1.5.3 (20090222): window stacking order redraw bug
Hi, I've noticed a bug with the redrawing of windows under win32 with multiwindow mode. I am using Cygwin/X version 1.5.3 (20090222), which I believe (?) is based on xorg 7.4. I use a program called VirtualWin to add virtual desktop functionality under XP. When switching between two desktops that contain Xorg windows, it frequently occurs that the contents of the windows one the new desktop are drawn with the contents of overlapping windows on the previous desktop. I've illustrated this here with some screenshots: http://qt.tn.tudelft.nl/~gsteele/desktop_emacs.jpg http://qt.tn.tudelft.nl/~gsteele/desktop_xterm.jpg I have also noticed this bug when using a program TrueXMouse, which emulates full mouse focus under XP. It seems that using these programs, Xorg sometimes get confused about which window is on top of which, and draws the incorrect window contents. I've noticed some very old messages relating to window stacking order problems which seem to be the same thing I'm having: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-03/msg00849.html http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-04/msg00093.html http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-04/msg00340.html http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-xfree/2005-05/msg00191.html Is there a fix for this? Thanks, Gary -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: (some) xterm disappearing when typing
SS BB wrote: No, it doesn't work that would be too easy... I suspect you might have the problem referred to in http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9780 If you'd mentioned the OS of the remote system you are running the xterm client on, I'd be more sure. On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 6:16 PM, SS BB sshi3...@gmail.com wrote: I don't have any of those variables set in my shell, does it make it more challenging? :-) plus, if I do have some of those set, shouldn't all xterm fail?? On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 5:55 PM, SS BB sshi3...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I ran cygwin X at work and everything works fine except one thing: we have some special command that launches an xterm to a production window via ssh/X11 tunneling. This window will disappear on me when I attempt to type into it. All my regular xterm works perfectly fine, and I don't see any logs or anything on the X server side. This used to work with my previous installation of cygwin X. Does anybody have an idea what's going on here? or even how do I diagnose this problem, since the window will disappear no matter what I type. Does the xterm not produce any error output in the ssh session when it dies? This issue hasn't really been progressed, because it's hard to duplicate without access to a remote system which shows this problem. A wireshark capture of the packets exchanged with the remote system leading up to the failure might be useful. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: commnd line parameter -nolisten is incompatible wih -multiwindow ?
ludo wrote: Hello, I can't start XWin with both -nolisten and -multiwindow parameter Is this a bug or a ... feature ? $ XWin :0 -multiwindow -nolisten tcp [...] of course XWin :0 -multiwindow works fine Any suggestion ? XWin -multiwindow or -clipboard will not be compatible with -nolisten tcp, as those options start clients (the Windows window manager integration window manager and the clipboard integration, respectively) which expect to be able to connect to the X server via TCP. I suppose this is a bug, in the sense that we ought to detect the incompatible arguments and terminate with an error, but anyone using -nolisten tcp should, I hope, be able to interpret the output from the server (saying I tried to connect to 127.0.0.1:0.0 and failed) to work out what the problem is :-) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-45
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Thomas Wolff wrote: Now that cygwin supports UTF-8 in a standard fashion, I think it's time to also add Unicode fonts to the Cygwin/X distribution. Otherwise the additional value of running xterm or rxvt in UTF-8 mode is quite limited. I would be willing to provide the Unicode versions of the standard misc-fixed fonts (source: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html) as a package maintainer, if that's accepted. (I would appreciate some positive feedback before taking the effort to prepare the package.) 1) Do any major Linux distros package these fonts? I can't find such a package in Gentoo or Debian. 2) Many of these fonts collide with those provided by X.Org. How would you intend to deal with this? I think these are non-issues. Markus Kuhn's updated fonts have been incorporated into X.Org for some time, so unicode fonts with an extended range of glyphs are installed on your hard disk right now :-) Or at least, 'xlsfonts | grep iso10646-1' shows a number of fonts for me. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Pipe (|) symbol under spanish keybord in xterm
Gery Herbozo Jimenez wrote: Thanks for the tip. I run the command line: WXin.exe -xkblayout es, appeared the Cygwin/X terminal (gray one) and I got the pipe but with other key, weird or normal? should I run this command or put it in the Xorg.conf file? I hope this means that it is working correctly, now. The most common Spanish keyboard layout should be auto-detected, so I guess you have a slightly unusual one. If you could provide the information requested in http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-submit-layout we can add it in future. should I run this command or put it in the Xorg.conf file? http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-why-no-xf86config Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 11:10:17 -0400 Subject: Re: Pipe (|) symbol under spanish keybord in xterm From: markjr...@gmail.com To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Gery Herbozo Jimenez wrote: I've been working for a while with a spanish keyboard http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-non-U.S.-keyboard-layout and up to now I don't know how to get the pipe (|) symbol in my xterm terminal. However, I do get it in the bash terminal without problems using Ctrl + Alt + 1. When I follow this step in the xterm I get this instead of the pipe: (arg: 1). What does it mean? In readline's emacs mode, holding down the alt key while typing numbers is how you enter a repeat count for an editing command - e.g. alt-3 alt-f (hold down alt and type 3f) to go forward three words. The (arg: 1) means you've typed a repeat count of 1 so far (you could add more digits to make it 10 or something). The control key is not contributing anything in this instance. It seems X is not recognizing your keyboard layout. I'd try adding -xkblayout es to the X server command line, as indicated in the above FAQ entry. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Xwin X Server crashing when using -query startup option to Fedora 11
Mark Chesterfield wrote: Hi, I am trying to connect to the preview release of Fedora 11 running Gnome 2.26 on my laptop and am getting an Xwin server crash. This isn't a crash. The Xwin server is terminating with a error. I know my Xwin Server works with the -query startup option as I use this option at work with the laptop. So i have a couple of questions: a. Have I hit a bug? b. Does it appear to be an Xwin bug or should I instead be submitting it to the Fedora 11 support forums and bug handling menchanisms? c. Any ideas for a workaround ? Fatal server error: XDMCP fatal error: Session declined Maximum number of open sessions from your host reached This error says that XWin couldn't start an XDMCP session as the remote host declined for the reason stated. Since your XWin can start XDMCP sessions with other remote hosts, I think this is a bug or configuration error in your Fedora 11 host. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: X server fails to start on Vista
Kim Goldov wrote: Run as Administrator did not make a difference. The X icon does not appear hidden or otherwise, no terminal pops up (as it does on my XP machine), and no process shows in the task manager. The bash shell works fine. The /var/log/XWin.0.log file appears as noted earlier. You're not running a different X server as well, are you? Check the output of netstat -p for lines of the form TCP yourcomputername:6000 ? Does /usr/bin/XWin :1 -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error fail in the same way? Kim Also be sure to start the X server with the Run as Administrator option. Ditto for the Cygwin bash shell. Scott Paul Loewenstein wrote: And make sure the icon isn't hidden (I set Vista to always show the X Windows icon). Paul Kim Goldov wrote: I downloaded Cygwin-X per the instructions in http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/setup-cygwin-x-installing.html When selecting Cygwin-X - XWin Server in the start menu, X does not start and I get the following /var/log/XWin.0.log ... /usr/bin/XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error ddxProcessArgument - Initializing default screens winInitializeDefaultScreens - w 1280 h 1024 winInitializeDefaultScreens - Returning _XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running Fatal server error: Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already running -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
