RE: No keyboard with XFree86 4.0.3

2003-08-04 Thread Pavel Rozenboim
-Original Message- From: Alexander Gottwald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun, August 03, 2003 11:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: No keyboard with XFree86 4.0.3 Pavel Rozenboim wrote: Hi, I just upgraded XFree86 to a latest 4.0.3 packages. Now, when I run

RE: No keyboard with XFree86 4.0.3

2003-08-04 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Pavel Rozenboim wrote: please check if a file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB exists and if a line like these exists: XF86_Switch_VT_1:1008FE01 It exists. Since you're the only one with this Problem I suspect it's a problem with the 1.5 release of cygwin.

Re: request for new feature

2003-08-04 Thread David Fraser
Alexander Gottwald wrote: Harold L Hunt II wrote: I am all about baby steps. We haven't even proven that we know how to start a new application for the user from the system tray icon yet. Until we actually do that this discussion is really pointless. I can send you code which spawns new

Re: request for new feature

2003-08-04 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, David Fraser wrote: I can send you code which spawns new processes from a running windows app. Could you send it to the list? /* we must build this string with information about mount points */ const char* command = c:\\cygwin\\usr\\x11r6\\xterm.exe

RE: No keyboard with XFree86 4.0.3

2003-08-04 Thread Pavel Rozenboim
-Original Message- From: Alexander Gottwald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon, August 04, 2003 11:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: No keyboard with XFree86 4.0.3 On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Pavel Rozenboim wrote: please check if a file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB

RE: No keyboard with XFree86 4.0.3

2003-08-04 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Pavel Rozenboim wrote: I suspect it caused by upgrade from 4.2.0 to 4.3.0, since I didn't have such problem with X 4.2.0 and cygwin 1.5.1. I could not reproduce it on abother computer , though. There were several people who have upgraded to 4.3.0 too and have not reported

RE: No keyboard with XFree86 4.0.3

2003-08-04 Thread Pavel Rozenboim
-Original Message- From: Alexander Gottwald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon, August 04, 2003 12:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: No keyboard with XFree86 4.0.3 On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Pavel Rozenboim wrote: I suspect it caused by upgrade from 4.2.0 to 4.3.0, since

Re: xfree cvs

2003-08-04 Thread J S
Harold, I downloaded the XFIXES_BRANCH but when I tried to compile it I got: make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/u752359/x-devel/build/std/programs/Xserver/XTrap' cleaning in programs/Xserver/xfixes... cd: can't cd to xfixes cleaning in programs/Xserver/hw/xwin... make[4]: Entering directory

Re: xfree cvs

2003-08-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
JS, Okay, it looks like you are using my suggested directory structure from the Contributor's Guide. Does this mean that you have XFIXES_BRANCH somewhere like: /home/u752359/x-devel/xc/ ? If so, had you had a previous branch, say HEAD, at: /home/u752359/x-devel/xc/ ? Yes? Good. That

Re: request for new feature

2003-08-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, David Fraser wrote: I can send you code which spawns new processes from a running windows app. Could you send it to the list? /* we must build this string with information about mount points */ const char* command =

Re: request for new feature

2003-08-04 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: /* we must build this string with information about mount points */ const char* command = c:\\cygwin\\usr\\x11r6\\xterm.exe -display :0.0; That line and comment are really the crux of my whole argument. It is simple to spawn a process.

Re: request for new feature

2003-08-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: /* we must build this string with information about mount points */ const char* command = c:\\cygwin\\usr\\x11r6\\xterm.exe -display :0.0; That line and comment are really the crux of my whole argument. It is simple

Re: request for new feature

2003-08-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:03:37PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: /* we must build this string with information about mount points */ const char* command = c:\\cygwin\\usr\\x11r6\\xterm.exe -display :0.0; That line

Re: request for new feature

2003-08-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:03:37PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: /* we must build this string with information about mount points */ const char* command = c:\\cygwin\\usr\\x11r6\\xterm.exe

Re: request for new feature

2003-08-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:22:33PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Depends on if we use Cygwin's fork or Window's CreateProcess. We haven't made that decision yet. Huh. Seems like a no-brainer to me. It's a cygwin program so why not use fork/exec? Then Xwin will be able to use 'wait()' to

Re: request for new feature

2003-08-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:22:33PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Depends on if we use Cygwin's fork or Window's CreateProcess. We haven't made that decision yet. Huh. Seems like a no-brainer to me. It's a cygwin program so why not use fork/exec? Then Xwin will

Re: request for new feature

2003-08-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:58:06PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:22:33PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Depends on if we use Cygwin's fork or Window's CreateProcess. We haven't made that decision yet. Huh. Seems like a no-brainer to me.

