Re: cygwin/x symantec antivirus conflict

2004-09-30 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Jack Tanner wrote: > A while back I mentioned I was experiencing slowdowns under X. > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-09/msg00010.html > > I think the slowdowns may have to do with Symantec Antivirus. I'll add this to the FAQ. Does Symantec Antivirus has an option to disable scanni

Re: Strange window redraw problem - solved

2004-09-30 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Dave Carrigan wrote: > I fixed our startup scripts to ensure that proper .Xauthority files > would get generated and it has solved the problem. nice to hear. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723

Re: spelling correction

2004-09-30 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Thomas Munro wrote: > Hi, > > On this page: > > http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html > > there is a heading: > > "11.4. Whom holds the copyright on the Cygwin/X source code?" > > It should of course be "Who". > > Sorry to send such trivial feedback to this list

Re: need GUI connect-to-host client

2004-09-29 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, george young wrote: > [Xwin 6.8.1.0-1, Windows XP pro 5.1, experienced with linux X, not a windows or > cygwin hacker] > > I'm hoping to replace Hummingbird Exceed on our ~50 PC's with cygwin-xfree, > but I need a simple GUI client for our linux-naive users. Just a little >

Re: problem in scaleable fonts during update

2004-09-29 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, aroushdi wrote: > Hi Ago , I do have in cygwin\usr\X11r6\bin cygfreetype-6 sz 288,256 > 28/10/2003 and cygfreetype-9 sz 348,622 20/09/2003 > and in cygwin\bin\cygfreetype-6 sz 369,152 25/10/2003 /usr/X11R6/bin/cygfreetype-6.dll seems to be wrong. The libfreetype26 installes

Re: Client Rejected

2004-09-29 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Glen Schwickerath wrote: > I'm trying to utilize the latest release of Cygwin/X to connect to SCO 7.1.4 > OpenUnix server. I am unable to get past the login screen. Please see log > of my session below. I have tried numerous combinations of parameters for > starting Xwin.

Re: Strange window redraw problem

2004-09-29 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Dave Carrigan wrote: > We are currently testing a deployment of Cygwin/X for my company's > windows-based X server. We currently use X so that Windows users can run > apps (typically written with Perl/GTk) on Linux application servers. > > The deployment is going not bad, but

Re: font problems with xpdf and gv

2004-09-28 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > >>>>> Alexander Gottwald writes: > > >> Warning: Cannot convert string > "-*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-140-*-*-p-*-ISO08859-1" to type FontStruct > >> Warning: Cannot convert string >

Re: font problems with xpdf and gv

2004-09-28 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Daniel Senderowicz wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed the latest version of cygwin on an XP system. > Except for a problem which is explained in the FAQ related to the > re-installation of the fonts, everything went quite smoothly. > However, I ran into problems when running '

Re: start up screen problem

2004-09-25 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Vijay Kiran Kamuju wrote: > Hi, > > i am using humming bird exceed and cygywin/x to connect to solaris servers > > i noticed some thing quite different > > check out the first screen after successfully logging in > > cde1.gif ---> Cygwin/X > cde2.gif ---> HummingBird Exceed What colordept

Re: multiple connections from Xserver

2004-09-25 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Michel Bardiaux wrote: > But since you didnt describe your problem very clearly (there are > several interpretions possible), no one else will benefit from the > solution. So please explain anyway. He tried to start multiple instances of XWin for different XDMCP servers. bye ago NP: Iner

Re: Missing characters from a Type1 font

2004-09-25 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Arthur Norman wrote: > I install the AMS "computer modern" type1 fonts (as fetched form any big > TeX archive) and then try to use them. I appear to find that using cygwin > and its X server that the character with code 0xa1 is not displayed when > XDrawString is used. The code is a second-mapping

Re: Display Error

2004-09-25 Thread Alexander Gottwald
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, I have a question about Xwin. I've been using Xwin T1 connection and on > dial-up but without the full interface response with dial-up. But now that I > have a dsl connection, I get a display error. Attached is the XWin.log with > the error message. Is there a

Re: problem in scaleable fonts during update

2004-09-24 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, aroushdi wrote: > Hi everybody , > while updating my cygwin to the latest level i get the following message : > title:mkfontscale.exe Entry point Not Found > body : The procedure entry point FT_Get_BDF_Property could not be > located in the dynamic link library cygfreetype-6.

