Re: request for new feature

2003-08-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 12:27:45PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 09:23:44AM -0700, java java wrote: What about Start-Run c:\cycygwinsusr11R6\bin\xterm -display :0 Thank you. This works, but an extra window pops up with title C:\cycygwinsusr11R6\bin\xterm.exexe

Zero length XFree86-base-4.3.0-1.tar.bz2

2003-08-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
Harold, Could you reupload the zero length XFree86-base file? If this is supposed to be empty then you need to create an empty tar archive not a zero length one. Thanks, cgf

Re: 'Wrong' dll names in 4.3.0-1 packages - breaks all 3rd party X apps

2003-08-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 03:58:46AM +0200, Ton van Overbeek wrote: In the 4.3.0-1 packages all dll's are named cygxxx-n.dll instead of libxxx.dll. All 3rd party apps look for e.g. libX11.dll, libICE.dll etc. That's interesting. What third party apps would be specifically linking to cygwin-xfree

Re: 'Wrong' dll names in 4.3.0-1 packages - breaks all 3rd partyX apps

2003-08-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 04:24:30AM +0200, Ton van Overbeek wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: That's interesting. What third party apps would be specifically linking to cygwin-xfree DLLs? Examples: gs.exe (ghostscript), xdvi.exe (from TeTeX), fvwm etc. Ok. I think your use of the term third

Re: Packaging question

2003-07-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 12:31:40PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote: We should be putting bin/*.dll in the bin package and lib/*.a in the prog package, correct? Wouldn't they go in a lib package? cgf

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 92

2003-07-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 11:44:42PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote: You can look at the XFree86-xserv entry in /etc/setup/installed.db. You can use grep to quickly see just the XFree86-xserv version: grep XFree86-xserv /etc/setup/installed.db cygcheck -c XFree86-xserv cgf

Re: compiling xterm from cvs

2003-07-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 11:16:53AM -0400, Hirsch, Matthew wrote: Hi list I would like to compile xterm with debugging symbols to get a better idea of how ptys can be used under Cygwin (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-07/msg01270.html). I got the source from CVS as described on

Re: X server crashed when Netscape 4 7 visiting sites

2003-07-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 03:40:16PM -, Joel Handler wrote: I just downloaded the entire Cygwin package and am experimenting around with it. I am running the cygwin X server and am ssh (tunneling X) to a linux machine and running either Netscape 4 or 7. Both seem to crash the X server

Re: XDM now working on cygwin to manage remote displays

2003-07-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 10:43:17AM +0100, Vince Hoffman wrote: Work remains to to fix authFile (change the colon character to something storeable on the NTFS filesystem) and to add ntsec setuid code to permit non-setuid-privilened user authentications. With the new (experimental) 1.5

[ADMINISTRIVIA] sources.redhat.com/gcc.gnu.org/cygwin.com moving this weekend

2003-07-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
The system will be moving to a new co-lo on Saturday so the IP address will be changing and there will be some downtime. I haven't been given exact times but I suspect that this will probably happen in late morning EST. I don't expect more than a couple of hours downtime at most. FYI, cgf --

Re: Donations link on cygwin-xfree website is broken

2003-06-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 03:00:20AM -0500, Drew S wrote: I think Andreas must've meant this page: http://cygwin.com/xfree/devel/ This has the problem in the body at line 199, where the link mentioned points to http:://xfree86.cygwin.com/donations.html instead of

Re: how to get 'make' to run

2003-06-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 10:47:02AM -0700, Christoph Rasche wrote: I installed cygwin using just the default options. The 'devel' package is supposed to be downloaded as default. The 'devel' package does not get downloaded by default. See the main cygwin web page for details. Btw, this has

Re: Problem with releases since -37

2003-06-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
] Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 7:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problem with releases since -37 On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 05:56:19PM -0400, Andrew Braverman wrote: Sorry. Missed that one. It is attached now. Doh. I was hoping that if I saw the cygwin version

Re: Problem with releases since -37

2003-06-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 03:16:48PM -0400, Andrew Braverman wrote: OK - I tried a few more experiments. I started to experiment outside of my scripts and got down to: XWin -multiwindow I ran an xterm on the Linux host using ssh I ran ddd. Xwin claimed to dump core (though I could not find

