Re: Newbie seeking help.

2004-08-24 Thread Michel Bardiaux
bt tan wrote: Hi, Good day. I am a newbie for cygwinX application. I was wondering is this the right place to post question of uncertainty about cygwinX application? If no, I would like to address my apologize here. If yes, I would like to ask the following question. I'm currently

CYGWIN branch merge

2004-08-24 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Hi, After the Xorg X11R6.8 release I'm planning to update the CYGWIN branch with the X11R6.8 code. The latest changes from CYGWIN are already in HEAD. The CYGWIN branch will be the base for releases. Only bugfixes and small features will get in between releases. After every Xorg release the

fonts and symbolic links

2004-08-24 Thread Boaz Harrosh
As I am trying to pack a minimum X installation (see:http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-07/msg00207.html) I have played around with using windows fonts and only supplying the smallest possible fonts in download. I have done the following: 1) run mkfontdir - in the /cygdrive/c/windows/font/

Re: Why doesn't run XWin show a window?

2004-08-24 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Sun, 8 Aug 2004, Weeble wrote: The subject line says most of it really. When I run XWin no window appears even though the X appears in the tray. I've seen this on every machine I've tried it on. XWin alone will show the window as well as the console that opens with it. Passing a

Re: Help! TOO MANYlocalhost:loopback connections, slow performance.

2004-08-24 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, goodwill wrote: Hi, I am using Xwin to access my linux machine KDE over a SSH tunnel. I ran into a interesting problem. Xwin seems to open HUGE amounts of localhost:loopback on many consecutive ports (seem liek the whole tempt port range and more) and I mean like

Re: XWin and xauth

2004-08-24 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Rayman, Louis wrote: I'm having the weirdest time getting XWin to grant my solaris/linux login display rights. first, my host PC translates its own name differently than the unix machines do, so I get something like this: cygin$ xauth list

Re: [Fwd: Cygwin-X+15.4 display]

2004-08-24 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Flavio Elias wrote: Hello, I've tried running Cygwin-Xfree on my Toshiba M35 laptop (15.4 display), and cannot get it to work. After the startx command, there is some output (attached), and then the shell freezes. Any thoughts about what might be going on? You're

Re: installing 6.7.99.1-2

2004-08-24 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Jack Tanner wrote: I'd like to install and test the 6.7.99.1-2 pre-releases ago recently announced. I run setup, find a mirror that has the 6.7.99.1-2 files, and then click in the New column for xorg-x11-base until it gets to 6.7.99.1-2. I want to upgrade

Re: Testing CygWin XFree86 with multiple monitors

2004-08-24 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Øyvind Harboe wrote: I'm using CygWin XFree86 with a dual monitor setup and a single monitor setup. In my experience there are, not surprisingly, more problems with the dual monitor setup. This made me think a bit about how multi-monitor CygWin XFree86 could get more

RE: setenv DISPLAY

2004-08-24 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Thomas Chadwick wrote: So you're saying you're doing the setenv DISPLAY via the SSH terminal session between steps 2 and 3? I so, then you're completely circumventing the security provided by SSH (unless you're doing it intentionally, e.g. you're on a trusted network,

Re: quotes keys doesn't work anymore

2004-08-24 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Bas Toonk wrote: Hi all, I upgraded all the cygwin packages to the latest version. Now when I start xwin with blackbox as windows manager and open a xterm everything works fine. But when I open an rxvt window and open an bash shell the quotes (',) aren't working

Re: problems with zone alarm/XP SP2?

