Re: problem compiling code with OpenGL calls (update)

2005-09-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 08:05:17PM -0700, William Wallace wrote: >Rookie mistake! > >Is this the correct forum for these types of issues? http://cygwin.com/lists.html describes all of the available cygwin lists. This is not the forum for questions about compiling or problems running programs, no

Re: problem compiling code with OpenGL calls (update)

2005-09-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 07:41:40PM -0700, William Wallace wrote: >Well it looks like user error was to blame for my >compile problems. > >After a couple of hours of searching, I was able to >compile using the following: >gcc example.c -o example -lglu32 -lopengl32 -lglut > >Now, my attempt to execu

Re: could not find /tmp

2005-09-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 05:35:56AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >how to resolve this error, please advise, thank you > >bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create! >bash-2.05b$ This has nothing to do with cygwin/x. Please use the main list. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.c

Subject is not Reference (was Re: FW: [EMAIL PROTECTED])

2005-09-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 04:38:14PM +0100, John Ormerod wrote: >If the Subject line looks strange It's my guess at getting a >'references' line into this - I've noticed that moast replies have one, >but I have to admit defeat in finding out how its done. No doubt the >answer will be obvious once po

Re: Emacs problem after rebaseall: some progresses?

2005-09-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 07:26:26PM +0200, Angelo Graziosi wrote: >Even using the snapshots, the problem remains and every time one needs >to rebase all one must reinstall libncurses7-5.3-4 if one wants Emacs >to work. Since this has nothing to do with Cygwin, AFAICT, there is no reason to think th

Re: Can't display remote clients

2005-09-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 11:06:00AM -0400, Reid Thompson wrote: >go to www.cygwin.com, run setup to install base packages. Run setup >again to install X packages. There is no need to make this a two step process. Just install everything in one go. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com

Re: Can't display remote clients

2005-09-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\startxwin.bat to start X. The rest of your message was too convoluted and obfuscating to really make much sense of, so >[snip] -- Christopher Faylor spammer? -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cygwin Co-Project Leader[EMAIL PRO

A new day, a new snapshot, more testing required on the road to 1.5.19

2005-09-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
Yes, I have another snapshot to test. I know that this is tedious but I thought it would be nice to have some concerted testing of cygwin before I make a new release. I know that in the long run, it will probably only have a limited effect because there are people waiting in the wings who are rel

Re: Build with MinGW GCC, link to Cygwin libs, program doesn't work

2005-09-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 05:20:13PM -0400, Daniel Orzechowski wrote: >I've built a simple application by compiling the source with the MinGW >version of GCC 3.3.1 , and linking to the regular Cygwin X11 libraries. > >My C_INCLUDE_PATH environment variable points to the >c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\include

Re: Bad font in KDE for cygwin

2005-09-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
t supported here since it isn't an official Cygwin package. Sorry. -- Christopher Faylor spammer? -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cygwin Co-Project Leader[EMAIL PROTECTED] TimeSys, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-s

Re: New Cygwin/X maintainer

2005-09-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 01:19:38PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >May I introduce... > >Alan Hourihane has now officially taken over the job as our new Cygwin/X >maintainer. We just have to put his access permissions to sourceware >into place, but otherwise, that's it. > >Congratulations and a *b

Re: Icon update .diff

2005-09-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 07:59:19AM +0100, Colin Harrison wrote: >Joe Krahn wrote: >>3) Decide if Win95/Me/NT/2000 need continued support. > >Cygwin has dropped Me, Microsoft 95/98 (support 'till Jun 2006) and NT >(dead now even if you pay). I think you mean Microsoft has dropped the above. Cygwin

Re: Make XWinrc work on Xming

2005-07-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 11:01:34AM +0100, Colin Harrison wrote: >Patches will be taken elsewhere. Wow. You sure are making a big deal out of a simple request to use a different mailing list. >They should be given to freedesktop and are not under RedHat's GPL. Red Hat's GPL? The GPL is an FSF

Re: Make XWinrc work on Xming

2005-07-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 07:51:36PM +0100, Colin Harrison wrote: >OK we have a dilemma here. The codebase needs maintaining. There is no dilemma. If you have a xming specific patch, then send email to the xming mailing list. Things have been working like this for some time. We are currently in n

