Re: re cygwin/X for connecting to X sessions of Redhat 8

2005-01-19 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Raman wrote: > Hi > > I recently downloaded and installed cygwin/X Setup.exe - X11 related > files. When i run cygwin.bat i get a bash shell prompt. I followed the > instructions given in the manual to run X. My installation doesnot > contain a XWin.exe file, but I do have

Re: xterm error

2005-01-19 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Guy Przytula wrote: > I upgraded my cygwin and xterm. now when starting xterm I get the > message cygx11-6.dll could not be found, although this file is present > in file structure of cygwin. Any setting that has to be changed. Any > changes between release ? xterm move

Re: XWin hangs

2005-01-14 Thread Alexander Gottwald
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My xwin hangs after the following line > > Using preset keyboard for > Rules = .. > > - Then I find there are 2 XWin processes and one xterm process. > > after killing the the one XWin process > I get thsi > Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre=XKB key ma

Re: XOrg 6.8.2 RC2 cygwin packages

2005-01-14 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Alexander Gottwald wrote: > Hi, > > I've prepared cygwin packages for XORG 6.8.2 RC2. > > RC2 means release candidate and is not a version for productive work > but for testing the changes for the next release. The packages are now available from the main cygwin distributi

Re: XOrg 6.8.2 RC2 cygwin packages

2005-01-13 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Christopher Faylor wrote: > Why not just mark these as "test" in the setup.hint and upload them > to sourceware.org? Hm. No real reason. I think I'll change this tomorrow. I just wanted to avoid editing the setup.hint files but after testing the download from the site I noticed the problems with

Re: XWin/xdmcp fails after PC domain change

2005-01-13 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Greg Dotts wrote: > I could sure use some help solving a problem with my Cygwin/X (on MS XP > Pro SP1 -> Fedora 2 xdmcp connection. > > > xwin -query 192.168.1.1 > > Any help would be appreciated and I've RTFM'd and searched the archives. ;-) Have you tried the -from parameter? This tells XWin w

XOrg 6.8.2 RC2 cygwin packages

2005-01-13 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Hi, I've prepared cygwin packages for XORG 6.8.2 RC2. RC2 means release candidate and is not a version for productive work but for testing the changes for the next release. To install the packages, start setup.exe and use http://www.freedesktop.org/~ago/cygwin as mirror and install the xorg-x11-

Re: XDMCP title VPN AT&T dialer

2005-01-13 Thread Alexander Gottwald
aroushdi wrote: > I have another request for you to evaluate ( I do not know how easy to > implement ) . > I am opening more than one session so I have on the taskbar as well as > the title bar the hostname . Would appreciate if we have in the command > line something like -comments "min 16bytes"

Re: XWin warning messages

2005-01-11 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Herbert Eppel wrote: > I wonder whether someone could shed some light on the warning messages I > get when I start up an XWin environment under Cygwin. > > All I would like to know really is whether any of the messages are cause > for concern and whether I need to take some

Re: Xlib: unexpected async reply

2005-01-10 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Mordechay Ochayon wrote: > Not likely. > > I took the HD from this machine , and connect it to a machine with a similar > hardware and still I'm getting the same error. network does not only involve the cables but the drivers and some software like VPN, firewalls and stuff

Re: keyhook is not letting win key or alt-tab in

2005-01-10 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Nachiketa Sahoo wrote: > This email is just a reminder for "ago". > > The keyhook option should let the keys like win, alt-tab and menu into > the X session, to the x apps. But, it's not happening. > > I am using 6.8.1.0-8 version of Xwin. And I started the XWin using the > f

Re: Xlib: unexpected async reply

2005-01-10 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Mordechay Ochayon wrote: > Hi. > > When I try to run Xterm , I'm getting this error message : > > Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x61)! > X Error of failed request: BadLength (poly request too large or internal > Xlib l > ength error) > Major opcode of failed req

Re: Problem connecting to XDM

2005-01-07 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Rumble, Phil wrote: > Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from > li > st! > winPointerWarpCursor - Discarding first warp: 509 345 > XDM: too many retransmissions, declaring session dead Check the FAQ. Most likely xdm is configured to ignor

Re: Starting XWin problems

2005-01-02 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Luke Bratch wrote: > The last line I see in the command prompt is: > > "Rules = "xorg" Model = "pc105" Layout = "gb" Variant > = "(null)" Options = "(null)"" > > The FAQ says this could be a Zone Alarm problem, but I > don't use this. ^^ Does this mean you have it disabled or you ev

Re: Xwin.log question

2004-12-30 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, VandenBosch, Richard wrote: > > 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 This one is rather old!

