Re: Cygwin 1.5.19-4 XEmacs 21.4.19 hangs using pcl-cvs with filename COM1

2006-02-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 11:14:54AM -0800, Mark Purtill wrote: We have a CVS repository I'm trying to access on a Windows XP Home box running cygwin 1.5.19-4. The CVS environment variables are: CVSROOT=:ext:user@host:/work/cvsroot

Looking for Cygwin/X maintainer

2006-03-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
Our Cygwin/X maintainer seems to have disappeared so it looks like we, once again, are looking for volunteers to be the go to person for Cygwin/X. That would mean building new releases, handling problems in this mailing list, and keeping the cygwin-xfree web site up-to-date. If you are

Re: Looking for Cygwin/X maintainer

2006-03-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 05:00:48PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 2 15:49, Alan Hourihane wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 10:45 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: Our Cygwin/X maintainer seems to have disappeared so it looks like we, once again, are looking for volunteers to be the go to person

Re: probelems with installation of kde

2006-03-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 05:26:57PM +0100, alex wrote: hi every one, i'm not sure if i'm right here, but i tried it already on kde for cygwin project forum, and unfortunatly did not get any answer yet. so i try it here. KDE is not a package which is generally supported here. the problem i have

Re: probelems with installation of kde

2006-03-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 12:17:26PM +0100, alex wrote: The funny thing is that i do have one exe file (rebase.exe) and one file which is named rebaseall !? Yes, that is pretty hilarious. Thanks for sharing. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: App titles in xterms appearing in wrong windows

2006-03-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 09:57:57AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Brent Eagles wrote: I must be doing something obviously wrong, but I am having trouble with titles for programs running under X. The title changes do not appear on some applications use the cygwin-specific call

Re: Looking for Cygwin/X maintainer

2006-04-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 10:54:16PM -0500, Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Our Cygwin/X maintainer seems to have disappeared so it looks like we, once again, are looking for volunteers to be the go to person for Cygwin/X. That would mean building new releases, handling

Re: KDE on Cygwin

2006-05-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 04:47:38PM -0400, Inuyasha wrote: I am playing with a KDE on Cygwin program and so far have installed all of tha packages that I was told to get, yet I get 2 error messages that iterate that I am missing some. Here is the sequence of events i took in 4 screen shots, maybe

Re: LINES and COLUMNS not getting updated

2006-05-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 10:07:48AM -0400, Kenneth Nellis wrote: In my Cygwin X-Windows xterm environment, I'm not seeing the LINES and COLUMNS environment variables getting updated correctly after my window is resized. Furthermore, echo $COLUMNS and printenv COLUMNS don't agree. (I didn't see

Re: Cygwin's RUN command and Windows Vista Beta 2

2006-06-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 08:22:02PM -0400, Chuck McDevitt wrote: The RUN commands that comes with Cygwin-X (\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\run.exe) has a problem on Windows Vista Beta 2. When I tried running Xwin.exe and ssh.exe using that RUN command on Vista, it caused a blue-screen crash of the OS.

Re: broken link

2006-06-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 08:18:33PM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote: On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Dariouch Baba? wrote: the following link seems broken, found on http://x.cygwin.com/ a href=http://freedesktop.org/~xorg/X11R6.7.0/doc/setxkbmap.1.html;SETXKBMAP(1) manual page/a Indeed. The new URL is

Re: broken link

2006-06-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 03:13:45PM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote: On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote: X maintainer? Oh, a thinly veiled hint... :-) It's not a hint. We don't have an X maintainer. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports

Re: Please try 2002-06-29 snapshot

2006-06-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 02:23:46PM +, Eric Jamison wrote: Christopher Faylor cygwin at cygwin.com writes: I just refreshed the 2002-06-29 snapshot a couple of minutes ago. Please try it. Thanks, cgf Snapshot installation instructions: To install a snapshot: 1) Download

Re: can't open fontforge--get error cygxml2-2.dll not found

2006-06-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 07:52:41PM +, naomi gill wrote: Well, thanks all anyway. Turns out it actually was a Cygwin problem. I did a lot of digging and found out that the libxml2 package has somehow managed to escape installation. I installed the missing component and the problem has been

