Re: Cygwin 1.7 beta XWin Crashs from Ubuntun 9.10 after Firefox sessions

2009-11-03 Thread Jon TURNEY
Thanks for the backtrace. It's interesting, but I'm afraid it doesn't immediately let me pinpoint the problem. A couple of questions I should have asked before: - is this crash caused by to doing some specific action or looking at specific pages in firefox? - using ssh with your X server in

Re: Cygwin 1.7 beta XWin Crashs from Ubuntun 9.10 after Firefox sessions

2009-11-01 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 01/11/2009 00:23, ERIC HO wrote: I ssh to Ubuntu 9.10 box and brought up Firefox. After a few screens I've got XWin crashes. I've got the following: Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 1.7.1.0 (10701000) Build Date: 2009-10-25 [...] 2009-10-31 17:32:18

Re: Cygwin 1.7 beta XWin disconnects from Ubuntu after password

2009-10-31 Thread Jon TURNEY
is that the X session was shut down by the Ubuntu host. I suggest you need to enable and look at the GDM logs there to learn why. [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2009-09/msg00088.html -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

Re: X11R7.5 and C.UTF-8

2009-10-29 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 29/10/2009 00:07, Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/10/28 Jon TURNEY: On 28/10/2009 14:22, Ken Brown wrote: X11R7.5 doesn't like the (default) locale C.UTF-8. If I start the server with 'LANG=C.UTF-8 /usr/bin/startxwin.bat', the server exits immediately, and the log has complaints about the locale

Re: How to open a standalone xterm

2009-10-29 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 28/10/2009 13:01, Joel Gwynn wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote: On 10/27/2009 11:02 PM, Joel Gwynn wrote: So it looks like if I first start up the multiwindow window manager like so: xwin -multiwindow, then I can run xterm, but I have to specify the

Re: 1.5.25-15: 100% CPU under xdmcp and Gnome

2009-10-29 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 29/10/2009 00:08, Quinn Jones wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote: Any interest in trying Cygwin 1.7http://cygwin.com/#beta-test? I don't know if it would help but it has a newer X and friends and is actively maintained. One day in and it seems to be helping - no problems to report so far

Re: Anyone else having new recent problems with Windows clipboard?

2009-10-29 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 21/10/2009 23:27, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: I'm running Cygwin 1.7 (latest) and X-Org server (latest). 'latest' is not a number :-) For the past week or two, I've been having strange clipboard problems. The most problematic is that I can't copy/cut text in a Windows application and paste

Re: Running Java application with drag and drop support in cygwin

2009-10-29 Thread Jon TURNEY
should be done then? Please let me know. No it's probably a bug in Cygwin/X. But you're going to need to be a lot more specific about the problem before any progress can be made on fixing it. -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

Re: X11R7.5 and C.UTF-8

2009-10-29 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 29/10/2009 13:56, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 29 13:42, Jon TURNEY wrote: I haven't been following the discussion about C.UTF-8 closely, but curiously, for me at least, this test program shows that setlocale(LC_ALL, ) fails with LANG=C.UTF-8 (so that doesn't actually seem to be a valid

Re: X11R7.5 and C.UTF-8

2009-10-29 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 29/10/2009 14:37, Ken Brown wrote: On 10/29/2009 9:42 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 29/10/2009 00:07, Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/10/28 Jon TURNEY: On 28/10/2009 14:22, Ken Brown wrote: X11R7.5 doesn't like the (default) locale C.UTF-8. If I start the server with 'LANG=C.UTF-8 /usr/bin

Re: 1.5.25-15: 100% CPU under xdmcp and Gnome

2009-10-29 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 29/10/2009 17:01, Mike Ayers wrote: From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree- ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Jon TURNEY Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 7:11 AM Yes, the clipboard integration code in 1.5.x has some known problems, but there will probably be no more X server

Re: X11R7.5 and C.UTF-8

2009-10-29 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 29/10/2009 15:01, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 29/10/2009 14:37, Ken Brown wrote: $ LANG=C.UTF-8 ./Xlocale.exe Setting locale from LANG succeeded Locale is C.UTF-8 XSupportsLocale returned false Okay, well this makes sense now :-( Appropriate data needs to exist in /usr/share/X11/locale