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 -- [EMA

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

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

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: setup.exe hanging

2004-12-28 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Peter Bismuti wrote: > Whenever I run setup, it always hangs at a point where it says it is 99% > finished and displays the filename > > Running > no package > /etc/postinstalls/libgnome2.sh > > THe "progress" dialog shows that it is in the middle of installing this > pack

Re: not loading gnome packages

2004-12-27 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Peter Bismuti wrote: > cygwin isn't loading gnome packages/programs such as gnome-terminal. Only a few gnome packages are availbale in the cygwin distribution. Check http://cygnome.sourceforge.net for non official gnome packages. bye ago NP: Dekoy - Shoot To Kill -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XWin hangs upon text selection [error: clipboard does not contain CF_TEXT nor CF_UNICODETEXT]

2004-12-26 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Saurabh Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > > I installed Cygwin/X on my PC running WinME, on > Dec-24-2004 using setup.exe. For some reason XWin > just hangs / freezes (almost) everytime I select text > in an xterm running bash shell. > > I did search the FAQ and the mailing lists. I found > some postings

Re: Having XP and KDE desktops togather

2004-12-26 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Vinod Gupta wrote: > One easy solution would be to startup xwin with slightly reduced sized > root window. Is there any way to set screen size, say 90% of the > available real-estate? Not directly. you could query the desktop size with a small program, calculate 90% of the

Re: Having XP and KDE desktops togather

2004-12-23 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Vinod Gupta wrote: > Thanks Igor and Alexander. "run XWin -nodecoration" works fine > for me. I think this should be the default in the startxwin > script included in the Cygwin/Xfree86 distro. No. The default is aimed at users who want to use Cygwin/X as xserver for running

Re: Having XP and KDE desktops togather

2004-12-22 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > Any suggestions to make both desktops co-exist? > > Try omitting the -multiwindow parameter. Please note that in conjunction with run.exe you will have to specify at least -nodecoration. "run XWin" will hide the mainwindow. Other working modes

Re: Cannot Start XFree version 4.4.0

2004-12-22 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Terrence White wrote: > I have cygwin installed, and now I am installing XFree 4.4.0. The current version is xorg-x11 6.8.1. XFree 4.4 is not supported anymore and very outdated. I recommend to install the xorg-x11 packages from cygwin setup as outlined in the cygwin-x users

Re: "Can't open display - Failed initializing GUI, exiting"

2004-12-22 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Smagul wrote: > Dear cygwin-xfree people, > > I am trying to compile xmgrace and to run under Cygwin. I have already > compiled it > successfully on my PC with my WindowsME. However, I could not get it to run > on > Cygwin. When I type xmgrace, am getting ERROR message > > "

Re: xwin hangs at startup - no xterm display

2004-12-21 Thread Alexander Gottwald
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I do not zonealarm but windows sp2. the behavior is the same even when I turn > the built in firewall off > > I get the following error in XWin.log > > _XSERVTransmkdir: ERROR: euid != 0, directory /tmp/.X11-unix will not be > created The FAQ states this is not an er

Re: xwin hangs at startup - no xterm display

2004-12-21 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hello: > my xwin used to work. but now it does not work. > > when I do > /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh > > it simplly hangs. No xterm. > > I removed old cygwin installation and replaced with complete new install. > still the same behavior. > > iany

Re: Full install on XP hangs at /etc/X11/abb-defaults/Bitmap

2004-12-20 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Greg Schussman wrote: > Hi. > > I've just tried to do a full install of cygwin/X on Windows XP. The > install hangs at 90%, saying: > > Installing > > xorgx-x11-etc-6.8.180.1 > > /etc/X11/app-defaults/Bitmap > > > When I look at the file structure, etc/X11/app-defaults

Re: Does anyone else get these blank failed deliveries?

2004-12-17 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Chris Green wrote: > It's something more subtle than the usual though as it is definitely > only happening when I send mail to the Cygwin/X list, one of these > "Returned mail:" errors for each message I send to the list. Hm. I had did not get the response when sending to the

Re: Does anyone else get these blank failed deliveries?

2004-12-17 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Chris Green wrote: > Every time I send a message to the Cygwin/X list I get an empty bounce > with the following headers:- > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Dec 17 15:53:40 2004 > From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Returned mail: User unkno

Re: I've lost cut and paste - any ideas why?

