Re: Unable to load any usable iso8859 font

2009-02-03 Thread amorphia
Dan Moulding wrote: I typically update my Cygwin installations about once a month, and rarely run into any difficulties. However, this morning after updating I could no longer start any X applications due to some apparent font problems. Please note that I successfully installed the *new*

X / gtk-x11 / flicker and other problems

2009-02-03 Thread John Emmas
I've been 'tinkering around' with Cygwin for a few months now. Not doing anything serious with it - just finding out about it. And in the main, I like it. The only disappointment (sorry guys) is 'X11' (or maybe the problems are with gtk-x11). Either way, I've been hugely disappointed at how

Re: X / gtk-x11 / flicker and other problems

2009-02-03 Thread Jon TURNEY
John Emmas wrote: I've been 'tinkering around' with Cygwin for a few months now. Not doing anything serious with it - just finding out about it. And in the main, I like it. The only disappointment (sorry guys) is 'X11' (or maybe the problems are with gtk-x11). Either way, I've been hugely

Re: X / gtk-x11 / flicker and other problems

2009-02-03 Thread John Emmas
- Original Message - From: Jon TURNEY Subject: Re: X / gtk-x11 / flicker and other problems btw, I use -multiwindow mode all the time, but I've obviously trained myself not to see any of these artefacts lol - fair point..! But I must admit, having seen how the graphics performance

Re: Restore Alt-Ctl-Backspace As Server Kill

2009-02-03 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Gery Herbozo Jimenez wrote: I really hate the assignment of Alt-F4 to kill a running X-server. What magic must I perform to set it back to the more traditional Alt-Ctl-Backspace combo? Thanks. Ideas? Why don't you use just the 'exit' word on your xterm and then right click on your

RE: Restore Alt-Ctl-Backspace As Server Kill

2009-02-03 Thread Gery Herbozo Jimenez
This is not the central issue - the issue is that VirtuaWin may be prematurely killing the session. oh! sorry, I hope you find the answer you're looking for, and soon! _ Consigue gratis el nuevo Messenger. ¡Descárgatelo!

Re: Restore Alt-Ctl-Backspace As Server Kill

2009-02-03 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Tim Daneliuk wrote: Jon TURNEY wrote: Tim Daneliuk wrote: Tim Daneliuk wrote: I really hate the assignment of Alt-F4 to kill a running X-server. What magic must I perform to set it back to the more traditional Alt-Ctl-Backspace combo? Thanks. Let me ask this more properly. I know how to

Re: Restore Alt-Ctl-Backspace As Server Kill

2009-02-03 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Mark J. Reed wrote: I don't use it, but startfluxbox sounds like something that kicks of fluxbox and then exits (vs xterm which stays around). Could that be the problem? Likely true. Also, if you're using ssh, why not use ssh forwarding instead of sending the X traffic back over a

Re: Unable to load any usable iso8859 font

2009-02-03 Thread Jon TURNEY
Dan Moulding wrote: This time, I was getting Unable to load any usable iso8859 font errors anytime I'd try to start xterm. I searched the FAQs and the web, but was unable to find any suggestions that led to a solution. At one point, while trying to fix the problem, I also got the could not open

Re: Restore Alt-Ctl-Backspace As Server Kill

2009-02-03 Thread Jon TURNEY
Tim Daneliuk wrote: Tim Daneliuk wrote: I really hate the assignment of Alt-F4 to kill a running X-server. What magic must I perform to set it back to the more traditional Alt-Ctl-Backspace combo? Thanks. Let me ask this more properly. I know how to use -nounixkill and -nowinkill to prevent

rgb.txt not honored in X7?

