problems with X

2005-10-11 Thread Sherrett O. Walker
Hi, all I'm running cygwin on my XP laptop mostly to ssh into a Redhat server. I'm currently seeing some strange behavior. I start X windows by using the "startx" command, which pops up an Xterm. From there, I usually might use another xterm or two to ssh into different boxes, and I might

Re: Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure

2005-10-11 Thread Charles Wilson
Harold L Hunt II wrote: Charles Wilson wrote: All of this mucking about with tk and insight requires the concurrence of -- and oodles of extra work by -- the tk maintainer and the insight maintainer. Plus, given the centrality of the debugger to the GNUPro product, this sort of change might

RE: Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure

2005-10-11 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
[snip] > > 1) How many of our BDs actually work for Red Hat anymore? > > 1 (one) > Harold also stated: "Look, it has been made quite clear to us on several occasions that Red Hat doesn't pay for anyone in their company to do development on Cygwin[...]" Is this correct? -- Gary R. Van Sickle

Re: Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure

2005-10-11 Thread Doug VanLeuven
Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charles Wilson wrote: Not gonna happen: it has been stated before on this list that 'insight' *must* run without X -- which means that tk will remain Win32GUI. Tk must remain Win32GUI, or *a* Win32GUI Tk must remai

RE: Tekplot application repeatedly redraws under XFree

2005-10-11 Thread Berndt, Jon S
> Then maybe you are not using startxwin.sh ?? > > How are you starting X ? > > Alan. You must forgive me. I've been off and haven't had to think for a couple of days... :-) You are correct. I am using startx, which calls xinit. I'm not sure what happens from that point. Maybe I'll try start

RE: Tekplot application repeatedly redraws under XFree

2005-10-11 Thread Alan Hourihane
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 12:40 -0500, Berndt, Jon S wrote: > > Look in /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh and look for the line that says... > > > > XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error & > > > > and change it to > > > > XWin -rootless -clipboard -silent-dup-error > > > > That will give you an

RE: Tekplot application repeatedly redraws under XFree

2005-10-11 Thread Berndt, Jon S
> Look in /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh and look for the line that says... > > XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error & > > and change it to > > XWin -rootless -clipboard -silent-dup-error > > That will give you an Xserver with no window manager and then > allow you to start the one from

Re: XWin hangs on opening xterms, correspondence with setup hangs ??

2005-10-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 10/11/2005, Norbert Harendt wrote: OK. What i can see, is that calling or running the shell causes the problems in my case. XWin is coming up and running fine, i get the logon screen of the remote server and everything seems to be fine. But if i try to open an xterm on the remote server, XWi

RE: Tekplot application repeatedly redraws under XFree

2005-10-11 Thread Alan Hourihane
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 10:20 -0500, Berndt, Jon S wrote: > > O.k. It sounds like tekplot's problem then on the way it's > > dealing with window events. > > > > Alan. > > You might be on to something, though. I started up the IRIX window > manager, 4Dwm. Most of my windows then had the standard MS

RE: Tekplot application repeatedly redraws under XFree

2005-10-11 Thread Berndt, Jon S
> O.k. It sounds like tekplot's problem then on the way it's > dealing with window events. > > Alan. You might be on to something, though. I started up the IRIX window manager, 4Dwm. Most of my windows then had the standard MS-Windows frame, and within that, the Motif-style window manager decora

RE: Tekplot application repeatedly redraws under XFree

2005-10-11 Thread Alan Hourihane
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 09:24 -0500, Berndt, Jon S wrote: > > Alan Hourihane wrote: > > > Which window manager are you using Jon ? > > > > Alan. > > I'm not sure. I am using pretty much the standard startup for Xwin. How > can I find out which I'm using. O.k. It sounds like tekplot's problem then

login xterm session - /etc/profile script adds duplicates to some *PATH vars

2005-10-11 Thread Peter Farley
Hi all, I noticed a slight problem with three of the *PATH variables that are set in a login xterm window, such as the one started by the startxwin.sh script. It seems to be caused by the /etc/profile script blindly adding directories to PATH, MANPATH and INFOPATH. In startxwin.sh, the xterm is

RE: Tekplot application repeatedly redraws under XFree

2005-10-11 Thread Berndt, Jon S
> Alan Hourihane wrote: > Which window manager are you using Jon ? > > Alan. I'm not sure. I am using pretty much the standard startup for Xwin. How can I find out which I'm using. Jon -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/p

Re: Tekplot application repeatedly redraws under XFree

2005-10-11 Thread Alan Hourihane
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 09:08 -0500, Berndt, Jon S wrote: > Greetings: > > I am using Cygwin/Xfree: > > version number:11.0 > vendor string:The Cygwin/X Project > vendor release number:60802000 > > The operating system is MS Windows XP. > > I have found that when using the Tekplot ap

Tekplot application repeatedly redraws under XFree

2005-10-11 Thread Berndt, Jon S
Greetings: I am using Cygwin/Xfree: version number:11.0 vendor string:The Cygwin/X Project vendor release number:60802000 The operating system is MS Windows XP. I have found that when using the Tekplot application, if I move the window around a bit, almost always it will begin to p

Re: Re: XDMCP issues

2005-10-11 Thread Loic Domaigne
Hi Chris, > > Does have someone an idea what's going wrong? > > > It sounds almost like a permissions/security problem, i.e. your XP box > won't *allow* a remote XDMCP to open the display. I do what you;re > trying to do on Windows 2000 and I don't remember any problems like > this but it may

Re: XDMCP issues

2005-10-11 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 10:10:54AM +0200, Loic Domaigne wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I'm trying to get a remote Linux/KDE desktop from my XP box using cygwin. > Following the FAQ and various posts, I have proceeded as follows: > > 1) I made sure that XDMCP is enable on the linux box. > > 2) I

Re: XWin hangs on opening xterms, correspondence with setup hangs ??

2005-10-11 Thread Norbert Harendt
Christopher Faylor cygwin.com> writes: > > On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 09:41:00AM +, Norbert Harendt wrote: > >Norbert Harendt ib-eckerl.de> writes: > >I encounter shell-hangs with cygwin also when using cygwins setup, so i > >post the problem also under > >http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygw

Re: Consensus about man and doc X11 directory structure

2005-10-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 10 21:59, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > Charles Wilson wrote: > >Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: > [...] > >>What's stopping us from moving the Win32 tcltk in /opt/win32, and making > >>new *NIX tcl and tk packages in /usr? Then all that's necessary for > >>insight is to add /opt/win32 to PATH (

keymap pb on XWin

2005-10-11 Thread Johan Peyrard
Hello, i am using the cygwin 2.510.2.2 with xfree. I try to have the french keymap or the deutch keymap, and i have coredump... I launch XWin.exe, then i try to change keymap with #setxkbmap.exe de -model pc105 Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property Use defaults: rules - 'xorg' model - 'pc1

XDMCP issues

2005-10-11 Thread Loic Domaigne
Hello everybody, I'm trying to get a remote Linux/KDE desktop from my XP box using cygwin. Following the FAQ and various posts, I have proceeded as follows: 1) I made sure that XDMCP is enable on the linux box. 2) In a cygwin shell, I started XWin.exe: $ XWin.exe -query linux_box -from my_XP_b