2004-12-17 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Chris Green wrote: > On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 04:13:59PM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > > winProcEstablishConnection - Hello > > winProcEstablishConnection - Xdmcp enabled, waiting to start clipboard > > client un > > til fourth call. >

Re: I've lost cut and paste - any ideas why?

2004-12-17 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Kensuke Matsuzaki wrote: > Hi, > > > If your environment on the other end is a UTF-8 locale, then some of the > > selections will use a UTF-8 string. I don't know offhand if the Cygwin/X > > server supports that, but the clients don't since Cygwin doesn't support > > UTF-8 l

Re: I've lost cut and paste - any ideas why?

2004-12-17 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Chris Green wrote: > I have lost the ability to cut and paste between my slackware Linux > desktop and the Windows 2000 system on which I'm running Cygwin/X. > > It used to work until recently and the only thing I can think of that > has changed is that I have upgraded the Sl

Re: How to launch kde from ssh correctly?

2004-12-17 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Mike Kenny - BCX - Professional Services JHB wrote: > > > Sorry if this is a dumb question, please don't reply with a dumb answer > :-) > > I want to use ssh to connect to a linux system and then be able to use > KDE to access my applications. So far using ssh -X 192.168.1

Re: Not able to Get a Remote Machine after export of display

2004-12-17 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Krishna Bhushan K wrote: > Hi All, > > This is regarding a problem faced while using Cygwin. > I am not able to open Xterm from a remote machine > after setting the remote > DISPLAY variable to the local one. > > Following are the entries in my startxdmcp.bat: > > SET DISP

Re: default font size

2004-12-16 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Josef Dalcolmo wrote: > Hello, > > the default font size within the xterm, that comes up on the default > installation of Cygwin is tiny. I would generally prefer a larger size. How > do I increase the font size? (there is no XF86Config file any more). select another font

Re: Problems with ssh and X

2004-12-16 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Dr Christian Hicks wrote: > The remote machine is running SunOs 5.7 on a sparc SUNW,Ultra-4. When doing X11Forwarding the DISPLAY variable should point to localhost:10.0 (or higher numbers) or is unset if X11Forwarding does not work. In your case it is set to remotehost:0.0 w

Re: Problems with ssh and X

2004-12-16 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Dr Christian Hicks wrote: > First, please accept my apologies for send my message > to the wrong list. Thanks to Igor for suggesting the > FAQ list. I have now tried: > > ssh -Y -l username remotemachine > > I now get the error message: > > connect 212.159.18.214 port 6000

Re: Problem starting X

2004-12-13 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > It may be overkill, but you're welcome to use the code in cygwin's > winsup/autoload.cc. It does dynamic loading of library entry points and can > be configured to just return 0 on failure rather than pop up the annoying > dialog. Once you define

Re: Problem with Run.exe to start xwin.exe

2004-12-13 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Martin Gill wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having problem starting xwin using the startxwin batch file. > > When I run xwin from the file with > > run xwin > > the systray icon appears, and everything seems to work, but I don't see > my x desktop. > > If i run xwin from a command

Re: Building debug symbols

2004-12-13 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Sebastian Haby wrote: > Hello again! > > I followed your steps but what i get is a 13MB big XWin.exe and not a retail > XWin.exe and a debug-symbols file. What am I doing wrong? The binary contains both code and debug symbols. To move them to a separate file use objcopy -

RE: Problem starting X

2004-12-13 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Mark Fisher wrote: > > I've already created a patch which loads the function dynamicly from the > dll. > > great, I was just looking at how to do exactly that > after seeing that detecting windows versions isn't the > best way to go about it. Actually it's a set of LoadLibra

RE: Problem starting X

2004-12-13 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Mark Fisher wrote: > hmm, according to > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/gdi/monitor > _82yb.asp > it's available from win98 onwards, and windows 2000 onwards, so > yes, looks like win95 and winNT not supported. > > I'll have a go at patching

Re: Problem starting X

2004-12-13 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Mats Jansson wrote: > Hello, > > I hope someone could help me with the following: > > Some days ago I installed Cygwin 1.5.12 on NT4 SP6, I didn't install > X-startup-scripts, but I was able to start X with XWin.exe. Yesterday, I > installed X-startup-scripts (I guess I go

RE: configuring X, backspace, ....

