Re: Mouse pointer disappears

2004-05-12 Thread Ed Avis
Wilks, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have noticed that the mouse pointer disappears when the window has focus. Do you happen to use remote desktop or anything like it? Yes, I occasionally remote desktop into the machine. -- Ed Avis [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X server window resizes after remote desktop, and can't resize back

2004-05-12 Thread Ed Avis
Ed Avis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I remote desktop'd into my XP machine using a smaller display size than the monitor connected locally. When I went back in front of the machine I found that the X server window had shrunk to roughly the size of the remote desktop screen, but had not grown back

Differnce between Xfree and Xorg

2004-05-12 Thread aroushdi
I am a little bit confused I see here that we have moved to Xorg distribution . I took a look at XFree.org and it seems they have Binaries for Cygwin till 4.4 . My question is Xfree going to be abandoned in favor of Xorg . What is the relation between the 2 . The reason I am asking because

Re: Differnce between Xfree and Xorg

2004-05-12 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 12 May 2004, aroushdi wrote: I am a little bit confused I see here that we have moved to Xorg distribution . I took a look at XFree.org and it seems they have Binaries for Cygwin till 4.4 . These binaries are likely to be very outdated. We moved to X.org because it was easier for

Tracking Down Disappearing Cursors

2004-05-12 Thread Wilks, Dan
After a bit of sleuthing I think I understand why the cursor is disappearing inside X windows after a remote desktop session. Unfortunately I don't understand enough of the motive of the current code in order to suggest a fix. It appears that there is some sort of misunderstanding between

RE: XWin.exe 6.7-4 clipboard on Win 2K server sp4 - prevents Wind ows cut/copy

2004-05-12 Thread Wilks, Dan
Jesse Burson wrote: I'm using XWin.exe 6.7-4 I am not able to cut or copy from Windows apps. Wait until the next version. Some Windows apps, Remote Desktop for one really mess up the Windows clipboard chain. You can see this using the old clipbrd.exe tool as well. Versions of XWin post -4

Using 6.7.0.0-8 Failure to connect to Linux

2004-05-12 Thread Crystal Martin
Hello! I was successfully using Cygwin to connect my Windows machine to my SuSE 9 until my Windows machine crashed about three weeks ago. Since then, I have not been able to reconnect the two computers. In the meantime, we have new Ethernet switches which I suspect may have triggered the

Re: Differnce between Xfree and Xorg

2004-05-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 12 May 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Wed, 12 May 2004, aroushdi wrote: I am a little bit confused I see here that we have moved to Xorg distribution . I took a look at XFree.org and it seems they have Binaries for Cygwin till 4.4 . These binaries are likely to be very

Re: Differnce between Xfree and Xorg

2004-05-12 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Thomas Dickey wrote: On Wed, 12 May 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Wed, 12 May 2004, aroushdi wrote: I am a little bit confused I see here that we have moved to Xorg distribution . I took a look at XFree.org and it seems they have Binaries for Cygwin till 4.4 . These binaries are likely

Mouse/keyboard emulation

2004-05-12 Thread Mark Vovchuk
I have been trying to use Cygwin, at least in part, as an X server on top of a Windows install to be able to execute programs from a UNIX server and have them appear locally. The application I have been specifically attempting to do so with is Eclipse (motif for HP-UX). Just about every other

Re: Mouse/keyboard emulation

2004-05-12 Thread Harold L Hunt II
in the Xterm I opened an ssh session by typing ssh -l username remote server name and then entered the password when prompted You mentioned ssh, you probably need to see A1 in the following FAQ entry: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-ssh-no-x11forwarding Harold

Re: Differnce between Xfree and Xorg

2004-05-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 12 May 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Thomas Dickey wrote: On Wed, 12 May 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Wed, 12 May 2004, aroushdi wrote: I am a little bit confused I see here that we have moved to Xorg distribution . I took a look at XFree.org and it seems they have

Startxwin starts a hung xterm

2004-05-12 Thread David Cabana
I just installed the latest cygwin-xfree (on 5/12/04) under Win XP. When I start Xwin via startxwin.bat, the x server seems to start up normally. The next line in the batch file, run xterm -sl 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms red -fg yellow -bg black -e /usr/bin/bash -l launches an xterm, which

RE: Mouse pointer disappears

2004-05-12 Thread Kris Thielemans
Wilks, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have noticed that the mouse pointer disappears when the window has focus. I occasionally get this on my laptop as well (running XP sp1 and latest cygwin+xorg). This happens in local xterms as well. It might have happened after doing some ssh -X

Weird multiwindow mode problem

2004-05-12 Thread Antony Baxter
Hello, This is probably unimportant, but I thought I'd mention it just the same... :) I have my Windows Taskbar at the top of the screen (instead of the bottom as it is by default). Running XWin -multiwindow, I open an xterm and move it right to the bottom of the screen. I open another window

Re: cygwin upgrade: where did XWin go?

2004-05-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 06:14:49PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Allen H. Nugent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] At 03:14 PM 12/05/04, Peng Yu wrote: You can run startxwin. Umm, no, I can't: it gives BASH: startxwin: command not found. To reiterate, I was able to use