Re: The "no font fixed" problem

2004-09-24 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Many thanks! Following your release of the new xorg-x11-{fonts,xwin}-6.8.1.0-2 > package, I'd like to report that X worked 1st time after a fresh > install. cool ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723

Re: running xterm in cygwin

2004-09-24 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Leow Wee Kheng wrote: > Hi, > > I installed Cygwin/X in my WinXP PC. > But, it has problem opening the X display. > I've set the display to my PC's host name > using "export DISPLAY=leowwk-1" but it still > doesn't work. Any idea what's the problem? you were at least missing

Re: multiple connections from Xserver

2004-09-24 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Vijay Kiran Kamuju wrote: > is it possible to connect to multiple clients from my XServer > > im already running XWin by > > XWin -clipboard -query yamuna& if you start multiple instances of XWin you must start to number them 1st XWin -query foo 2nd XWin :1 -query bar 3rd

Re: Cursor jumping in xterm?

2004-09-23 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Michael J. Wheeler wrote: > I have been using cygwin for awhile now at work and I just got a new desktop > machine, so I loaded cygwin on it. The machine is a dual opteron 248 > (2.2ghz) w/ 2gig RAM running Windows XP SP2. > > When using xterm (w/ bash as my shell) and typing, at random times, the

RE: KDE Cygwin CM Synergy and right click (FAQ alert)

2004-09-23 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > Yep, search the cygwin-xfree archives for "NumLock" or "Num Lock". There > > were even some recipes posted to turn off this behavior. > > P.S. Surprisingly, this is not in the FAQ. I should start moving some of the entries from http://main.free

Re: KDE Cygwin CM Synergy and right click

2004-09-23 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Zach Gelnett wrote: > I posted this on the KDE forum to (http://tinyurl.com/5wovg), not sure which > is the correct place. > > Does anyone use CM Synergy with a KDE-cygwin install? > > My problem is that the right-click function doesn't work. When I right click > in the app

Re: _XSERVTransmkdir: ERROR: euid != 0,directory /tmp/.X11-unix will not be created.

2004-09-23 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Lester Ingber wrote: > I just installed the latest Cygwin update. In my /tmp/XWinrc I now see: > > _XSERVTransmkdir: ERROR: euid != 0,directory /tmp/.X11-unix will not be created.ls > -l /t > (II) XF86Config is not supported > (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cyg

Re: weird situation with Xnest

2004-09-23 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Ariel Burbaickij wrote: > > There were two fixes to Xnest which might apply to your problem in > > xorg-x11-xnest-6.8.1.0-1. Please try this version. > I will try it and provide feedback. Thank you for your > relentless help. > > > > Do you have cygserver running for IPC suppo

Re: weird situation with Xnest

2004-09-23 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Ariel Burbaickij wrote: > On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:27:34 +0200 (MEST), Alexander Gottwald > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Ariel Burbaickij wrote: > > > > > Hello dear mailing list participants, > > > followin

Re: weird situation with Xnest

2004-09-23 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Ariel Burbaickij wrote: > Hello dear mailing list participants, > following pretty strange thing happens > to me: > if I start Xnest and then try to start > xterm on it I get Bad system call and > window of xterm does not appear > in nested server. Which version of Xnest you'

RE: Xwin shutdown command line option

2004-09-22 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > FWIW, it might be better to add the capability to XWin.exe to be queried > about which DISPLAY it's serving (via IPC of some sort). That way, one > could write a small routine that iterates over all the XWin processes and > sends a signal to the one

