RE: problems with XFree

2002-07-23 Thread Stuart Adamson
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 base cygwin - rather than the Xfree86 port. but i'm still

X via SSH (was: New (Delphi) xlauncher)

2002-07-23 Thread Nick THOMPSON
What I could do with is a mode that allows an X session to be setup through an SSH tunnel. So I need an SSH client that DOESN'T give me a shell, but supports an X11 tunnel, prompts me for the SSH passwd and runs a single command (the remote ~/.xinitrc say, and pipes the output to a local file).

RE: problems with XFree

2002-07-23 Thread Harold Hunt
Tom, I bet that you either have two copies of cygwin1.dll on your system, or that you have a really old version of cygwin1.dll. For more information see: http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-xfree-faq.html#q-status-access-vio lation I run XDMCP sessions for several hours with no

Re: X via SSH (was: New (Delphi) xlauncher)

2002-07-23 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: Nick THOMPSON [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cygwin-xfree Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 9:22 PM Subject: X via SSH (was: New (Delphi) xlauncher) What I could do with is a mode that allows an X session to be setup through an SSH

Updated: ghostscript-7.05-1 (test release)

2002-07-23 Thread Jack Larsen
Hi, building the perfect ghostscript gsview is very simple, however a .dll is needed. The .dll is part of ghostscript-7.05. However its missing. Cheers Jack Updated: ghostscript-7.05-1 (test release) From: Dario Alcocer alcocer at helixdigital dot com To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com

Updated: ghostscript-7.05-1 (test release)

2002-07-23 Thread Jack Larsen
Hi, building the perfect ghostscript gsview is very simple, however a .dll is needed. The .dll is part of ghostscript-7.05. However its missing. Cheers Jack Updated: ghostscript-7.05-1 (test release) From: Dario Alcocer alcocer at helixdigital dot com To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com

Updated: ghostscript-7.05-1 (test release)

2002-07-23 Thread Jack Larsen
Hi, building the perfect ghostscript gsview is very simple, however a .dll is needed. The .dll is part of ghostscript-7.05. However its missing. Cheers Jack Updated: ghostscript-7.05-1 (test release) From: Dario Alcocer alcocer at helixdigital dot com To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com

RE: problems with XFree

2002-07-23 Thread Dennis Foreman
The message said to type xterm -help, not xfree -help. My error. Here is what I got: foreman@FOREMAN ~ $ xterm -help bash: xterm: command not found I suspect that it is because the xfree directories are not in the basic cygwin path. Again, for newbies, one cannot assume that they will know how

Re: Updated: ghostscript-7.05-1 (test release)

2002-07-23 Thread Harold L Hunt II
What is going on here Mr. Jack Larsen? We have had four posts of this meesage to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Were you intending to post this to cygwin-apps or somewhere else? Have you put this in release/ or release/XFree86? If it isn't in release/XFree86 then you need to talk to cygwin-apps to get

Re: X via SSH (was: New (Delphi) xlauncher)

2002-07-23 Thread Thomas Chadwick
This recent thread might be of interest: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-07/msg00454.html From: Nick THOMPSON [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cygwin-xfree Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: X via SSH (was: New (Delphi) xlauncher) Date: 23 Jul 2002 12:22:54 +0100 What I could do with is a

Re: problems with XFree

2002-07-23 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Dennis Foreman wrote: The message said to type xterm -help, not xfree -help. My error. Here is what I got: foreman@FOREMAN ~ $ xterm -help bash: xterm: command not found I suspect that it is because the xfree directories are not in the basic cygwin path. Again, for newbies, one cannot

Re: X via SSH (was: New (Delphi) xlauncher)

2002-07-23 Thread Rasjid Wilcox
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 9:22 pm, Nick THOMPSON wrote: What I could do with is a mode that allows an X session to be setup through an SSH tunnel. So I need an SSH client that DOESN'T give me a shell, but supports an X11 tunnel, prompts me for the SSH passwd and runs a single command (the remote

RE: problems with XFree

2002-07-23 Thread Kevin Kobb
I don't know about all the problems you are having, but I might be able to help with one at least. Number 2, No App-Defaults... If you do a fresh install, take a look and you will find a /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults directory. Inside that directory is a Mwm file and an app-defaults link that

Re: Updated: ghostscript-7.05-1 (test release)

2002-07-23 Thread Nicholas Wourms
--- Harold L Hunt II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is going on here Mr. Jack Larsen? We have had four posts of this meesage to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Were you intending to post this to cygwin-apps or somewhere else? Have you put this in release/ or release/XFree86? If it isn't in

RE: problems with XFree

2002-07-23 Thread Nicholas Wourms
--- Stuart Adamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Granted, the XWin man page is out of date now and could do with an update ... Patches are, as usual, Gratefully Accepted. Cheers, Nicholas __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live

Re: How do I map the keyboard

2002-07-23 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Davoud, You still have to send all posts to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I cannot answer questions sent directly to me. Harold Davoud Azimian wrote: Hi Harold, Actually Switzerland have joined the UN (finally:). Adding repository of pre-made keyboard maps is a good idea specially if it is easy

