Re: Cygwin/x doesn't work on windows 8

2013-07-05 Thread J. David Boyd
Anton Malykh anton.mal...@gmail.com writes: Hi all, I apologize if this bug is already known. I have two fresh windows 8 machines. Looks like cygwin/x doesn't work on either of them with similar symptoms. The installation went fine. xwin command seems to work as expected. But when I try to

Re: cygwin and xwin and super and hyper

2013-06-24 Thread J. David Boyd
Jon TURNEY jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk writes: On 21/06/2013 16:56, J. David Boyd wrote: Jon TURNEY writes: On 19/06/2013 22:27, J. David Boyd wrote: All perfect so far. So, when I start up emacs, and press C-h k, then, for example, Capslock-d, (hyper-d) I get 'H-d is undefined'. Yeah

Re: cygwin and xwin and super and hyper

2013-06-21 Thread J. David Boyd
Jon TURNEY jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk writes: On 19/06/2013 22:27, J. David Boyd wrote: I can get my capslock key to be super with the command line 'setxkbmap -option caps:super', but I can't get 'setxkbmap -option altwin:hyper_win' to do anything. Running 'setxkbmap -print' shows both

cygwin and xwin and super and hyper

2013-06-19 Thread J. David Boyd
I can get my capslock key to be super with the command line 'setxkbmap -option caps:super', but I can't get 'setxkbmap -option altwin:hyper_win' to do anything. Running 'setxkbmap -print' shows both options as being set, but the win keys still act as the win key. Is there something else I need

Hyper and Super in X-windows shell

2013-04-21 Thread J. David Boyd
Is there somewhere to configure XWin Server to allow Hyper and Super keys to be assigned when running an SSH -X -Y shell from a remote linux server? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

line drawing characters in vt100 xterm

2007-05-29 Thread J. David Boyd
Howdy Sometime, I can connect to a customer system, and the vt100 terminal does a great job of drawing lines. Other time, I get + and - and | characters instead. A clue please? Where do I start troubleshooting this? Dave -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: can't startup startx in cygwin

2007-03-26 Thread J. David Boyd
Ken Brown wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 3/26/2007 8:13 AM, J. David Boyd wrote: Of course, now that I've run rebaseall to get my X apps working okay, emacs no longer starts... You have to reinstall libncurses7 to get emacs back. See http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-10

Re: can't startup startx in cygwin

2007-03-23 Thread J. David Boyd
Have you tried rebaseall? I had to do that to get consistent results... Dave - Original Message - From: Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin.xfree To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 3:06 PM Subject: Re: can't startup startx in cygwin

Re: XWin and Vista -- 100% CPU on exit

2007-03-16 Thread J. David Boyd
As much as I hate to admit it, I've been using Xming from sourceforge.net as my X server, along with all the regular cygwin progams. XWin.exe used to go 100% cpu every once in a while, but Xming has been running great! Dave Michael PARKER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL

Re: Issue with xemacs in CygwinX

2006-12-21 Thread J. David Boyd
Paul Mallas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry for the cross posting, but I was told my original post on the Cygwin mail list was inappropriate and I should make it on the CygwinX. A recent xemacs upgrade does not work properly on my Cygwin system. I was running xemacs version 21.4.19-1 with

Re: texmacs does not launch in cygwin

2006-11-28 Thread J. David Boyd
Abuzer Bakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi everybody, I am using cygwin on XP on a DELL inspiron portable computer. When I launch texmacs on cygwin command editor I get the following message: Fatal error: I failed to connect to Xserver in 'x_display_rep::x_display_rep' In the

Re: Can I close the startx cygwin shell?

2005-08-15 Thread J. David Boyd
Trebor Sreyb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --- J. David Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use the startxwin.bat file in the c:\cgywin\usr\X11R6\bin folder. You can modify to open several xterms, or whatever you want, and it works great. I had tried once to customize startxwin.bat for my

Re: Can I close the startx cygwin shell?

2005-08-12 Thread J. David Boyd
Trebor Sreyb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there some way to run startx without opening a cygwin shell window? Or, alternatively, to exit the shell window after the X window manager has successfully started? Otherwise, I find myself having to leave open a cygwin shell window that is used

Re: Can I close the startx cygwin shell?

2005-08-12 Thread J. David Boyd
Trebor Sreyb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --- J. David Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use the startxwin.bat file in the c:\cgywin\usr\X11R6\bin folder. You can modify to open several xterms, or whatever you want, and it works great. I had tried once to customize startxwin.bat for my

Re: more in insert and copy from clipboard

2005-08-09 Thread J. David Boyd
Peter Valdemar Morch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: J. David Boyd david-at-adboyd.com |Lists| wrote: Okay, thanks, I'll start hanging out on the Cygwin/Xfree location. Makes sense, now I know where to start looking. Actually, I was under the impression that these lists didn't like or allow

Re: more in insert and copy from clipboard

2005-08-05 Thread J. David Boyd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 From: Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: more in insert and copy from clipboard Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 15:47:18 -0400 (EDT) Ah, so you're using an xterm. This makes the question off-topic for this list. I've redirected my reply to

Re: xterm and right click and 'print window'

2005-06-09 Thread J. David Boyd
Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, J. David Boyd wrote: Has anyone found a way to make this feature work, on any version of windows, with any printer? This works for me. WinXP, networked printer. As long as the PRINTER variable

Re: xterm and right click and 'print window'

2005-06-09 Thread J. David Boyd
Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, J. David Boyd wrote: Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, J. David Boyd wrote: Has anyone found a way to make

xterm and right click and 'print window'

2005-06-08 Thread J. David Boyd
Has anyone found a way to make this feature work, on any version of windows, with any printer? I've had no luck so far, and am grasping for clues. I've defined my $PRINTER as //quantex2/hplaserj, which prints okay from windows, but not cygwin. Dave in Largo, FL