Re: taskbar and system tray menus

2003-06-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 09:38:55PM -, Earle F. Philhower, III wrote: It seems like there is a storm of nit-picking this week, must be something in the air. Anyhoo... That's usually a sign that a project is approaching stability and maturity and users are turning to other things. It seems

Re: Problem with releases since -37

2003-06-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 05:56:19PM -0400, Andrew Braverman wrote: Sorry. Missed that one. It is attached now. Doh. I was hoping that if I saw the cygwin version from the cygcheck output I would be able to figure out the stack dump but I've removed the debugging version of cygwin 1.3.22 that

Re: Help me analyze my configuration

2003-06-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 04:11:42PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Willem, Willem Riede wrote: On 2003.05.26 16:05, Harold L Hunt II wrote: I think I would keep the 8500DV but get a new motherboard instead. I had read before that the AGP support on that particular Iwill board was spotty, but

Re: Problem with Windows ME and InfoExpress VSClient VPN Softrware

2003-03-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 11:37:18AM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: That's great, but you forgot to describe the problem. It's interesting how someone has customers for cygwin-xfree, too, eh? cgf Stephen Seal wrote: Hi Karel: We were just alerted to this issue by another customer. I believe the

Re: Thanks for donations

2003-02-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 02:17:45PM +, Alan Hourihane wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 09:09:32 -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: To anyone who has made a donation: thanks! I was able to get a new 120 GB 7200 RPM hard drive for my Linux computer this weekend, which was a nice upgrade from my

Re: Big Problem about keyboard/mapping

2003-02-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
Go back to http://cygwin.com/lists.html and you'll see a specific mailing list for Cygwin/XFree86 questions. I am redirecting this message there. On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 11:57:04AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok. lets start by the system specs: i have here on my work several server, but now

Re: Big Problem about keyboard/mapping

2003-02-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 04:14:25PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: no you don't understanded my question, read all before starting redirect. look my main question! MAIN QUESTION: Last choice is modifying cygwin itself keymap to layout FI. So how i change that on cygwin CONSOLE?

Re: copy text from xterm to browser

2003-02-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 02:54:44PM +, David wrote: I get email which I view on my pc using a cygwin xterm. Wrong mailing list. Redirected. For junkmail, there usually is an unsubscribe line in the email like this: To unsubscribe just click on this link:

Re: xfs corrupt

2003-02-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 05:44:09PM +0100, Preu?, J?rgen wrote: Hi Readers, I'm trying to use XFree86/cygwin with fontserver. I've found it unusable. Starting xfs from bash console gives $ xfs _FontTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.font-unix should be set to root

Re: Pre-Installation Questions.

2003-02-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:20:46PM -0600, Magus wrote: How do I know I've got all of the correct versions of the requirements: bzip2, jpeg, libpng2, libxml2, libxslt, openssl, pcre, and zlib? I installed all of Cygwin and my startx -v says it's XFree86 4.2.0(165). I'm running on Windows 98 SE.

Re: What do people use xfree86 for? [cgf]

2003-02-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 12:26:28AM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: You wanna ban this troll? Done. FWIW, the pathetic little idiot tried three times to send his inarticulate response before he hit on the clever plan of masquerading as you. I'll be sending a complaint to his ISP about this. cgf

Re: Cannot run ssh...

2003-01-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 08:29:58AM +0100, Sylvain Petreolle wrote: you must install the openssl package. see http://www.cygin.com/packages Which should, of course, have already been installed automatically if you run the normal cygwin install. I'm redirecting this to the proper mailing list. I

Re: fatal IO error 104:

2003-01-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 07:53:30PM -0600, Aldi Kraja wrote: Hi, I Open x windows: three open by default. I connect with one of them through ssh to a server. After some work I exit from each window with exit. Cygwin at the end it reports a problem: The problem: XIO: fatal IO error 104

Re: howdo I

2003-01-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 11:39:29PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - I got the cygwin disk from Edmunds; it installed nicely, but does not seem to contain the XWindows system. Um, what's Edmunds? ...googling... Hmm. A Cygwin CD. How novel. Is there anyway to buy this on CD? I only have a

Re: Crash on startup - debugging info

2003-01-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 02:47:31AM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Okay, there are at least two problems happening in XWin.exe. The first problem is totally unrelated to the new multiwindow mode. The problem is, if you startup XWin.exe in gdb, a call to fchown causes a SIGSEGV on every single

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 71 [DEBUG BUILD]

2003-01-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
your results to this mailing list. Thanks for testing, Harold -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 10:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 71 [DEBUG BUILD

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 71 [DEBUG BUILD]

2003-01-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 08:14:47AM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: JS, Looks like we might have a pthreads problem, but I need you to run the new debug build below before I can tell: There have been some pthreads fixes in the latest snapshot if anyone wants to give that a try. cgf

Re: Please consider!

