RE: New (Delphi) xlauncher

2002-07-22 Thread Franz Wolfhagen
I would opt for the wxwindows port - it includes suppport for all the mentioned platforms - including OS/2. (this is btw used/supported by Schitech for their Display Doctor 7.0) I also believe that wxwindows should compile for cygwin - it would be a nice inclusion if anybody had the time and

replies to xfree

2002-07-22 Thread Dennis Foreman
Shouldn't replies to a list automatically go to the list? My replies seem to be going to the personal mail of posters. I believe there is a setting in many list servers that prevents the replies from going to the poster. regards, D. J. Foreman website: http://WWW.CS.Binghamton.EDU/~foreman

Re: replies to xfree

2002-07-22 Thread Nicholas Wourms
--- Dennis Foreman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shouldn't replies to a list automatically go to the list? My replies seem to be going to the personal mail of posters. I believe there is a setting in many list servers that prevents the replies from going to the poster. regards, D. J. Foreman

Re: need help scripting multiple xfree startups

2002-07-22 Thread Thomas Chadwick
From: Thomas Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: need help scripting multiple xfree startups Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 09:25:09 -0400 [snip] As for getting the xterm to place itself on your screen without having to click: If you're using the default

RE: need help scripting multiple xfree startups

2002-07-22 Thread Thomas Chadwick
From: Dennis Foreman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Cygwin-Xfree [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: need help scripting multiple xfree startups Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 08:20:51 -0400 [snip] What is the difference between: 1. running cygwin then startxwin.sh 2. startxwin.bat,

Re: replies to xfree

2002-07-22 Thread Randall R Schulz
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 replies seem to be going to the personal mail of posters. I believe there is a setting in many

Re: On a side note - display resolution changes now handled

2002-07-22 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Jehan wrote: Harold Hunt wrote: You must be tired. Well, actually yes :p. I did some canoeing last Friday and I haven't recovered yet. :) Are you talking about canoeing, or ``canoeing''. When we went ``canoeing'' it involved a cooler full of beer and as the day progressed the

Re: New (Delphi) xlauncher

2002-07-22 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Jehan wrote: Harold Hunt wrote: Think about it: you are creating a graphical application that launches a graphical windowing system. Therefore, you have to already have a graphical windowing system of some form running. At last count, that means that you are running either Windows,

Re: New (Delphi) xlauncher

2002-07-22 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Franz Wolfhagen wrote: I would opt for the wxwindows port - it includes suppport for all the mentioned platforms - including OS/2. (this is btw used/supported by Schitech for their Display Doctor 7.0) I also believe that wxwindows should compile for cygwin - it would be a nice inclusion if

Re: replies to xfree

2002-07-22 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Nicholas Wourms wrote: --- Dennis Foreman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shouldn't replies to a list automatically go to the list? My replies seem to be going to the personal mail of posters. I believe there is a setting in many list servers that prevents the replies from going to the poster.

Re: replies to xfree

2002-07-22 Thread Harold L Hunt II
. A decision has been made regarding the ``reply-to'' behavior for this list. No amount of persuasion/discussion/rants/questions/etc will change this decision. Therefore, this thread is pronounced officially dead at 20020722 1046. Harold

Re: Problem with XSendEvent and xterm.

2002-07-22 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Juan José Andrés Gutiérrez wrote: Hello, I need to make a program that sends pulsations of keys to a xterm. I use XSendEvent but I'm not be able that appear the characters in the shell. However if I make an application that controls the keyboard events that arrive to him it works.

Re: Problem with XSendEvent and xterm.

2002-07-22 Thread Nicholas Wourms
--- Harold L Hunt II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [SNIP] Hold on a minute here. I am seeing three newsgroup cross-posts in the header for this message. Can someone else verify that this is indeed being cross-posted? Yup, he's cross-posting alright: Newsgroups:

RE: need help scripting multiple xfree startups

2002-07-22 Thread Dennis Foreman
I looked for: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/twm/system.twmrc and can only find a .../mwm/system.mwmrc Is there a relationship between mwm and twm? Can I use the mwm file instead of the twm file? I have gotten the RSA keys set up and working. My machine is in a secure area (home, no kids, no visitor

RE: need help scripting multiple xfree startups

2002-07-22 Thread Dennis Foreman
The geometry flag is perfect. It will allow me to put each window exactly where I want it consistently. Thanks very much Thomas, for your friendly, detailed assistance. regards, D. J. Foreman website: http://WWW.CS.Binghamton.EDU/~foreman -Original Message- From: Thomas Chadwick

Re: Problem with XSendEvent and xterm.

2002-07-22 Thread Nicholas Wourms
--- Nicholas Wourms [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Harold L Hunt II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [SNIP] Hold on a minute here. I am seeing three newsgroup cross-posts in the header for this message. Can someone else verify that this is indeed being cross-posted? Yup, he's

RE: need help scripting multiple xfree startups

2002-07-22 Thread Thomas Chadwick
Are you looking on the cygwin machine or on one of the remote machines? It should be there on the cygwin machine. I believe twm is packaged with the Xserver, so if you can run X, twm should be there and so should its config file in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/twm. Just in case it really is missing,

Re: New (Delphi) xlauncher

2002-07-22 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Dennis Foreman wrote: At one point in history, (before WW II) the head of the US Patent Office said he wanted to close the office because everything that needed to be invented had already been invented and there was nothing left the world needed. He had obviously not yet heard about the need

Re: New (Delphi) xlauncher

2002-07-22 Thread Nicholas Wourms
--- Harold L Hunt II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dennis Foreman wrote: At one point in history, (before WW II) the head of the US Patent Office said he wanted to close the office because everything that needed to be invented had already been invented and there was nothing left the world