Re: Cygwin/X does not start after updating Cygwin1.dll to 1.5.20-1

2006-07-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 01:30:50PM -0400, Charli Li wrote: Reformatted. -Original Message- From: Robert McNulty Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2006 7:08 PM To: Cygwin/X Mailing List Subject: Re: Cygwin/X does not start after updating Cygwin1.dll to 1.5.20-1 Charli Li wrote: There seems to be a

Re: Cygwin/X does not start after updating Cygwin1.dll to 1.5.20-1

2006-07-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 01:53:37PM -0400, Charli Li wrote: Had to downgrade to 1.5.19-4 for everything to go back to normal. Well, then, have fun living in the past. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: Cygwin/X does not start after updating Cygwin1.dll to 1.5.20-1

2006-07-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 10:33:03PM -0400, Charli Li wrote: Good news: * Sucessful startup after removing Cygwin1.dll from /usr/X11R6/bin * DLL in /usr/X11R6/bin was version 1.5.19-4 ** Last modified sometime in January 2006 *** (Way before 1.5.20-1 update) Makes you kinda wonder if we really

Re: Missing announcement for xorg-*-6.8.99.901-1 packages?

2006-07-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 11:40:02AM -0400, Jack Tanner wrote: Volker Quetschke wrote: I just saw that setup wants to upgrade a lot of xorg packages. Did my mail program silently eat that announcement mail or was it just not send? I imagine Corinna pushed the packages but doesn't have time to

Re: fatal error with X Server 6.8.99.901-1

2006-07-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 10:20:09AM -0400, Kenneth Nellis wrote: Apologies for the long lines in my previous message. Haven't figured out yet how to control Outlook. (Suggestions welcome.) But suggestions do not go here. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: X visual

2006-07-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 09:30:36AM +, Ryan Chan wrote: Hi Cedric, We would like to invite you to explore our job opportunities at Nvidia, pls email me [EMAIL PROTECTED] for further discussion This is not a recruiting mailing list. Please do not send any further email here. -- Unsubscribe

Re: modification of startx.bat not work

2006-07-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 09:49:17PM +0200, Dirk Schleicher wrote: Am Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:57:46 -0400 schrieb Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You could double click on the sylpheed-claws icon after X had been started. Hello, I like to have no terminal open. I like to start SC without

Re: slow paints despite fast hardware

2006-08-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
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Re: Using X via ssh from one windows machine to another

2006-11-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 12:25:13PM -0500, Brian Keener wrote: hmm no hints - keep googling I guess. I'm sure it must be a security/config issue - xhost or xauth issue somewhere - just haven't found the magic key yet since it works from Windows to my two linux machines. Maybe wrong group - maybe

Re: Java SDK version available with latest version of cygwin/X?

2006-12-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 05:32:15PM -0800, Daniel Newhouse wrote: The title says it all. I don't want to download a new version unless I get Java 1.5 or better. Take a look at the Cygwin web page and look for Setup Package Search in the left toolbar. Clicking on this is how you find what

Re: Java SDK version available with latest version of cygwin/X?

2006-12-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 05:57:56PM -0800, Daniel Newhouse wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Take a look at the Cygwin web page and look for Setup Package Search in the left toolbar. Clicking on this is how you find what packages are available. FWIW, we don't provide a Java SDK. I can compile

Re: Pseudo-terminal will not be allocated because stdin is not a terminal.

2007-02-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 12:10:35PM -0800, peter360 wrote: I just installed cygwin/X.My system is: $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 AGAINSTSTONE-LX 1.5.24(0.156/4/2) 2007-01-31 10:57 i686 Cygwin I start the X server using the included startxwin.bat file. In the xterm window this is what I got $ ssh

Re: Pseudo-terminal will not be allocated because stdin is not a terminal.

2007-02-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 04:42:59PM -0800, peter360 wrote: Indeed! It turns out I was using c:\WINDOWS\System32\ssh.exe, which I have no idea how it got there... I installed openssh and the problem was fixed. Thanks! Just out of curiosity, how does a program check if stdin is a terminal? My

Re: Any move to xorg v7?