Re: 6.8.1.0-1/XP-Pro 5.1 Cant open display 127.0.0.1:0.0

2004-09-22 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, george young wrote: > Here is the full file: > --- > Welcome to the XWin X Server > Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project > Release: 6.8.1.0-1 > > Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > XWin was started with the following command line: > > XWin -multi

Re: Xwin shutdown command line option

2004-09-22 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Vijay Kiran Kamuju wrote: > I think the Cygwin/X server implementation for shutting down the xserver > > ie, code using the system tray->exit > > can be encapsulated in -stop/-terminate > > like > > if(strcmp(args[#no],"-terminate") > { > #ifdef WIN32 > //code using

Re: -clipboard & xwinclip & -nounicodeclipboard

2004-09-22 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Kensuke Matsuzaki wrote: > Hi, > > This patch will fix that problem. > > BTW, should I commit to CYGWIN branch or trunk? I've already commited it and will do an update to the package soon. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018

Re: Xwin shutdown command line option

2004-09-22 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Vijay Kiran Kamuju wrote: > Hi > > is there a way to shutdown the Xserver from command line No. > rather than using ps and checking for pid of XWin and using kill -9 I'm afraid this seems to be the best option for killing the xserver. > if u can provide that option from

Re: 6.8.1.0-1/XP-Pro 5.1 Cant open display 127.0.0.1:0.0

2004-09-22 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, george young wrote: > I tried "xdpyinfo -display :0.0", "xdpyinfo -display localhost:0.0"; > I tried from a linux machine "xterm -display swine:0.0". Nothing can > connect. A "ps" shows a /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin process. > I tried(after a clean reboot) > "XWin -multiwindow -

Re: -clipboard & xwinclip & -nounicodeclipboard

2004-09-22 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Kensuke Matsuzaki wrote: > Hi, > > This patch will fix that problem. Great > BTW, should I commit to CYGWIN branch or trunk? Bugfixes to CYGWIN. This is where a pull releases from. Development should be done on trunk. I'll sync the bugfixes to trunk too. bye ago

RE: Re: -clipboard & xwinclip & -nounicodeclipboard

2004-09-21 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Zach Gelnett wrote: > >Not unusual. > > > >Does the error happen when copying between xterm and notepad (or the other > >way). If not, which was the program you were copy copied the text from? > > Well whenever I select in just the terminal from the kde desktop whatever is > selected takes over th

Re: bug? - startxwin.bat missing from recent Cygwin install

2004-09-21 Thread Alexander Gottwald
John Hebert wrote: > Howdy, > > I installed the latest release of Cygwin, and it > doesn't include startxwin.bat. Is this normal? Was it > removed for a specific reason? > > I remember playing around with CygwinX about a year > ago and it was there. do you have the startup-scripts package form X1

Re: -clipboard & xwinclip & -nounicodeclipboard

2004-09-21 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Zach Gelnett wrote: > >Please provide more information about > > > >- version of XWin > > When it starts it says: > Welcome to the XWin X Server > Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project > Rlease: 6.8.1.0-1 > > >- OS (Win9x or WinNT, Version, language) > Win2k 5.00.2195 service pack 4, English Not unusual.

Re: -clipboard & xwinclip & -nounicodeclipboard

2004-09-21 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Zach Gelnett wrote: > I’m using the latest version of the KDE desktop from > kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/install >   > If I run the XWin.exe with the “-clipboard” option I keep getting this > error: >   > winClipboardErrorHandler – ERROR: >     BadValue (integer paramet

Re: window position with default window manager

2004-09-21 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Elvin Peterson wrote: > It is possible to make all windows appear at the top > left corner of the screen? I have looked at the > command line options and found nothing appropriate. I > am using the -multiwindow option. Afaik the internal windowmanager has no option to confi

Re: PseudoColor "emulation" working.