Re: request for new feature

2003-08-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Chris, We discussed this back in May/June. Suhaib mailed me the CDs of his initial work in June as a result of the discussion. I have the CDs, so I don't need to check the archives for proof here. Of course, since then I have been rather tied up with things (wedding, moving, etc.). End of

Re: request for new feature

2003-08-04 Thread Jack Tanner
Start-Run c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\run /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -display :0 YES! , this works perfectly. Now could this be added as a right click menu option to the tray? I'd thought about suggesting this before, but I decided against it: it is bad UI. Windows already has a method of starting

Re: request for new feature

2003-08-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 01:21:12PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote: We discussed this back in May/June. Suhaib mailed me the CDs of his initial work in June as a result of the discussion. I have the CDs, so I don't need to check the archives for proof here. Of course, since then I have been

Re: request for new feature

2003-08-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Right to all of that, but I am really busy at work right now and this is precisely the sort of discussion that I don't have time to partake in at the moment. Harold Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 01:21:12PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote: We discussed this back in May/June.

Re: request for new feature

2003-08-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 02:17:24PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Right to all of that, but I am really busy at work right now and this is precisely the sort of discussion that I don't have time to partake in at the moment. That's ok. I'm done. You can just ignore anything I said. It's your

Re: request for new feature

2003-08-04 Thread Andrew Markebo
/ Jack Tanner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |Start-Run |c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\run /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -display :0 | YES! , this works perfectly. Now could this be added | as a right click menu option to the tray? or hmm during setup of the packages, add an icon for X-server, and local xterm, to

Re: request for new feature

2003-08-04 Thread Peter Colovas
OR, paste the following into a batch file, then put an icon to the batch file on your desktop (or your start menu, etc... the possibilities are endless!). @echo off set path=%PATH%;C:\cygwin\bin cd c:\cygwin\home c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\run xterm -display :0.0 -e bash --login Andrew Markebo

Re: request for new feature

2003-08-04 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Harold L Hunt II wrote: Depends on if we use Cygwin's fork or Window's CreateProcess. We haven't made that decision yet. I'd not set any conditions. If one implements it with fork or with CreateProcess is quite unimportant. bye ago BTW: I'd prefer CreateProcess as it bypasses the

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 95

2003-08-04 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi, there is a little problem with gcc 2.95.x. In some files I've got a compiling error like mentioned below: wingc.c: In function `winValidateGCNativeGDI': wingc.c:155: parse error before `fDebugProcMsg' wingc.c:156: `fDebugProcMsg' undeclared (first use in this function) wingc.c:156: (Each

Re: request for new feature

2003-08-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 09:01:57PM +0200, Alexander Gottwald wrote: Harold L Hunt II wrote: Depends on if we use Cygwin's fork or Window's CreateProcess. We haven't made that decision yet. I'd not set any conditions. If one implements it with fork or with CreateProcess is quite unimportant.

cygwin-xwin-test95 binary web link ????

2003-08-04 Thread Bovy, Stephen J
The web link for (the binary) of the newest test server series v (95) is pointing to test version (94)

xfree 4.3.0.2 and XftConfig

2003-08-04 Thread Ron Stanonik
Hi, I'm porting an application from linux to cygwin. I upgraded from xfree 4.2 to 4.3 and now xft code list no fonts. It did in 4.2. I tried fontconfig, since that is now available, but it also doesn't list any fonts. I notice that in 4.2 there was an XftConfig in /etc/X11, but there isn't in

Re: rfe: seamless windows integration

2003-08-04 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Jack, Thanks. Let me tell you, we already have a laundry list of dream features. We just need people to start working on them. Harold Jack Tanner wrote: This is a pipe dream, but it's a pipe dream worth striving for. 1. X should run as a service. There's no reason for it to run as a