Re: Make XWinrc work on Xming

2005-07-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 06:00:09PM +0100, Colin Harrison wrote: >>Wrong mailing list. > >Same code base as Cygwin/X..break one and you break both Xming and Xwin. >Is the code to be maintained solely under freedesktop, or is it to fork? >http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Xming doesn't seem to have it's ow

Re: Make XWinrc work on Xming

2005-07-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 10:12:47AM +0100, Colin Harrison wrote: >Hi, > >I have a crude patch to make XWinrc work on Xming (for use when >crosscompiled using MinGW):- Wrong mailing list. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/pro

Re: New Cygwin/X and Xming maintainer wanted

2005-07-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 06:56:15PM +0200, Alexander Gottwald wrote: >I've signed a working contract with StarNet a few days ago and will not be >able to continue working on and maintaining Cygwin/X and Xming. Thanks for your contributions to Cygwin/X, Alexander. >I hope there are users of Cygwin/

Re: compiling flpsed under Cyg

2005-07-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 12:07:17PM -0700, Baksik, Frederick (NM75) wrote: >I would like to apologize to Brian, Christopher, Alexander, Igor, and >all of the other contributors to this project. As a user of Cygwin/X, >I must say that you are doing excellent work, I've been using these >tools for se

Re: how to get tilde to work with cygwin xterm + bash

2005-07-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 01:14:11PM -0700, bcp wrote: >using the combination of cygwin xterm + bash with a local session, the >tilde key is dead (pressing it results in nothing on screen). >backquote works. if i switch to an alternate shell (sh or zsh), the >tilde key will start working again (~ ap

Re: compiling flpsed under Cygwin

2005-07-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:29:25PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>The FAQ says: >> >>"Almost anything related to Cygwin is on-topic here. Please note, >>that this is not a mailing list for the discussion of general Windows >>topics. There are many many ot

Re: compiling flpsed under Cygwin

2005-07-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
Still here swinging away, huh? Haven't you already made these points? I was going to let this slide because you had the courtesy to apologize, even if you tried to retroactively justify your rude behavior. However, if you want to keep this going, I guess I can comply. I love pointing out fractu

Re: compiling flpsed under Cygwin

2005-07-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 12:02:55PM -0700, Stephen P. Harris wrote: >I did not ask for your opinion on matters that did not have a direct >bearing on the compilation of flsped. Nor do I value anyone's >speculative opinion who has not compiled flpsed, and you especially >since you are inattentive to

Re: Stacktrace on XWin with latest cygwin snapshots

2005-07-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 10:45:52PM +0100, Colin Harrison wrote: >Thanks for the clue, installed and tested on another system, XP sp2, >OK. Faulty system is a Windows Server 2003 sp1. stackdumps with >cygwin1.dll's after Build date 2005-07-02 22:44. I'll delve deeper >after checking the installat

Re: Stacktrace on XWin with latest cygwin snapshots

2005-07-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 08:07:07PM +0100, Colin Harrison wrote: >Since about 5th July, cygwin snapshots have caused my setup to stacktrace >when I run a client to XWin (6.8.2.0-4 multiwindow gl). WJFFM. >Is this just happening to me? Either way could be an upstream problem >somewhere? If it is,

Re: Bugtracking

2005-06-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 01:05:54PM +0200, Alexander Gottwald wrote: >On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Tobias Polzin wrote: >>>You can add bugs to >>https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xorg >>>Component is DDX/cygwin and assign the bug to ago at freedesktop dot >>>org. >> >>Shouldn?t this made mo

Re: read bug in Cygwin xterm window only

2005-06-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 05:00:54PM +0200, Jason Curl wrote: >Just downloaded Cygwin 15.17 (without anything else), and the problem is >now fixed. Noted that the release notes contained the entry > >cgf: Fix problem with tty reads where vmin == vtime == 0. > >that probably did it. So, the moral of

Re: read bug in Cygwin xterm window only

2005-06-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 09:22:08PM +0200, Jason Curl wrote: >On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 05:54:35PM -0700, Peter Farley wrote: >>The following program demonstrates what looks to me >>like a bug in the "read" function in an xterm (as >>opposed to a Cygwin console window). To run the test, >>compile wit

Re: Emacs problem with Cygwin 1.5.17-1

2005-05-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 02:49:31PM +0200, Angelo Graziosi wrote: >---> Here is some answer to >---> >---> >---> >---> >---> With TASKMANAGER Emacs takes from 97% to 99% of CPU. >---> >---> Using your hints I have noted that if I do not start