2004-09-21 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Sebastian wrote: > Hey fellow developers, > Following up my last post regarding pseudocolor emulation and my ideas to fix it, > here's an update. > > I've modified the XWin server and running pseudocolor applications in an XWin window > running ontop a 16/32bpp windows desk

Re: The "no font fixed" problem

2004-09-21 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The problem with X not running because of the error "no font 'fixed'" > has been around so long that some months ago a I scripted a post-install I could provide new packages where the remounting of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts is not done anymore but the

Re: Possible to change xserver root window title?

2004-09-19 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Curtis Reynolds wrote: > Hi all... > > I often have to have several remoteX connections to different linux > boxes. And frequently more than one connection to the same boxes using > different accounts. All the root windows have the title "Cygwin/X - > :0". When I have enough remote sessions runnin

Re: Xnest crashes

2004-09-17 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Maarten Boekhold wrote: > I wonder if this might be caused by the specific client that I use. > Perhaps it is explicitly requesting the SHM extension? This one appears > to be disabled in Xnest (but AFAIK is working in XWin). Then again, I > just tried the same with xterm,

Re: Xnest crashes

2004-09-17 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Maarten Boekhold wrote: > Hi all, > > Xnest crashes for me directly after I try to start the first application > that connects to the specific display: > > $ Xnest :1.0 -ac +kb > _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root > XFree86-Bigfont extension loc

Re: Fw: Greek version of Windows XP Home Edition

2004-09-17 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Theocharis Baxevanis wrote: > Hello, > I have installed Cygwin/X in a Greek version of Windows XP Home Edition and > although that when the messages that I take when I run startx are exactly > the same compared to the ones in the English version and say that the > display is s

Re: Problem using multiwindow, function keys, and xfig

2004-09-17 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Peters, John wrote: > Using -multiwindow, I cannot get function keys to work using xrdb unless > -kb is appended to the XWin command line in startxwin.bat. > > However, using -multiwindow, the xfig pulldown menus don't work unless > -kb is NOT appended. > > Using -fullscree

Re: [Fwd: Cygwin-X+15.4" display]

2004-09-17 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Flavio Elias wrote: > Hi Ago, >I did an upgrade and without ZoneAlarm 5, the cygwinX haven't > worked... Do you any other suggestion? > Thanks in advance > Flavio > New output: > $ startx > > (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31 > (--) winConfigKey

Re: Missing file in two new X packages

2004-09-16 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Bram Kivenko wrote: > Well, I did this: > > mkfontscale -n -e `find /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts -type d -maxdepth 1 > -print | grep -v 'fonts$'` This is not correct. -e requires the encodings dir as parameter use this: mkfontscale -n -e /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings \ `f

Re: iceauth segfault xorg-x11 6.8.0.0-1

2004-09-15 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am using cygwin on windows 2000 with all of the latest packages... > whenever iceauth is run by the statekde script, it hangs then segfaults. I > have been trying to run Konqueror on cygwin from kde-cygwin project. When I > run it by hand, it exit

Re: Remote logon via XDMCP to Solaris and Linux

2004-09-15 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Terje J. Hanssen wrote: > Alexander Gottwald wrote: > > >On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Terje J. Hanssen wrote: > > > >> > you can add the hostname to /etc/X0.hosts > >> > This will always grant the host access > >> > > >>

Re: Remote logon via XDMCP to Solaris and Linux

2004-09-15 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Terje J. Hanssen wrote: > > you can add the hostname to /etc/X0.hosts > > This will always grant the host access > > > > "hostname" or "hostname +" ? $ cat /etc/X0.hosts localhost > Does Cygwin/X also need or use a user based auhentication? There are several authenticatio

Re: cygcheck -c says: "xorg-x11-fnts 6.8.0.0-1 Incomplete"

2004-09-15 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Volker Quetschke wrote: > Missing file: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/encodings.dir from package encodings.dir is autogenerated file which was removed by a mkfontscale invocation. I'm currently investigating if i should remove the autogenerated files from the distribution o

Re: Is focus-on-pointer available in multiwindow mode?

