Re: How to remotly launch application with SSH and Cygwin/X server

2010-02-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 02/09/2010 06:31 PM, Fabien Tillay wrote: Hi, I've got a problem with Cygwin/X server (via Cygwin 1.7.1) Assuming we have a PC on Linux called X and a PC on Windows called Y. I want to send a SSH command from X to Y which launchs firefox on Y. (ie Windows) Firstly, if I go to Y (Windows) and

How to remotly launch application with SSH and Cygwin/X server

2010-02-09 Thread Fabien Tillay
Hi, I've got a problem with Cygwin/X server (via Cygwin 1.7.1) Assuming we have a PC on Linux called X and a PC on Windows called Y. I want to send a SSH command from X to Y which launchs firefox on Y. (ie Windows) Firstly, if I go to Y (Windows) and launch a Cygwin shell and then enter the 'fire

Re: Can't start X after upgrading to cygwin1.7

2010-02-09 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 03/02/2010 19:43, Jon TURNEY wrote: I had the same symptoms. Non-administrator WinXP users couldn't start the XWin Server, and no /var/log/XWin.0.log was created. The log file could get created if there wasn't one already present, which led me to put the log file in the user's directory instea

Graphics not appearing in Gaussview 3

2010-02-09 Thread Jon Rhoad
I have been using the 1.5 version of cygwin/X installed in Windows XP to connect to a SLES9 server running Gaussview with little problem. When I upgrade to 1.7 everything works fine except the graphics do not show in the Gaussview windows. The only e-mail from the archive I found related to G

Re: Changing interactive shell from Bash to Zsh

2010-02-09 Thread Phil Betts
Anonymous bin ich writes: > > Hi! > > I am having trouble changing my shell from Bash to Zsh. > > Since there is no chsh, I have tried adding "exec zsh -l" to .bashrc > > Unfortunately, since cygwin is started as "interactive login shell", > it doesn't read .bashrc and so it starts as bash >

Re: Changing interactive shell from Bash to Zsh

2010-02-09 Thread Wood . Chris
When I tried it on my system, it worked. Of course, it is not really using zsh as your login shell, since it is running inside bash, but when you exit zsh, it logs you off, which is the expected behavior. What shortcut are you using? An example of mine is C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe -p /usr/X11R6/bin

Re: Changing interactive shell from Bash to Zsh

2010-02-09 Thread Anonymous bin ich
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:20 PM,wrote: > Add > > exec zsh -l > > at the end of your .bash_profile > Then I cannot start X server from start menu icons. All I see in taskmanager is 1 process of bash and 1 subprocess of zsh. > > > Chris > > > > From:   Anonymous bin ich > To:     cygwin-xfree@cyg

Re: Changing interactive shell from Bash to Zsh

2010-02-09 Thread Wood . Chris
Add exec zsh -l at the end of your .bash_profile Chris From: Anonymous bin ich To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Date: 02/09/2010 09:13 AM Subject:Changing interactive shell from Bash to Zsh Sent by:cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com Hi! I am having trouble changing my

Changing interactive shell from Bash to Zsh

2010-02-09 Thread Anonymous bin ich
Hi! I am having trouble changing my shell from Bash to Zsh. Since there is no chsh, I have tried adding "exec zsh -l" to .bashrc Unfortunately, since cygwin is started as "interactive login shell", it doesn't read .bashrc and so it starts as bash If I source .bashrc from .bash_profile (which I

Re: libglib2, Emacs and GTK applications

2010-02-09 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: 1) rebaseall, as launching gam_server involves a fork(), the failure of which can lead to strange behaviour. Hmm... At the moment my installation is quite stable and I won't rebase without being sure that it really needs a rebase. After all, with Emacs I rarely use d

Re: libglib2, Emacs and GTK applications

2010-02-09 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 09/02/2010 03:05, Angelo Graziosi wrote: The problems seem to be consequence of the fact that 'gamin-server.exe' is not removed after application finishes, but only after 20-30 seconds and I see this behavior also with the test case reported. I run GTK+/GNOME apps all the time, and I have ye

Re: XWin gives black screen

2010-02-09 Thread Hom Nath Gharti
That's perfect. Thank you. On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > On 09/02/2010 02:36, Hom Nath Gharti wrote: >> >> When I start XWin I get completely black screen. Everything works fine >> but the problem is -- when I minimize any applications it disappears >> due to the bla

Re: XWin gives black screen

2010-02-09 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 09/02/2010 02:36, Hom Nath Gharti wrote: When I start XWin I get completely black screen. Everything works fine but the problem is -- when I minimize any applications it disappears due to the black screen, and I cannot retrieve that application. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/200

Re: libglib2, Emacs and GTK applications

2010-02-09 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: You may want to try these patches and see if they help: My build of Emacs was related to current trunk (precisely, rev. 99467), so, almost surely, those patches are already applied (indeed, I find tracks of them in the current code). The problems seem to be conseque

XWin gives black screen

2010-02-09 Thread Hom Nath Gharti
Dear all, When I start XWin I get completely black screen. Everything works fine but the problem is -- when I minimize any applications it disappears due to the black screen, and I cannot retrieve that application. I tried some options, e.g., setting serverargs="-nolisten inet6", but that didn't