Re: Emacs problem with Cygwin 1.5.17-1

2005-05-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 09:14:24PM +0200, Angelo Graziosi wrote: >With Cygwin 1.5.17-1, after starting XWin (startxwin.bat) and Emacs, the >Emacs window does not show itself, i.e. > > >$ emacs& >[1] 1776 > >but the emacs window does not appear! The ps command shows: > >$ ps > PIDPPIDPG

Re: This is the first

2005-05-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 05:48:10AM -0700, Jacquelyn Stevens wrote: >*This is the first I have heard of this product . . I have heard of >Win4Lin as a way of running windows junk on Linux by not you people . . >So is this a total O/S by its self or something to add to linux and then >run windows

Re: rdesktop build on cygwin gone wrong

2005-05-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 06:51:29PM -0400, jose isaias cabrera wrote: >Thanks Dave, that worked perfectly. > >Just a little note for the folks out there like me... :-) > >I couldn't find patch, so I re-ran the cygwin setup.exe again and found the >patchutils on the Devel Category. Actually, the pa

Re: Obtaining older packages...

2005-04-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 05:50:54PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: >Don't forget the Cygwin Time Machine: > >http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/index.html#cygwintimemachine >ftp://www.fruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/index.html Or, if that doesn't work, there's always the "cygwin time machine". cgf

Re: Obtaining older packages...

2005-04-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 11:39:26AM +0200, Sebastian Haby wrote: >How come older packages aren't kept online on atleast a couple of servers? There's only one "server" and that is cygwin.com (aka sourceware.org aka gcc.gnu.org). Disk space is limited there. Of course, the real reason why we don't

Re: application failed to initialize properly

2005-04-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 04:30:59PM -0700, Alec Stanculescu wrote: >We had two applications that used to work under Cygwin on XP. The hard >disk broke down. We reinstalled XP and downloaded the latest version of >Cygwin on April 14th. After rebuilding the two applications the first >one works OK bu

Re: fixing XTerm colors

2005-03-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 11:51:15AM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote: >On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Michael Wardle wrote: > >> It seems that "startx" starts an XTerm with a yellow foreground and a >> black background, but subsequent invocations of XTerm will use the >> user's settings. >> >> To me this pr

Re: xserver constantly scans local ports

2005-03-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 11:44:50AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 11:15:08AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>So, unless cygwin/x is using threads, I don't see why there would be >>any new sockets being opened by the cygwin dll. > >Yep. It

Re: xserver constantly scans local ports

2005-03-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 11:15:08AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >So, unless cygwin/x is using threads, I don't see why there would be >any new sockets being opened by the cygwin dll. Yep. It appears that the server is utilizing select in threads which would bypass the optimiza

Re: xserver constantly scans local ports

2005-03-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 02:13:33PM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote: >Valery Khamenya wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I start Xserver after fresh cygwin installation, this brings xterm window >> and after few seconds xserver starts to scan constantly through my local >> ports. >> >> Q1. why ? > >This is

Re: XWin -multiwindow worked once, then never again

2005-03-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 12:37:17PM -0800, Matthew Johnson wrote: >--- Alexander Gottwald ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >[snip] >> You're running a version which is quite old. Please >> try the >> lastet xorg-x11 packages. If this was a fresh >> install, plaese >> consider using a different mirror,

Re: 30+ reasons why X-Win32 is Better than Cygwin/X

2005-03-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
Let me see if I can wrap this up since this discussion is now 100% off-topic for this mailing list. http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html shows the geographic location for mirrors. It has been suggested, on multiple occasions, that this data should also be in setup.exe, i.e., the UI sucks. The main rea

Re: 30+ reasons why X-Win32 is Better than Cygwin/X

2005-03-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
I didn't read much of this email when I first responded to it since I suspected that I'd feel compelled to respond and it would interfere with my "real job". But, now it's Saturday, so... On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:57:53PM -0800, Matthew Johnson wrote: >>Cygwin/X installs with the cygwin setup an

Re: bad installation ?