2007-02-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 02:48:45PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote: Is anyone considering porting cygwin/x to the v7 architecture? It's not a matter of porting per se. You can use x.org R7 with Cygwin right now, through Cygwin Ports. (But that's of course a separate project

Re: Can't get Cygwin/X to run on my Windows XP

2007-03-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 07:02:37PM -0700, hendrau wrote: Holger Krull wrote: hendrau schrieb: Holger Krull wrote: hendrau schrieb: X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard _XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running I am

Re: Can't get Cygwin/X to run on my Windows XP

2007-03-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 08:29:40PM -0700, hendrau wrote: Christopher Faylor-8 wrote: On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 07:02:37PM -0700, hendrau wrote: Holger Krull wrote: hendrau schrieb: Holger Krull wrote: hendrau schrieb: X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard _XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener

Re: XWin 100% CPU usage for Java applications on Vista

2007-03-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 04:14:51PM +0200, Vladimir Nicolici wrote: I had similar problems and found that starting the X Server with -engine 1 will help. Give it a try. I was experimenting with other solutions, and I found Xming, another open source project. Xming doesn't seem to have any of the

Re: XWin 100% CPU usage for Java applications on Vista

2007-03-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 08:56:54PM +0200, Vladimir Nicolici wrote: Red Hat? This is a community project. Don't know where you got the idea that Cygwin/X was somehow supported by Red Hat. From www.cygwin.com: For Cygwin licensing or commercial support, please visit the Red Hat Cygwin Product

Re: winTopLevelWindowProc - BitBlt failed: The handle is invalid.

2007-04-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 08:15:32AM -0700, Lester Ingber wrote: While working in xterm windows, just about every day, at some point my XWin.log starts filling up with thousands of lines: ... winTopLevelWindowProc - BitBlt failed: The handle is invalid. ... No windows crash. A search shows that

Re: winTopLevelWindowProc - BitBlt failed: The handle is invalid.

2007-05-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 06:46:41AM -0700, Lester Ingber wrote: While working in xterm windows, just about every day, at some point my XWin.log starts filling up with thousands of lines: ... winTopLevelWindowProc - BitBlt failed: The handle is invalid. ... No windows crash. A search shows that

Re: My program restarts six times under Cygwin when run under rxvt/xterm

2007-05-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 11:52:50PM -0700, Alex Shturm wrote: Hello, This is a simple program that I compile as a console application in Visual Studio 2005 : -- #include windows.h #include stdio.h LONG WINAPI my_exception_filter (LPEXCEPTION_POINTERS

Re: My program restarts six times under Cygwin when run under rxvt/xterm

2007-05-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 11:14:36AM -0700, Alex Shturm wrote: cgf wrote: Cygwin uses the equivalent of SetUnhandledExceptionFilter for its own purposes. It can do that because there is no linux version of that function. So, if you attempt to use it in a cygwin-aware program, you're in for

Re: My program restarts six times under Cygwin when run under rxvt/xterm

2007-05-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 11:57:30AM -0700, Alex Shturm wrote: Christopher, I agree there is a misunderstanding here. Please see my original post - there I clearly say that I build this program in Visual Studio 2005, and not using gcc. SORRY. I completely misread the run this program under

Re: My program restarts six times under Cygwin when run under rxvt/xterm

2007-05-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 03:13:07PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 11:57:30AM -0700, Alex Shturm wrote: Christopher, I agree there is a misunderstanding here. Please see my original post - there I clearly say that I build this program in Visual Studio 2005, and not using

Re: My program restarts six times under Cygwin when run under rxvt/xterm

2007-05-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 12:31:58PM -0700, Alex Shturm wrote: Wow. Is it a documented behavior? http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html See the proc_retry entry. It neglects to mention that the default is 10. You might be able to set CYGWIN=proc_retry:1 but it's possible that

Re: My program restarts six times under Cygwin when run under rxvt/xterm

2007-05-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 01:26:07PM -0700, Alex Shturm wrote: It did not help... :( The program still restarts 5 times... You did set it before running any cygwin shell, right? cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: My program restarts six times under Cygwin when run under rxvt/xterm

