Re: Problems starting X server

2002-07-21 Thread Francis Barton
Found the problem via the mount command, thanks Harold. The WIN32 fonts directory was no longer in existence (I had moved it) thus bash couldn't use the mounted directory. umount worked, and I can now "ls /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts" successfully. The fonts were already in E:\Cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X1

Re: New (Delphi) xlauncher

2002-07-21 Thread Jehan
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, Mac OS X, OS/2, or

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

2002-07-21 Thread Jehan
Harold Hunt wrote: > You must be tired. Well, actually yes :p. I did some canoeing last Friday and I haven't recovered yet. :) > If we create a new offscreen surface (which I was not > talking about doing, I only said we have to recreate the primary (onscreen) > surface) with a different dep

RE: need help scripting multiple xfree startups

2002-07-21 Thread Harold Hunt
Dennis, Never email me directly. Only respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Harold > -Original Message- > From: Dennis Foreman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 7:27 PM > To: Harold Hunt > Subject: RE: need help scripting multiple xfree startups > > > Harold, > My compute

RE: New (Delphi) xlauncher

2002-07-21 Thread Harold Hunt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tim Thomson > Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 9:41 PM > To: cygwin-xfree Mailing List > Subject: New (Delphi) xlauncher > > > Hi there, > > To those of you interested in the progress of my xlauncher program

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

2002-07-21 Thread Harold Hunt
Jehan, > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jehan > Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 6:43 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: On a side note - display resolution changes now handled > > > Harold Hunt wrote: > > On the other hand, display

RE: Problems starting X server

2002-07-21 Thread Harold Hunt
Run the ``mount'' command from a Cygwin bash shell, you will see something like: Administrator@HUNTHARO ~ $ mount C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type system (binmo de) C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode) C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode) c:

New (Delphi) xlauncher

2002-07-21 Thread Tim Thomson
Hi there, To those of you interested in the progress of my xlauncher program(s), I have added some more features to the Delphi version. These include storing and retrieving configuration sessions to and from the registry, multiple font path, or font server specification, and better support for -f

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

2002-07-21 Thread Jehan
Harold Hunt wrote: > On the other hand, display depth changes are much more disruptive, I think. > I don't think that DirectDraw can handle transfering bits from an offscreen > surface of different format than the primary surface; doing so would seem to > defeat the whole purpose of DirectDraw. M

Re: Scrollbars are stealing the WM_MOUSEWHEEL message

2002-07-21 Thread Jehan
Harold Hunt wrote: > Any suggestions? I can't reproduce it on my system (WinXP). Do you have a special driver for you mouse by any chance (Intellimouse and the like)? It's well known that some applications are not friendly with the mouse wheel. The drivers try sometimes to fix it but then brea

Re: Problems starting X server

2002-07-21 Thread Francis Barton
Thanks for your reply Thomas. > Are you sure you've installed the XFree86-xserv package? To verify it's > installed, check for the existence of /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin.exe and a symbolic > link at /usr/X11R6/bin/X that points to it. All present and correct. > Also, look for the existence of the fi

RE: need help scripting multiple xfree startups

2002-07-21 Thread Harold Hunt
Dennis, I always launch Cygwin/XFree86 from an icon on the desktop that points to the startxwin.bat file in c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin. The batch file starts an xterm and when the xterm pops up I run: ssh -X -C username@hostname I type in my password and that is it. As for avoiding typing in you