The postinstall scripts don't do that because I haven't got time to work
on it. I would gladly accept a patch from anyone that feels like
contributing.
Harold
Krzysztof Dulba wrote:
I know I may be not precise enough, but I haven't used X-Window for few
months and I don't know what and how
Igor,
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
On Sat, 16 Aug 2003, Steinar Bang wrote:
Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[snip!]
Unfortunately, you wouldn't be able to distribute the resulting
application, because anything linked with cygwin1.dll automatically
becomes GPLd. If you could find an
Fergus,
I have always recommended using startxwin.bat to start Cygwin/XFree86.
Please see the following section in the User's Guide:
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using.html#using-starting
Of course, everyone is free to do as they choose. On the other hand, no
one sends in patches for
All,
Dave Case pointed out to me privately that IBM does indeed have SXGA+
screens, you just have to click a nearly invisible View all models
button in order to see them. In the interest of fairness to IBM, I have
updated my PDF with three SXGA+ models from IBM:
Igor,
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
Two small notes here:
1) You can actually call setenv(DISPLAY, value) inside the XWin process,
Umm, make that {char buf[80]=DISPLAY=;putenv(strcat(buf,value));}
Sorry. The point remains, however.
which will be
Please read the following instructions on how to startup Cygwin/XFree86:
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using.html#using-starting
I recommend that you try startxwin.bat before you start working with startx.
Send in the contents of /tmp/XWin.log if you continue to have problems.
Harold
Download it to disk and burn it to a CD.
Harold
Asaf Bokish wrote:
Hello,
My name is Asaf, and I'm wan't to install Cygwin/XFree86 on my computer.
The computer I want to install the Cygwin/XFree86 on is not connected to the Internet,
so I need a full version of the installation.
Where can I get
All,
You may have been reading my saga about troubles with laptop computers.
Yesterday I put together a fairly comprehensive list of current
notebooks that may be of interest to some of you. My basic requirements
were SXGA+ screen (1400x1050) or greater and integrated 802.11g. Dell
is left
The XFree86-bin-icons-4.3.0-2 package has been updated in the Cygwin
distribution.
Changes:
1) Remember to include the post-install and pre-remove scripts in the
package this time. (Harold L Hunt II)
--
Harold Hunt
To update your installation, click on the Install Cygwin now link
on the http
The XFree86-bin-icons-4.3.0-1 package has been added to the Cygwin
distribution.
Description:
Creates icons for the programs in the XFree86-bin package, as well as
icons for other installed X clients, such as emacs.
Created by: Brian E. Gallew
Packaged by: Harold L Hunt II
--
Harold Hunt
Earle F. Philhower III wrote:
The most recent patch looks pretty good from your description.
c) Replaces %display% with 127.0.0.1:display.0 in commands
Huh, I was going to say that %display% should be replaced with
127.0.0.1:0.0, but then I remembered that we know the 0.0, but we
don't know
window visible, and all X
windows were closed.
This was with the root window invisible and all X windows closed.
I'm guessing that I'm seeing what is described in the quote by Harold
below, and that this is fixed in Server Test 95.
Harold L Hunt II [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[snip!]
Changes:
1) Signal
Oskar,
When I wrote the initial code I did not have Windows XP. I believe that
there has been discussion on the mailing list about a work-around for
Windows XP on the mailing list. Please search the archives.
I will eventually take a look at this, but I cannot promise anything.
Writing this
Peter,
Is the keyboard working in all other X applications running under
Cygwin/XFree86?
Harold
Peter Colovas wrote:
All,
an odd problem has cropped up for me in test94(I think) and later:
for our development on real-time chasses we telnet to a terminal server
which is connected to the
Ben,
Ben Kim wrote:
If Cygwin is not aware of java, which means the GUI
app should not be able to display on my Windows
machines, then why is it the case that number #1 in my
example works?
You got it about exactly backwards from what Igor told you.
Java for Windows does not understand the X
You guys don't happen to be running on machines with two CPUs or a
Pentium 4 3.0+ GHz with HyperThreading enabled, do you?
Harold
Rodrigo Medina wrote:
Hi,
I want to report a XWin failure, I think related to the problem
discussed in this thread.
My instalation:
$cat /proc/version
CYGWIN_95-4.0
Boris Mayer-St-Onge wrote:
Hi everybody,
We have Cygwin 1.3.22-1 installed on a Windows XP sp1 machine with
XFree86 4.3.0-1. The computer is part of a domain and can be use by
several users.
