garbage collection

2004-01-26 Thread scharn
i have temporarily forgotten how to check for garbage collection on cygwin-xfree86.

CoLinux with Cygwin/X

2004-01-26 Thread Alexander Gottwald
http://www.colinux.org/screenshots/knoppix.png The image shows a Cygwin/X window which displays the content of a japanese Knoppix linux. The linux is running on top of the windows showing the Cygwin/X window. CoLinux is a Linux running on top of Windows (like UserModeLinux) See

Redrawing problems with MSVDM

2004-01-26 Thread William Conrad Halliburton
I am using Microsoft Virtual Desktop Manager under XP with the latest cygwin. XWin -multiwindow When switching back to a desktop with a window from the XServer the window will often not refresh and is drawn completly blank. There was a previous message in October on this list with no

RE: Redrawing problems with MSVDM

2004-01-26 Thread Andrew Braverman
I am the one who wrote the original message. Unfortunately, time available/annoyance ratio has not been high enough for me to do anything about it yet. It was working fine until a bug fix was made to tweak a redrawing problem on one screen. At that time, moving between two virtual desktops

Re: -clipboard fails with XDMCP and GDM

2004-01-26 Thread Peter Oliver
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, James Simonsen wrote: I am still experiencing problems with -clipboard and XDMCP [with GDM]. Copy and paste between linux/windows works fine in the login dialog, but stops working as soon as I log in. I had exactly the same trouble with GDM, and found that if you set

Re: ddd broken on CYGWIN 1.5.6

2004-01-26 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Dirk Fassbender wrote: i have a problem with the start of ddd after upgrade to CYGWIN 1.5.6 and LATEST snapshot. See below : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ddd gdb: access /dev/tty1: No such file or directory gdb: cannot open master pty: No such file or directory gdb:

New URL - x.cygwin.com

2004-01-26 Thread Harold L Hunt II
The primary URL for the Cygwin/X site is now x.cygwin.com. Other URLs that you may have been using should continue to work. Now instead of telling people x-free-8-6-dot-cygwin-dot-com you can tell them x-dot-cygwin-dot-com. Making the world more efficient through shorter URLs :) Harold

Patch for centering exit/mode change dialogs on multiscreen

2004-01-26 Thread Earle F. Philhower III
It seems that the DS_CENTER property only centers a dialog onto the 1st detected monitor, and not the primary monitor (selected in Desktop props). At my office the two are the same, but on my home setup my center DVI monitor is detected as #3... I'm attaching a minor patchfile which