Re: X11R7.5 and C.UTF-8

2009-10-28 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 28/10/2009 14:22, Ken Brown wrote: X11R7.5 doesn't like the (default) locale C.UTF-8. If I start the server with 'LANG=C.UTF-8 /usr/bin/startxwin.bat', the server exits immediately, and the log has complaints about the locale. If I instead use 'LANG=en_US.UTF-8', there's no problem. I've

Re: 1.7.0(0.214/5/3): XWin.exe reset after remote login screen on solaris (CDE or Java desktop) WM_QUIT

2009-10-16 Thread Jon TURNEY
-1 under Cygwin 1.7 without problems. -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http

Re: (strange) problem with xdotool

2009-10-16 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 14/10/2009 17:45, Ariel Burbaickij wrote: Hello all, I have compiled, after some modifications to Makefile, xdotool to work in cygwin environment but I get following on attempt to activate window (window in question is xedit and I run in rootless, i.e. without any particular window manager,

Re: 3-button-mouse emulating

2009-10-16 Thread Jon TURNEY
. If you are asking how you add options like '-emulate3buttons' when using startx, then 'man startx' tells you startx [ [ client ] options ... ] [ −− [ server ] [ display ] options ... ] so e.g. startx -- -emulate3buttons -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Unsubscribe info

Re: (strange) problem with xdotool

2009-10-16 Thread Jon TURNEY
. If you untick the Hide Root Window option on the tray menu after you've launched some clients you should be able to see what's going on. http://x.cygwin.com/docs/cg/cygwin-x-cg.html You probably want to start looking at winMultiWindowXMsgProc() in hw/xwin/winmultiwindowwm.c -- Jon TURNEY

Re: Error: too many arguments on commandline

2009-10-14 Thread Jon TURNEY
to specify XWin arguments but via the command line. I don't know why this limit in run exists, but you might be able to squeeze under it with the suggestions above. According to your cygcheck output you don't even have the X server installed :-) -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: xorg-server-1.6.5-1

2009-10-14 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 13/10/2009 05:59, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: The following package has been updated for Cygwin 1.7: * xorg-server-1.6.5-1 This package contains XWin and the other X.Org X11 servers. This is likely the last release of the 1.6 series (heard that before?). The following patches has been added

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: xorg-server-1.6.4-1

2009-10-14 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 09/10/2009 15:17, Ken Brown wrote: On 10/9/2009 9:56 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 08/10/2009 22:47, Ken Brown wrote: On 10/8/2009 5:25 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: But looking at PS1 to determine if you have a login shell in your ancestry doesn't work, as PS1 gets unset by non-interactive bash shells

Re: Cygwin/X server -query fails with recent versions of Gnome GDM

2009-10-11 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 09/10/2009 15:50, Richard Evans wrote: Thanks for the analysis. I did try adding root and gdm /etc/passwd at the cygwin end and the query then worked. I agree that this is a bug in GDM - I will see about posting a report there. Might be worth adding this to a FAQ in case GDM is not fixed.

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Cygwin/X: Improve choice of display name used by internal clients

2009-10-11 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 07/10/2009 03:16, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 01/10/2009 07:12, Jon TURNEY wrote: + if (TransIsListening(local)) + { + snprintf(szDisplay, 512, :%s.%d, display, screen); + } + else if (TransIsListening(inet)) + { + snprintf(szDisplay, 512, 127.0.0.1:%s.%d, display, screen); + } + else

Re: xauth data + X connection to localhost:10.0 broken problem

2009-10-11 Thread Jon TURNEY
to print debugging messages about its progress. This is helpful in debugging connection, authentication, and configuration problems. Multiple −v options increase the verbosity. The maximum is 3. [1] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#remote -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: xorg-server-1.6.4-1

2009-10-09 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 08/10/2009 22:47, Ken Brown wrote: On 10/8/2009 5:25 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: But looking at PS1 to determine if you have a login shell in your ancestry doesn't work, as PS1 gets unset by non-interactive bash shells. (This is something which I have learnt today :-) So attempting to set PS1

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: xorg-server-1.6.4-1

2009-10-08 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 04/10/2009 22:19, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 03/10/2009 16:04, Ken Brown wrote: On 9/30/2009 11:41 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: The following patch has been REVERTED in this release: * Use bash login shell to execute the commands started from the tray menu: This could cause lengthly delays

Re: Cygwin/X server -query fails with recent versions of Gnome GDM

2009-10-07 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 30/09/2009 10:34, Richard Evans wrote: Cygwin 1.7beta, cygcheck output attached. I am trying to start a remote session using: XWin -query host where the host is running GDM from Gnome 2.28. The connect fails. A wireshark network snoop (attached) shows that GDM is sending Thanks for

Re: [Fwd: Re: Xterm hangs with latest Cygwin (-62?)]

