RE: Intermittent X clipboard failure

2009-02-18 Thread Marc Girod
WEEBER Bill wrote: I have always had problems with copy/paste as well. At least I didn't have these problems before last December, when my laptop was migrated from w2k to Vista, and I had to reinstall Cygwin from scratch, getting in fact both upgrades in the same time. But I confirm (again)

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

2009-02-18 Thread Jon TURNEY
Lloyd Wood wrote: Lloyd Wood wrote: XWin was started with the following command line: /usr/bin/X :0 -auth /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/lwood/.serverauth.3000 ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1400 h 1050 winInitializeDefaultScreens -

RE: Intermittent X clipboard failure

2009-02-18 Thread Williams, Chris (Marlboro)
Whatever the cause is, and it does appear to be related to the Office clipboard at this point, it would be nice to get some closure on this. This behavior has been reported by multiple people. Information to we need to get to developers to properly diag the problem? The goal as I see it should be

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

2009-02-18 Thread Jon TURNEY
Jon TURNEY wrote: Thanks for identifying this as a regression. I wasn't sure if this used to work or not. I think that the attached patch for startx should fix this problem, if you wouldn't mind testing it. Yaakov, Assuming this is the correct fix, attached is the corresponding patch to

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

2009-02-18 Thread Jon TURNEY
Owen Rees wrote: --On Monday, February 16, 2009 17:40:15 +0100 Franz di Coccio wrote: 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

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

2009-02-18 Thread Lloyd Wood
Jon, thanks for your /usr/bin/startx patch. (repeated as text below since the cygwin mailing list bounces attachments, so probably didn't make it to the list.) Applying your patch allows startx to run and launch X - but in full desktop mode, rather than the multiwindow mode that startx did for

Re: -query not working on cygwin/windows

2009-02-18 Thread Jon TURNEY
km4hr wrote: I can't get -query to do anything. I only get a grey screen. Do you have disable firewalling, or open some ports, or whatever on the Windows box? I completely disabled my Windows firewall (I think) but still no joy. I'm completely illiterate on Windows. I don't care to know

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

2009-02-18 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Lloyd Wood wrote: startx -- -multiwindow works as xinit does, but is non-obvious to the user. I'd expect startx to default to multiwindow mode. startx is not Cygwin-specific, and as on other platforms, starts the X server in the rooted mode and

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

2009-02-18 Thread Dan Tsafrir
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Jon TURNEY jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk wrote: Making startxwin.bat just launch startx or xinit would also largely solve the problem of overwriting people's customisations to startxwin.bat, as it has defined places to put those. I would like to point out that

Testing for release 1.5.3-7

2009-02-18 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jon, I barely missed you on IRC this morning. Ports SVN r5753 is RC1 for 1.5.3-7; could you please svn up and test? Yaakov Cygwin/X -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -

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

2009-02-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 05:19:57PM +, Lloyd Wood wrote: thanks for your /usr/bin/startx patch. (repeated as text below since the cygwin mailing list bounces attachments, so probably didn't make it to the list.) The cygwin mailing list does not just generally bounce all attachments. In

RE: xdvi unexplained locale problem

2009-02-18 Thread Mike Ayers
From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Dan Tsafrir Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 2:01 PM On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Jon TURNEY jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk wrote: NLSPATH = 'C:\Programs\IBM\RunTime\%N;' You should probably

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

2009-02-18 Thread Mike Ayers
From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Franz di Coccio Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 8:40 AM PS That's a weird behaviour, anyway... I wonder why the pause is needed only for the first execution after the system boot. Whatever... Now it

Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font

2009-02-18 Thread Zdzislaw Meglicki
I have installed the latest version of Cygwin + X11 under Longhorn/Vista Ver 6.0 Build 6001 Service Pack 1, running under WOW64 on AMD64. Cygcheck says that Longhorn/Vista (not yet supported!) but things seem to work, so far. I have downloaded the lot today, Feb 18, 2009, and the version