2003-01-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
Shame on me. Shall I induce more cat scratches? I bled a little already this morning. At 12:22 2003-01-13, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 12:08:13PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: It do, but it not perfect. Is there perfect spam filter? spamassassin didn't catch

Re: new runtime pseudo-reloc in cygwin 1.3.18

2002-12-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 04:53:21PM +, Alan Hourihane wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 10:23:22PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 01:40:50AM +, Alan Hourihane wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 09:49:15 +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote: But some programs (xedit

Re: new runtime pseudo-reloc in cygwin 1.3.18

2002-12-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 01:40:50AM +, Alan Hourihane wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 09:49:15 +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote: But some programs (xedit, viewres, xmessage) report an runtime error Error: Unresolved inheritance operation , just tried the binaries on my w2k box and it

Re: remove separate xfree directories from ftp download?

2002-12-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 09:38:56PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: I cleaned it up. There was a lot of crap that was not being used, but the one directory that is left, devel, is still needed. Thanks a lot Harold. Hard to believe in this day and age but we are running out of disk space on this

remove separate xfree directories from ftp download?

2002-12-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
Would it be possible to remove the xfree directory in the ftp area on sources.redhat.com? Can't we just use the mechanisms available with cygwin's setup and put test releases in the setup hierarchy? At the very least could we get rid of some of the older files from that directory? cgf

Re: XDMCP on Windows 95

2002-12-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 04:33:26PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: I am not understanding why your response was appropriate. The default port for XDM has nothing to do with Microsoft, unless Microsoft has decided to use port 177 for one of their products. If that was the case, then a simple

Re: XDMCP on Windows 95

2002-12-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 04:05:00AM +0100, Sylvain Petreolle wrote: That's exactly what I have read in Alexander's answer: = Why this port? The default port is 177. Excuse me. Um, that was a private message. Poor netiquette, there. cgf

Re: cygwin GNOME 1.4 binary packages

2002-11-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 10:07:13AM +0800, Huang. wrote: And to cygwin-developers list, when will cygwin1.dll have full setlocale and mbstowcs series support? I'm not sure why I always have to make this point but here goes: New features get added by people who care to add them. There is no

Re: Hey hey, I now have the emacs 100% cpu usage bug too [CGF, this one is for you]

2002-11-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 07:51:59PM +, David Starks-Browning wrote: Harold, I identify the latest snapshot without the problem here: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-11/msg00654.html And, for the record, David reports that the *latest* snapshot seems to solve his problem. Note that

Re: Hey hey, I now have the emacs 100% cpu usage bug too [CGF, this one is for you]

2002-11-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 03:46:09PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: On a side note, I didn't see an answer to my question about why the cygwin1.dll version number does not agree with the cygwin package version number (1.3.15-1 vs. 1.3.15-2, respectively). Is setup.exe goofing, was the version

Re: Hey hey, I now have the emacs 100% cpu usage bug too [CGF, this one is for you]

2002-11-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 08:34:00PM +, David Starks-Browning wrote: On Friday 15 Nov 02, Christopher Faylor writes: Note that there were multiple snapshots generated yesterday so if you grabbed one and it didn't work, it's worthwhile to grab the latest. Multiple versions dated 2002-11-14

Re: xfree leaking memory?