The installation on Cygwin/XFree86 has been done as follow :
1- As Administrator, we have installed
Brian E. Gallew wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
However, I don't see why this would require any setup changes. A
postinstall script should be able to set up icons, etc. I can't decide
if the thought of a folder filled with scores of icons for X programs is
intriguing or frightening, though.
Gloria,
It appears that you are running the display in monochrome mode (is this
even possible?). Please change your display depth to one of 8, 15, 16,
24, or 32 bits per pixel in the Windows Display Control Panel.
Harold
Gloria Tsang wrote:
Dear Sirs,
I have received an errno 3 and errno
Brian,
I trust that you will figure out what to do here.
I don't have a lot of time right now, so let me know what you come up
with :)
Harold
Brian E. Gallew wrote:
Dr.D.J.Picton wrote:
A similar change to the system path enabled the start menu icons to work.
But is it a recommended
Yes please.
Brian E. Gallew wrote:
Harold L Hunt II wrote:
To skirt the setup Create Cygwin/XFree86 icons? step, we could
simply stuff the above lists and a modified version of your script in
a new package called, for example,
XFree86-start-menu-icons-4.3.0-1.tar.bz2.
What do you think
HJB,
-rootless and -multiwindow CANNOT be used together. Use one or the
other and knock off this silliness.
You aren't reporting that any area of your screen is not being covered
by the Cygwin/XFree86 window. Have you noticed the Start bar at the
bottom of the screen? It is about 30 pixels
Terrance,
Speaking of Google, this is covered over, and over, and over, and over,
and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over again in the
mailing list archives.
Harold
terrence brannon wrote:
(How's that for a google-searchable title :))
I am between a rock and a hard place.
Sorry, I meant Terrence, not Terrance.
Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Terrance,
Speaking of Google, this is covered over, and over, and over, and over,
and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over again in the
mailing list archives.
Harold
terrence brannon wrote:
(How's
Brian,
That script looks great to me.
I would like some input on a few things before I go ahead with this
(unless no one responds, in which case I will just go ahead):
The list of programs to create icons for is embedded in the script
itself. The script will still work, since I just copy the
Harold L Hunt II wrote:
2) Terminal programs run and exit. Its like doing Start-Run-ipconfig.
The console pops up, lists its output, then is promptly destroyed. I
seem to recall an xterm option that caused it to remain open until
closed manually, but I cannot remember it now.
It turned out
Earle F. Philhower III wrote:
Howdy Harold...
At 09:30 AM 8/6/2003 -0400, you wrote:
That is really the problem: the machines don't die; they just freeze.
So I have a computer sitting here that I can't keep my hands off but
it randomly freezes between a couple of times an hour and once every
I added XFree86-lib-compat to the XFree86-base dependencies.
I think this is a wise thing to do because all of the package
maintainers are busy working on Cygwin 1.5.1 packages and don't have
time to make a short-lived XFree86 4.3.0/Cygwin 1.3.x release. The
XFree86-lib-compat package should
Earle,
Earle F. Philhower III wrote:
Howdy Harold,
At 07:31 PM 8/5/2003 -0400, you wrote:
Can't remember if I replied to this yet. I am in the process of
getting my Inspiron 8500 returned after having it replaced (bought it
3 weeks ago). Both the original and the replacement randomly freeze.
Dr.D.J.Picton wrote:
I have two observations to make concerning the use of 'XWin -query' to
Solaris machines.
1. Firstly, the FAQ states that Solaris can't cope with 24-bit colour
depths. This may have been true for older releases, but all recent versions
of Solaris (and recent Sun hardware)
Jack Tanner wrote:
Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Interesting idea. Probably the easiest thing to do here would be to
either create a list of 'term' programs or 'non-term' programs along
with a list of excluded programs. Of course, we would want to figure
out which list, 'term' or 'non-term
Brian,
Couple of things:
1) It seems that we are going to need to somehow get cygwin1.dll in the
path of the shortcuts. One way to do this would be to set the working
dir for each shortcut to '/bin'. I don't trust 99% of users to
understand how to set a path variable so that it remains set
Earle,
Earle F. Philhower III wrote:
Howdy Harold,
At 12:58 PM 8/10/2003 -0400, you wrote:
I have committed your patch to my local tree. However, I wonder why
all of the files are prefixed with winmultiwindow. Is the code
purely intended only for multiwindow modes? If so, that is fine.
