Re: Cannot type in xterm

2008-12-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Lee S Parsons wrote: Never mind, I found a solution. I found that, just as the FAQ says, the file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB Does not exist. However, as the file /usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB does, I created a symbolic link pointing from the inexistent file to the one that does now exist, and

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 04:00:43AM -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: From: Christopher Faylor The historical reasons for [un?]merging the cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists no longer seems to exist so I am contemplating merging the two lists. For us old-timers, what were

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 02:33:21PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 04:00:43AM -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: From: Christopher Faylor The historical reasons for [un?]merging the cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists

Re: Help with startxwin.bat (I did read the FAQ)

2008-11-24 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Srinath Avadhanula wrote: Hi Yakov, On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Srinath Avadhanula wrote: I suddenly began getting the error message: A fatal error has occured and Cygwin/X will now exit. Please

Re: Multiple Monitors issue with Xterm

2008-11-20 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Jet Wilda wrote: Hi, I just installed cygwin with X on WindowsXP and after making the change to have it starup in C:\cygwin\bin the Xserver starts. I have 3 monitors and even with the multimonitors setting set in the startxwin.bat when I start Xterm it is not reachable unless I right

Re: Multiple Monitors issue with Xterm

2008-11-20 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Jet Wilda wrote: I did do some googling but must not of had the right keywords (thanks for the link :-). In either case I read that thread and there is only work arounds no solutions. Correct me if I'm wrong but the work arounds are, I can either move my main monitor to the top and left or I

Re: Upgrade woes.

2008-11-19 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Back, Michael wrote: Christopher Faylor did utter a clarion call of great frustration unto the heavens: On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 03:16:05PM -0800, Back, Michael wrote: Chuck wrote: I think the frustration on some people's behalf is that this question has been asked (and answered) maybe 50

Re: excuse this test

2008-11-13 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Matt Wozniski wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Paul McFerrin wrote: excuse this test, it *should* get rejected The cygwin lists are public, anyone can post to them even if not subscribed. This wasn't a useful test to see if your unsubscribe worked. Indeed! There is also no reason

Re: fonts broken in xemacs with latest x server update

2008-11-12 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
hazen wrote: Given the latest X server update, what should I do to get a working xemacs? I've tried installing cygwin from scratch with the new x server release and xemacs, but the fonts are broken on my system: http://www.nabble.com/file/p20471230/emacs-fonts-buggered.jpeg Are there

Re: Regarding installation of X11 server in my Laptop with Windows Vista home basic OS

2008-10-15 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Phil Betts wrote: mallikarjun reddy wrote on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 1:02 PM:: Dear Sir, I,G Mallikarjun Reddy, am a student of B.Tech final year studying in National Institute of Technology,Warangal.I want to install Magic VLSI design tool in my Laptop which has Windows

Re: broken install - font fixed

2008-10-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Jason Yee wrote: From: Jason Yee Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 12:28 PM To: 'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com' ^^^ http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Actually, there's no reason to quote header lines at all. Avoid

Re: startXWin doesn't launch anymore

2008-09-19 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Ludovic Hoyet wrote: Hello ! I have got some trouble lately with my cygwin X server. I was perfectly working before, but now when I try to launch startXwin, the X icon appear in the systray bar and then desappear. What have you recently installed that may impact X? Sounds like it could

Re: how to start windows applications

2008-09-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
thetrystero wrote: i've just installed cygwin and am noticing some inconsistencies between executing commands from the command line versus executing them through a batch file. for example when I try to do start excel a.xls I get bash: start: command not found but if I put this in a batch

Re: Empty screen when opening X Terminal

2008-09-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Sandra Sandra wrote: Hi, I am relatively new to Cygwin, I've tried to search through the archive but couldn't quite find exactly what i'm looking for. I've installed Cygwin few months ago, then recently when I try to open XTerminal, I am getting a blank screen. I've tried opening it

Re: Fatal Error on start up

2008-08-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Nadia Dimitrova wrote: Dear Cygwin, One copy of a request is more than enough BTW. I am trying to install FontForge on my Windows Vista laptop and I need Cygwin shell to run it. To set environmental variables they suggest I run a BAT file. It looks like it succeeds with the variables but