2009-10-05 Thread Jon TURNEY
/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9778 -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com

Re: X11/BadAlloc/XKEYBOARD errors seem to have been resolved by Cygwin 1.7

2009-10-04 Thread Jon TURNEY
not occur with Cygwin 1.7 (as of today) Thanks for the confirmation. http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9780 has been closed :-) -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: xorg-server-1.6.4-1

2009-10-04 Thread Jon TURNEY
XWin from a login shell, so all it's descendants should inherit a login environment. Doesn't seem to be working though :-( -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

[PATCH 0/2] Patches to improve some edge cases in internal client connections

2009-10-01 Thread Jon TURNEY
occurs to tell the user that we are terminating or why). Also, I'm just noticing I should be using pthread_kill() to ensure the signal is delivered to the thread which is running the main dispatch loop so that will exit the select() it may be blocked in and notice that DE_TERMINATE is set. Jon

[PATCH 1/2] Cygwin/X: Improve choice of display name used by internal clients

2009-10-01 Thread Jon TURNEY
and -nolisten unix (the server will correctly refuse to start if all 3 are used, as it must be listening on at least one socket) Signed-off-by: Jon TURNEY jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk --- hw/xwin/Makefile.am |1 + hw/xwin/win.h|7 + hw/xwin/winclipboardthread.c

[PATCH 2/2] Cygwin/X: Cause the X server to terminate if clipboard or WM internal client threads exit due to an error

2009-10-01 Thread Jon TURNEY
Signed-off-by: Jon TURNEY jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk --- hw/xwin/winclipboardthread.c | 17 + hw/xwin/winmultiwindowwm.c | 22 +- 2 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/hw/xwin/winclipboardthread.c b/hw/xwin/winclipboardthread.c

Re: fc-list does not list windows system fonts under cygwin

2009-10-01 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 01/10/2009 18:38, Ken Brown wrote: On 10/1/2009 10:49 AM, Steven Woody wrote: Hi, I am using tex-live under a cygwin system. I found the 'fc-list' command can not list fonts in system font directory 'c:\windows\fonts'. I remembered it can do this before I reinstalled my whole system).

Re: GNU emacs fonts again

2009-09-30 Thread Jon TURNEY
the width/height ratio of the medium Courier New less readable). So, may I align the widths? Thanks, Marc Perhaps try 'emacs -fn bitstream vera sans mono' -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports

Re: startx command is not working

2009-09-29 Thread Jon TURNEY
shutdown in progress A very similar question has been asked recently http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2009-09/msg00054.html I would update the FAQ to include this question if I got any feedback about what the problem and solution is. -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

Re: Xserver isn't working

2009-09-18 Thread Jon TURNEY
://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-xfree/2009-08/msg00036.html http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-xfree/2009-05/msg8.html -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation

Re: xdmcp cygwin 1.7 vista problem

2009-09-07 Thread Jon TURNEY
specifies the local address to connect from (useful if the connecting host has multiple network interfaces). The local‐address may be expressed in any form acceptable to the host platform’s gethostbyname(3) implementation. -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server

Fwd: SV: xdmcp cygwin 1.7 vista problem

2009-09-07 Thread Jon TURNEY
I forgot to set the Reply-To: correctly Original Message Subject: SV: xdmcp cygwin 1.7 vista problem Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 15:37:23 +0200 From: Mårten Gustafsson To: 'Jon TURNEY' Hi Jon There is a reported interface with this network address. I also have a VmWare workstation

Fwd: SV: xdmcp cygwin 1.7 vista problem

2009-09-07 Thread Jon TURNEY
I forgot to set the Reply-To: correctly Original Message Subject: SV: xdmcp cygwin 1.7 vista problem Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 15:41:52 +0200 From: Mårten Gustafsson To: 'Jon TURNEY' -from switch worked fine. Thanks /Mårten -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: Jon TURNEY

