X11 apps failing after upgrade

2008-12-02 Thread James Ferguson
All help gratefully received! I haven't found this problem through searches, apologies if I've been searching for the wrong terms. In my first update in a few months I picked up the major upgrade to the X server. XWin -version now reports 1.5.3.0. After having the problems below I did a full

Installed CygwinX and xhost not found

2008-12-02 Thread RICHARD RASO
Hi, I have just installed CygwinX on my new laptop which is running MS XP Pro version 2002 service pack 2. I used install options All User and Unix mode. I also took the default of downloading all packages. I am trying to setup a X window environment so I can run the Oracle Universal Installer

Recent X11 upgrade and getting _gl?? Undefined references compiling another package

2008-12-02 Thread Brian Keener
I periodically do test compile for OpenSceneGraph in Cygwin and up until I recently accidentally updated to the latest X11 stuff the compiles had been working fine. With the recent change I now getting a lot of undefined references for various _gl?? References. I posted this to the

RE: Installed CygwinX and xhost not found

2008-12-02 Thread James Ferguson
Lots of apps have moved into their own packages. xhost can be found in the X11 group, to be installed on its own. However, it's generally a good option to connect to your client with ssh -Y and then you can display directly, without using xhost. I have a Cygwin-X menu item, with XWin server

Re: Installed CygwinX and xhost not found

2008-12-02 Thread Jon TURNEY
RICHARD RASO wrote: So I have searched the FAQs and found a note that says to add a path statement to correct this problem. for missing xhost, the correct FAQ is http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-where-is-xxyzy If it's the Cygwin/X FAQ which has given you the wrong advice to

Re: PATCH: Fix mwextwm mode to build again

2008-12-02 Thread Jon TURNEY
Colin Harrison wrote: Hi, Jon TURNEY wrote Based on somebody else's patch, I'm can't remember who's... I'll give you one guess. Sorry. I managed to confuse myself somehow. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: Recent X11 upgrade and getting _gl?? Undefined references compiling another package

2008-12-02 Thread Jon TURNEY
Brian Keener wrote: I periodically do test compile for OpenSceneGraph in Cygwin and up until I recently accidentally updated to the latest X11 stuff the compiles had been working fine. With the recent change I now getting a lot of undefined references for various _gl?? References. I posted

WMaker compile

2008-12-02 Thread Pascal A. Dupuis
Hello, let first start by introducing myself: I'm a long time linux user, and tired of rebooting the home machine because childrens can't play Zoo Tycon under linux. I've just fiddled a bit with WindowMaker, and finally compiled the latest version, 0.92. It ran out of the box, configured as

Re: X11 apps failing after upgrade

2008-12-02 Thread Jon TURNEY
James Ferguson wrote: My client machine is Solaris. Everything worked fine before the update. I'm running the installed startxwin.bat startup (with xterm REM'd out). I can display xclock fine. xterm appears up, but as soon as I hit a key it crashes with: $ xterm xterm: warning, error

Re: X, backingstore and opengl

2008-12-02 Thread Jon TURNEY
Angelo Graziosi wrote: Jon TURNEY wrote: Ok, I've tried this and a few other things an I can't reproduce this, so I'd like your help to get a backtrace if you are willing: 1. Download http://www.dronecode.org.uk/cygwin/XWin.exe.bz2 (this is a build of XWin with debugging symbols) 2.

Re: XWin Server starting everything offscreen

2008-12-02 Thread Mark A. Ziesemer
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: I don't have a multihead setup, so I'm unable to test any of this. Just a thought for a work-around for testing, in case you or anyone else is interested. Install Synergy (http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/), ZoneScreen (http://www.zoneos.com/zonescreen.htm), or

Re: X, backingstore and opengl

2008-12-02 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Jon TURNEY wrote: I'm sorry, your our previous mail hadn't really made it clear to me that there was problem with glxgears etc. Just for my comprehension, can you explain again what happens if you run glxinfo and glxgears on 1.5.3-4. Really, in my posts, I never cited 'glxgears', 'glxinfo'