Re: Running a simple GUI app

2008-08-22 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
John Emmas wrote: Thanks Phil, As it turns out, a lot of my problems have been solved by doing something called a rebase (I needed to start 'ash' and then type 'rebaseall'). There's very little information about this on the internet. Can anyone explain what exactly I've done and why it's

Re: ioctl in cygwin

2008-08-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Lihong Chen wrote: Hi, Can anyone tell me if ioctl works the same like linux or not? If they work differently, how to do the ioctl call in cygwin environment? The idea is that it's the same as Linux. If you're having a problem, report it to the main Cygwin list unless it's intricately tied to

Re: Window icons in multi-window mode

2008-08-01 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Raul Acevedo wrote: I asked about this a few days ago and got no response so I thought I'd try again... When in multi-window mode, all X windows iconify to the Windows taskbar using the same generic X icon. Is there a way to get Windows to use the X11 icon that would normally be used if you

Re: Window icons in multi-window mode

2008-08-01 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
John J. McDonough, WB8RCR wrote: - Original Message - From: Larry Hall (Cygwin X) I think the lack of an answer can be interpreted as a no, not that we know of. Seems as if there is a way since sometimes, some of the apps DO use their X11 icons. In fact, emacs is a case in point

Re: unable to use x forwading from cygwin shell

2008-07-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
mnedai wrote: 1. installed cygwin on xp sp2 2. started shell 3. ssh -Y -p 22 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4. export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 Don't do this. 'ssh -X' and 'ssh -Y' set DISPLAY properly if the X-server is running on your local system. 5. no error (just exit

Re: unable to use x forwading from cygwin shell

2008-07-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
mnedai wrote: other thing, I use yout method and set up DISPLAY on my local xserver: $ ssh -X -p 22 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. Last login: Tue Jul 29 14:44:10 2008 from ciber-2863399a4.dcciber.com

Re: unable to use x forwading from cygwin shell

2008-07-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 07/30/2008, mnedai wrote: I've installed all the x packages again. xterm and xclock from the bash cygwin gviving error: $ Error: Can't open display: localhost:10.0 [1]+ Exit 1 xclock Again, I think the question is, have you started the Cygwin-X server? Without it running on your local

Re: Question about repository structure

2008-07-24 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: Some time ago a second directory structure appeared in Cygwin mirrors. They now have 'release' and 'release-2' folders, along with corresponding 'setup' and 'setup-2' .ini, .bz2, and .sig files. Both appear to contain the same subfolders. The contents of the

Re: Cygwin and vista 64 bit

2008-07-02 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
yu xuesheng wrote: Hi, all: I don't sure if Cygwin can run under Vista 64 bit. I can't find the information on Cygwin.com. From the main Cygwin project page: The Cygwin DLL currently works with all recent, commercially released x86 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Windows, with the

Re: New Maintainer

2008-03-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
DRC wrote: It's pretty simple. You have to package new new releases of X.org for Cygwin and support people on this mailing list. Well, I'm willing to give it a try at least. I know nothing about Cygwin packaging, but I have experience building X.org on Windows. My project (VirtualGL) needs

Re: how to install sql into cygwin ?

2008-03-06 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
bh_hensem wrote: Hi.. Could somebody help me how to install the mysql database on cygwin and where i can got the installer ? Thank you.. This is really not X-specific so the main Cygwin list would be the more appropriate place to ask this. In any case:

Re: problem debugging xset command inside batch script (revised)

2008-02-19 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
jjo wrote: Allen, Matthew MAllen at utcretail.com writes: You should be able to simply set the DISPLAY variable and get xset to work that way. The other option I'd think you should be able to do is use a -display option to xset. But I haven't confirmed xset has it. Thanks, Allen. Indeed,

Re: problem debugging xset command inside batch script (revised)

2008-02-19 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
jjo wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin X reply-to-list-only-lh-x at cygwin.com writes: Again, DISPLAY not set? But your alternative will leave you with a console window, or at least briefly. If this is not tolerable, check out 'run'. I have to admit that adding the line set DISPLAY=localhost

Re: fatal error

2008-02-05 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Carlos Moran Tejeda wrote: Dear Cygwin staff: Im a new user of Cygwin. I was trying to run Grass under Cygwin but when I type startx in the comand console a fatal error occurs. The description is snip Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' Please, could you let me know