2004-12-13 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Lino Miguel Martins Tinoco wrote: > Nope. One thing more: if there's no .inputrc with the mappings (like in the > FAQ), the ç do a ls, otherwise it prints te octal value of the symbol I > define on .inputrc. quite strange. I've no special mapping for ç but get it displayed

RE: configuring X, backspace, ....

2004-12-13 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Lino Miguel Martins Tinoco wrote: > I've got portuguese keyboard layout, no error messages reported on > /tmp/Xwin.log. If I use any editor I get those symbols right. I've tried also > some different keyboard models with xmodmap (102, 105 and 106 keys, all PT > layouts), bu

RE: configuring X, backspace, ....

2004-12-13 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Lino Miguel Martins Tinoco wrote: > I've the same problem, but with the çÇ´`ªº symbols! Tried the solutions on > the faq but nothing. If I it the Ç key twice, I get a ls. Same procedure: What does xev report? Which keyboard layout are you using? bye ago -- [EMAIL

Re: Building debug symbols

2004-12-13 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Sebastian Haby wrote: > Hey! > I'm still tracking down that bug that makes my X crash, and I've been > debugging using a debug build of XWin, however now I want to debug using a > normal build but I need to know how to build a debug-symbols file to use with > gdb? Add this

Re: [Fwd: configuring X, backspace, ....]

2004-12-13 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > No Norwegian characters, no cntrl-Z or cntrl-D (can't stop jython > > interperter), backspace is /b(8) syntax error, > > > > Attempted solutions. > > > > I generated the appropriate key mappings with xkeycaps but xmodmap > > Xmodmap.no d

Re: cygwin/x installation issue

2004-12-13 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, ZeruelX of Zinj wrote: > When installing Cygwin, selecting the "xorg-x11-base" package automatically > selects a bunch of packages that you need. But somehow it doesn't seem to > select the "X-startup-scripts" package that is also listed as required. > Without this, you c

Re: linux xemacs, cygwin x - make-frame-visible, raise-frame, etc. broken

2004-12-11 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Bryan M. Kramer wrote: > The problem is that functions like raise-frame and make-frame-visible > do not work at all. Am I missing a setting somewhere or is cygwin xwin > broken? This has been already reported but so far no emacs user has come up with a solution to this probl

Re: XDMCP Woes + Solaris

2004-12-10 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Mark Reis wrote: > Hello, > > I've been banging my head up against a wall trying to get XDMCP working > with two solaris machines. > > > Setup: > > Machine 1: Solaris 9 - The 9/02 build - not a lot of patches have been > applied to bring it to the current level. > > Mach

Re: rxvt starts in background

2004-12-10 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Bruno Schneidhuber wrote: > Hello, > > I have a problem with staring a rxvt from a remote machine with DISPLAY set > to a > cygwin-Win-XP-computer. The rxvt starts at the bottom of the windowlist. That > means, that I can't see the rxvt until I click at the taskbar at the acc

Re: q: Xwin -clipboard over xdmcp with gdm

2004-12-10 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Chan Kar Heng wrote: > greetings. > > clipboard stops working with gdm over xdmcp. > (works on local X connection). > may i know if this's fixed yet? > (doesn't seem like it's fixed; i tried). > > i've dug around & found something related to gdm.conf > & killinitclients (or

RE: [Patch] Starting X on different monitors

2004-12-08 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Mark Fisher wrote: > Thanks! > > Glad I could help. Thanks for putting me right on the style > and fixing the bugs. > > Anything else need doing? > Is there a bug list / wish list I could see if I could > tackle? There is a todo list on the website. http://x.cygwin.com/devel

Re: [Patch] Starting X on different monitors

2004-12-08 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Mark Fisher wrote: > This is my first patch, so I've created it for the two files updated > (winprocarg.c and InitOutput.c). > I've tried to keep the format the same as already there, I'm using > emacs in C mode, so if the spacing is weird, blame that :) > > It works fine here

Re: dependency problem in font hint files

2004-12-07 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > Alexander, > While attempting to install X on a system that was badly out of date, I > got a number of "Unable to find cygfontconfig.dll" errors. I assume > that this is due to the fact that the font pacakges rely on fontconfig > but that wasn't ref

Re: FW: Update links to ViewCVS

2004-12-06 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Mark Fisher wrote: > Hi, > > Can someone update the viewcvs links on http://x.cygwin.com/devel/server/ > please? > The initial subdir "xorg" is missing and causes a view cvs error page on the > links given. done. Thanks for reporting it. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: Starting X on a second monitor - kludge that works

