Re: X / gtk-x11 / flicker and other problems [+PATCH]

2009-02-16 Thread John Emmas
- Original Message - From: John Emmas john...@tiscali.co.uk One more thing Jon. I'm probably being ludicrously simplistic here - but to fix the resizing problem (not resizing until the user lets go of the mouse button) could there be a simple fix for this just by responding to the

starxwin.bat always misfires the xterm once

2009-02-16 Thread Franz di Coccio
Hi all, I have installed cygwin-x on windows XP and I'm pretty much happy about it. There is only one little annoying thing that I am not able to fix. I use cygwin-x to ssh into linux systems and occasionally launch remote applications. I do not use a x-desktop. I've added an icon to the

R: starxwin.bat always misfires the xterm once

2009-02-16 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Lun 16/2/09, Franz di Coccio ha scritto: Da: Franz di Coccio Oggetto: starxwin.bat always misfires the xterm once A: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Data: Lunedì 16 febbraio 2009, 11:08 Hi all, I have installed cygwin-x on windows XP and I'm pretty much happy about it. There is only

R: starxwin.bat always misfires the xterm once - it works!

2009-02-16 Thread Franz di Coccio
Marco, your suggestion to insert %CYGWIN_ROOT%\bin\sleep 4 before the xterm launch instruction %RUN% xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l in starxwin.bat did the trick! Thanks a lot! Grazie! F PS That's a weird behaviour, anyway... I wonder why the pause is needed only for the first execution after

RE: RE: Intermittent X clipboard failure

2009-02-16 Thread Williams, Chris (Marlboro)
This is the same workaround I've been using. I'm also using Office 2003 and X11R7. I'm fine with this workaround. I need Office but I don't need the Office clipboard. We have other X servers here and I've experienced clipboard problems with those and the Office clipboard also. -Chris

Re: Intermittent X clipboard failure

2009-02-16 Thread Marc Girod
Hello, Williams, Chris (Marlboro) wrote: After a while, and unfortunately I don't know what event triggers this, Windows stops accepting clipboard data from the X apps and vice versa, I can't paste into any X app. I recognize your symptoms. I have the same problem on Windows Vista. The

/usr/bin/startx fails on new x.org install?

2009-02-16 Thread Lloyd Wood
I updated Cygwin and got the new x.org server. I have a couple of problems: 1. /usr/bin/startx can no longer be used to launch X in multiwindow mode. Instead, it creates the auth file, prints a dialog telling me to read /var/log/XWin.0.log, and that I'm running the Cygwin/X project version