Cygwin 1.7 beta XWin disconnects from Ubuntu after password

2009-10-30 Thread Randall Parker
Running WinXP, latest service pak and fixes. I had problems with xwin from the Cygwin 1.5.25-15 pegging one of my CPUs at full usage when connecting to an Ubuntu 9.1 box. So I decided to try the 1.7 beta. Well, now that I've upgraded I am having problems connecting to the Ubuntu box. I connect to

Re: Fwd: Cygwin X is not starting in Vista 64 bit Home edition.

2009-10-30 Thread Andrew Hart
Pratap and all, I found the question below after running into the same issue. Here is how I solved it. I noticed that the start menu icon was installed in C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Cygwin-X; however, the folder and link permissions for Cygwin-X differed from the pr

Re: X11R7.5 & fontcache..

2009-10-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 10/29/2009 11:56 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#RSN :-) --- I don't suppose you could express that in ISO format? :-) Since you've asked this on multiple lists, I'm going to assume this is more than just a humorous comment that you don't expect

checkX problems

2009-10-30 Thread Ken Brown
I'm having trouble with checkX. I haven't seen other people complain about this, so I assume it's something about my system, but I can't figure out what. There are two symptoms: 1. If I run checkX with a timeout, the timeout seems to be ignored. For example, with the X server *not* running:

Re: Running Java application with drag and drop support in cygwin

2009-10-30 Thread Dees
Your reply is much appreciated Jon. I will try to be more specific about the problem in further mails. On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: > On 28/10/2009 05:57, Dees wrote: >> >> I have developed a Java application involving jTree with extensive >> drag and drop support, which run