Re: fattem xterm mouse cursor?

2004-07-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Lester Ingber wrote: > I have software that can give me easily recognizable cursors on > non-cygwin windows. However, on my Thinkpad/XPPro, on xterm windows, I > often have a terrible time finding/seeing the I-beam mouse cursor. I did > not see any option in the xterm manpag

fattem xterm mouse cursor?

2004-07-20 Thread Lester Ingber
I have software that can give me easily recognizable cursors on non-cygwin windows. However, on my Thinkpad/XPPro, on xterm windows, I often have a terrible time finding/seeing the I-beam mouse cursor. I did not see any option in the xterm manpage that could thicken the I-beam. (I can color the I

Re: Looking for help

2004-07-20 Thread Holger Krull
So my version of this is: - start bash shell - startx that will usually start the internal windows manager, that's not so good here. Gives a very weird look. Just xwin is better here. - export DISPLAY=:0.0 # otherwise ssh won't start X forwarding we need export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 here, but i d

RE: Looking for help

2004-07-20 Thread Armbrust, Daniel C.
> - export DISPLAY=:0.0 # otherwise ssh won't start X forwarding You don't have to do this. The easiest way to set this up for a machine you connect to all the time is to edit the end of your cygwin/usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.bat file to look like this: start XWin -multiplemonitors -clipbo

Re: X don't like Zonealarm 5

2004-07-20 Thread Khoa Nguyen
ZoneAlarm 5.x is a crappy piece of software, go back to 4.x and you'll be happier. Khoa - Original Message - From: "electa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 9:05 AM Subject: X don't like Zonealarm 5 > in fact I uninstalled it today, and X come bac

RE: Looking for help

2004-07-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Yet another revision: > - start bash shell > - startx - export DISPLAY=:0.0 # otherwise ssh won't start X forwarding > - ssh -X -l username remote.machine (though look at the posts about ssh -Y...) FWIW, this can also be "ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED]"... > - on remote machine, once logged in via

RE: Looking for help

2004-07-20 Thread Listopad, Steve
revision. - start bash shell - startx - ssh -X -l username remote.machine (though look at the posts about ssh -Y...) - on remote machine, once logged in via ssh, do something like: - startkde -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Listopad, Steve

RE: Looking for help

2004-07-20 Thread Listopad, Steve
on cygwin machine, try: - start bash shell - ssh -X -l username remote.machine (though look at the posts about ssh -Y...) - on remote machine, once logged in via ssh, do something like: - startkde -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ronald Clar

RE: startx causing XP (Media Center Edition) blue screen?

2004-07-20 Thread Listopad, Steve
Igor, Yea, I figured that those messages had nothing to do with my BSODs, but it can't help to mention little details like that. Could eventually lead to a solution. As for the last part of the BSOD stuff, I can appreciate the technicality that it isn't cygwin causing the BSOD. But the practica

Looking for help

2004-07-20 Thread Ronald Clark
Hello all, I am looking for a doc that will hopefully explain how to setup Cygwin to allow me to SSH to a system and run startx and have the X Window environment be routed through the tunnel. Is there such a document? Right now, I have Cygwin loaded with SSH and when I log into my remote system

RE: startx causing XP (Media Center Edition) blue screen?

2004-07-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Listopad, Steve wrote: > Igor, > > >> See . > > Had already seen & tried it; still got blue screens. Thanks, though. > Steve Steve, That link had nothing to do with the BSODs. It was for your "bad windo

Re: "Entry point not found" error in windows

2004-07-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Joshua Goldberg wrote: > I downloaded cygwin/X from a mirror in the UK (I had the same problem when I > downloaded from www.gwdg.de). and tried to install it onto my Windows XP > machine. when I try to run XWin.exe or any other executable I get the > following Windows error: >

RE: startx causing XP (Media Center Edition) blue screen?

2004-07-20 Thread Listopad, Steve
Igor, >> See . Had already seen & tried it; still got blue screens. Thanks, though. Steve

Re: 2 instances of Xwin

2004-07-20 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Amr Mohamed Roushdi wrote: > Alex , congratulation u found it . > The module u sent required cygfreetype-9.dll . I am at level -6 so > irenamed and it works like a charm . > I would like to take this opportunity and thank you for all the help and > time you invested in solving that matter > which