2002-11-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 09:07:56PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 05:00:55PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: It was mentioned that the memory size increased when a new X window (such as an xterm) is opened, but that it does not decrease when that window is destroyed

Re: cygpcre.dll is missing

2002-11-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 03:19:03PM +0100, Michael Schyllberg wrote: When trying to install xfree86 for the first time on my xp-machine I get an error message that cygpcre.dll is missing. Where do I get this file? Is it a part of Cygwin? http://cygwin.com/packages/ cgf

Re: Searching on Mailing list and Update on fvwm2 for cygwin

2002-11-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
This isn't an issue for the cygwin mailing list. We actually have a mailing list for Cygwin XFree86 issues. I've redirected this email there. I'll also be blocking this subject from future helpful followups in cygwin at cygwin dot com. On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 06:01:01PM -0600, markem wrote:

Re: Xwin.exe application failed to initialize errors with KDE

2002-11-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:28:16PM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I then installed KDE2.2.2.1 ( I had errors when using the setup.exe download tool, so I downloaded the *.bz2 files by hand and extracted them like the instructions said to do), and now XWin.exe and

[franl@world.std.com: Anyone want a Windows bitmap font version of the X11 6x10 font?]

2002-11-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
Redirected to correct mailing list. - Forwarded message from Francis Litterio [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Francis Litterio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Anyone want a Windows bitmap font version of the X11 6x10 font? Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 09:07:48 -0500

Re: xfree leaking memory?

2002-11-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 05:00:55PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: It was mentioned that the memory size increased when a new X window (such as an xterm) is opened, but that it does not decrease when that window is destroyed. This indicates one of a few things to me: 1) We are not freeing our

Re: Randall, please don't post here

2002-11-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 06:47:43PM -0500, Keith D. Tyler wrote: I'm not sure that this list has collectively determined whether this is a Cygwin/XFree *discussion* list, or a Cygwin/XFree *development* list. From http://cygwin.com/lists.html # cygwin-xfree: a list for discussion of all things

Re: how does xwin resolve ip addresses (fwd)

2002-11-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 11:31:26PM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote: And it got cancelled again. The patch is no longer attached and will be sent by pm after explicit request. Let's all say it together Subscribers to a mailing list are not subjected to spam blocking. Your email was blocked

Re: XWin.exe crashes

2002-11-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 01:26:36PM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote: It didn't sound like the xkbcomp problem would be solved by linking with automode.o. Since that was reading a binary file, it would need to be linked with binmode.o. xkbcomp

Re: XWin.exe crashes

2002-11-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 04:10:28PM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote: Alexander Gottwald wrote: Sven K?hler wrote: good hint, now it works why? what's the problem using text-mounts with XWin? either xkbcomp or XWin opens the file in the wrong mode (they do not specify if the data is

Re: XWin.exe crashes

2002-11-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 11:00:09PM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Maybe everything in Cygwin/XFree86 should be linked with /usr/lib/binmode.o? What about compilers (as xkbcomp) they read a textfile and write a binary file. What happens if input is textfile on text

Re: XWin.exe crashes

2002-11-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 10:58:16PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Yup, automode.o is what XWin.exe has been linking with for quite some time now. This fixed all the problems with the fonts directory not being mounted in binmode. It would be a pain to change all X binaries to link automode.o,

Re: Updated on sourceware: xfree86-xserv-4.2.0-15

2002-10-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 10:03:06PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote: 3) Include an initial rootless mode with X Shape Extension support. (MATSUZAKI Kensuke) I just wanted to say that this is really really cool. I've been waiting for the official release of this and it is really amazing. I love the

Re: Cannot start X server

2002-10-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 11:06:01AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Sorry for the cross-post, but I feel it's relevant to both lists... We should move any resulting discussion to one of them (probably [EMAIL PROTECTED]). On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 11

Re: Cannot start X server

2002-10-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 11:11:19AM -0600, Andrew Grimm wrote: This is not really an XFree problem, rather it is a global Cygwin issue caused by a policy change that took most people by surprise. Sounds like most people need to read the cygwin release announcements a little more closely rather

Re: cygwin-xfree Digest 1 Oct 2002 19:15:48 -0000 Issue 887

2002-10-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 12:37:15PM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: At 09:37 2002-10-03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PREHow do i unsubscribe from this list ...please some one tell me. i didn't intentionally sign on to this list my younger brother tricked me into it. Sorry for your inconvinence..to

Re: new subscriber

2002-09-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 03:36:47PM -0500, Lane, Frank L wrote: My first post. I tried to get the faq and list info and the listbot told me they weren't available. I'm sorry but I don't know what this means. What told you that the FAQ was unavailable? Links for the FAQ and list information for

Re: new subscriber

2002-09-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 11:29:22PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christopher, I think because the mailbot gives this bit of information when you sign up: Send mail to the following for info and FAQ for this list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you try it you get: Hi! This is

Re: where is gcc?