2005-03-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 01:28:05PM +, Owen Rees wrote: >--On 10 March 2005 20:14 + John Morrison (Cygwin) wrote: >>Basically adding your user (using the domain flag if appropriate) to >>the passwd and group files which is what the message attempts to help >>the user to do. It appears (judg

Re: 30+ reasons why X-Win32 is Better than Cygwin/X

2005-03-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:57:53PM -0800, Matthew Johnson wrote: >First question: is this _really_ on topic for the list? I would have >thought not. If someone is talking about implementing features, then sure. cgf

Re: 30+ reasons why X-Win32 is Better than Cygwin/X

2005-03-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 08:40:25AM -0500, Joseph Miller wrote: >On Wednesday 09 March 2005 6:30 pm, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 04:19:18PM -0500, Joseph Miller wrote: >>>I recently received a list entitled "30+ Reasons Why X-Win32 is Better >>&

Re: 30+ reasons why X-Win32 is Better than Cygwin/X

2005-03-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 04:19:18PM -0500, Joseph Miller wrote: >I recently received a list entitled "30+ Reasons Why X-Win32 is Better than >Cygwin/X". I don't know enough at the moment (though I am learning) about >the Cygwin/X server to be able to understand some of the reasons. I have >alre

Re: slowdown of command substitution in 1.5.13-1

2005-03-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 04:04:15PM +0100, Morche Matthias wrote: >My /etc/profile now runs very slow. > >I've tracked it down to: > >$ time echo 1 >1 > >real0m0.000s >user0m0.000s >sys 0m0.000s > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ >$ time echo `echo 1` >1 > >real0m10.591s >user0m0.015s >sys

Re: Tcl/Tk wish and Cygwin/X

2005-02-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 11:00:13PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >However, if somebody else would like to make it happen, cgf might be >convinced to turn over official maintainership of the package to that >person. Maybe. No maybe about it. If someone can keep insight working as is and still ha

Re: X Problems

2005-02-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 12:16:09PM -0700, Nicholas R Seegmiller wrote: >I have been unable to find anybody else who had this problem, so here goes: >When installing X, I get the error: >titlebar:mkfontscale.exe - Entry Point Not Found >"The procedure entry point _fopen64 could not be located in the

Re: telnet doesn't work

2005-02-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 06:41:33PM +0200, Dmitry Babich wrote: >I installed cygwin/X on XP box. When I try to telnet to another machine, I >immediately received prompt back. It looks like telnet do nothing. I tryed >"/?" to receive help - still nothing. > >Note, that ping works fine. > >If I do

sourceware.org downtime

2005-02-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
If you were subscribed to this list you should have received email telling you that sourceware.org (aka cygwin.com/gcc.gnu.org) was down. As you can see, we are now back up again. We had a hard disk failure which was exacerbated by faulty RAID firmware. Putting a new disk into the array caused m

Re: CygwinX query

2005-02-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 08:51:52PM +0530, Sivakumar Jayapal - CTD, Chennai. wrote: >http://web.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~s01397ms/cygwin/ >I tried this link and downloaded successfully but during installation the >setup.exe crashed at ATK. You need to check with the person at the above link. We don't supp

Re: XOrg 6.8.2 RC2 cygwin packages

2005-01-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 08:56:03PM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote: >Hi, > >I've prepared cygwin packages for XORG 6.8.2 RC2. > >RC2 means release candidate and is not a version for productive work >but for testing the changes for the next release. > >To install the packages, start setup.exe and us

Re: Full install on XP hangs at /etc/X11/abb-defaults/Bitmap

2005-01-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 04:19:49PM -, Lino Miguel Martins Tinoco wrote: >Maybe the setup cannot process such an amount of files like the one on a >full installation at one time. setup.exe has been updated at http://cygwin.com/setup.exe so that it should no longer have this problem. cgf

Re: IME XIM server

2005-01-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 03:27:43AM +0900, Kensuke Matsuzaki wrote: >Happy New Year. > >I'm trying to make a XIM server that use Windows IME. Maybe you can >input other CJK languages with a few fix. > >I applied small patch to handle WM_IME_*, and I wrote extension to >access IME from IM server. > >

Re: Full install on XP hangs at /etc/X11/abb-defaults/Bitmap

2004-12-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 10:40:03AM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote: >On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Greg Schussman wrote: >>I've just tried to do a full install of cygwin/X on Windows XP. The >>install hangs at 90%, saying: >> >>Installing >> >>xorgx-x11-etc-6.8.180.1 >> >>/etc/X11/app-defaults/Bitmap >> >>