2007-05-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 04:15:54PM -0700, Alex Shturm wrote: The description of proc_retry:n did not mention this requirement. It is a general requirement for the CYGWIN environment variable. Anyway, after I defined my CYGWIN variable in My Computer Properties Advanced Environment Variables,

Re: Unable to open display or run xterm

2007-05-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 08:49:13PM -0600, Glen Robinson wrote: I did a chmd on /tmp/.X11-unix and got X kind of up. i.e., I have a screen and a cursor and alt tab will move me in and out of Windows XP windows/apps. I can't get an xterm running and when I right click on the X icon in the

Re: help! cygwin window linux cmds dont work/ not recognised

2007-07-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 02:57:06AM -0700, edzio wrote: I just installed cygwin from cygwin.com, the window opens with a bash-3.2$ prompt no colon - i am trying cygwin to have a command line c++ compiler that behaves like linux. but commands like ls or cd arent recognised or any command at

Re: Fwd: failure notice

2007-07-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 05:46:43PM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote: What the heck is this? Sheesh. Let's compound the problem, huh? http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2007-07/msg00033.html If you want to discuss this move to another mailing list. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: FW: Uninstalling Cygwin/X ??

2007-09-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 05:02:23PM +0100, Lisa Di lorenzo wrote: I'd like to uninstall Cygwin/X from my hard drive, but can't seem to find instructions for doing so.? How should I go about doing this? p.s. I'd like to uninstall it so that I can re-install it, in the hopes of having a 'home'

Re: What is xargs?

2007-10-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 07:44:51AM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote: On 2007-10-12, Hall Nation wrote: I am new to cygwin/X. Using the above setup at the workplace.. I need to know about the xargs command. What does it do ? As Gary said, the man (short for manual) command is your friend. As

Re: Xargs....

2007-10-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 10:43:54AM -0700, Hall Nation wrote: Thanks for the clarification mate ... Now I know ... And you would have known this before because it had already been described to you before. I hope that future communications will not require this type of repetition. And, please

Re: Where is X(7) man page, ques about but#2

2007-10-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 04:34:13PM -0400, Paul McFerrin wrote: Excuse if this is a duplicate message. I missed seeing it. There is no reason to spam the list with duplicate queries. Use the mailing list archives where you'll find something like this:

Re: Where is X(7) man page, ques about but#2

2007-10-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 10:00:21PM -0400, Paul McFerrin wrote: I'm not SPAMing. I was having problems in getting on this mailing list thus the duplicates (I wan't seeing them). You didn't seem to read what I wrote or follow the link that I provided. I pointed you at the answer to your

Re: problem with xterm

2007-12-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 12:56:49PM +0100, Holger Krull wrote: Pelotudo schrieb: [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ ssh -X network [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Warning: untrusted X11 forwarding setup failed: xauth key data not generated Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11

Re: Xwin crashed when i use -depth 24

2008-01-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
Please stop sending multiple duplicate messages to the cygwin-xfree mailing list. This is your first and only warning. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/

Re: CygwinX maintainer

2008-01-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 02:59:50PM -0200, Douglas Hipocreme wrote: does need an maintainer until now ? Let me know ? Yes, we need a maintainer. Are you volunteering? cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: Compiling XWin (modular Xorg)

2008-01-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 01:55:17PM -0500, Nicholas Wourms wrote: On Dec 11, 2007 11:49 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Janjaap Bos wrote: The changes I made are all in the patch. Let me know when you have suggestions, and whether you're able to build it. Perhaps Yaakov is willing to check

Still seeking a Cygwin/X maintainer

2008-03-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
Anyone interested in being a Cygwin/X maintainer? We've been missing one for years and it would be nice to get the packages up to date, fix some bugs, etc. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: Still seeking a Cygwin/X maintainer

2008-03-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:18:41AM -0400, jose isaias cabrera wrote: Like everyone else, I would like to do it, I just don-t have the time... Yes, I understand how the world works. There is no reason for responses indicating that you are not going to do it. If everyone followed your lead we'd