J S wrote:
Harold,
Have you had a chance to do this yet?
Hold on, I lied.
If you follow that link I sent you, it shows that none of the files in
the xfixes directory match the XFIXES_BRANCH tag. I can't get my home
machine to boot up, so I don't think I can fix this until tonight.
Harold
Stephen,
Thanks. I fixed it.
Harold
Bovy, Stephen J wrote:
The web link for (the binary) of
the newest test server series v (95) is pointing to
test version (94)
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 07:46:43PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
2. All X client application on one's machine should have shortcuts
associated with them in the start menu, and these shortcuts should be
created automatically during installation.
This is icing
The for loop that you have is the way I have seen it done before.
Harold
Earle F. Philhower, III wrote:
Howdy Harold...
..
You may still be correct with your worries, I'm sure there's a file
descriptor
that the OS is dup2()'ing there you don't want. FWIW I'm execl()'ing
/bin/sh -c command
Ralf,
If my IP is w.x.y.z vs. my loopback of 127.0.0.1, how is one of these
using unix domain sockets and the other using tcp/ip?
Harold
Ralf Habacker wrote:
Hi all,
The most recent patch looks pretty good from your description.
c) Replaces %display% with 127.0.0.1:display.0 in commands
Jack Tanner wrote:
Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Thanks. Let me tell you, we already have a laundry list of dream
features. We just need people to start working on them.
Harold,
Thanks. If I wanted to hear you be dismissive and condescending, I
could've just gone back and read the list archive
Tim,
Go all the way to the bottom of the following page and send in an
unsubscribe request. You then reply to that message and you will be
unsubscribed.
http://cygwin.com/lists.html
Harold
Tim Heath wrote:
I have followed the directions to the best of my ability and still
cannot get
Earle,
Can't remember if I replied to this yet. I am in the process of getting
my Inspiron 8500 returned after having it replaced (bought it 3 weeks
ago). Both the original and the replacement randomly freeze. Google
for [Inspiron 8500 freeze] and you'll see exactly what I mean. I have
JS,
Okay, it looks like you are using my suggested directory structure from
the Contributor's Guide. Does this mean that you have XFIXES_BRANCH
somewhere like:
/home/u752359/x-devel/xc/
?
If so, had you had a previous branch, say HEAD, at:
/home/u752359/x-devel/xc/
?
Yes? Good. That
Alexander Gottwald wrote:
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, David Fraser wrote:
I can send you code which spawns new processes from a running windows app.
Could you send it to the list?
/* we must build this string with information about mount points */
const char* command =
Alexander Gottwald wrote:
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
/* we must build this string with information about mount points */
const char* command = c:\\cygwin\\usr\\x11r6\\xterm.exe -display :0.0;
That line and comment are really the crux of my whole argument. It is
simple
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:03:37PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Alexander Gottwald wrote:
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
/* we must build this string with information about mount points */
const char* command = c:\\cygwin\\usr\\x11r6\\xterm.exe
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 12:22:33PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Depends on if we use Cygwin's fork or Window's CreateProcess. We
haven't made that decision yet.
Huh. Seems like a no-brainer to me. It's a cygwin program so why not
use fork/exec? Then Xwin
Chris,
We discussed this back in May/June. Suhaib mailed me the CDs of his
initial work in June as a result of the discussion. I have the CDs, so
I don't need to check the archives for proof here. Of course, since
then I have been rather tied up with things (wedding, moving, etc.).
End of
Right to all of that, but I am really busy at work right now and this is
precisely the sort of discussion that I don't have time to partake in at
the moment.
Harold
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 01:21:12PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
We discussed this back in May/June
Jack,
Thanks. Let me tell you, we already have a laundry list of dream
features. We just need people to start working on them.
Harold
Jack Tanner wrote:
This is a pipe dream, but it's a pipe dream worth striving for.
1. X should run as a service. There's no reason for it to run as a
Damien,
Huh... this is interesting.
Turns out that Cygwin's tar doesn't work the same as the tar version
that is in the XFree86 souce tree in the utils module. I built their
gnu-tar and used it to build the packages and it did include the
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config directory in the prog
Xprog.tgz
instead of the specialized version of tar that is distributed by the
XFree86 project. (Damien Fisher, Harold L Hunt II)
--
Harold Hunt
To update your installation, click on the Install Cygwin now link
on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to
your system. Save
be appreciated.
Thanks again,
Damien
On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 02:06:59AM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Damien,
Huh... this is interesting.