2004-09-15 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Stephane Ethier wrote: > Dear Cygwin/X gurus, > > I am running Cygwin/X in Multi Window mode on my > home machine and Hummingbird Exceed at work. Both > seem to work similarly as far as letting the Windows XP > Window manager handle the X session. However, Exceed allows > me

Re: Cygwin/X developement: -EMULATEPSEUDO

2004-09-14 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Sebastian Haby wrote: > I started to try out Cygwin/X to remotely use a Solaris app, however, the > app uses 8bpp Pseudocolor visual which is only > supported in Cygwin/X when running the windows desktop in 8bpp aswell or > fullscreen, ie. the app works just fine in these tw

Re: Missing file in two new X packages

2004-09-14 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Bram Kivenko wrote: > > > Ross Boulet wrote: > > I ran an update on my Cygwin installation today. I make a > > habit of running a 'cygcheck -cv' after every update. When > > I did this today, I saw 'Incomplete' on two packages. I > > tried reinstalling these two from two

Re: Remote logon via XDMCP to Solaris and Linux

2004-09-13 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Terje J. Hanssen wrote: > Well, I don't have an ssh server installed or available neither on the > Solaris or the Linkux host. > And the only connection is through the desribed VPN tunnel and > router/firewall. > Therefore I tried wihthout ssh as follows (which I believe also is > secure over a VP

Re: cygwin error

2004-09-13 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Ray Percival wrote: > I have installed cygwin on my pc running windows 2000. Over the weekend I was able > to bring up multiple windows using it, however this morning I am unable to even > bring up one window. In order to troubleshoot it I modified startxwin.bat to > initia

Re: Cygwin/X and emacs always hangs..

2004-09-13 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Bram Kivenko wrote: > The newest release of xorg-x11 that I just downloaded from > mirrors.kernel.org *still* exhibits the same problem of hanging when I > run emacs. There have been no changes regarding this problem. > The particular version of emacs does not matter. It

Re: Remote logon via XDMCP to Solaris and Linux

2004-09-13 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Terje J. Hanssen wrote: > I have installed Cygwin/X on Windows2000 to establish a remote session > via XDMCP and by using a direct query to a Solaris7/CDE host and to a > Linux/SJDS/Gnome host (Sun Java Desktop System R2 based on SLD/SLES8). > The Windows PC use DHCP via ISP

Re: XWin.exe

2004-09-13 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Reeves, Mike wrote: > Hi - > > I am trying to install this at home, but I can only get the bash window > to come up. I would like to run the gnome or kde gui, but I cannot seem > to get that to work. I have looked at the manual and it says that the > xdmcp client is xwin.exe,

Re: cygwin/x and zonealarm firewall

2004-09-10 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, BJ Garman wrote: > I saw on the website that some users had problems getting cygwin/x to run > properly with ZoneAlarm firewall by zonelabs to work. [long text] > I hope this information is useful to someone. Which version of Zone Alarm are you referring to? ZA 4.5 is know

Re: Setting background image?

2004-09-09 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Tero Niemela wrote: > On Linux/BSD I use xsri/xv to set background but I > can't find those on Cygwin. What do you recommend to > use background image (jpg) on Cygwin/X? Thanks. Imagemagick has a command "display" which can do this. To tile a slate texture onto the root

Re: Cygwin/X load error

2004-09-09 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Tim Stackhouse wrote: > Text of error is attached. The only way I can load X is the startx > script, however, it dosen't do anything i need it to do. Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' Please reinstall the xorg-x11-fnts package. bye ago NP: Sina - Schranz 'n' Noise

RE: problems

2004-09-08 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Paul Shepherd wrote: > Why do I get the keyboard error when I try to start the x window? Check the mailing list archives or the FAQ. This was discussed quite often. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723

RE: Locked CTRL key in Matlab using

2004-09-08 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, David Alberg Holm wrote: > >Just a wild guess: Try disabling NumLock. Some programs think NumLock is a > normal modifier key like Ctrl or Alt. > It works with numlock disabled :-) Is there a way to "unmap" NumLock as a > modifier key? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xmodmap xmodmap: up