2004-12-06 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Thomas Chadwick wrote: > [snip] > > >-screen [EMAIL PROTECTED] which means a window of size 800x600 on monitor 2 > > Seems to me it's logical if the behavior is such that "-screen 0 $W $H" > opens on the primary monitor, while "-screen 1 $W $H" opens on the secondary > moni

RE: Starting X on a second monitor - kludge that works

2004-12-06 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Mark Fisher wrote: > excellent. > my only query now is how do I programaticaly find out > the offset of my second monitor, as I have it slightly > raised from the primary, as opposed to simply placed side > by side. the windows function EnumDisplayMonitor will let you iterate

Re: Xfree86 Removed Packages

2004-12-05 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Aicha Said(ACES) wrote: > Dear all, > > I have installed cygwin but I realised that all Xfree86 package has been > removed, I didn't pay to much attention to that considering that X11 was > there. > But when I type the startx command I only have a black X window coming up, > which doesn't seem ri

Re: _impure_ptr warning in install

2004-12-04 Thread Alexander Gottwald
george young wrote: > [Xwin 6.8.1.0-1, Windows XP pro 5.1, experienced with linux X, not a windows > or cygwin hacker] > > I just did a full uninstall of cygwin everything, using the setup program. > Then I installed: > [setup version 2.427, from mirror.mcs.anl.gov] > > base/ cygwin emu

RE: Starting X on a second monitor - kludge that works

2004-12-04 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Earle F. Philhower III wrote: > Nope, it doesn't yet. But adding it to XWin.exe should be a snap. > I think I still have CVS access, if I can get the src compiling this > weekend I'll do a commit unless AGO objects...Xwin hit such a high > quality level this year I've not needed to do anything wi

Re: OpenGL acceleration

2004-12-02 Thread Alexander Gottwald
David Lawler wrote: > Hello - Is there any kind of time frame for a release of Cygwin/X that will > support hardware accelerated OpenGL not just in the -multiwindow mode? Sorry. There is no timeframe yet. And I'm not sure if it is possible either. We'd have to work out the whole window stacking s

Re: Internal-wm/rootless observations

2004-12-02 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Alexander Gottwald wrote: > Maybe the odd window width is the problem. Thinking about it revealed that each pixmap line _must_ start at a boundary. assuming 8bit mode and a window with width 1 at (0, 0) pixmap starts at 0x100 screen base is at 0x100 (no problem) moving the pixmap by 4 pi

Re: Problems building X/Cygwin (no XpConfig)

2004-12-02 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Boris wrote: > For what it's worth, I thought a user's comments might be useful, even > if it's a criticism. Of course it is useful. The posting about missing XpConfig actually revealed a packaging problem which I've fixed now. But I have a problem with people who do not res

Re: Internal-wm/rootless observations

2004-12-01 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Torrey Lyons wrote: > I have been away on a long Thanksgiving vacation so I've been slow to > respond. No problem. I'm hunting this for some weeks already > In any case, the 16 bpp modes are problematic but I believe > we solved issues with them in the rootless code awhile

Re[2]: Problems building X/Cygwin (no XpConfig)

2004-12-01 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Igor Shmukler wrote: > Alex, > > I actually went to X.org and got latest release of X. > IMHO, cygwin documentation sucks. Same goes for the setup tool and packaging. > At least DLL still works. If maintainers (are there such individuals?) want > to know how these things can

Re: Cygwin X live on CD

2004-12-01 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Dick Repasky wrote: > > I've built a CD-ROM that runs Cygwin X live from CD in a modest Cygwin > environment. It's available at http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/. > > Briefly, I was messing around to build Cygwin on a USB flash drive and > posted to the Cygwin mailing list. Ferg

Re: Internal-wm/rootless observations

2004-12-01 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Kensuke Matsuzaki wrote: > Could you give me diff? I want to try that. Actually not. Most changes where done in gdb with "set var " ;) let's do it from memory: in winMWExtWMStartDrawing: hdcNew = CreateCompatibleDC (pRLWinPriv->hdcScreen); /* Descri

Re: Problems building X/Cygwin (no XpConfig)

2004-11-30 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Igor Shmukler wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to build X/Cygwin. > I installed the tools and used setup program to checkout the sources. > For some reason programs/Xserver/ directory does not have XpConfig branch. > I tried checking out from several alternative locations. > Build compains that the

Internal-wm/rootless observations

2004-11-30 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Hi all, After many days of debugging the internalwm code i finally found the actual problem. The rootless code wants the pixmap buffer aligned to 32bit boundaries. If the window width is odd and the xserver is run in 16bpp mode then this is no guaranteed and this leads the strange errors. Inter

Re: x clients outside of the bash shell?

