Re: X / gtk-x11 / flicker and other problems

- Original Message - From: Jon TURNEY Subject: Re: X / gtk-x11 / flicker and other problems At the moment, -multiwindow mode always selects the GDI engine for reasons which are lost in the mists of time (rooted modes are able to use DirectDraw), so a GDI BitBlt is used to transfer the

Re: gv became really slow?

It used to be the case that opening a postscript file with gv on cygwin was more or less immediate. I've recently updated cygwin and now it takes about 2-5 seconds (a clock is displayed while gv is thinking). This happens even if the postscript file contains only a few words. For example, if

can't start xterm

Yet again, I seem to have inadvertently gotten an update to cygwin X, and now I'm having trouble getting xterm to start. I had been using the startxwin.bat to start X in multiwindow mode, and I have a couple of lines in there to auto-start some xterm windows. That doesn't work anymore. The X

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-server-1.5.3-6

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The following package has been updated in the Cygwin net distribution: *** xorg-server-1.5.3-6 This release was rebuilt with libXfont-1.3.4 to fix the reported problems with the builtin fonts. Yaakov Cygwin/X DOWNLOAD: = Note that

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libXfont-1.3.4-1

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The following package has been updated in the Cygwin net distribution: *** libXfont1-1.3.4-1 *** libXfont-devel-1.3.4-1 This is a version bump, which includes a fix for builtin fonts reloading after server reset. Yaakov Cygwin/X DOWNLOAD:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-util-macros-1.2.1-1

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The following package has been updated in the Cygwin net distribution: *** xorg-util-macros-1.2.1-1 This is a version update, which will be required for building X.Org packages from now on. Yaakov Cygwin/X DOWNLOAD: = Note that

Re: Problems with X surfaced recently

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: (thank you for your responses...) Cygwin-X questions go to the cygwin-xfree list. --- I thought the lists were being merged because there was next to zero traffic on the X-cygwin list? Did that plan fall by the wayside? Besides, I wasn't sure if there was some

Re: can't start xterm

On Feb 5, 2009, at 2:30 PM, Ryan Stewart rds6...@gmail.com wrote: I had been using the startxwin.bat to start X in multiwindow mode, and I have a couple of lines in there to auto-start some xterm windows. That doesn't work anymore. The X server starts, but no xterms appear. When I right click