Re: Use remote graphical program

2007-12-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
horacioemilio wrote: Hi, I am trying to use a remote program which is installed on a remote linux machine. In these situations I usually do; 0) on my windows machine I start cygwin and afterwards use startxwin.sh 1) ssh -X name-of-the-gateway-machine 2) ssh -X

Re: Problem with installing the X environment

2007-12-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 12/26/2007, David Garber wrote: When I run it with xwin, I got the window, but if I try to run xterm or anything else, I got exit 53 immediately afterwards. NET HELPMSG 53 Returns: The network path was not found. This means you're missing a required DLL. Run 'cygcheck xterm' to find out

Re: Fwd: ForwardX11 not working

2007-12-13 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Mirko Vukovic wrote: Hi, I have cygwin installed as a server on my desktop. I can log into it from my linux box using ssh, but I cannot open displays on the linux box. By that I mean that if I login in using ssh, and invoke a command that should open a window (like gnuplot), it opens the plot

Re: Cygwin installation on windows server2003

2007-12-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Pradnya Vairagare wrote: Hi, I'm facing problem in installing cygwin on windows server 2003. Installation doesn't proceed after 10% or so. Can someone suggest what is missing to install cywin successfully? What are the steps need to follow or some settings need to do? This can be caused by

Re: FW: Problem starting xwin in windows domain

2007-11-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Paul Mulcahy wrote: Hi, I recently started migrating users to a Windows domain. We have all been using Cygwin for some time but now in the domain I am experiencing problems. Worse still I can not revert to a working version. I have tried reinstalling and uninstalling but the same problems

Re: FW: Problem starting xwin in windows domain

2007-11-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Paul Mulcahy wrote: Maybe you have a problem with ntfs file permissions. The domain users must have at least write access to tmp and their home directory, and read access to most of the rest. The domain Administrator usually is in the local Administrators group and will have access (depending

Re: Can start xeyes but not xclock

2007-11-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Michael Defoin Platel wrote: Hi, I just installed a cygwin/x environment on a mahcine with XP running. Everything seems to be okay. The X server starts smoothly and I can run some programs such as xeyes, xemacs or display. However some others such as xterm, xclock, xload fail without any error

Re: Workaround for foreign keyboard problem to be entered in FAQ section 4.1.6

2007-11-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all: I recently hit the foreign keyboard problem described in section 4.1.6 of the Cygwin/X FAQ. That is, I started with: $ setxkbmap.exe de -model pc105 Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property [...] and then I tried what the FAQ said, but I got the

Re: Eliminating dead keys under X

2007-11-07 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Torsten Bronger wrote: Hallöchen! I use X applications that run on a remote Linux server on my local Windows system. I use PuTTY and Cygwin's X server for this. Unfortunately, ~, ', ` etc are dead keys in this configuration. How can I change this? Is something like:

Re: stopping the cygwin X Server

2007-11-07 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
John Windberg wrote: There's a nifty startxwin.bat file for starting the x server, but I was wondering how to stop it. So I went searching and found: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-stopping.html When you are done using Cygwin/X, press Alt-F4 to shutdown the X Server; this is the default key

Re: Cannot open X

2007-11-05 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Arnaud Madur wrote: Hi, I am a new Cygwin (1.5.24-2) user and I am not able to start X. You will find enclosed : 1) cygcheck.out = comments from cygcheck 2) startx.out comments from startx bug report (generated with startx startx.out) 3) Xterm.out comments from Xterm bug report

Re: Cannot open X

2007-11-05 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Arnaud Madur wrote: I removed cygwin1.dll. Mounts are now in bin mode. It is not working. I launched startxwin.sh, see starxwin.out for the bug report. You'll also find attached the new status through mount2.out, and cygcheck2.out. Try removing '/tmp/.X11-unix'. -- Larry Hall

Re: problem in X

2007-10-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
fermin selvin wrote: Dear Sir/Madam, I have installed cygwin in my IBM intellistation with windows xp professional Operating system (64 bit edition). I am experiencing some difficulties in using the graphical windows which can be invoked through cygwin terminal. Could you please clarify since

Re: xterm

2007-08-31 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Ronald Fischer wrote: Cole Radcliffe wrote: When I try to run xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l from the cygwin shell I get an error that says xterm Xt error: Can't open display DISPLAY is not set Make sure the X server is running first (run 'startxwin'). This might not sufficient - at least it