Re: Some X programs won't start up

2008-03-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:17:47PM +0100, Robert Latest wrote: Hello people, I've recently installed cygwin-xfree and I'm loving it. Finally, my beloved fvwm on my Windows PC at work! Anyway, while some X apps start right up without trouble (fvwm, xcalc, xterm...), others (xmgrace, for example)

Re: New Maintainer

2008-03-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 06:31:48PM -0500, DRC wrote: Hi. We are interested in maintaining Cygwin/X and would like more info on what that would entail. It's pretty simple. You have to package new new releases of X.org for Cygwin and support people on this mailing list. cgf -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: New Maintainer

2008-03-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 01:56:56PM -0500, DRC wrote: It's pretty simple. You have to package new new releases of X.org for Cygwin and support people on this mailing list. Well, I'm willing to give it a try at least. I know nothing about Cygwin packaging, but I have experience building X.org

Re: New Maintainer

2008-03-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 08:58:17PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: DRC wrote: Is there a spec for which files go in which packages, etc.? Any other advice to get started, or should I just start downloading and tinkering? Given the new modular structure of the X.org releases, it seems to me

Re: installation of i686 pc cygwin

2008-04-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 09:53:56PM -0500, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 13:09 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear friends, While installing cygwin on windows XP. i686 pc cygwin is not installed,even on asking setup.exe to ''install all''.I tried the Linux

Re: Question about repository structure

2008-07-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:11:03AM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote: Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote: Some time ago a second directory structure appeared in Cygwin mirrors. They now have 'release' and 'release-2' folders, along with corresponding 'setup' and 'setup-2' .ini, .bz2, and .sig

Re: Window icons in multi-window mode

2008-08-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 01:01:59PM -0700, Raul Acevedo wrote: Someone will correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the intent of the OP was to ask Is there a configuration switch that one can throw to see the X11 icons on the Windows frames? The answer to that is no, not that we know of. If the

Re: Can you make a DLL from a library that requires caller-defined functions?

2008-08-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 04:03:32PM -0700, Michael Rogers wrote: Sorry Yaakov. I didn't mean to be annoying. You've been very helpful. I'll work on it tonight and send you more info tonight or tomorrow when I have it available. Basically all I meant by not viable was that the executibles aren't

Re: Segmentation fault from Tk_Init() call whle running X11

2008-08-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 12:10:57PM -0700, Michael Rogers wrote: This is spill-over from my eariler thread about trying to get a graphing library working that uses X11 with Tcl/Tk. But I think this is what it's come down to. But it seems like a pretty basic Tcl/Tk problem so I figured it was time

Re: Segmentation fault from Tk_Init() call whle running X11

2008-08-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 07:18:33AM +, Mark Geisert wrote: Michael Rogers writes: I promise,??no more threads, no more questions. [...] http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTWLL !! The problem isn't just the long lines. It's also the junk characters embedded in the long lines. And while we're

Re: Hello

2008-08-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 06:27:05PM -, John Emmas wrote: Hi - I just installed Cygwin today for the first time and I'm trying to find out if any kind of X server got installed. When I click on the Cygwin desktop icon (I'm running it under Windows XP) it opens a DOS type window and I can search

Re: Running a simple GUI app

2008-08-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 06:42:58PM -, John Emmas wrote: Sorry Phil if my questions seem 'lame'. I should have explained that I only installed Cygwin this morning so I'm by no means up to speed with the concepts or terminology. Anyway, I managed to arrange Windows so that it now starts

Re: Maintenance, actualization and support of the Cygwin X

2008-09-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 01:01:06PM -0400, Luis Vasquez Ramos wrote: I am interested in joining and participating in the group that will continue in the maintenance, actualization and support of the Cygwin X I await for your instructions of how to join and the way of working and communication. One

Re: Problem with /etc/profile.d/00xorg-x11-base.csh on x64

2008-09-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 12:38:52PM -0400, Francois L'Archeveque wrote: There's a problem with /etc/profile.d/00xorg-x11-base.csh on x64 that has been reported before but is still not fixed. Just wanted to bump the following message which includes a patch that worked on my XP SP2 x64 sysetm.

