Running Cygwin on Vista

2007-08-27 Thread T . Shoeib
Hello, I have been trying to run Cygwin on my new laptop running Vista Home Premium and I am having a really tough time. Initially, the command "startx" was not recognised so I downloaded all the x11 packages. I then ran cygwin again without rebooting, the "startx" command was then re

RE: RE: Two issues with Xwin

2007-08-27 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Ronald Fischer (Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:57:34 +0200) > This suggest that different dot-files are sourced in the two cases. > When I run bash (in my case) either from cmd or started by XWin, I > also have differences in which dot-files are sourced, so this is the > first place you might want to look.

Re: Two issues with Xwin

2007-08-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Larry Hall (Cygwin X) (Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:10:28 -0400) On 08/25/2007, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * I regularly "lose" the mouse pointer and I'm unable to the the cursor anymore in applications like Konsole (either natively or running as X client on a Linux host). The mouse

Re: xterm(229-1) does not accept "-u8"

2007-08-27 Thread Yongwei Wu
> Poor Yorick wrote: > > Yongwei wrote: > > #!/bin/sh > > LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 xterm -u8 -fn "*-medium-*--18-*-iso10646-1" -fb > > "*-bold-*--18-*-iso10646-1" -fw "*-medium-*-ja-18-*-iso10646-1" -e > > bash $@ & > > > > Double quotes around the "$@" variable will ensure that positional > variables

Re: xterm(229-1) does not accept "-u8"

2007-08-27 Thread Poor Yorick
> From: Yongwei Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: xterm(229-1) does not accept "-u8" > Sent: 2007-08-27 14:01 > is enough to do much, like viewing multi-byte documents in Vim. I use > this script to start a UTF-8 XTerm: > > #!/bin/sh > LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 xterm -u8 -fn "*-medium-*--

Re: xterm(229-1) does not accept "-u8"

2007-08-27 Thread Yongwei Wu
neomjp wrote: > I will be glad if UTF-8 support is turned back on again, > maybe in future updates. I would like to echo neomjp's request. The Unicode support in xterm is enough to do much, like viewing multi-byte documents in Vim. I use this script to start a UTF-8 XTerm: #!/bin/sh LC_C

RE: RE: Two issues with Xwin

2007-08-27 Thread Ronald Fischer
> The desired effect for the Enter key would be to normal enter > function > of a shell. Tab should do file and command completion. > > > Which shell? > > zsh > > > How did you configure it? (i.e. if you are talking about readline > > functionality, what's the content of your .inputrc, and did

RE: Two issues with Xwin

2007-08-27 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Ronald Fischer (Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:42:20 +0200) > > * using a terminal and a shell I often have to enter Enter or Tab > > twice to get the desired effect. How come? > > Which effect do you desire? (Filename completion, command completion, > ...)? The desired effect for the Enter key would be

Re: Two issues with Xwin

2007-08-27 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Larry Hall (Cygwin X) (Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:10:28 -0400) > On 08/25/2007, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > * I regularly "lose" the mouse pointer and I'm unable to the the cursor > > anymore in applications like Konsole (either natively or running as X > > client on a Linux host). The mouse still works

Re: Two issues with Xwin

2007-08-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 08/25/2007, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * I regularly "lose" the mouse pointer and I'm unable to the the cursor anymore in applications like Konsole (either natively or running as X client on a Linux host). The mouse still works if I "blindly" click somewhere, just the cursor is "gone". This happe

Re: XWin 100% after laptop lid close (with no action)

2007-08-27 Thread Nick
Nick ioncube.com> writes: > Other than not closing the lid, does anyone have any workarounds to try or > further handle on this issue? Unfortunately I didn't find a resolution for the Cygwin problem on Vista, but a solution that works perfectly is to use the Xming X server rather than the Cygwin

Windows fonts usage?

2007-08-27 Thread Ronald Fischer
Is there a way to use/convert the fonts which come with Windows, for usage with Cygwin/X, when running XWin.exe in Multiwindow mode? Ronald -- Ronald Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Phone: +49-89-452133-162 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: htt

RE: Two issues with Xwin

2007-08-27 Thread Ronald Fischer
> * using a terminal and a shell I often have to enter Enter or Tab > twice to get the desired effect. How come? Which effect do you desire? (Filename completion, command completion, ...)? Which shell? How did you configure it? (i.e. if you are talking about readline functionality, what's the con