Re: XDM start with uid & pw

2004-09-08 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, aroushdi wrote: > Can i supply the UserId and password to Xwin -query No. This is not designed. > my objective is to > jump to the main screen without typing the uid and pw coming from xdm > can we do it ??? You could use SSH with public key authentication and X11 Forward

Re: Locked CTRL key in Matlab using

2004-09-08 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, David Alberg Holm wrote: > Hi there > > After updating to the latest Cygwin (1.5.11)/Xfree (6.7.0.0-8) I am having > problems using matlab. Inside matlab the keys act as if CTRL was pressed all > the time. Outside matlab (shells, mozilla and so forth) the keys work as > expect

Re: multiwindow doesn't work

2004-09-08 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Jim Scheef wrote: > I'm reposting. Any suggestions? Ask the people from [EMAIL PROTECTED] bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723

Re: can't start KDE on FreeBSD from Windows XP

2004-09-07 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, Bruce Rhodewalt wrote: > I'm having trouble configuring KDE on my Windows XP machine (using > Cygwin/X 2004/03/25). > > From my bash shell, I can ssh or telnet to my FreeBSD 5.2.1 RELEASE > machine. However, if I try to connect and run KDE, I have problems. where do you run

Re: X11 becomes unresponsive. VERY unresponsive.

2004-09-06 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, David Arnstein wrote: > Hello, > > I have a problem with cygwin-x11 on my home machine, which runs > Windows 2000 s.p. 4. > > All X11 windows become unresponsive. Really unresponsive. The windows > don't repaint when exposed. Right mouse button (context) menus do not > p

Re: tcsh left running after closing down X server

2004-09-05 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Jason Farrell Shepherd wrote: > Hey guys, > > I just installed cygwin on my laptop running XP. It seems > to be running fine, no problems with the install; however, > I noticed that if I start several xterms running tcsh, and > then close the XWin, the tcsh.exe files are still reported > by windo

Re: Is RECORD extension included in cygwins' X server?

2004-09-05 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Ariel Burbaickij wrote: > Well, what is RECORD extension? ;-) > Sorry, no clue. I only know that > this extension is refered to by > authors of xnee tool in article in > Linux Journal -- http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6660 > and I also know that I was able to compile xnee for cygwin b

Re: Is RECORD extension included in cygwins' X server?

2004-09-04 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Ariel Burbaickij wrote: > Hello dear mailing list participants, > to dat as I know problems with expectk > still persist and as consequence it is > not possible for example to use the > android tool for automatized GUI > testing. Yesterday, I ran in the tool > called xnee and I would like to compi

Re: new install - application windows are dead

2004-09-03 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Gareth Edwards wrote: > A small update: Daniel Gruber also helped me with this off-list and > identified that the multiwindow WM was causing the issue; running > -rootless with twm or wmaker instead resolved the problem. > > So I guess it looks like -multiwindow with dual he

Re: X-server problems in Cygwin

2004-09-02 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Ariel Goobar wrote: > Hi, > no, I am not running ZA. Do you have /tmp mounted in textmode? bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723

Re: Re: xmove compilation for cygwin

2004-09-01 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Ariel Burbaickij wrote: > Cool, I have got first obstacle in the process -- there is no > Imake.tmpl, or as xmkmf reports it: > imake -DUseInstalled -I/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config > Imakefile.c:9: Imake.tmpl: No such file or directory > imake: Exit code 1. > Stop. > and ,indeed,

Re: xmove compilation for cygwin

2004-09-01 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Ariel Burbaickij wrote: > Dear all, > I am going to compile xmove programm out of tarball. Any general > compilation guidlines for cygwin? Any pecularities of cygwin I should > be aware of? Just try. There may always be small problems but a lot of program work out of the box

Re: Can't get XDMP to work

2004-09-01 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Johan Parin wrote: > Is the -from switch documented somewhere? I couldn't find it either in > the manpage or in the example bat script. man Xserver bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723