The uncommon valor of Yaakov Selkowitz

2008-11-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
Yesterday, Yaakov released a new version of X for Cygwin, rectifying a long-standing problem in the Cygwin distribution. He was amazingly diligent in making sure that his upgrade did not break the Cygwin distribution. His new packages are laid out in a more sensical fashion and attempt to

Re: The uncommon valor of Yaakov Selkowitz *amended*

2008-11-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:17:43AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: Yesterday, Yaakov released a new version of X for Cygwin, rectifying a long-standing problem in the Cygwin distribution. He was amazingly diligent in making sure that his upgrade did not break the Cygwin distribution. His new

Re: X server 1.5.3-2 candidate

2008-11-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 07:12:42PM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Unfortunately I don't have a linux box to experiment with... :-( There's always http://www.virtualbox.org/ if you want to get a virtual linux system. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: problem with Xwin -multiwindow

2008-11-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 08:57:08PM -0800, Hormoz Yaghutiel wrote: I installed the entire cygwin on my Windows Vista business 64 machine a couple of days ago. I have noticed some pecularities: No cygen icons are created on the desktop even though I check marked it at the end of the installation.

Re: Unable to download org-x11 files

2008-11-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 09:59:22PM +0100, Kevin Jan Mutch wrote: None the files named xorg-x11. or X-start... are no longer listed by Cygwin's setup. How can I install the Xserver? xorg-server See the announcement: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2008-11/msg0.html --

Re: cygwin-x-doc refresh

2008-11-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 08:14:33PM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jon TURNEY wrote: I've finished off a first pass at updating the cygwin-x-doc package I started some time ago. Updating the text was a bit less traumatic than expected as it

Re: Upgrade woes.

2008-11-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:03:11AM -0500, Eric Roode wrote: I updated my cygwin the other day, as I periodically do, and I am very sorry I did so. Here are some of the problems I have encountered. So you just blindly updated without noticing that X was changing? Wow. It's amazing that you

Re: Upgrade woes.

2008-11-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 03:16:05PM -0800, Back, Michael wrote: Chuck wrote: I think the frustration on some people's behalf is that this question has been asked (and answered) maybe 50 times already on the list. Perhaps because people can't find the info. they need in any other way than posting

Re: cygwin-x-doc refresh

2008-11-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:57:38PM +, Jon TURNEY wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 08:14:33PM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jon TURNEY wrote: I've finished off a first pass at updating the cygwin-x-doc package

Re: Alias problem with bash -l (was Re: New X server)

2008-11-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:37:51PM -0600, Ryan Stewart wrote: Jon TURNEY wrote: [...] It sounds like you have somehow lost -multiwindow from the command used to start the X server (so the server is operating in the default, windowed mode). [...] Run xterm +tb, or add XTerm*toolBar: false to

Re: cygwin-x-doc refresh

2008-11-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 06:54:42PM +, Jon TURNEY wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: If you update the documentation in the htdocs/xfree/docs/cg directory they should show up on the web site automatically. In fact, everything under htdocs should work like that. cygwin-xfree/htdocs doesn't

Re: Still problems starting X

2008-11-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 04:03:52PM +0100, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Jon TURNEY wrote: 'run' can only hide the window of the process it directly starts, I would guess. With X11R7.4 there is a window that seems related to the process which 'run' starts, and a second window related, I think, to

Re: Again A Window Opening Issue

2008-11-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 05:31:34PM +, Jon TURNEY wrote: Sascha Tayefeh wrote: Hi all! I am afraid I have to add another issue to the xserver-starts-but-no-windows-visible discussion. I have read and followed the advised given before, though, I did not succeed. Please confirm that you

Re: xview: hello word does not launch

2008-12-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 09:40:06PM -0600, Carl R. Crawford wrote: The hello world example from the ORA books fails as follows: XView warning: Cannot load font '-bh-lucida-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*' (Font package) XView warning: Cannot load font

cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
The historical reasons for merging the cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists no longer seems to exist so I am contemplating merging the two lists. If anyone has a compelling reason why this should not happen please send it to one of the two lists. If I don't hear a coherent argument against doing this,