RE: New (Delphi) xlauncher

2002-07-22 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Nicholas Wourms Sent: Tuesday, 23 July 2002 1:36 AM Harold, Who's to say that ReactOS won't have a registry? 1) ReactOS has a registry, and an editor. 2) ReactOS is targeting binary

Re: New (Delphi) xlauncher

2002-07-22 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Harold L Hunt II wrote: Dennis Foreman wrote: At one point in history, (before WW II) the head of the US Patent Office said he wanted to close the office because everything that needed to be invented had already been invented and there was nothing left the world needed. He had obviously

Re: Expect Script under X-Windows

2002-07-22 Thread Michel Bardiaux
Zelkovitz, Sanford J (ZERO CHAOS) wrote: I have been trying without any success to write an expect script which would insert the password for ssh in an x-windows session. I am obviously doing something wrong since all efforts have failed. Has anyone succeeded where I have failed? Sanford

Re: Expect Script under X-Windows

2002-07-22 Thread Thomas Chadwick
Are you sure you want to do it that way? ssh can be configured to connect without prompting for a password. Look here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-07/msg00475.html From: Zelkovitz, Sanford J (ZERO CHAOS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Expect

Re: Expect Script under X-Windows

2002-07-22 Thread Ed Hennis
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, 12:20pm (-0400), Zelkovitz, Sanford J (ZERO CHAOS) wrote: I have been trying without any success to write an expect script which would insert the password for ssh in an x-windows session. I am obviously doing something wrong since all efforts have failed. Has anyone

Re: Expect Script under X-Windows

2002-07-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The normal method of logon using ssh requires the the user input a password. Because of security issues, this cannot be circumvented by any other method. All I wanted to do was to poll around fifty servers for information. Each has the same logon name and password. Now, I need to manually send

Re: Expect Script under X-Windows

2002-07-22 Thread Thomas Chadwick
So you're writing a script that very likely will contain a password in cleartext? How secure is that? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Expect Script under X-Windows Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 12:54:18 -0400

Re: Expect Script under X-Windows

2002-07-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It's only on my own machine with proper permissions. Original Message: - From: Thomas Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 13:07:09 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Expect Script under X-Windows So you're writing a script that very

Re: replies to xfree

2002-07-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
will not be discussing on the cygwin-xfree mailing list. A decision has been made regarding the ``reply-to'' behavior for this list. No amount of persuasion/discussion/rants/questions/etc will change this decision. Therefore, this thread is pronounced officially dead at 20020722 1046. Just one last

Re: On a side note - display resolution changes now handled

2002-07-22 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Jehan wrote: Harold L Hunt II wrote: Well, actually yes :p. I did some canoeing last Friday and I haven't recovered yet. :) Are you talking about canoeing, or ``canoeing''. When we went ``canoeing'' it involved a cooler full of beer and as the day progressed the cooler full of beer

Re: Expect Script under X-Windows

2002-07-22 Thread Harold L Hunt II
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The normal method of logon using ssh requires the the user input a password. Because of security issues, this cannot be circumvented by any other method. All I wanted to do was to poll around fifty servers for information. Each has the same logon name and password.

Difference between installing Xfree-4.2.0 using setup and install.sh

2002-07-22 Thread Raymond Kwong
I have previously installed Xfree 4.2.0 when it first came out on cygwin, using the old method of running install.sh. Everything worked fine. Recently, I installed Xfree 4.2.0 using setup.exe on another computer (both computers run Windows 2000). On the new computer, if I ssh to another computer

problems with XFree

2002-07-22 Thread gsroka
(last email I sent complained about HTML MIME. i hope i'm not double-posting) I started playing with XFree last week. It's been a few years since I've used UNIX, so you can call me a newbie, if you like. I'm running Windows 2000 Pro on a P4 1.7 GHz with 768 MiB of RAM and 10 GB free on my

Re: Expect Script under X-Windows

2002-07-22 Thread Nicholas Wourms
--- Thomas Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So you're writing a script that very likely will contain a password in cleartext? How secure is that? Keep it on a floppy-disk, and keep that in plastic case in your pocket. It works for me. Then it will be just as secure as your wallet. Now

Re: New (Delphi) xlauncher

2002-07-22 Thread Nicholas Wourms
--- Harold L Hunt II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Collins wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Nicholas Wourms Sent: Tuesday, 23 July 2002 1:36 AM Harold, Who's to say that ReactOS won't have a registry?

Re: Difference between installing Xfree-4.2.0 using setup and install.sh

2002-07-22 Thread Thomas Chadwick
Whenever I see an error message referring to MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE, it usually has something to do with the (non)existence of an .Xauthority file. Perhaps installing Cygwin-Xfree86 via one method results in an .Xauthority file whereas installing via the other method doesn't? This would be an

XRoaches

2002-07-22 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Hi, Just wondering; has anyone gotten xroach to work on Cygwin/XFree? It compiles fine, but when you run it, you don't get any roaches... Thanks.

Re: xfree web pages

2002-07-22 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
I forwarded your mail to cygwin-xfree mailing list. Please post your next mails bout this thread to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reasons: 1 - This is cygwin-xfree specific. 2 - The both whole parts you describe are outdated. XFree archives are now installed by the standard installer at

Re: problems with XFree

2002-07-22 Thread Tom Bozack
I think Cygwin/XFree86 is a great product -- but there is nothing so good that it can't be improved. I agree with all of you comments, although I haven't had the system reboot experience. One persistant problem that you didn't mention (manybe you haven't run into it yet) is a very