Re: setup.exe hanging

2004-12-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 02:08:35PM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote: >On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Peter Bismuti wrote: > >> Whenever I run setup, it always hangs at a point where it says it is 99% >> finished and displays the filename >> >> Running >> no package >> /etc/postinstalls/libgnome2.sh >> >> T

Re: perl debugger not working in xterm

2004-12-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 07:58:55AM -0800, Tom Goetze wrote: >Using a different version of perl is a possibility, but I would >think that this would be considered an xterm bug (or does every >application that cygwin needs to interact with need to be >re-written/ported to run inside of cygwin?) Of c

Re: perl debugger not working in xterm

2004-12-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 01:51:04PM -0800, Tom Goetze wrote: >Something very strange I discovered today, however, is that if I try to use >the perl debugger like this: > >perl -d -e 0 > >then the perl debugging prompt does not appear in the xterm window, but >instead it appears (with mangled charact

Re: Full install on XP hangs at /etc/X11/abb-defaults/Bitmap

2004-12-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 04:02:33PM -0500, Brian Keener wrote: >Is this not the same hang that has been address here and in the Cygwin List >and >the cygwin-apps list. If so please see other threads on this same subject in >the mailing list archives and the cygwin list archives and if it is then

Re: XWin won't start because of missing cygfreetype-6.dll

2004-12-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 10:20:42PM -0600, Stahlman Family wrote: >Can anyone tell me which package contains cygfreetype-6.dll? http://cygwin.com/packages/ Has a package search utility. You can look for the package there. >I have installed the latest version of Xwin, but when I attempt to >start

Re: X application crush in korean environment. Korean environment is 'LANG=ko'.

2004-12-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 12:20:22PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: >On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, KuYa White wrote: >>I'm a newbie and korean. A few days ago, I installed cygwin and >>cygwin-xfree package. And then, I changed locale 'LANG=ko' for korean. >>Simply, I executed xterm. >>LANG=ko xterm -e vim >> >

Re: Does anyone else get these blank failed deliveries?

2004-12-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 11:04:30AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 03:57:01PM +, Chris Green wrote: >>Every time I send a message to the Cygwin/X list I get an empty bounce >>with the following headers:- >> >>From [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Does anyone else get these blank failed deliveries?

2004-12-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 03:57:01PM +, Chris Green wrote: >Every time I send a message to the Cygwin/X list I get an empty bounce >with the following headers:- > >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Dec 17 15:53:40 2004 >From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Returned ma

Re: cygwin, and comment on rejection

2004-12-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 12:06:18PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 09:36:37AM -0700, Sarir Khamsi wrote: >>Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>Good point. I do reject some subjects like that in the main cygwin >>>list bu

Re: cygwin, and comment on rejection

2004-12-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 09:36:37AM -0700, Sarir Khamsi wrote: >Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>Good point. I do reject some subjects like that in the main cygwin >>list but I hadn't done so here. >> >>I have now, though. However, if people

Re: cygwin

2004-12-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:26:29AM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote: >>>please add me to mailing list.. I am having nothing but problems with >>>this >> >>The ability to add yourself to the mailing list is well-tested. You >>can think of it as an entrance examination if you want. No one is >>going t

Re: cygwin

2004-12-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 10:09:32PM -0700, MP wrote: >please add me to mailing list.. I am having nothing but problems with >this The ability to add yourself to the mailing list is well-tested. You can think of it as an entrance examination if you want. No one is going to do this for you.

Re: cygwin package server inside firewall, setup can't get list of download sites

2004-12-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 04:38:14PM -0500, george young wrote: >[setup-2.427, Windows XP pro 5.1, experienced with linux X, not a windows or >cygwin hacker] > >I need to have a local (partial) copy of the cygwin software tree >to allow fast installs for many PC's. This has to be inside our >corpo

Re: Problem starting X

2004-12-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 01:12:13PM -, Mark Fisher wrote: >hmm, according to >http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/gdi/monitor >_82yb.asp >it's available from win98 onwards, and windows 2000 onwards, so >yes, looks like win95 and winNT not supported. > >I'll have a go

Re: nullmail hiba!

2004-12-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 10:39:14PM +0100, root wrote: >List-Unsubscribe: It's always nice when people like [EMAIL PROTECTED] keep their headers in the messages. It's a lot easier to figure out who needs to be unsubscribed.