Turns out that Cygwin's tar doesn't work the same as the tar version
that is in the XFree86 souce tree in the utils module. I built their
gnu-tar and used
The XFree86-prog-4.3.0-3 package has been updated in the Cygwin
distribution.
Changes:
1) Include an empty host.def file, which is required by site.def when
compiling other X programs. (Damien Fisher, Harold L Hunt II)
--
Harold Hunt
To update your installation, click on the Install Cygwin now
Igor,
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
On Sat, 2 Aug 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Harold,
I have to agree with David here. If everyone's pet commands were to be
added into the default X tray menu (an equivalent of the root menu in
other WMs, I guess), that menu would be well nigh unmanageable
Pavel,
I don't know what to tell you, other than that you are (hopefully)
running 4.3.0, not 4.0.3. Also, I can tell you that you should not be
running Cygwin 1.5.1 yet, and that I can't really help you with any
problems if you are, because I haven't started looking into 1.5.1 yet.
Hopefully
David,
You need to run Cygiwn's setup again and select the XFree86-lib-compat
package.
Harold
Larry Hall wrote:
David Selby wrote:
Hello
Last query for a while, don't want to wear you guys out ... Everything
is OK, got bash, vim, rxvt working as I want them but I have one last
problem ...
host.def file. (Nicholas Wourms, Harold L Hunt II)
2) Create a symlink in /usr/include to the X11 includes directory. This
will eliminate a few headaches when some compiling X applications.
(Nicholas Wourms, Haold L Hunt II)
--
Harold Hunt
To update your installation, click on the Install Cygwin now
Nicholas Wourms wrote:
Not important now, but in the next release of -progs, can you make
creation of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/host.def done via touch in a
post-install script? Traditionally, this is the file that should
include any local modifications or user-defined routines for Imake. In
The XFree86-lib-compat-4.3.0-1 package has been added to the Cygwin
distribution.
Description:
1) Contains the Cygwin/XFree86 4.2.0 shared libraries (DLLs), which
allow X Clients compiled against Cygwin/XFree86 4.2.0 to continue to
operate. At least, that is the intention.
--
Harold Hunt
To
Fergus,
The xserv updates have nothing to do with your problems.
However, the move from 4.2.0 to 4.3.0 does have something to do with
your problems.
There is a new package, XFree86-lib-compat-4.3.0-1, that contains the
old DLLs for 4.2.0 X Clients. Please run Cygwin's setup again and
Ton,
See the following announcement:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-08/msg00041.html
I made an XFree86-lib-compat-4.3.0-1 package available that has the old
DLLs in it. Please install it and see if it fixes your problem.
Thanks for testing,
Harold
Ton van Overbeek wrote:
David Fraser wrote:
java java wrote:
Then give this a try...
Start-Run
c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\run /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm-display :0
YES! , this works perfectly. Now could this be added
as a right click menu option to the tray?
I don't think everyone would neccessarily like such an option.
for the next steps
and what they are.
Harold
Nicholas Wourms wrote:
Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Nicholas,
Can you explain to me what fontconfig and freetype2 are, specifically?
Freetype2, quoting the homepage [1]:
FreeType 2 is a software font engine that is designed to be small,
efficient
Good catch. This has not been reported before.
Our packaging script was putting the files in /etc/X11, but the files
were already in X11, so the result was /etc/X11/X11. I have corrected
the packaging script and will be posting an updated
XFree86-etc-4.3.0-2.tar.bz2 shortly.
Thanks for
The XFree86-etc-4.3.0-2 package has been updated in the Cygwin
distribution.
Changes:
1) Files were being installed in /etc/X11/X11 instead of /etc/X11. (Dr.
D. J. Picton)
Note: I don't know why the XTerm and XTerm-color files are missing. I
have looked for a reason, but I can't find any. I
This is weird. I checked the generated Makefile for xc/programs/xterm.
Sure enough, it has install:: rules that copy, for example, XTerm.ad
to /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm. That example rule depends upont
XTerm.ad, in other words, it reads:
install:: XTerm.ad
... copy XTerm.ad to
The XFree86-etc-4.3.0-3 package has been updated in the Cygwin
distribution.
Changes:
1) XTerm config files were not copied to xc/etc/X11/app-defaults. (Dr.