Re: Can't get XDMP to work

2004-08-31 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Johan Parin wrote: > The strange thing is the reference to display 192.168.0.1:0 in both > /tmp/XWin.log and xdm.log. The Windows box has IP 192.168.1.2 and the > Linux box 192.168.1.1. There must be a second network interface configured in windows. Add the following paramet

Re: X-server problems in Cygwin

2004-08-31 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Ariel Goobar wrote: > Hi, > I am having problems with a new installation of Cygwin when > running startx it hangs after saying: ZoneAlarm 5 running? Downgrade to ZA 4.5 bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723

Re: Workaround TeTeX installation failure? (TeXMacs)

2004-08-29 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Chuck White wrote: > The standard Cygwin installation fails to completely install TeTeX (2.0.2-1 > or 2.0.2-13), which causes TeXMacs installation to fail (required fonts not > found in nonexistent directories). In particular, the last part of the > installation script calls for creating a series

Re: Core dump on X client start

2004-08-29 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Andreas Lemke wrote: > After starting Xwin.exe without any command line options and exporting > DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0, whatever X client I start will immediately coredump > with a segmentation fault. See the files attached. No firewall software was > active. What is going wrong here? I can't reprod

Re: multiwindow doesn't work

2004-08-29 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Jim Scheef wrote: > Hello. > > Ever since CygwinX switched X server source (or whatever changed), I have not > been able to make -multiwindow work on my machine running XP SP1. KDE 3 is > installed as the desktop. When I start using "startx -multiwindow &", > everything seems to start up correctly

Re: performance question

2004-08-29 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Eric S. Johansson wrote: > this is not directly related to cygwin/X11 but it will be something that > comes up once in a while. > > Sometimes performance just sucks. sometimes I will sit there and watch > applications redraw bits over 10s of seconds. Yet on my ethernet > interfaces, I have no er

Re: Offscreen rendering

2004-08-27 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Kei Okada wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Cygwin/X installed on a XP and try to use a offscreen rendering > function. > > Attached sample program works well on a Linux X server (Xfree 4.3.0), > but it does not works on a Cygwin/X both XWin and XWin_GL. > > When I use XWin_GL, th

Re: [PATCH] Add support for "back/forward" (thumb) mouse buttons to XWin

2004-08-26 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Chris B wrote: > Hi, > > This patch adds support for thumb mouse buttons to XWin/cygwin. > > It's quite rough at the edges, probably. It works on XP but cannot test it on > other windows versions. It will probably do no harm on Win98 as it won't send > the messages, anyway. It looks good. I'll ad

RE: Newbie: GB layout, M$ Natural keyboard does not work

2004-08-26 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 25 Aug 2004, Liam Friel wrote: > Gave up trying to do this the official way. > > Remapped the offending keys using xmodmap and now I am happy. > I still have no idea why it didn't work correctly out of the box, though. I have no idea either. I've played with xkbcomp and various /tmp mou

Re: fonts and symbolic links

2004-08-26 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > How about > > ENCODINGS=`( > cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings && ls microsoft-cp* | sed -e 's/.enc$//' > test -r "$ENC_FILE" && sed -e 's/#.*$//' -e '/^ *$/d' "$ENC_FILE" > ) | sed -e 's/^/-a /'` seams reasonable. > Again, what about somethi

Re: fonts and symbolic links

2004-08-25 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > I think of adding a wrapper which reads directories and encodings from > > configfiles (+some builtins) and does the fontdir update for us. > > Yep, that'd be great. Thanks. check the attached script. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ht

Re: fonts and symbolic links

2004-08-25 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > Ah, I see now. One more question: the above commands seem to ignore all > > of the "microsoft-cp12*" encodings except "microsoft-cp1252". I found >

