displaying windows outside the main window
Hi, Is it possible to display the clients' windows like xterm, rxvt, ymeesenger, etc. outside the main single window??? Any help would be appreciated. Rahul.
Re: displaying windows outside the main window
On Sun, 25 Aug 2002 9:48 pm, Rahul Amaram-RollNo.286 wrote: Hi, Is it possible to display the clients' windows like xterm, rxvt, ymeesenger, etc. outside the main single window??? Any help would be appreciated. Rahul. See http://xfree86.cygwin.com/devel/todo.html. It is at the top of the list, but Cygwin-XFree is developed in peoples spare time. Harold did offer to develop needed features in return for some renumeration. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-07/msg00090.html I didn't respond to Harold's post at the time, as unfortunately I don't hold the purse strings where I work, but philosophically I am strongly in favour of people paying money to get features they want developed in Open-Source software. I have helped my workplace become a paying customer to two open-source products, Mitel's SME server and Astaro's Security Linux. If Harold had a pay pal account, I would happily contribute US$10, particularly if a number of other people did so too. Perhaps setting up some kind of pledge system. Something along the lines of: Task 1: Rootless mode - |Name | Amount Pledged | Contact| Rec'd | - | Joe Blogs | $20 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Yes | | Mary Smith| $15 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | etc Task 2: .. Once the task is complete, someone follows up each pledge. I would suggest that that someone not be the developer(s). An automated system would be better. Anyone know of an existing system that could be coerced to do the task? Would RedHat be happy to host such a pledging system on their servers? I would be happy to host it on my sever. Note that it is only on an ADSL connection with a 64kbs uplink speed. However, it is up 24/7 and does have a fixed IP. The contact email address would need to be obscured from the spammers, or perhaps kept off public pages altogether. What do people think? Could it work? Is it already being done somewhere? I have just found some pages by Christopher Browne, called the Free Software (Gift) Exchange Registry (http://cbbrowne.com/info/fssp.html), but he just talks about a similar idea. There is no reference to someone actually putting his idea into practice. Christopher does raise the issue of gifts and tax, and his article is generally a good read. Rasjid.
RE: displaying windows outside the main window
Speaking of a PayPal account... I have one. I even set it up to accept credit card payments a few weeks ago, but I haven't yet put a link to it from my personal page. I think I now have some motivation to do so :) I'll will post once to the list to let people know that the link exists, and I'll make sure that there are links to my home page from the Cygwin/XFree86 page, but I won't put a PayPal link directly on the Cygwin/XFree86 page because I believe that would violate the spirit of the project. --- That was just so that everyone knows that I will be ethical about this :) Harold -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rasjid Wilcox Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 10:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Rahul Amaram-RollNo.286 Subject: Re: displaying windows outside the main window On Sun, 25 Aug 2002 9:48 pm, Rahul Amaram-RollNo.286 wrote: Hi, Is it possible to display the clients' windows like xterm, rxvt, ymeesenger, etc. outside the main single window??? Any help would be appreciated. Rahul. See http://xfree86.cygwin.com/devel/todo.html. It is at the top of the list, but Cygwin-XFree is developed in peoples spare time. Harold did offer to develop needed features in return for some renumeration. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-07/msg00090.html I didn't respond to Harold's post at the time, as unfortunately I don't hold the purse strings where I work, but philosophically I am strongly in favour of people paying money to get features they want developed in Open-Source software. I have helped my workplace become a paying customer to two open-source products, Mitel's SME server and Astaro's Security Linux. If Harold had a pay pal account, I would happily contribute US$10, particularly if a number of other people did so too. Perhaps setting up some kind of pledge system. Something along the lines of: Task 1: Rootless mode -- --- |Name | Amount Pledged | Contact | Rec'd | -- --- | Joe Blogs | $20 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Yes | | Mary Smith| $15 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | etc Task 2: .. Once the task is complete, someone follows up each pledge. I would suggest that that someone not be the developer(s). An automated system would be better. Anyone know of an existing system that could be coerced to do the task? Would RedHat be happy to host such a pledging system on their servers? I would be happy to host it on my sever. Note that it is only on an ADSL connection with a 64kbs uplink speed. However, it is up 24/7 and does have a fixed IP. The contact email address would need to be obscured from the spammers, or perhaps kept off public pages altogether. What do people think? Could it work? Is it already being done somewhere? I have just found some pages by Christopher Browne, called the Free Software (Gift) Exchange Registry (http://cbbrowne.com/info/fssp.html), but he just talks about a similar idea. There is no reference to someone actually putting his idea into practice. Christopher does raise the issue of gifts and tax, and his article is generally a good read. Rasjid.
Re: building XFree86 from cvs
On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 17:48:05 -0400 (EDT), Harold Leatherman Hunt II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I can't offer any help because I have no idea what you are doing. In order for me to help, or for me to even investigate this problem any further, you are going to have to follow, exactly, the instructions for compiling that are in the Cygwin/XFree86 Contributor's Guide (http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/cg/). I have, except for the folders. I'm compiling into obj-dbg and obj-rel for debug and release versions respectively. Doesn't matter whether the build is (makeg.sh)debug or release: failures are at the same points. You will then have to be very clear about whether you are cross compiling or whether you are building on Cygwin, Building on Cygwin. NT Workstation SP6a RC1.28. CYGWIN=binmode ntsec codepage:oem and you will have to tell me the precise step in the Contributor's Guide instructions that you start to have problems at. You will also have to send in your World.log file (which will be generated if you follow the CG instructions). Step 7. make World which for the most part works. It's simply a few .exe extensions getting added which are causing make's dependencies to fail. Typically foo.exe.exe but sometimes foo.exe.blah. As Alexander suggested, I performed (my first ever!) diff of my Imakefile alterations against CVS tonight. It ought to precisely identify the problem even if I've made a complete mess of doing them in the required format. I simply cannot spend time debugging each developers command-sequence that they use for building. You've got to stick to the prescribed sequence in order to get help from me. Fair enough. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Utilities
Where do I get utilities for CyGwin...like vi, sed, more etc. ? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com
Re: Utilities
Mike, Everything is accessible in one place (via many mirrors, of course): The Setup.exe program can download and install everything you're looking for, including (optionally) source code. If you want to know which package contains which file, go to http://cygwin.com/packages/ and enter a file name (it's a good idea to include the .exe suffix for short names like vi). By the way, Cygwin makes a symlink to vim.exe providing the alias vi, but the program is vim.exe. If you look for vi.exe you'll get packages that include executables whose (base) names end with dvi (TeX related, of course). Randall Schulz At 18:45 2002-08-25, mike iannone wrote: Where do I get utilities for CyGwin...like vi, sed, more etc. ? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com Randy