D. J. Picton, Harold L Hunt II)
--
Harold Hunt
To update your installation, click on the Install Cygwin now link
on the http://cygwin.com
Links:
I just posted Test 95 to the server development page:
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/devel/shadow/
You can install the Test 95 package via setup.exe by selecting the
following version of the XFree86-xserv package: 4.3.0-3
Server Test Series binary and source code releases are now
Earle,
Thanks for the patch. You did it exactly like I was thinking I would
fix it.
Thanks for contributing,
Harold
Earle F. Philhower III wrote:
Howdy Harold, it looks like you're really busy with the 4.3 updates,
but here's another small patch for XWin that gets rid of the GPFs
that
Huh... somebody else must have fixed this for me with 4.2.0-1, because I
have a 0 byte file on my machine but the one on sources... was 46 bytes.
I copied 4.2.0-1 to 4.3.0-1. Hopefully that takes care of whatever the
problem was.
I now have a copy of that 46 byte empty tarball on my machine.
I haven't got time to make a formal release announcement, but I just
uploaded all of the 4.3.0 packages. They should start showing up on
mirrors within a few hours.
Note that all fonts packages {fcyr, fenc, fnts, fscl, f100} have not had
their version numbers changed. You will not
The
XFree86-[base,bin,doc,etc,fsrv,html,jdoc,lib,man,nest,prog,prt,ps,vfb,xserv,xwinclip]-4.3.0-1
packages have been updated in the Cygwin
distribution.
There were no Cygwin-specific changes in this release. This is a
release to synchronize with the XFree86 4.3.0.1 release.
A note about
http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/cygwin-setup-161pct.png
I just uploaded XFree86 4.3.0 packages this morning. Some of the
mirrors have gotten the updated setup.ini and packages already, while
others have not.
In setup I have selected three mirrors:
archive.progeny.com
mirrors.rcn.net
FYI --- In further testing, archive.progeny.com is the mirror that has
not been updated yet. Selecting only archive.progeny.com gives me the
warning about setup.ini being older than when I last installed Cygwin.
Selecting only mirrors.rcn.net does not give such a warning and
correctly
Specify one mirror only when downloading. Notice that some mirrors do
not have 4.3.0-1 yet, so mixing updated mirrors and out of date mirrors
causes problems.
See this message I wrote describing the problem:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-08/msg8.html
Harold
Andrew Grimm wrote:
Terry,
In this case I think you need to try to install the drivers directly
from your video card manufacturer on the non-working system and see if
that helps. On the other hand, if the manufacturer drivers are
installed on the system that does not work while the other has the
default MS
Andrew,
You aren't a -multiwindow guy yet?
Harold
Andrew Grimm wrote:
Specify one mirror only when downloading. Notice that some mirrors do
not have 4.3.0-1 yet, so mixing updated mirrors and out of date mirrors
causes problems.
See this message I wrote describing the problem:
as well.
-Original Message-
From: Harold L Hunt II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 11:32 AM
To: cygx
Subject: Packaging question
We should be putting bin/*.dll in the bin package and
lib/*.a in the
prog package, correct?
Currently we are putting both bin/*.dll
Nicholas,
Can you explain to me what fontconfig and freetype2 are, specifically?
Do they consist of a couple libraries and some executables?
How many files are involved in a package that contains them?
Are any of their libraries linked to from within the standard XFree86
distribution?
The
Ton van Overbeek wrote:
In the 4.3.0-1 packages all dll's are named cygxxx-n.dll instead of
libxxx.dll. All 3rd party apps look for e.g. libX11.dll, libICE.dll etc.
For now the only workaround is to copy each cygxxx-n.dll to
the corresponding libxxx.dll in /usr/X11R6/bin.
Harold, could you please
Christopher Faylor wrote:
Hmm. If these packages are built against cygwin-1.5.1, they should be
marked as test packages. It doesn't look like they are.
Am I missing something, Harold?
--
Yes, I changed the plan to make a 1.3.x release of XFree86 4.3.0 before
the 1.5.1 release. The idea here
Earle,
This is great! Just yesterday, while investigating the crashing upon
copying a large amount of text, I was resizing xterm to make it really
large and noticed that the window quite often got a size that chopped
off the last line of text or left a gap after the last line of text. I
The XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-2 package has been updated in the Cygwin
distribution.
Changes:
1) winmultiwindowwm.c, winmultiwindowclass.h, winmultiwindowwndproc.c
- Automatically validate the sizes of windows while you're sizing
them, just like you find in most X11 window managers.. (Earle
F.
