setup.exe and inuse files for X

2002-04-30 Thread Robert Collins
I think I've got a handle on this... looks like read only (-r--r--r--) files don't delete properly, so setup fails to overwrite them. Patches gratefully accepted, it's going in the TODO for now. Rob

RE: upset stumper [cgf, Robert Collins, please comment]

2002-04-30 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Harold Hunt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 12:25 AM > To: Robert Collins; cygx > Subject: RE: upset stumper [cgf, Robert Collins, please comment] > > > Robert, > > I forgot to reply last night that I had hand-fixed the > setup

Short-term personal status

2002-04-30 Thread Harold Hunt
Final exams are this week and I graduate from Michigan State University on Saturday with my Computational Mathematics B.S. Actually, I receive my degree at the end of the summer because I am taking one more summer class, but that's just so I get charged the undergraduate rate instead of the gradu

RE: mkdll.sh

2002-04-30 Thread Harold Hunt
Chuck, Excellent. You know that your write-up won't be a wasted effort on me. :) I'll be looking at this next week. Harold > -Original Message- > From: Charles Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 11:48 AM > To: Harold Hunt > Cc: cygx > Subject: Re: mkdll

Re: By the way...

2002-04-30 Thread Charles Wilson
Steven O'Brien wrote: >> 1) pkgconfig. I'm the cygwin pkgconfig maintainer, and I'd like > > I'll add that to the list of jobs ... When I started work on > gnome-vfs pkg-config was not in the "official" cygwin distribution > and 0.8.0 was the latest version. I patched it to remove the > inc

Display CDE through ssh?

2002-04-30 Thread Nils Lichtenfeld
Hello there! I am totaly new to this project. Installed cygwin/XFree86 like told in the documentation. Also managed to connect to my university through ssh and started some x-applications like mozill etc. by following the documentation. Beautifull! The machines at the university run HPUX with CD

Re: By the way...

2002-04-30 Thread Steven O'Brien
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 10:57:46 -0400 Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Harold Hunt wrote: > > > ... I added a link to your Cygwin Gnome page to Cygwin/XFree86's Ported > > Software page: > > http://xfree86.cygwin.com/ported-software.html > > > > I'm very impressed with your work to comp

Re: mkdll.sh

2002-04-30 Thread Steven O'Brien
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 02:48:20 -0400 Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You could probably do the following: > > get rid of mkdll.sh > relibtoolize/autoconf using the "-devel" tools (e.g. make sure that > configure.in has "AC_PREREQ(2.52)") > > ./configure; make; > > It oughta work. >

Re: cut and paste from MS windows app to xfree (xfce) app

2002-04-30 Thread Francois Perrot
Hi Peter, What about using xwinclip ? It's definitly a GREAT improuvement in cygwin users everyday's life. You'll find it in the xfree page... François "The Happy xwinclip User..." Perrot - Original Message - From: "Peter W. Colovas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tue

Re: mkdll.sh

2002-04-30 Thread Charles Wilson
Harold Hunt wrote: > Chuck, > > Could you give a few more notes on "relibtoolize"? A pointer to some good > documentation would be helpful... Well, there's the goat book http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/ but it's a bit out of date, now... Here's the procedure I used to "relibtoolize"

cut and paste from MS windows app to xfree (xfce) app

2002-04-30 Thread Peter W. Colovas
How do I cut and paste from MS windows app to xfree (xfce) app? I can't find anything about it in the docs or archives. Is it specific to each WM? Thanks, -Pete begin:vcard n:Colovas;Peter tel;work:+1 630 224 2181 x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:SPEED Platform Development;SPEED Hardware and Software De

problems with kde 1.1.2 kcontrol solved

2002-04-30 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi, some month ago I've encountered a problem with kde 1.1.2 kcontol. The problem was, that a once called kcontrol page was hidden for further calls. Currently I have checked this with the xfree 4.2.0 release and recognizes that it this problem is gone away. Thanks for this good work. Ralf Hab

Re: Best place for WindowMaker, Openbox, etc.?

2002-04-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 03:39:40PM +0100, Sam Edge wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >in gmane.os.cygwin.xfree on Tue, 30 Apr 2002 10:12:15 -0400: Other things that can use X such as rxvt and WindowMaker aren't part of XFree86 itself. In my opinion they should have t

Re: By the way...

