

2004-02-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
- Forwarded message from Ross Boulet rboulet - From: Ross Boulet To: Cygwin Subject: Man not finding pages Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 16:06:22 -0600 I solved my own problem with man not finding pages but in doing the research on it, I found something I thought might be worthy of mentioning.

Re: errors when switching users (security hole?)

2004-02-28 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Sylvain Petreolle wrote: Alexander, dont you think startxwin.bat should exit if XWin fails to start ? This should be pretty easy to support in a batch file : start XWin -multiwindow if not errorlevel 0 goto badexit Won't work. start launches XWin, then returns to the batch shell immediately.

Re: [rboulet: Man not finding pages]

2004-02-28 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Well I'll be dipped in shit. Ain't that the weirdest thing you ever heard of? Now I gotta go revert that script and put a proper note in there so that no one tries to fix it like I did. Harold Christopher Faylor wrote: - Forwarded message from Ross Boulet rboulet - From: Ross Boulet

Re: reset/terminate problems; preventing multiple XWin instances

2004-02-28 Thread Harold L Hunt II
A few issues I've encountered with Cygwin/X 4.3.0-47: Issue #1: In multiwindow mode, XWin doesn't reset when the last client exists. Example: XWin :9 -terminate -multiwindow sleep 5; DISPLAY=:9 xhost XWin should terminate after 5 seconds, but it remains running. It isn't supposed to. Run

Re: reset/terminate problems; preventing multiple XWin instances

2004-02-28 Thread Eran Tromer
On 2004-02-28 21:07, Harold L Hunt II wrote: In multiwindow mode, XWin doesn't reset when the last client exists. It isn't supposed to. Run 'twm' as your window manager and you will see that the X Server does not reset when the last non-window manager client exits; this is because the window

Re: reset/terminate problems; preventing multiple XWin instances

2004-02-28 Thread Takuma Murakami
Eran, As for preventing multiple instances of XWin, a kludgy way to do it is by checking if anyone is listening on the X server port, using NETSTAT. Example: This feature is already implemented in my local tree (not port based but mutex based detection). It is in test and documentation

Re: reset/terminate problems; preventing multiple XWin instances

2004-02-28 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Eran Tromer wrote: On 2004-02-28 21:07, Harold L Hunt II wrote: In multiwindow mode, XWin doesn't reset when the last client exists. It isn't supposed to. Run 'twm' as your window manager and you will see that the X Server does not reset when the last non-window manager client exits; this is

Re: reset/terminate problems; preventing multiple XWin instances

2004-02-28 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Takuma Murakami wrote: Eran, As for preventing multiple instances of XWin, a kludgy way to do it is by checking if anyone is listening on the X server port, using NETSTAT. Example: This feature is already implemented in my local tree (not port based but mutex based detection). It is in test

Re: [Fwd: Updated: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-48]

2004-02-28 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Oh, I also forgot to mention that this is a test release, so I need people to report on how well it works before I can mark it a the current version. Harold

clipboard integration still failing

2004-02-28 Thread Michael Bennett
i've downloaded the latest X server, and clipboard integration is still failing for me, hanging my X application (xmh on a remote machine) as soon as i select something. if i don't use -clipboard, then xwinclip still works ok, with it's known problems. let me know if i can provide more info to