2002-09-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
[redirecting to the correct mailing list] On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 11:00:23PM -0400, guydosh wrote: I installed cygwin 1.3.12-2 but cannot invoke gcc. It is not in /usr/bin - am I doing something wrong? That would indicate that you didn't actually install gcc. Go back to the cygwin web page

Re: Screen size question

2002-09-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
Redirecting to the correct mailing list. On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 11:26:20PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi All People Can I issue following command to regulate the screen size at starting cygwin. # Xwin -query 192.168.0.XXX -screen aa x bb aa = width of screen in inches bb = height of screen

Re: xwinclip - update and motif clipboard

2002-09-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 11:32:18PM -0400, Harold Hunt wrote: Chris, I thank you for putting so much time into developing xwinclip. I really appreciate that you got the long-awaited setjmp lngjmp functionality implemented so that we are not killed upon X Server shutdown and restart. I don't

Re: Window Maker crashing

2002-09-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
Redirected to correct mail list. cgf On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 05:36:02PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tracked down what seemed to be a spreading problem of unchanged machines getting crashes like this from Window Maker in X: cpp: not found wmaker error: error reading from file

Re: Bug (minor): xfree86 loses state of caps lock

2002-08-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
Redirected to the correct mailing list. On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 10:05:56AM -0700, ZAWE (Zasha Weinberg) wrote: I'm running XFree86 on cygwin under Windows 2000 (output of cygcheck is below) and have come accross the following minor bug: it is possible to make XFree86 think that the caps lock

Re: help: script to launch x-win and then do something in x-win

2002-08-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've redirected this to the proper mailing list. On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 09:57:02AM -0400, hongxun lee wrote: i was trying to make the script work, but it didn't run as i expected. Before x-win lauch process was finished, the following commands were finished already in Bash-window, rather than

Re: QT2 ready for ITP?

2002-08-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 01:35:34PM +0100, Ralf Habacker wrote: Since I don't accept the word of every person with a web site out there who thinks they are compliant with the GPL, I don't see why I should accept the words of a screen. Is there an independent corroboration of this anywhere?

Re: QT2 ready for ITP?

2002-07-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 08:00:59AM -0700, Nicholas Wourms wrote: in the QPL. What bugs me is the word Unix. Cygwin is not Unix but it's... well, some sort of plug in to Windows, isn't it? I hate to say that. Again, I must point out that the core QT/Win32 API is a totally different

Re: QT2 ready for ITP?

2002-07-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 07:51:08AM -0700, Nicholas Wourms wrote: --- Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 11:14:50AM +0200, Ralf Habacker wrote: Any comments ? Are there any licensing issues with qt? Is the open source license compliant with cygwin's

Re: problems with xfree

2002-07-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 10:13:37AM +0100, Stuart Adamson wrote: 3) within the first few hours of usage, I ran a find / -name abc -print from the command-line, and my trusty Windows 2000 box restarted. If that crashed your windows box then that sounds like a bug in either Windows 2000 or

Re: replies to xfree

2002-07-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 10:46:43AM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: Dennis, http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 05:23 2002-07-22, Dennis Foreman wrote: Shouldn't replies to a list automatically go to the list? My

Re: Bug in startxwin.bat after installing with setup.exe in win98SE

2002-07-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 07:44:51AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: As for linefeed issues, AFAIK windows will process bat files with unix format, but you could always use d2u in your script. I don't think Windows 9x systems will understand bat files with unix line endings. cgf (boy what a strange

Re: Bug in startxwin.bat after installing with setup.exe in win98SE

2002-07-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 05:17:47PM -0400, Harold L Hunt wrote: Oh great, you just took a religious war and told the heathens that they could fight too. :) I am inclined to let this issue work itself out without my involvement, other than to release a patched startxwin.bat if necessay. Oh sure,

Re: Slashdotting

2002-07-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 02:06:12PM -0400, Harold Hunt wrote: We have been Slashdotted, with a post that mentions that we are now easily installable via Cygwin's setup.exe: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/07/1227202mode=nestedtid=104 I'd like to express my thanks to all Cygwin/XFree86

Re: xfs (font server) crashes under cygwin. Anyone got it to work?