Re: emacs does not work, emacs-nox works

2007-08-31 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Fredrik Staxeng wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin X) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Fredrik Staxeng wrote: Xwin works, xterm works, but when I try to run emacs it just silently exits. Run 'cygcheck emacs' and see if it reports any missing DLLs. If so, find this missing package(s) you need to install via

Re: xterm

2007-08-31 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Mark J. Reed wrote: Make sure the X server is running first (run 'startxwin'). This might not sufficient - at least it is not in my system: Even when you start the X server (in my case in multiwindow mode), but then try to start xterm from a CMD Cygwin shell (such as from the shell you get

Re: xterm

2007-08-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Cole Radcliffe wrote: When I try to run xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l from the cygwin shell I get an error that says xterm Xt error: Can't open display DISPLAY is not set Make sure the X server is running first (run 'startxwin'). Also, how can I get the replies to this message e-mailed to me?

Re: Two issues with Xwin

2007-08-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 08/25/2007, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * I regularly lose the mouse pointer and I'm unable to the the cursor anymore in applications like Konsole (either natively or running as X client on a Linux host). The mouse still works if I blindly click somewhere, just the cursor is gone. This happens

Re: Two issues with Xwin

2007-08-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Larry Hall (Cygwin X) (Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:10:28 -0400) On 08/25/2007, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * I regularly lose the mouse pointer and I'm unable to the the cursor anymore in applications like Konsole (either natively or running as X client on a Linux host). The mouse

Re: FW: X forward question

2007-08-20 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU. Reformatted. liang wrote: -Original Message- Subject: Re: FW: X forward question liang wrote: From: liang [mailto:swang2000ATgmailDOTcom] ^^^ Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007 3:40 PM To:

Re: FW: X forward question

2007-08-19 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
liang wrote: From: liang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007 3:40 PM To: 'cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com' Subject: X forward question Hi, 1. I just to subscribe the mailing list, so I can reply the email now. Sorry to start a new thread. 2. I start x server with double click

Re: XWin starts but hangs as soon as I start an X-application

2007-08-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Jay Abel wrote: I'm having similar trouble, starting yesterday. xterm and xclock both hang as described, but xeyes, xfig and rxvt all work. And have you installed any dodgy app recently? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc.

Re: XWin too slow to start

2007-08-13 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Stephen More wrote: For years I have been using fvwm2 and cygwin, but today it stopped working. The only way I could get it to work again was to insert a 'sleep 15' between: XWin -clipboard -rootless -silent-dup-error sleep 15 fvwm2 Without the sleep, fvwm2 actually executes first but

Re: XWin too slow to start

2007-08-13 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Stephen More wrote: On 8/13/07, Larry Hall (Cygwin X) reply-to-list-only-lh-x AT cygwin DOT com wrote: ^^ http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. Stephen More wrote: What is causing XWin to startup so slow

Re: Cannot Start X

2007-08-08 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Marco Schuler wrote: snip I installed cygwin again using UNIX mounts. X works now :-) Thank you both for your help! You're welcome. Thanks for the feedback. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office

Re: Simple patch to enable stereo visuals in XWin_GL

2007-08-06 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 08/05/2007, DRC wrote: Hmmm... Well, one of the main reasons why I wanted to pursue integrating with Cygwin/X was because I thought it was being actively maintained (I guess I was wrong.) I don't think our project has the cycles to maintain an X server ourselves, or else I'd volunteer. But

Re: Help: X don't start

2007-08-06 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
José Cláudio Faria wrote: Dear members, I'm new with Cygwin and I've been trying to start X from my cygwin in the latest week. I read a lot in FAQ, Google, list of discussion and all documentation I found, but without success. So, I'm needing a help! OS: XP SP2 and my main hardware is: Proc:

Re: unable to open display 6 times when I try to run any X apps from xterm

2007-06-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have uninstalled window's firewall (which was disabled before) and uninstalled the virus software (AVG). Still not working. Can't use xhost or any X program except xterm without getting 6 errors of - Can't open display. I'm a little confused about the response since