2009-02-03 Thread Jared Silva
In Cygwin X11R6 and Exceed 10, the additional colors in my rgb.txt file are used. However, in Cygwin X11R7, even though the rgb.txt file is the same, but in the new location, the additional colors do not seem to be used. In Cygwin X11R6 and Exceed 10, I see the many different colors, but in

Re: Restore Alt-Ctl-Backspace As Server Kill

2009-02-03 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Tim Daneliuk wrote: Mark J. Reed wrote: I don't use it, but startfluxbox sounds like something that kicks of fluxbox and then exits (vs xterm which stays around). Could that be the problem? Likely true. That is, indeed what it was .. at least in some form. The fix turned out to be to

RE: Restore Alt-Ctl-Backspace As Server Kill

2009-02-03 Thread Gery Herbozo Jimenez
I really hate the assignment of Alt-F4 to kill a running X-server. What magic must I perform to set it back to the more traditional Alt-Ctl-Backspace combo? Thanks. Ideas? Why don't you use just the 'exit' word on your xterm and then right click on your 'X server' icon to close/exit

Re: Restore Alt-Ctl-Backspace As Server Kill

2009-02-03 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Jon TURNEY wrote: Tim Daneliuk wrote: Tim Daneliuk wrote: I really hate the assignment of Alt-F4 to kill a running X-server. What magic must I perform to set it back to the more traditional Alt-Ctl-Backspace combo? Thanks. Let me ask this more properly. I know how to use -nounixkill and

Re: Semaphore handle leaks in WindowMaker with latest Xorg distribution

2009-02-03 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Dr. Volker Zell wrote: After switching to the latest Xorg packages (still under cygwin-1.5), WindowMaker-0.90.0-2 stops working after more or less 36 hours continues uptime of my laptop. When this happens I see the following in a bash window

Re: Restore Alt-Ctl-Backspace As Server Kill

2009-02-03 Thread Mark J. Reed
I don't use it, but startfluxbox sounds like something that kicks of fluxbox and then exits (vs xterm which stays around). Could that be the problem? Also, if you're using ssh, why not use ssh forwarding instead of sending the X traffic back over a separate, unencrypted connection? And you

Java SWT app fails to render from AIX on Cygwin X

2009-02-03 Thread Stephen McCants
Hello, I've run into a problem with Cygwin X that I'm at a loss as to how to debug further. I have a trivial test case that uses Java and SWT, and it creates a simple dialog box (source code provided below - I found it as an example on the internet). I have two other machines - one is a

Re: Cygwin/X (XWin) falls down when using -fp option

2009-02-03 Thread Jon TURNEY
Jana Skleničková wrote: Because I couldn't find anything unusual or helpful in the logs I captured packets using Wireshark. So far I found this: Solaris to Cygwin X11, Request, opcode: 51 (SetFontPath) opcode: 51 (SetFontPath) unused request-lenth: 14

RE: rgb.txt not honored in X7?

2009-02-03 Thread Mike Ayers
From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Jared Silva Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 4:13 PM However, in Cygwin X11R7, even though the rgb.txt file is the same, but in the new location, Which is the new location? I've been looking

Re: rgb.txt not honored in X7?

2009-02-03 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Mike Ayers wrote: However, in Cygwin X11R7, even though the rgb.txt file is the same, but in the new location, Which is the new location? I don't know if there is a default location in X11R7, but you can set the location explicitly via the environment

Re: xinit requires util-linux which requires perl

2009-02-03 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Mark Geisert wrote: Is there some way the packages could be reworked so that an X-related install or update doesn't try to pull in perl? It gets tiresome having to uncheck util-linux and perl every time I update my set of machines with

Re: Unable to load any usable iso8859 font

2009-02-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 05:04:08AM -0800, amorphia wrote: Can I plead for developers, please please don't make setup.exe broken? I am sure there are many many users like me who don't expect to have to be monitoring some random mailing lists in order to work out what else you need to do when

Re: xinit requires util-linux which requires perl

2009-02-03 Thread Mark Geisert
Yaakov writes: Is there some way the packages could be reworked so that an X-related install or update doesn't try to pull in perl? It gets tiresome having to uncheck util-linux and perl every time I update my set of machines with setup.exe. I'm sorry you have something against perl,