Re: X Freezes at Startup

2004-12-29 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Derek Buitenhuis wrote: Ok, I read in teh FAq that the problem is ZoneAlarm. I do not have, and have never had ZoneAlarm. I tohught ti might be Windows Firewall (I use Windows XP Home SP2), but even after i disabled it, it still froze. What is the problem and how do i

Re: xmodmap restarts X-server without applying changes

2004-12-29 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Brian Keener wrote: I'm trying to run xmodmap -e keysym Home = And it's restarting my X-server without applying the changes to the keymappings. Oddly enough, if I start the X server as -multiwindow it applies the change without rebooting, and resolves (partially)

Re: Extraneous HOME keypresses in Cygwin X server.

2004-12-29 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Brian Keener wrote: The symptoms are: When starting an X-application like xedit, or using has been pressed. This is quite annoying. Please let me know what information might be of use, my keyboard is a Microsoft Wireless Multimedia Keyboard 1.0A. According to cygwin

Re: X-SBClass: Blocked ( Re: xmodmap restarts X-server without applying changes)

2004-12-29 Thread Brian Keener
On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 11:53 +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Brian Keener wrote: I'm trying to run xmodmap -e keysym Home = And it's restarting my X-server without applying the changes to the keymappings. Oddly enough, if I start the X server as

Re: X-SBClass: Blocked ( Re: xmodmap restarts X-server without applying changes)

2004-12-29 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Brian Keener wrote: Interesting to know. That command line option doesn't show up either in the FAQ for command line options, or in X --help, but it most certainly works. This is a general commandline option and is documented in man Xserver bye ago -- [EMAIL

Re: New setup.exe release candidate - please test

2004-12-29 Thread Andrew Schulman
However, if a feature like that were to be implemented, I'd rather see it in those annoying checkboxes at the end. You know, Add an icon to the desktop and Add an icon to the start menu. I've unchecked those boxes about 20 bezillion times, and every time setup forgets and asks me

New setup.exe snapshot - please test

2004-12-29 Thread Max Bowsher
Version 2.457.2.1 - Fix setup keeping open handles to every tarball it installs during a run. (Which appears to have been indirectly responsible for the weird hangs people have been experiencing.) - Fix a miscellany of error-reporting deficiencies. - Close stdin, to protect against

Re: New setup.exe snapshot - please test

2004-12-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Max Bowsher wrote: Version 2.457.2.1 - Fix setup keeping open handles to every tarball it installs during a run. (Which appears to have been indirectly responsible for the weird hangs people have been experiencing.) Is there a bugzilla or other tracking tool for setup.exe

Re: New setup.exe release candidate - please test

2004-12-29 Thread Alexey N. Solofnenko
Not remembering what was installed seems like a bug to me. - Alexey. Andrew Schulman wrote: New feature-- probably unlikely given the current difficulty just in getting bugs fixed, and that the current setup utility will probably be scrapped altogether in favor of something better. However, if

Re: New setup.exe release candidate - please test

2004-12-29 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Ugh, top-posting... Oh, well... This behavior is by design. Setup doesn't remember the source packages that were installed -- only the binary ones. One way to fix this would be to introduce dummy (empty) binary packages for the two source-only packages -- feel free to propose this on the

Xwin.log question

2004-12-29 Thread VandenBosch, Richard

Xwin.log question

2004-12-29 Thread VandenBosch, Richard
Hey there... When trying to run startxwin.bat or startxwin.sh I get the error below. Any ideas what causes this? Thx RV Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 4.3.0.54 Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com XWin was started with the following command line: XWin

cygwin X reboots my PC randomly

2004-12-29 Thread Marc J
I'm running DLL release version is 1.5.10-3 on Windows 2000 Pro and a 1 yr old 3.0 GHz PC. My video card is nVidia GeForce4 MX 440 w/AGP8X, 128 MB video ram. Windowing env - /usr/X11R6/bin/wmaker.exe After I have the cygwin environment up with windowing started via startxwin.sh, and a couple of