Re: Windowmaker not open bash properly

2007-06-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Scott Mohnkern wrote: I had Cygwin with Windowmaker running just beautifully, then another application came in and installed another xserver (which I've since disabled) but now inside windowmaker, whenever I try to open up an Xterm window the window opens but I get no bash prompt. I can type

Re: Windowmaker not open bash properly

2007-06-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Scott Mohnkern wrote: Apologies, I was following the format of other questions I'd seen here. Attached is cygcheck.out The other server was Xvision, which was part of an automatic install of Cradle 5.5.x You (no longer?) have Cygwin in your path. You're picking up the Nutcracker/MKS

Re: Windowmaker not open bash properly

2007-06-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Scott Mohnkern wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote: Scott Mohnkern wrote: Apologies, I was following the format of other questions I'd seen here. Attached is cygcheck.out The other server was Xvision, which was part of an automatic install of Cradle 5.5.x You (no longer?) have Cygwin

Re: unable to open display 6 times when I try to run any X apps from xterm

2007-06-24 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 06/23/2007, cygwin wrote: When I try to start any X application, from an xterm, I get the following errors. This used to always work but is broke for some reason. I would like some direction on how to troubleshoot this. I think this is some kind of program running that is getting in the way

Re: Problem losing mouse pointer visibility

2007-06-22 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 06/22/2007, Damien Cymbal wrote: I am looking for any ideas on how to either resolve or debug this problem to the next level. I am currently using 6.8.99.901-4 of XWin, although I have had the following problem through several cygwin updates now. I am using XWin to start an XDMCP session

Re: error message

2007-06-20 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The program I am trying to run is over secure ssh and requires the ability to run emacs in a separate window from the terminal. I ran it, but it was unable to generate the separate window. So I tried using the -multiwindow thing like in the user guide (which I don't

Re: a question about setup cygwin in windows xp

2007-06-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
xie xie wrote: Hello, I have downloaded the setup file of cygwin from HONGKONG mirror website,I choose the reinforce way to download the file,but when I have finished setup cygwin ,the system shows that the sysytem cann't find cygwin1.dll,you should re-setup the software.but after I have done

Re: startxwin.sh crashing on XP pro

2007-05-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Jim Marshall wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote: Jim Marshall wrote: My co-worker just installed cygwin, when he tries to run startxwin.sh it crashes. A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit. Please open /tmp/XWin.log for more information Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project

Re: startxwin.sh crashing on XP pro

2007-05-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Jim Marshall wrote: My co-worker just installed cygwin, when he tries to run startxwin.sh it crashes. A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit. Please open /tmp/XWin.log for more information Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 6.8.99.901-4 Contact: xxx XWin was started

Re: glXChooseVisual does not handle GLX_RGBA correctly

2007-05-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Geoff Levner wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote: Geoff Levner wrote: I have an OpenGL-based application executing on a Sun, but displaying on a PC running Windows XP and an X server. The app requires a TrueColor visual, so when it calls glXChooseVisual, it passes GLX_RGBA in the attribute

Re: glXChooseVisual does not handle GLX_RGBA correctly

2007-05-14 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Geoff Levner wrote: I have an OpenGL-based application executing on a Sun, but displaying on a PC running Windows XP and an X server. The app requires a TrueColor visual, so when it calls glXChooseVisual, it passes GLX_RGBA in the attribute list. This works fine with another X server (Exceed),

Re: deleted by mistake .bashrc file in C:\cygwin\home\setup after install

2007-04-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 04/29/2007, Matt Wozniski wrote: Obviously not cygwin-specific, and I don't have a cygwin computer in front of me at the moment, so I'm not even positive that this applies on cygwin - but on most UNIX systems, you could run cp /etc/skel/.bashrc ~/.bashrc Again, I'm not positive that

Re: help :- startx doesn't work on Cygwin.