Re: composite extension

2009-09-03 Thread Jon TURNEY
' to the command line used to start the X server should do what you want. Just out of curiosity: why do you want to disable the composite extension? -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http

Re: Problems starting rxvt from startxwin.bat

2009-09-03 Thread Jon TURNEY
of the xinit package which owns these scripts. -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http

Re: building issue

2009-08-30 Thread Jon TURNEY
J. Offerman wrote: On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Jon TURNEYjon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk wrote: afaik, since this wrapper isn't doing anything useful for you in this particular case, you can invoke .libs/XWin.exe directly and it should just work. Moving on, now it seems okay to start

Re: building issue

2009-08-15 Thread Jon TURNEY
. -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/

Re: Fatal Error -Cannot establish listening sockets - when starting X server using startx

2009-08-14 Thread Jon TURNEY
not find [1] [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2009-05/msg8.html [2] http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

Re: PATCH /usr/include/X11/Xtrans/Xtranssock.c [WAS: Re: xhost package not compiled for IPv6]

2009-08-12 Thread Jon TURNEY
dual stack. Yes, xtrans is recognized as a bit of mess, so well done making any sense out of it :-) [1] http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/accept.html -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

[1.7] IPv6 accept() fails if address_len is sizeof(sockaddr_in6) [was Re: PATCH /usr/include/X11/Xtrans/Xtranssock.c [WAS: Re: xhost package not compiled for IPv6]]

2009-08-12 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 12/08/2009 13:54, Jon TURNEY wrote: Hmmm... but if it's really the size of the sockname argument which is causing the accept() to fail, this would be a bug in cygwin's accept() implementation, as it's supposed to truncate the data written to the sockname, rather than fail if it won't fit [1

Re: [1.7] IPv6 accept() fails if address_len is sizeof(sockaddr_in6) [was Re: PATCH /usr/include/X11/Xtrans/Xtranssock.c [WAS: Re: xhost package not compiled for IPv6]]

2009-08-12 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 12/08/2009 14:59, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 12 14:48, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 12/08/2009 13:54, Jon TURNEY wrote: Hmmm... but if it's really the size of the sockname argument which is causing the accept() to fail, this would be a bug in cygwin's accept() implementation, as it's supposed

Re: [1.7] Call for Testing - Accelerated GL (AIGLX) for the Cygwin/X X server

2009-08-10 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 30/06/2009 18:38, Jon TURNEY wrote: I've made a git repo available on freedesktop.org which contains the work I've been doing to add hardware-accelerated indirect GLX to the Cygwin/X server, I've updated this git repo with my current work. For testing purposes, I've also made available

Re: xhost package not compiled for IPv6

2009-08-10 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 04/08/2009 22:16, cygwin wrote: Currently, setup-1.7 installs a version of xhost (1.0.2-1) that is not compiled properly for IPv6 protocol support. When querying against an IPv6 X server IPv6 addresses are not recognized. The fix for this is to simply rebuild the xhost package. Thanks for

Re: Dual Screen XDMCP Session

2009-08-06 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 06/08/2009 10:27, Steven Maddox wrote: Hey Folks, I've been trying to use Xming with very little success for this task but apparently it can be done using cygwin too. Now this task could be impossible on both applications so I just wanted to check if anyone thought it was possible.

Re: Problem with multiwindow and drop-down menus

2009-07-29 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 22/07/2009 20:44, David Rothenberger wrote: I'm having a problem with 1.7 when starting the server with -multiwindow. I am trying to run Sun's jconsole application (part of the JDK 6) remotely, but none of the menus work correctly. When I run a separate window manager (wmaker), they work

Re: Is there a Windows clipboard manager that doesn't clash with -clipboard parameter?