2002-04-30 Thread Charles Wilson
Harold Hunt wrote: > ... I added a link to your Cygwin Gnome page to Cygwin/XFree86's Ported > Software page: > http://xfree86.cygwin.com/ported-software.html > > I'm very impressed with your work to compile Gnome with DLLs. Keep it up! A couple of things: 1) pkgconfig. I'm the cygwin pkgco

RE: Installation Problems

2002-04-30 Thread Harold Hunt
Gregor, Thanks, I updated the setup.hint file to list this dependencies for XFree86-base. Harold > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gregor Herbort > Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 3:40 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Installa

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New Cygwin setup.exe package: lesstif

2002-04-30 Thread Harold Hunt
Lesstif, http://www.lesstif.org/, is now available via setup.exe. Enjoy, Harold

RE: mkdll.sh

2002-04-30 Thread Harold Hunt
Chuck, Could you give a few more notes on "relibtoolize"? A pointer to some good documentation would be helpful... Is the general idea here that I would just be working on the config files and makefiles, rather than having to make extensive internal changes to the way that libraries are loaded?

Re: Best place for WindowMaker, Openbox, etc.?

2002-04-30 Thread Sam Edge
Christopher Faylor wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in gmane.os.cygwin.xfree on Tue, 30 Apr 2002 10:12:15 -0400: > >>Other things that can use X such as rxvt and WindowMaker aren't part of > >>XFree86 itself. In my opinion they should have their own directories > >>and perhaps a new category such as

RE: newbie

2002-04-30 Thread Harold Hunt
That all depends. Your chances are pretty good. Harold > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of arun > Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 8:42 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: newbie > > > hello, > > I have an x windows application compi

RE: Failed assertion bug using OpenOffice.org

2002-04-30 Thread Harold Hunt
Peter, Yes, we are aware of that bug. We're slowly getting around to working on it. Several other cases produce that same failed assertation message. Harold > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Peter Magnusson > Sent: Wednesday, April

Re: newbie

2002-04-30 Thread Andrew Markebo
/ "arun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | hello, | | I have an x windows application compiled for linux.This application | extensively uses graphics Can I directly port it to windows using | Cygwin/xfree86 ?? If it is clean portable c/c++ code - yep. If you do a bunch os-specific stuff and so on, yo

RE: upset stumper [cgf, Robert Collins, please comment]

2002-04-30 Thread Harold Hunt
Chris, Much better, thanks. Harold > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor > Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 10:20 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: upset stumper [cgf, Robert Collins, please comment] > > > On Tu

RE: upset stumper [cgf, Robert Collins, please comment]

2002-04-30 Thread Harold Hunt
Robert, I forgot to reply last night that I had hand-fixed the setup.ini file and setup.exe ran fine after that. Thanks, Harold > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert Collins > Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 5:08 AM > To: Harold Hu

Re: upset stumper [cgf, Robert Collins, please comment]

2002-04-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 02:09:56AM -0400, Harold Hunt wrote: >version: -1.2.10-1 >install: release/XFree86/gtk+/gtk+-1.2.10-1.tar.bz2 2566794 >source: release/XFree86/gtk+/gtk+-1.2.10-1-src.tar.bz2 2884874 > > >Notice that the version is thought to be "-1.2.10-1", rather than >"1.2.10-1". > >Rober

Re: Best place for WindowMaker, Openbox, etc.?

2002-04-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 03:53:13PM +0200, Franz Wolfhagen wrote: >>Other things that can use X such as rxvt and WindowMaker aren't part of >>XFree86 itself. In my opinion they should have their own directories >>and perhaps a new category such as "Xapps." > >I think a category of Xmanagers for Wi

Re: Best place for WindowMaker, Openbox, etc.?

2002-04-30 Thread Franz Wolfhagen
>Other things that can use X such as rxvt and WindowMaker aren't part >of XFree86 itself. In my opinion they should have their own >directories and perhaps a new category such as "Xapps." I think a category of Xmanagers for WindowMaker and Openbox etc. would be better. Xapps should be applicati

Re: Best place for WindowMaker, Openbox, etc.?

2002-04-30 Thread Sam Edge
Christopher Faylor wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in gmane.os.cygwin.xfree on Mon, 29 Apr 2002 17:39:20 -0400: > If they run under it, they belong in the XFree86 hierarchy. That's > why I created it. I didn't mean to tread on any toes. I was expressing an opinion. Perhaps I should have made that

newbie

2002-04-30 Thread arun
hello, I have an x windows application compiled for linux.This application extensively uses graphics Can I directly port it to windows using Cygwin/xfree86 ?? thanx

RE: upset stumper [cgf, Robert Collins, please comment]

2002-04-30 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Harold Hunt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 4:10 PM > install: release/XFree86/gtk+/gtk+-1.2.10-1.tar.bz2 2566794 > source: release/XFree86/gtk+/gtk+-1.2.10-1-src.tar.bz2 2884874 > > > Notice that the version is thought to be "-

RE: Installation Problems

2002-04-30 Thread Gregor Herbort
Hello, here what i got from Aaron Newcomb as an answer for the problem i described on 25. April. I tried it and it works. Gregor, I happend to read your post on the cygwin/XFree mailing list archive. I ran into the same problem and was able to fix it. It seems that the new cygwin install progr