2002-07-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 05:01:33PM +1000, Greg Lane wrote: On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 01:51:39AM -0400, Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 03:10:33PM +1000, Greg Lane wrote: I have cc'ed this to Nicholas since I'd like to know what version of X he was running

Re: xfs (font server) crashes under cygwin. Anyone got it to work?

2002-07-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 05:01:52AM -0700, Nicholas Wourms wrote: Check your e-mail, I just e-mailed both you and greg an xfs.exe with debugging symbols. As for what version I'm running, it is the vanilla version that comes via setup.exe, a.k.a XFree86-4.2.0 on Cygwin 1.3.13-cygdaemon(special

Re: xfs (font server) crashes under cygwin. Anyone got it to work?

2002-07-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 12:47:15PM +1000, Greg Lane wrote: On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 04:35:07PM +0200, Alexander Gottwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a thought: How are the fonts mounted? Some programs don't like textmode files. G'day Alexander, I've only really got in to cygwin since

Re: xfs (font server) crashes under cygwin. Anyone got it to work?

2002-07-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 01:17:13PM +1000, Greg Lane wrote: Then I have tried pointing my font path to it (with xset fp= ...) from a number of sources 1) remote machine running freebsd 2) from cygwin x-server on the same machine 3) from XWinPro on the machine Can you send what, exactly, you are

Re: xfs (font server) crashes under cygwin. Anyone got it to work?

2002-07-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 02:24:13PM +1000, Greg Lane wrote: On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 11:57:55PM -0400, Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 01:17:13PM +1000, Greg Lane wrote: Then I have tried pointing my font path to it (with xset fp= ...) from a number

Re: xfs (font server) crashes under cygwin. Anyone got it to work?

2002-07-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
to cc anyone unless they expressly ask for it. On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 12:45:58AM -0400, Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. I'd never used the 'xset fp=' command before. Unfortunately, now that I've tried running things, the best I can do is confirm that it core dumps

Re: xfs (font server) crashes under cygwin. Anyone got it to work?

2002-07-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 01:51:39AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 03:10:33PM +1000, Greg Lane wrote: Can I just ask what Windows system you tried it on and what version of cygwin X you have? Earlier Nicholas said he had it running on Windows Me, but did not say what

Re: Local xterm x-client won't display/start

2002-07-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 09:53:12PM -0500, Rex Kidwell wrote: Sorry if this is ends being the UID/GID, USER/HOME directory, or font problem. If it is the first two then the just released version of cygwin, 1.3.12-1, should fix it. cgf

Re: cygwin1-20020701.dll from 1613 EDT still doesn't work with xterm

2002-07-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 04:15:18PM -0400, Harold L Hunt wrote: Huh... the subject says it all. Same error as before: setuid failed: Permission denied You know, xterm is calling perror (setuid failed)... so perror must know the last errno... ah, I don't know what else to say... Since I can't

Re: Progress? (again, please try a snapshot)

2002-07-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 04:41:42PM -0400, Harold L Hunt wrote: Chris, Hmm. If you do a: mount -f -X -b c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin /usr/X11R6/bin does the problem go away, perchance? I would expect it to. Tried it, didn't work. See below. Any other syntax hints? Yeah, if you are going

Re: cygwin1-20020701.dll from 1613 EDT still doesn't work with xterm

2002-07-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 05:16:00PM -0400, Harold L Hunt wrote: I actually took a look at the strace log and saw the problems with creating registry keys and I sent my email with that note before I read your email Yep, understood. I thought it was funny that I supposed something that actually

Re: xfree problem

2002-07-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 09:03:30PM -0400, Harold L Hunt wrote: Chris, Pierre, Oh yeah, and now ssh seems to be challenged by the 2043 EDT cygwin1-20020701.dll snapshot. Output follows. (Remote host ip obscured as all 0's for privacy). Harold Administrator@NUCFAC13 ~ $ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xfree problem

2002-07-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 09:43:14PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 09:03:30PM -0400, Harold L Hunt wrote: Chris, Pierre, Oh yeah, and now ssh seems to be challenged by the 2043 EDT cygwin1-20020701.dll snapshot. Output follows. (Remote host ip obscured as all 0's

Please try 2002-06-29 snapshot

2002-06-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
I just refreshed the 2002-06-29 snapshot a couple of minutes ago. Please try it. Thanks, cgf Snapshot installation instructions: To install a snapshot: 1) Download the latest cygwin-20020???.dll.bz2 file from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ . 2) bunzip2 cygwin-20020???.dll.bz2 3)

Re: current cygwin includes xfree86?