2004-08-24 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Lester Ingber wrote: I just installed Zone Labs zone alarm, and an having problems that suggest similar problems may arise under Cygwin with the coming XP SP2? (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: 0409 (0409) (--) Using preset keyboard for English (USA) (409), type

Re: Proposal: Cyrillic fonts for XWin (Attn: xorg-x11* maintainer)

2004-08-24 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Hi, Alexander, The Cyrillic fonts currently distributed on Cygwin are those from the X.org project (or, rather, Cronyx). They are missing some encodings (particularly, CP-1251), and that makes them harder to use with Windows. There is an

Re: vanishing cursor

2004-08-24 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Eric S. Johansson wrote: every so often, something triggers a bug in Xwin which makes the cursor vanish but only over an Xwin window. Only way to get back is to restart the X server (and windows). another odd bug is that I noticed emacs tends to bleed through and pop

Re: [PATCH] Add support for back/forward (thumb) mouse buttons to XWin

2004-08-24 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Chris B wrote: Hi, This patch adds support for thumb mouse buttons to XWin/cygwin. It's quite rough at the edges, probably. It works on XP but cannot test it on other windows versions. It will probably do no harm on Win98 as it won't send the messages, anyway. I

Re: System process eating up 70% when starting XWin

2004-08-24 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Der Herr Pooh wrote: I have a strange problem since I upgraded to the current version of xfree (6.7-12 ??). When I start XWin the system process (not system idle process!!) eats up up to 70% of me CPU slowing down the whole machine. This stops immediately when XWin is

Re: xwin -multiwindow bug [ver 1.5.10(0.116/4/2)?]

2004-08-24 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Ariel Millennium Thornton wrote: Hello. I think I have found a bug in Cygwin/X. When running xwin.exe with the -multiwindow switch (to use winxp's gdi as X's wm), the X-managed regions of the screen do some rather strange things. When the root window is shown, all

Re: fonts and symbolic links

2004-08-24 Thread Boaz Harrosh
Boaz Harrosh wrote: As I am trying to pack a minimum X installation (see:http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-07/msg00207.html) I have played around with using windows fonts and only supplying the smallest possible fonts in download. I have done the following: 1) run mkfontdir - in the

Re: Newbie seeking help.

2004-08-24 Thread Michel Bardiaux
bt tan wrote: --- bt tan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Mike, Here's the output of ./configure [snip] checking for X... (cached) no checking for X11 header files... checking for X11 libraries... checking for XCreateWindow in -lXwindow... (cached) no couldn't find any! Using -lX11. checking for

Re: vanishing cursor

2004-08-24 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Alexander Gottwald wrote: Which version of xwin you are using? This is a bug which should be solved for some time now. the vanishing cursor problem has been consistent up through my latest upgrade (i.e. yesterday) I'm not sure which version is but it's xorg based. I must say it's gotten bad

Re: vanishing cursor

2004-08-24 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Eric S. Johansson wrote: Alexander Gottwald wrote: Which version of xwin you are using? This is a bug which should be solved for some time now. the vanishing cursor problem has been consistent up through my latest upgrade (i.e. yesterday) I'm not sure which

Re: startx hangs on WinXP, xinit doesn't

2004-08-24 Thread Dr.D.J.Picton
Hello, pv. On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 22:29:04 -0700 (PDT) p v wrote: [snip] The only difference in the execution of the two is the environment so I experimented and finally I commented this portion of startx script - if [ x$XAUTHORITY = x ]; then XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority

Re: vanishing cursor

2004-08-24 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Eric S. Johansson wrote: Alexander Gottwald wrote: Which version of xwin you are using? This is a bug which should be solved for some time now. the vanishing cursor problem has been consistent up through my latest upgrade (i.e. yesterday) I'm not

Re: vanishing cursor

2004-08-24 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Eric S. Johansson wrote: Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 6.7.0.0-12 This is the newest. I guess you don't know how to reproduce the vanishing cursor. Are you working with MS Terminalservices client? BTW: you can enable the software

Re: vanishing cursor

2004-08-24 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Eric S. Johansson wrote: Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 6.7.0.0-12 This is the newest. I guess you don't know how to reproduce the vanishing cursor. the whole experience of having the cursor vanish and then

Re: fonts and symbolic links

2004-08-24 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Boaz Harrosh wrote: As I am trying to pack a minimum X installation (see:http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-07/msg00207.html) I have played around with using windows fonts and only supplying the smallest possible fonts in download. I have done the following: 1)

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