Re: fonts and symbolic links

2004-08-25 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > Sorry for the mess-up above, that should have been "`cygpath -W`/Fonts" > (but you still need the quotes). right. > > > > mkfontscale -b -l /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/windows > > > > > > Is "ttmkfdir" needed here too? > > > > no. mkfontscale (and

Re: fonts and symbolic links

2004-08-25 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > mkdir -p /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/windows > > lndir `cygpath -W` /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/windows >^ > Shouldn't this be > > lndir "`cygpath -W`"'\Fonts' /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/windows > actually yes. missed that when copyi

RE: Newbie: GB layout, M$ Natural keyboard does not work

2004-08-25 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Liam Friel wrote: > I checked the FAQ, but it was not exactly enlightening. > > xkbcomp -w 3 -xkm ... as given in the FAQ works with no errors, but any setxkbmap > command fails with "Error loading new > keymap description" have you check the mount settings? bye ag

RE: Newbie: GB layout, M$ Natural keyboard does not work

2004-08-25 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Liam Friel wrote: > Aha, > > That was a useful hint. > > Anyhow the interesting bits of Xwin.log are these: > > (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "1809" (1809) > (--) Using preset keyboard for "Irish" (1809), type "4" BTW: Is this correct? It would load the "ie" la

RE: Newbie: GB layout, M$ Natural keyboard does not work

2004-08-25 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Liam Friel wrote: > Aha, > > That was a useful hint. > > Anyhow the interesting bits of Xwin.log are these: > > (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "1809" (1809) > (--) Using preset keyboard for "Irish" (1809), type "4" > (++) XKB: model: "microsoft" > (++) XKB: layou

Re: Newbie: GB layout, M$ Natural keyboard does not work

2004-08-25 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Liam Friel wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a Cygwin installation on XP and have recently installed the latest X11 > software for it. > Working fine, except for one minor irritation. > > I have a Microsoft Natural keyboard, UK layout. X seems to ignore (for all practical > purpo

Re: fonts and symbolic links

2004-08-25 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > There is a sourceforge project for ttmkfdir. They only have ELF binaries > for download. It was easier to find it on the net than to compile. I > found it packaged with cygwin/XFree86 so I assumed it was a part of > cygwin/XFree86. it was but recently

Re: vanishing cursor

2004-08-24 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > Welcome to the XWin X Server > Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project > Release: 6.7.0.0-12 This is the newest. I guess you don't know how to reproduce the vanishing cursor. Are you working with MS Terminalservices client? BTW: you can enable the software c

Re: vanishing cursor

2004-08-24 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > Alexander Gottwald wrote: > > > Which version of xwin you are using? This is a bug which should be solved > > for some time now. > > the vanishing cursor problem has been consistent up through my latest > upgrade (i

Re: xwin -multiwindow bug [ver 1.5.10(0.116/4/2)?]

2004-08-24 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Ariel Millennium Thornton wrote: > Hello. I think I have found a bug in Cygwin/X. > > When running xwin.exe with the -multiwindow switch (to use winxp's gdi > as X's wm), the X-managed regions of the screen do some rather strange > things. > > When the root window is shown,

Re: System process eating up 70% when starting XWin

2004-08-24 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Der Herr Pooh wrote: > I have a strange problem since I upgraded to the current version of xfree > (6.7-12 ??). When I start XWin the system process (not system idle > process!!) eats up up to 70% of me CPU slowing down the whole machine. This > stops immediately when XWin is

Re: [PATCH] Add support for "back/forward" (thumb) mouse buttons to XWin

2004-08-24 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Chris B wrote: > Hi, > > This patch adds support for thumb mouse buttons to XWin/cygwin. > > It's quite rough at the edges, probably. It works on XP but cannot test it on > other windows versions. It will probably do no harm on Win98 as it won't send > the messages, anyway

Re: vanishing cursor

2004-08-24 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > every so often, something triggers a bug in Xwin which makes the cursor > vanish but only over an Xwin window. Only way to get back is to restart > the X server (and windows). > > another odd bug is that I noticed emacs tends to bleed through and

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