2007-04-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Nisha wrote: Hello, I installed cygwin on my WinXP system and accoording to the further instructions given, i try to run startx. I am getting the following error. Please help. The extract of the last error is as below (I am attaching the full error with this email.) 6 [main]

Re: Windows Vista

2007-04-23 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Mariana Silva wrote: Hello I am trying to install cygwin/X in Windows Vista and I get a message saying that the installation could not be completed. Is there a new version of cygwin/X for this operational system? No. The error you got is unlikely to be as a result of Vista. Try a

Re: Cygwin/x fails to run on WinXP

2007-04-06 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
wei wrote: snip Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress Check the FAQ and the email archives. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK

Re: error

2007-03-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Varga Imre wrote: Dear Cygwin, I started XWin under cygwin using startx. Then I got a fatal error Could not open font 'fixed'. Before that the following message appeared: Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list! What shall I do? Look in the FAQ

Re: Plese help me to solve my problem

2007-03-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
M. Tampo wrote: Dear sir Hi, I have troubled in use of Cygwin/X. When I start the Cygwin/X by using a command startx, Error comments are shown as follower, This is error message- (WW) /tmp mounted int textmode _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to

Re: XWin 100% CPU usage for Java applications on Vista

2007-03-24 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Vladimir Nicolici wrote: I wonder why RedHat doesn't include this X server instead of Cygwin/X in the cygwin distribution, especially since, according to the Cygwin/X home page, the project lost its maintainer 2 years ago. Chris has already sufficiently responded to correct your misconception

Re: Looking for a way to start XWin -auth option without modifying startxwin.bat

2007-03-07 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Grant Mills wrote: Background: Switched from Exceed yesterday. Quickly realized that remote hosts couldn't contact local x server. xhost remote_mach solved that problem. Learned that if I shutdown the X server and restarted, xhost settings didn't persist. Spent half a day researching and

Re: Error 29 on Vista

2007-03-06 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU William Bierman wrote: On 3/6/07, thebigcheeze thebigcheeze at gmail dot com wrote: ^ http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR Don't to feed the spammers. I installed Cygwin with the default

Re: Error 29 on Vista

2007-03-06 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote: Fork failures are typically caused by one of two issues: 1. Buggy firewalls, virus-scanners, spyware proggies, etc. 2. DLL address space collisions The former can be solved by uninstalling all such junkware (no, you can't generally just disable this stuff

Re: XWin 100% CPU usage (Remote Desktop)

2007-02-20 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
David Raila wrote: I worked on this for a long time since trying vista and here's my solution CYGWIN=title server itty binmode glob tty I believe that some arrangement of CYGWIN args cause troubles, but I can't verify which, and I also believe I had ntsec in there before. It would run for a

Re: ssh -x

2007-02-06 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Holger Krull wrote: Marco Meoni schrieb: hi, I'm new with cygwin. I've mainly installed it to connect to a linux server running GUI applications. In fact, I've read that with X11 forwarding (ssh -X) I can run remote applications and display the GUI on my pc running cygwin. Unfortunately I get

Re: XWin.exe-unable to locate component

2007-01-31 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Lisa Losito wrote: I downloaded and installed Cygwin, but when I tried to run XWin.bat from C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin I get the error message 'This application has failed to start because cygwin1.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.' I tried reinstalling but I

Re: error when starting X-Win

2007-01-31 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Gmane User wrote: snip Which made me think wouldn't it be nice if mounting didn't have to be done for each user account?. I install cygwin on whatever machine (of several) that I happen to work on, so such a global fix would make life easier. And there is a solution. With a bit of refresher

Re: error when starting X-Win

2007-01-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Gmane User wrote: Martin Bartak wrote: Hello, How to delete /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 automatically when closing X-session or, how to prevent its emergence when starting X-sesion or, how to make it re-writable by 'non-Administrator' user? I've got Cygwin 1.5.23-2 (full installation) on WinXP with two

Re: error when starting X-Win

2007-01-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Gmane User wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote: Gmane User wrote: Martin Bartak wrote: Hello, How to delete /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 automatically when closing X-session or, how to prevent its emergence when starting X-sesion or, how to make it re-writable by 'non-Administrator' user? I've got

Re: error when starting X-Win

2007-01-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Chris Sutcliffe wrote: The standard way this has been handled in the past is to set up a mount point for '/tmp/' to a unique location. In a default Windows installation, the following should work (untested): mount -b -u $TEMP /tmp This keeps things unique for each user anyway. That's

Re: New Repositories: XWin Error!