2004-11-27 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Dan Crosta wrote: > Hi > > I was just wondering if it is possible to run x-windows clients outside of > the environment created by starting the cygwin bash shell... I have Bart > Kerver's XServer running (which is used by putty to handle X-forwarded > clients), but I'm wondering if there's a way t

Re: Newbie problem

2004-11-27 Thread Alexander Gottwald
m. z. wrote: > I made a full installation oj Cygwin, but when I double clicked on startxwin > just an X icon appeared on the Windows bar. > I read the cygwin-x user manual and I tried all the options for the XWin.exe > command. What I was expecting to obtain it was something similar to the > pictu

Re: Focus patch

2004-11-25 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Kensuke Matsuzaki wrote: > Hi, > > When I'm using -rootless or -internalwm, X's window looks like it is active > even if XWin isn't active. It's confusing. So I'm tring to fix that. > > With openbox, metacity and xfwm4, this patch works well. > But don't coorperate with wmak

Re: Yet another clipboard problem with SSH

2004-11-25 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Garry Jeromson wrote: > I'm using SSH to remotely login in to a Sun workstation to do university work, > and I can't copy and paste either way. Everything else I want to do works > fine, > I can run programs and save files and send emails, it's just the clipboard > that > do

Re: Trouble getting a windowed X

2004-11-24 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Henry Camacho wrote: > run X. > > The server starts but the windowed screen doesn't show up. > > *** Here is the bottomline question. How can I get an Xserver running when > I issue the command "X" and to have it detach from rxvt. *** > > I've tried to use XWin.exe with

Re: SocketCreateListner() failed

2004-11-23 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Sandeep & Prerna Gupta wrote: > > Hello, > > I have not explicitly installed any firewall, > This is a brand new Dell Laptop, they may have installed something by > default, > I will check into that -- > > BTW, Cygwin bash shell comes up OK, (just that without X, I cant

Re: fvwm2 key bindings

2004-11-23 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Frank Streitzig wrote: > xev output if i presses Alt+F5: > > KeyRelease event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x141, > root 0x3a, subw 0x0, time 35891765, (114,72), root:(180,93), > state 0x18, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe9, Alt_L), same_screen YES, > XLookupS

Re: fvwm2 key bindings

2004-11-23 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Frank Streitzig wrote: > Hello, > > i would like configure fvwm2. Only with the bindings of functions to meta > keys doesn't work. But by applications like emacs shortcut working > correct. > > If i define in .fvwm2rc or FvwmConsole: > > Key F4 A A Popup Logout > > is

Re: 1.5.12: using cygwin/x as non-administrator doesn't work

2004-11-23 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Tobias Munk wrote: > Using cygwin/x administrator works fine, but when I try to start it as > user, I get an error message - the log file XWin.log is attached at the > end of this mail. > > There is a similar mail concerning this issue in the archive, which > was posted a

Re: SocketCreateListner() failed

2004-11-22 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Sandeep & Prerna Gupta wrote: > > Thanks for looking into this. > /tmp/XWin.log is attached. Seems like a strange network problem. Do you have the Windows firewall or any other firewall activated? Cygwin/X must have access to the network. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTE

Re: startx with cygwin

2004-11-22 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Alexis Cothenet wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have a pb with startx with cygwin. > I have seen on the web the pb has ever been met. > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-03/msg00470.html > > I have installed Cygwin XFree86 on windows XP but i cannot see in > /usr or /etc

RE: Unable to launch openGL application on cygwin/X server from S un S olaris OS

2004-11-19 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Gautier, Valentin wrote: > Thanks for your help. > > I try to change windows colordepth but it doesn't do any change, and when I > launch XWin_GL with GLWIN_DUMP_PFD=1 , I can see that nothing is happening > when I try to launch my Solaris OpenGL application, nor there is any

Re: Problem with XWIN

2004-11-19 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I got your e-mail through xwin --help > > Sorry to bother you, but I'd like to make you know this problem I encounter > with xwin 6.8.1.0-5. > > I launch xwin with the following command line: > > xwin -fp tcp/193.42.232.134:7100 -xkblayo