Re: Updated: ghostscript-7.05-1 (test release)

2002-07-23 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Nicholas, Thanks for the refresher course in the package approval process, the discussion of which I was a participant in. You seem to have confused the *directory* release/XFree86 with the *category* XFree86. Go back and read my original response and you will see that I was trying to

How do I map my Non US Keyboard

2002-07-23 Thread Davoud Azimian
Hi, I've just installed Cygwin and tried to find out how I change my keyboard mapping. Right now I have the American Keyboard mapping and I need to use my German (Swiss) keyboard. Regards Davoud Azimian GENESIS COMMUNICATION Davoud Azimian Binzstrasse 18 CH-8045 Zürich Telefon direkt:

Re: How do I map my Non US Keyboard

2002-07-23 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Davoud, I should have told you that I have been posting your messages to the cygwin-xfree list already. (Notice, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was in the cc field on each of my messages). You can check which messages are posted to the mailing list, without subscribing to it, by looking at the mailing

Re: Updated: ghostscript-7.05-1 (test release)

2002-07-23 Thread Jack Larsen
Hi Harold, I am sorry that you found 4 post in [EMAIL PROTECTED] My mail program hanged and therefore I again and again pushed the send button. Nevertheless [EMAIL PROTECTED] was the right address as Mr Wourms already mentioned. Please let me know whether a .dll X11 variant comes or not -

Re: problems with XFree

2002-07-23 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
Why not install a file in /etc/profile.d ? Yes, the problem is because /usr/X11R6/bin is not in the path by default. Yes, we have thought many, many times about how to fix this. No, no one has yet come up with a solution that will work for all cases. Yes, we are very much looking

Re: Updated: ghostscript-7.05-1 (test release)

2002-07-23 Thread Nicholas Wourms
Harold, Thanks for the sarcasm, but it was hardly warranted. I was simply restating the facts for those who were not involved. Also, it seems that you missed one of the points of that discussion, which was that all things of XFree nature should be discussed on the XFree list, regardless of

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: Updated: ghostscript-7.05-1 (test release)

2002-07-23 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Nicholas Wourms wrote: Harold, Thanks for the sarcasm, but it was hardly warranted. I was simply restating the facts for those who were not involved. Also, it seems that you missed one of the points of that discussion, which was that all things of XFree nature should be discussed on the

Re: X via SSH (was: New (Delphi) xlauncher)

2002-07-23 Thread Nick THOMPSON
With a combination of ssh-keygen, ssh-agent, ssh-add and a utility I found in a Japanese website (win-ssh-askpass) I got pretty much what I want. But I see two disadvantages from my ideal. 1) I have to have a local key on my laptop which I travel with, so is not secure. 2) It seems like using a

X11 backing store

2002-07-23 Thread Hans Werner Strube
If X11 graphics programs request backing store, for instance, with drawattr.backing_store = Always; XChangeWindowAttributes(display, drawable, CWBackingStore, drawattr); this seems to have no effect. The same program works correctly in Solaris (SPARC) and IRIX (MIPS). The memory of my

Re: X11 backing store

2002-07-23 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Hans Werner Strube wrote: If X11 graphics programs request backing store, for instance, with drawattr.backing_store = Always; XChangeWindowAttributes(display, drawable, CWBackingStore, drawattr); this seems to have no effect. The same program works correctly in Solaris (SPARC) and

Re: problems with XFree

2002-07-23 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Dennis, Dennis Foreman wrote: Harold, My problems are not with the code base and hence the implementation, but rather the lack of conformity between the different implementations as to the arguments allowed. If you know your UNIX history, you know that what hurt its widespread usage most

RE: problems with XFree

2002-07-23 Thread Dennis Foreman
Harold, Since you admit to having to play with addresses, could you PLEASE not send postings to me twice. I am now getting ONE from the LIST and ANOTHER direct, for YOUR replies to my postings. Since you deprecated my use of your personal email address, I have no recourse but to post my reply

Re: problems with XFree

2002-07-23 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Dennis Foreman wrote: Harold, Since you admit to having to play with addresses, could you PLEASE not send postings to me twice. I am now getting ONE from the LIST and ANOTHER direct, for YOUR replies to my postings. Since you deprecated my use of your personal email address, I have no

Re: How do I map the keyboard

2002-07-23 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Oops! I didn't notice that this was sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Davoud - Are you talking about Cygwin/XFree86 keyboard mappings? If so, send all questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Harold Davoud, Hmm... I think the Cygwin/XFree86 charter specifically forbids helping

Re: Help with fixing x2x...

2002-07-23 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Thomas, In x2x, the return value from ProcessEvent which indicates that everything went normally is False, not True. The real intentions for the return value of ProcessEvent can be described by the boolean variable called ``bAbortedDisconnect'' that is returned from ProcessMotionNotify.

RE: problems with XFree

2002-07-23 Thread Dennis Foreman
[Smoke billows from Harold's keyboard as he quickly rewrites 20 years of open-source and free-software to be compatible with Solaris, because Dennis Foreman thought it would be a neat idea.] Nice idea, but you will have to work on that one yourself. It's not my idea. I have been to conferences