Re: XDMCP Woes + Solaris

2004-12-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 10:32:07AM -, Mark Fisher wrote: >You could try using a different run, >http://www.extendingflash.com/utilities/runhide.html provides an >application called "runhide" which does a similar job as run. This may >solve your problem Or, in the spirit of free software, if t

Re: need xterm to log to a file

2004-12-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 06:50:11AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: >On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Al Goodman wrote: > >>On unix, xterm has an option that will enable it to log info typed and >>displayed to be logged to a file. I downloaded the xterm source and >>compiled it. When I enabled the option via Cnt

Re: starting cygwinx

2004-12-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 08:36:05PM -, Mark Fisher wrote: >hey, don't sweat it! > >i've just been getting up to speed on this after playing with x for >a few years but not using it properly. > >here's how I do things (so I'm open to flames too!) >I used to use the startx... scripts, but don't b

Re: Packaged X Server for easy use

2004-12-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 04:39:50PM -0500, Joseph Miller wrote: >I would be more than happy to work within the cygwin release for this project. > >I do not pretend that I would want to maintain this project for an eternity >myself and I would prefer a larger community to work within. How do you

Re: Packaged X Server for easy use

2004-12-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 02:53:19PM -0500, Joseph Miller wrote: >I do realize that you do not have to install the entire cygwin >installation but can use setup.exe and customize it, but I just don't >think that even that would suffice for what I was looking for. What >many users who were only looki

Re: Packaged X Server for easy use

2004-12-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 08:50:15PM +0200, David Fraser wrote: >Would it be on-topic to discuss this on the >[EMAIL PROTECTED] list? Then people (including Joseph) >could be directed there... Yes. What does this have to do with win32-x11 in any of its incarnations? Someone is starting a differen

Re: Packaged X Server for easy use

2004-12-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 11:43:33AM -0500, Joseph Miller wrote: >Hello X Cygwin project. I got tired of the only option to use an X >Server on Windows to be either use the X-Win32 trial (like i would pay >$200+ for that!) or install the full cygwin environment. You don't have to install the "full

dependency problem in font hint files

2004-12-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
Alexander, While attempting to install X on a system that was badly out of date, I got a number of "Unable to find cygfontconfig.dll" errors. I assume that this is due to the fact that the font pacakges rely on fontconfig but that wasn't reflected in their hint files. So, I added this dependency

Re: Shared Memory Transport

2004-12-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 08:49:34AM +0900, Kensuke Matsuzaki wrote: >I read "Shared memory transport for XFree86". >http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/SharedMemoryTransport > >It didn't improve so much, because unix domain socket is very fast. >But we don't have unix domain socket and we us

Re: Problems building X/Cygwin (no XpConfig)

2004-12-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 07:04:16PM +0300, Igor Shmukler wrote: >Is your mother proud of your manners? You have got to be kidding me! You wonder into this mailing list firing off content-free criticisms and tell everyone to go to a competing commercial product. And, *you* are talking about *manne

Re: Problems building X/Cygwin (no XpConfig)

2004-12-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:36:08PM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote: >Hm. Maybe I should put a sign on the website: > >+--+ >| Mailinglist support fees | >+--+ >| | >| regular users: free | >| dumb-asses:$1| >

Re: Problems building X/Cygwin (no XpConfig)

2004-12-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 06:13:46PM +0300, Igor Shmukler wrote: >I actually went to X.org and got latest release of X. IMHO, cygwin >documentation sucks. Comments like "documentation sucks" are completely useless and obviously intended to make the sender feel self-righteous and irritate the people

Re: Trouble getting a windowed X

2004-11-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 06:04:13PM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote: >On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Henry Camacho wrote: > >> run X. >> >> The server starts but the windowed screen doesn't show up. >> >> *** Here is the bottomline question. How can I get an Xserver running when >> I issue the command "X"

Re: [Fwd: Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only]

2004-11-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 08:34:40PM -0800, Igor Furlan wrote: >--- Christopher Faylor wrote: >>I don't know why every message I send on this subject requires such >>intense clarification. > >Bruno is showing willingness to help ... That's all I *understand* that.

Re: [Fwd: Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only]

2004-11-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 09:50:34PM +0100, bruno patin wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 04:19:50PM +0100, bruno patin wrote: >>>(setup.log.full) xac >> >>I don't know if anyone is following the discussion in the cygwin-apps >>m

Re: new cygwin has memory problems?