Re: Unable to launch openGL application on cygwin/X server from Sun S olaris OS

2004-11-19 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Gautier, Valentin wrote: > I intend to use an openGL demo on my cygwin/X server XWin or XWin_GL from a > Solaris box. > > > I can't make it work at all. When I launch ogl_install_check, I get: > > bash-2.03$ /usr/openwin/demo/GL/ogl_install_check > /usr/openwin/demo/GL/spa

Re: SocketCreateListner() failed

2004-11-19 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Sandeep & Prerna Gupta wrote: > > Hi, > > I am trying to install Cygwin 6.8.1.0-5 on a Windows XP Home Ed. Version > 5.1 > cygwin bash shell comes up OK, but startx command fails with > Fatal server error: > Cannot establish any listening sockets - > > The log says XWin

Re: Reconnect to X session

2004-11-18 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Junkmail wrote: > I want to be able to connect, disconnect & reconnect the same as VNC. This is not possible with X11. > I can, and do use, VNC however the issue is that the Linux box runs at > 800x600 due to an old monitor while my XP Pro dekstop runs at 1900x1220. I > want

Re: GLX acceleration

2004-11-17 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Lester Ingber wrote: > Yes, XWin_GL seems to run OK, though I have not seen any dramatic > speedup yet. glxgears shows the fps and has a dramatic speedup. > It is likely that part of this may be due to memory problems I seem to be > having in the latest xorg downloads, with XWin and now also wit

Re: GLX acceleration?

2004-11-16 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Lester Ingber wrote: > In an effort to get better performance on my ThinkPad/XPPRo I'm > considering adding the "experimental" GLX acceleration module offered > under setup. Is anyone using this? I've tested it with some programs including the glut suite. Some of the glut

Re: WMaker 0.90 broken?

2004-11-16 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Mark Paulus wrote: > Well, it does seem to be a font issue. I used > setup, and did a re-install of a couple of x11 font packages > and everthing seems to be working just fine. > > On a side note, ipc-daemon2 does not seem to provide whatever > is needed by MIT-SHM, as I get

Re: WMaker 0.90 broken?

2004-11-16 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Mark Paulus wrote: > Xlib: extension "MIT-SHM" missing on display ":0.0". Does window maker require SHM? Maybe you should consider running cygserver for shared memory support. > wmaker warning: could not load font: > helvetica:slant=0:weight=100:pixelsize=12. > wmaker warn

Re: Can't get startwin.bat to work

2004-11-15 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Mike McCollister wrote: > It works fine if I open it up using a cygwin shell. That is not the problem. > When I run form a Windows cmd and run startxwin.bat, it does not work. I've > tried to do it manually with this command: > > run XWin -clipboard -silent-dup-error > > no xwindow comes up with

Re: small window size and multiple windows not working

2004-11-15 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Nikolay NIKOLAEV wrote: > Dear Sirs, > I have the follwing problems: > when I start xwin the size of window is too small for me and I > can not make it larger (it is 1/4 of the size of the whole window). > I do not see well and I have a problems when I have to work > with xmr

Re: XWin -multiwindow and XEmacs/gnuclient -- cannot get autoraise

2004-11-13 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Harold Bamford wrote: > I tried this using XWin without the builtin window manager (using twm or mwm > as the window manager) and then autoraise seems to work. But this is not a > good environment for me as I need constant access to both the X windows and > the PC. > > I have done quite a bit of s

Re: Swiss keyboard layout support

2004-11-12 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Marc wrote: > I am using X/Cygwin, which I just updated, and there seems to be a problem > with the Swiss keyboard layout definition (at least the Swiss French). > > (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "100C" (100c) > (EE) Keyboardlayout "Swiss French" (100C) is unknown > > Note that the

Re: X11/Xlib.h missing

2004-11-12 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Jani Tiainen wrote: > Alexander Gottwald wrote: > > > > Please send the output of cygcheck -c and /var/log/setup.log (maybe only the > > part from the most recent install) as attachment. > > > > bye > > ago > > > Ex

Re: updating to latest cygwin broke X

2004-11-12 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Stephen More wrote: > I have been running cygwin with xorg 6.7.0 and it has been flawless. > Tonight I updated cygwin with all the latest packages. The update > displayed error: "mfw.exe Unable to Locate DLL". But at the end it > said it completed successfully. So I tried star

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