XWin keyboard problem after upgrade

2009-01-06 Thread Markus Moeller
When I upgraded my cygwin installation to 2.573.2.3 on Windows Vista XWin doesn't take anymore keyboard input. The previous version was working fine and I could forward xterms from my Unix server. Now I get the xterm but I can not type anything into the windows. I can do cut and paste of

Re: (EE) Keyboardlayout Russian (00000419) is unknown

2009-01-06 Thread Jon TURNEY
Sergey Talchuk wrote: Hi Jon, Unfortunately not and if I try to type xterm stacks. So I have to restart. stacks = sticks? Does it stick whatever the keyboard mapping is? (in which case you probably have this problem [1]), or only when you try 'setxkbmap ru' ? [1]

Re: (EE) Keyboardlayout Russian (00000419) is unknown

2009-01-06 Thread Sergey Talchuk
Ups, German influence... I meant 'my xterm hangs' I've tried 'setxkbmap de' and it works fine. After 'setxkbmap ru' I can type 123456890 only. If any other character - xterm hangs angain Regards, Sergey On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Jon TURNEY jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk wrote: Sergey Talchuk

Re: multiwindow support for _NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_TASKBAR

2009-01-06 Thread Jon TURNEY
Jon TURNEY wrote: Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: I have noticed that normal windows don't appear in the taskbar until they are refocused upon. Can you confirm? Ping? I'm not dead, just sleeping ;-) Yes, I see the same behaviour. When I looked into this, it seems to be

Re: multiwindow support for _NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_TASKBAR

2009-01-06 Thread Jon TURNEY
Jon TURNEY wrote: so needs more work... Just noticed this completely breaks override-redirect windows, so erm.. yes... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/

Re: Small update for X server 1.5.3 patch set

2009-01-06 Thread Colin Harrison
Hi, Colin Harrison wrote: That was an old bodge, that worked but was not that clever. Better to not call 'InitFonts()' other than on serverGeneration 1 and not call 'FreeFonts()' unless shutting down This has side-effects. With the latest libXfonts, you are better off without this

Re: Small update for X server 1.5.3 patch set

2009-01-06 Thread Colin Harrison
PS Just as I sent this..this appeared. http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2009-January/042163.html This has side-effects. With the latest libXfonts, you are better off without this patch...sigh. I'm currently re-testing Xming without it. However the built-ins fonts patch is

Re: XIO error (104) in plotting program

2009-01-06 Thread Jon TURNEY
ScKaSx wrote: Hi All, I use a plotting program based on the plotutils package that works on a PC but which I am having trouble running in BootCamp on my macbook pro. The code compiles correctly but when I execute it, it will show the plot for only a second (on a new window) until that window

Re: /tmp/.X0-lock problem

2009-01-06 Thread Jon TURNEY
Charles Swenson wrote: FAQ 3.4. Fatal server error: Can't read lock file /tmp/.X0-lock I just installed cygwin for the first time (newbie) on a XP-SP3 laptop to gain access to my Linux systems. Install was straight forward but I ran into this error as noted in the FAQ file upon launching X

Re: Windows scaling

2009-01-06 Thread Jon TURNEY
Jon TURNEY wrote: Gionatan Danti wrote: Hi all, I have a question regarding CygWin/X. I would like to know if there is a method to scale a window, similar to what is possible with UltraVNC and its scaling option. To be more clear, I will explain my setup. I have a Linux server where run a

Re: XWin keyboard problem after upgrade

2009-01-06 Thread Markus Moeller
Jon TURNEY jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk wrote in message news:49636e4d.9080...@dronecode.org.uk... Markus Moeller wrote: When I upgraded my cygwin installation to 2.573.2.3 on Windows Vista XWin doesn't take anymore keyboard input. The previous version was working fine and I could forward

Re: XWin keyboard problem after upgrade

2009-01-06 Thread Jon TURNEY
Markus Moeller wrote: Jon TURNEY jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk wrote in message news:49636e4d.9080...@dronecode.org.uk... Markus Moeller wrote: When I upgraded my cygwin installation to 2.573.2.3 on Windows Vista XWin doesn't take anymore keyboard input. The previous version was working fine

Re: (EE) Keyboardlayout Russian (00000419) is unknown

2009-01-06 Thread Jon TURNEY
Sergey Talchuk wrote: Ups, German influence... I meant 'my xterm hangs' I've tried 'setxkbmap de' and it works fine. After 'setxkbmap ru' I can type 123456890 only. If any other character - xterm hangs angain It doesn't hang for me, it just doesn't display any output... I guess I was being a

Re: XWin keyboard problem after upgrade

2009-01-06 Thread Markus Moeller
Jon TURNEY jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk wrote in message news:4963d30d.7000...@dronecode.org.uk... Markus Moeller wrote: Jon TURNEY jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk wrote in message news:49636e4d.9080...@dronecode.org.uk... Markus Moeller wrote: When I upgraded my cygwin installation to 2.573.2.3