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 02:45:17PM -0500, jose isaias cabrera wrote: I don't mind the traffic of xfree, but the cygwin list has too much traffic. You have my mild sympathy. - Original Message - From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 04:00:43AM -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: From: Christopher Faylor The historical reasons for [un?]merging the cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists no longer seems to exist so I am contemplating merging the two lists. For us old-timers, what were the historical reasons again

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 09:51:11PM +0100, Andreas Eibach wrote: From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin-xfree Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 10:28 PM Subject: Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge Why are you duplicating the headers of the email in the body of the message? There is no need

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 04:30:37PM -0800, Peter Farley wrote: --- On Fri, 12/12/08, Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com wrote: Snipped My sympathies are growing milder by the minute. I am only a lurker here just trying to keep track of events in cygwin-X, but I do think

Re: cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists to merge

2008-12-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:10:53PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 04:30:37PM -0800, Peter Farley wrote: --- On Fri, 12/12/08, Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com wrote: Snipped My sympathies are growing milder by the minute. I am only a lurker

Re: Updated: nedit-5.5-4

2008-12-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 09:15:44AM +, David Monksfield wrote: The following package was updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** nedit-5.5-4 This release includes a patch for proper operation with X11R7.4. Since the X server update, some NEdit windows won't resize any more. I can't grab a

Re: Cygwin 1.5.3 on vista - startx

2008-12-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 02:08:41PM -0500, Daniel A wrote: Dear Cygwinnies, I am just a newbie. That's no excuse for calling us Cygwinnies. I am using cygwin 1.5.3 on windows vista. I would like to start an x server using startx. This results in a failure and the startx is shut down. I tried

Re: Lesstif cannot be found

2008-12-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 07:30:49AM -, Graeme Kidd wrote: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.setup It doesn't tell you what to do with individual packages that you have downloaded. The Install from Local Directory option is only for files once they have already been download

Re: Sourceware bugzilla (was: Re: [patch 0/7] X server patchset)

2009-01-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 11:35:39PM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: I'm probably stating the obvious, but if you wanted you could keep track of patches in the sourceware bugzilla for cygwin-xfree. I don't see cygwin-xfree listed as a separate project on sourceware

Re: Sourceware bugzilla

2009-01-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 01:10:23AM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Could you make me (yselkowitz AT cygwin DOT com) the default owner/assignee for the Cygwin/X component? Done. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: How do you upgrade to XR117

2009-01-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 01:46:41PM -0800, jchas5 wrote: I have been looking through the cygwin mirrors for the last two days trying to find the X11R7 packages via setup.exe. When I go to the X11 tab, I can not find any X11R7 packages. I have tried to install them twoce and all I get is X11R6.

Re: How do you upgrade to XR117

2009-01-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 02:08:27PM -0800, jchas5 wrote: Well the reason I am thinking that I am not getting the X11R7 is that the /usr directory is showing X11R6 with a time stamp of my last install: $ ls -ltr total 0 drwxrwx---+ 2 jcklose mkgroup-l-d 0 Jan 27 16:35 tmp drwxrwx---+ 2 jcklose

Re: cygwin and matlab 7.7 problems

2009-01-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 07:26:32PM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jon TURNEY wrote: Just running the cygwin setup.exe program will update to X11R7.4, unless you are taking special steps otherwise. Perhaps you could work through

Re: Unable to load any usable iso8859 font

2009-02-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 05:04:08AM -0800, amorphia wrote: Can I plead for developers, please please don't make setup.exe broken? I am sure there are many many users like me who don't expect to have to be monitoring some random mailing lists in order to work out what else you need to do when

Re: cant type in xterm after reboot

2009-02-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:55:35PM -0600, Paul Coene wrote: I can install and run cygwin fine. It works great. (Windows XP Home). However, after my 1st reboot of the system, my xterm comes up (default app) but I cannot type in the window. I have found no way to repair this other than a

Re: /usr/bin/startx fails on new x.org install?

2009-02-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 05:19:57PM +, Lloyd Wood wrote: thanks for your /usr/bin/startx patch. (repeated as text below since the cygwin mailing list bounces attachments, so probably didn't make it to the list.) The cygwin mailing list does not just generally bounce all attachments. In

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