Robert Collins wrote:
On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 01:30, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
FYI --- In further testing, archive.progeny.com is the mirror that has
not been updated yet. Selecting only archive.progeny.com gives me the
warning about setup.ini being older than when I last installed Cygwin
Alexander Gottwald wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
../../../../config/makedepend/makedepend: warning: winclipboardinit.c
(reading winclipboard.h, line 61): cannot find include file windows.h
not in ./windows.h
the makedepend utitility does know nothing about the w32api
We should be putting bin/*.dll in the bin package and lib/*.a in the
prog package, correct?
Currently we are putting both bin/*.dll and lib/*.a in bin.
Putting the DLLs in bin is correct because you need the shared libraries
in order to run, which is why lib/*.so are put in bin on other
Alexander,
If I pass CROSSCOMPILEDIR=/home/harold/cygwin/bin, then it seems that
your patch requires that the Cygwin includes be in:
/home/harold/cygwin/include
right?
If so, please review my Contributor's Guide section that tells people
how to unpack the headers and libs on their cross
wrote:
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 12:31:40PM -0400, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
We should be putting bin/*.dll in the bin package and lib/*.a in the
prog package, correct?
Wouldn't they go in a lib package?
cgf
Alexander,
Your two patches get rid of the w32api directory problems.
However, I am still getting the following warning:
../../../../config/makedepend/makedepend: warning:
/usr/include/gnu/stubs.h: non-portable whitespace encountered at line 7
Is there just no way to get rid of that or have
Morgan,
Cygwin/XFree86 is not currently built with, and won't soon be built
with, the X SHM (Shared memory extension) enabled. We cannot enable X
SHM until Cygwin has a stable shared memory system. Shared memory is
part of the ongoing effort to improve the Interprocess Communications
(IPC)
1) Don't use canned default for PreIncDir when cross compiling.
2) Make a more sophisticated cannded default for StdIncDir when cross
compiling:
#define StdIncDir Concat(CrossCompileDir,/../include)
Both from Alexander Gottwald (Cygwin/XFree86 project contributor).
Attached are patches for
Terry,
Try changing the display depth on the problem machine from 32 bits to
24, 16, or 15 bits. In fact, try each one of those depths if the first
one you try doesn't work.
Report your results to the mailing list please.
Harold
terry wrote:
I have successfully setup a Win98se system with
I have completed the building and packaging of a 4.3.0 XFree86 release
for Cygwin 1.3.x. However, I am not sure that I will be uploading this
release, as I intend to make a new build for Cygwin 1.5.1 and hold onto
it until Cygwin 1.5.1 is released.
In any case, I have at least gotten used to
Staf,
The middle-click functionality of the mouse wheel is highly driver
dependent.
For example, I have Microsoft Intellipoint installed (you can use it
with other mice, I believe) and I have left the wheel click as
AutoScroll (default). Clicking the mouse wheel works just fine in X
Gary,
Gary Nicholson wrote:
[To Harold Hunt]
Harold,
Thank you for asking for details about my saga.
Here goes:
I have XLT-9.2.9.tar in directory /tmp/xlt.
I un-tar it and run configure from /tmp/xlt/xlt-9.2.9.
The file config.log is attached. It shows that the
error occurs when
Brian,
Brian Ford wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
As for keeping the XFree86 CVS tree up to date, am I right that I
should be sending patches against XFree86 CVS xf-4_3-branch, instead
of the xf-4_3_0_1 snapshot? Could I do
Huh. Interesting.
There was a debate some time ago as to whether the Exit button should be
on the bottom or top of that menu. My local tree got changed, but the
change appears to have been incomplete because the code that hides and
unhides buttons seems to be unchanged. That code operates
Any reason you can't grep the output of tlntadmn to get what you need?
By the way, when I run tlntadmn /? I get:
C:\Documents and Settings\haroldtlntadmn /?
Usage: tlntadmn [computer name] [common_options] start | stop | pause |
continue
| -s | -k | -m | config config_options
Michael,
When I run tlntadmn /? I get a hung command shell which eventually times
out;
only running without args seems to work...
You are right, on Windows 2000 I get an error about needing
administrative priveleges even though I am logged in as Administrator :)
Oh well, if you are going to
Links:
I just posted Test 93 to the server development page:
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/devel/shadow/
You can install the Test 93 package via setup.exe by selecting the
following version of the XFree86-xserv package: 4.2.0-44
Server Test Series binary and source code releases are now
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