2004-11-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 11:10:59AM -0800, Lester Ingber wrote: >I tried cygwin.dll.bz2 and my machine crashed. So you have machine problems. Well then, that's an entirely different story. It will be hard to confirm or deny problems if you don't have stable hardware. cgf

Re: new cygwin has memory problems?

2004-11-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 09:28:51AM -0600, Bobby McNulty wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 12:17:19PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>I've made a cygwin-specific correction to the newlib library to make >>>cygwin work more like linux. I

Re: new cygwin has memory problems?

2004-11-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 12:17:19PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >I've made a cygwin-specific correction to the newlib library to make >cygwin work more like linux. I will generate a cygwin snapshot >sometime soon which should have a fix for this problem. Keep an ey on: > &

Re: [Fwd: Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only]

2004-11-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 04:19:50PM +0100, bruno patin wrote: >(setup.log.full) xac I don't know if anyone is following the discussion in the cygwin-apps mailing list but it looks like a few setup problems have been discovered and a new setup.exe may be imminent. The problem where setup.exe doesn'

Re: GLX acceleration

2004-11-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 10:14:37AM -0800, Lester Ingber wrote: >I believe the problem to be with the new xorg files, but there are quite >a few and I don't have time to reinstall them all. I assume I'll just >wait until the next update, but I hope the maintainers will at least >keep this potential

Re: new cygwin has memory problems?

2004-11-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 08:26:05AM -0800, Lester Ingber wrote: >I was wrong in assuming this was a cygwin base problem. It must be a >cygwin-xfree problem. I have no problems I can see in a cygwin console >window, only in an xterm (or rxvt) window running under >XWin -unixkill -emulate3buttons -c

Re: fontconfig/fontconfig.h is missing

2004-11-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 09:42:49AM +0100, J?rg Schaible wrote: >although I've reinstalled Xorg and now the X11 libs are present, >libfontconfig-devel seems still have problems. I reassured, that the >downloaded package, that was reinstalled today, includes the >fontconfig/fontconfig.h file, but th

Re: X11/Xlib.h missing

2004-11-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 12:19:12AM +0200, Jani Tiainen wrote: >Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >>On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Jani Tiainen wrote: >> >> >>>Alexander Gottwald wrote: >>> On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Jani Tiainen wrote: >Alexander Gottwald wrote: > > >>Please send the output of

Re: X startup failure

2004-11-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 04:19:49PM -, Arijit Mukherjee wrote: >Hi > >I just installed a fresh version of Cygwin on my WinXP machine. But I am >not able to use the X11 utilities. Attemtping to execute "startxwin.bat" >results in an error which says "Unable to find XWin", although the path >is pr

Re: X11/Xlib.h missing

2004-11-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 04:35:01PM +0100, J?rg Schaible wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote on Friday, November 12, 2004 4:27 PM: > >[snip] > >>> So, the solution is "try again". >> >> Just one more bit of data: I rectified the problem at >> ~12:30A

Re: X11/Xlib.h missing

2004-11-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 10:13:34AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 11:27:51AM +0200, Jani Tiainen wrote: >>I tried to install development headers (xorg-x11-devel, version >>6.8.1.0-1). When I selected package I only get "nothing to be installed&quo

Re: X11/Xlib.h missing

2004-11-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 11:27:51AM +0200, Jani Tiainen wrote: >I tried to install development headers (xorg-x11-devel, version >6.8.1.0-1). When I selected package I only get "nothing to be installed" >message. No headers, nothing. Package itself is downloaded to setup >directory. I repackaged

Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only

2004-11-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 09:32:51PM +0100, bruno patin wrote: >So my work is to begin a new complete install with the new packages. >Do I have to reload all of them ? only xorg related packages ? You have to do whatever it is that you do to cause the problem. The mirror has been updated (I create

Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only

2004-11-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 03:39:23PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 09:22:16PM +0100, bruno patin wrote: >> >Good evening again, >> > >> >install in two phases worked well. I can deinst

Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only

2004-11-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
where nnn-fscl-nnn was not >anymore concerned only by removing one file of the setup llist. On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 01:20:57PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >I have (I HOPE) regenerated all of the X11 files in the distribution ^^ I was merely providing a reference point. cgf

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