2002-06-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
Redirecting to correct mailing list. On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 05:04:38PM -0400, hongxun lee wrote: I remember that formerly i have to setup Xfree86 after Cygwin installation is finished..Now i found that with the present version Cygwin, the dir 'cygwin/usr/X11R6' is already there, and 'x11R6/bin'

Re: x-windows

2002-06-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 08:36:43AM -0500, Henning, Brian wrote: hello- I have installed the XFree86 package for cygwin. how to I start up X? i have tried 'xterm' 'startx' and i get nothing. I found an xterm binary but when I start it up i get an error about setting the display. thanks, brian

Re: Progress? Still debugging [cgf or someone from cygwin list please comment]

2002-06-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 10:50:28AM -0400, Harold L Hunt wrote: [Please be careful to only reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED], I am only sending this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that the Cygwin folks know what is going on.] Non-xterm clients work fine. xterm does not work. The base problem here is that

Re: Progress? (again, please try a snapshot)

2002-06-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 11:10:16AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 10:50:28AM -0400, Harold L Hunt wrote: [Please be careful to only reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED], I am only sending this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that the Cygwin folks know what is going on.] Non-xterm clients

Re: Progress? (again, please try a snapshot)

2002-06-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 02:30:59PM -0400, Harold L Hunt wrote: Chris, I just (at 1430 EDT) tried: cygwin1-20020627.dll.bz2 The problem is still present. Just to be clear, this is just as simple as running the xserver and opening up an xterm, right? Unfortunately, that works fine for me under

Re: Progress? (again, please try a snapshot)

2002-06-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 08:24:55PM -0400, Harold Hunt wrote: Chris, Does the log file contain any useful information, by any chance? None. Cygwin/XFree86 doesn't get an error, only xterm does. Do you think you could do a strace -ox:\somewhere\strace.out sh startxwin.sh , bzip2 strace.out,

Your problems may be solved in the latest cygwin snapshot! Try it out!

2002-06-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
A few problems have been fixed in the recent cygwin snapshots, so please try one out and report success/failure to cygwin at cygwin dot com. I'll try to get a 1.3.12 out ASAP but I want to make sure that it fixes as many problems as possible first. Snapshot installation instructions: To

Troubles with 1.3.11? Try a snapshot.

2002-06-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
A couple of problems have been fixed in the recent cygwin snapshots, so please try one out and report success/failure to cygwin at cygwin dot com. I'll try to get a 1.3.12 out ASAP but I want to make sure that it fixes as many problems as possible first. Snapshot installation instructions: To

Re: Troubles with 1.3.11? Try a snapshot.

2002-06-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 12:06:35PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: A couple of problems have been fixed in the recent cygwin snapshots, so please try one out and report success/failure to cygwin at cygwin dot com. I'll try to get a 1.3.12 out ASAP but I want to make sure that it fixes as many

Re: broken lndir so cant build tree

2002-06-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 06:25:49AM -0700, Nicholas Wourms wrote: I can confirm this with the the latest snapshot of cygwin on WindowsME. I'll run an strace later and see what the problem is. Was this ever posted? I never saw it, if so. cgf

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 58

2002-06-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 01:29:42AM -0400, Harold Hunt wrote: I just posted Test 58 to the server development page: http://xfree86.cygwin.com/devel/shadow/ Harold, Why not just install the latest server test packages in the normal cygwin place but mark it as test in setup.hint? Then you can

Re: use cygwin/xfree in XDMCP under Windows 98

2002-06-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
Wrong mailing list. Redirected. On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 11:33:33AM +0200, EXT / EUREKA LE CUNFF Laurent wrote: Hello, I do not manage to make function CygWin/XFree in XDMCP under Windows 98. The Xfree window appears with the grayed bottom but that does not go further. I does not obtain the

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