2007-01-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Sante Scuro wrote: Dear Sir, most new repositories ftp/http (I did not check all of them) have a problem when you come across to start the X-Windows Server. The error and log files are attached! I tested packages for two weeks on over 5 machines getting exactly the same error. But

Re: 1.5.23 on vista: difficulties launching X

2007-01-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Dick Repasky wrote: On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote: Dick Repasky wrote: I'm experiencing difficulty starting X on a fresh install of cygwin on a fresh install of Windows Vista. I've tried both startxwin.sh and startx. startxwin.sh always fails, and startx sometimes

Re: 1.5.23 on vista: difficulties launching X

2007-01-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Dick Repasky wrote: I'm experiencing difficulty starting X on a fresh install of cygwin on a fresh install of Windows Vista. I've tried both startxwin.sh and startx. startxwin.sh always fails, and startx sometimes succeeds. A copy of cygcheck output is attached. startxwin.sh fails in

Re: XWin.exe will not exit gracefully on Vista

2006-12-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Dr. Franz Fehringer wrote: did not come through last time (are there known problems with this list?)?! Actually, it came through fine: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2006-12/msg00093.html If you're having trouble getting email from this list, you may want to check that things on your end

Re: Java SDK version available with latest version of cygwin/X?

2006-12-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Daniel Newhouse wrote: The title says it all. I don't want to download a new version unless I get Java 1.5 or better. There is neither a dependency of Cygwin on Java nor a Java package for Cygwin. If neither of these is what you're looking for, please clarify your inquiry. -- Larry Hall

Re: Java SDK version available with latest version of cygwin/X?

2006-12-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Daniel Newhouse wrote: --- Larry Hall (Cygwin X) reply-to-list-only-lh-x AT cygwin DOT com wrote: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. Daniel Newhouse wrote: I can compile and run java from the command line in cygwin. I assumed that meant that cygwin must have a Java

Re: -silent-dup-error command line parameter not working?

2006-12-07 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU. Reformatted. Randy Brown wrote: Sergei Pachkov wrote: Can you shortly describe start xserver as service? Running it as a service basically does not require starting, or attempting to start, an Xserver each time you open a window. The service runs

Re: sending keys to cygwin (X)

2006-11-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Bjoern wrote: Hello NG, I use cygwin to connect via 'X -query IP' from my ordinary PC to a Linux server. This works really fine. But on that server the vmwareplayer is running. In this vmwareplayer i have to log on a virtual Windows maschine and therefor i have to hit the CONTROL+OPTION+DELETE

Re: X11 forwarding

2006-11-12 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Max Pfeiffer wrote: Dear cygwin- Team i am training to connect my linux system from my windows XP system. I do it with putty and cygwin . but if i want start my x11 server. I get allways this error message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/X11 $ startx Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The

Re: Using X via ssh from one windows machine to another

2006-11-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Brian Keener wrote: hmm no hints - keep googling I guess. I'm sure it must be a security/config issue - xhost or xauth issue somewhere - just haven't found the magic key yet since it works from Windows to my two linux machines. Maybe wrong group - maybe should have been cygwin-apps for ssh

Re: ERROR: Cannot open X display

2006-11-02 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU. Reformatted. Luis G. Rivera wrote: Original message Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:02:18 -0600 From: René Berber r.berber AT computer DOT org Subject: Re: ERROR: Cannot open X display To: cygwin-xfree AT cygwin DOT com

Re: update cygwin and now X wont start!

2006-11-02 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 11/02/2006, Rafael Tapia wrote: Today I decided to update my cygwin (probably had not done it in about 3 months) but now it just crashes on me when I try to start X. I did check out mailing list archives and google but no dice. I can't seem to get it to work again. I am trying to run

Re: Cygwin X fails to start

2006-10-12 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 10/12/2006, mgoh wrote: I had this problem as well. Oddly, I had a mount of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts that was a user mount in textmode -- and I cound't use umount to remove it (it would complain about invalid path, or something). I searched the registry for the mount, but didn't find it (I

Re: GNOME Please Help

2006-10-06 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
John Breslin wrote: I got it from ftp://sunsite.dk via setup.exe http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=startgnome.bat Pointing 'setup.exe' at some 3rd party's site and installing packages from there does not mean that this list supports that package. Please take this question to

Re: XWin

2006-09-28 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Alan James Caruana wrote: Hi, I have thoroughly searched through the FAQ and could not find any solution to my problem. First, can XWin run directly in Windows (not through Cygxwin) ? If it can, obviously it would have to be compiled again. That's Xming. Different project. See

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