2009-07-29 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 24/07/2009 07:47, Alister Hood wrote: I've found that -clipboard clashes with Windows clipboard history managers such as Ditto. Does anybody know of a clipboard manager with which it does work? If I run glipper in a linux panel in Colinux, then I can use that, and I imagine I could compile

Re: patch for multiwindow support of _NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_TASKBAR

2009-07-29 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 28/07/2009 07:14, Russell Davis wrote: I found a great patch on this list from back in January - see http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2009-01/msg00068.html. I'm not sure if 'great' here means 'I like the idea of it' or 'I've tested it and it works well', but thank you :-) It would

Re: Trouble with the xwin and ms remote desktop

2009-07-29 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 29/07/2009 14:45, Matta, Sunil wrote: I have been running Xwin on xp pro for a week along with xterms and emacs on my desktop. I then tried to remote connect (ms remote desktop: mstsc.exe) to the desktop from a laptop across the internet. 1) As soon as I had connected to my desktop (which

Re: trouble with fonts

2009-07-23 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 22/07/2009 19:30, Bert Thomas wrote: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-where-are-my-fonts I suspect that installing some fonts might solve your problem. Now I installed pretty much every font the cygwin setup shows, but same result. Fonts of certain programs (QT) appear as

Re: trouble with fonts

2009-07-22 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 22/07/2009 17:53, Bert Thomas wrote: Hi all, Can you please have a look at this picture: http://intern.brothom.nl/x-trouble.JPG It shows the trouble I'm experiencing. Perhaps I'm using the wrong terminology, but if I search on google I can't find anything usefull.

Re: cannot type in my xterm after new installation

2009-07-20 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 20/07/2009 16:20, THORBURN-GUNDLACH, DAVID T-G (ATTSI) wrote: Hi, all -- I've just done a fresh Cygwin install on a new laptop and have run into some interesting challenges. I copied over my old startxwin.bat file from another machine and can now throw up an xterm and such, but all is still

Re: Often lose window decoration when restore from standby

2009-07-15 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 13/07/2009 20:35, KARR, DAVID (ATTCINW) wrote: I'm using Cygwin 1.5.25 on WinXPSP2, along with Cygwin-built GNU Emacs 23.0.92.1. I run startxwin.bat on system startup. After it comes up, I run Emacs, and I get a good window with normal Windows-based window decorations. My Windows shortcut

Re: 1.5.25: Problem with XtAppAddWorkProc and OptionMenu

2009-07-15 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 10/07/2009 09:19, Wakker, P.H. (Pieter) wrote: I am running CYGWIN 1.5.25 on Windows XP pack 2. I have a XWindows graphics program that uses several XmOptionMenu widgets. The problem is that whenever the user clicks frequently (sometimes a double-click is enough) on these OptionMenu's the

Re: [1.7] XWin still fails with SunOS 10

2009-07-13 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 12/07/2009 13:13, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 07/07/2009 21:36, jose isaias cabrera wrote: I updated from the old cygwin to the new 1.7 by installing the new 1.7 in c:\cygwinx directory. The reason why was because I wanted to see if a problem that I previously had was fixed with a SunOS 10 server

[PATCH 0/2] Patches to fix some issues connecting to Solaris 10

2009-07-13 Thread Jon TURNEY
://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-xfree/2009-03/msg8.html Jon TURNEY (2): Cygwin/X: Always use an authorization cookie for internal clients Cygwin/X: Ensure WM_STATE atom exists in multiwindow mode hw/xwin/InitOutput.c |2 - hw/xwin/win.h|3 +- hw/xwin/winauth.c

[PATCH 1/2] Cygwin/X: Always use an authorization cookie for internal clients

2009-07-13 Thread Jon TURNEY
on XCSECURITY Consolidate the various places where the authorization cookie is set for internal threads into a new function, winSetAuthorization() Use authorization cookie for multiwindow WM X message thread as well Signed-off-by: Jon TURNEY jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk --- hw/xwin/InitOutput.c

[PATCH 2/2] Cygwin/X: Ensure WM_STATE atom exists in multiwindow mode

2009-07-13 Thread Jon TURNEY
Workaround a bug in iiimxcf (assuming the WM_STATE atom exists), which can cause many Solaris clients to simply fail with a BadAtom error Signed-off-by: Jon TURNEY jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk --- hw/xwin/winmultiwindowwm.c | 10 ++ 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions

Re: [1.7] XWin still fails with SunOS 10

2009-07-12 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 07/07/2009 21:36, jose isaias cabrera wrote: I updated from the old cygwin to the new 1.7 by installing the new 1.7 in c:\cygwinx directory. The reason why was because I wanted to see if a problem that I previously had was fixed with a SunOS 10 server. When I run this command, XWin -once

Re: XCloseDisplay + XOpenDisplay fails

2009-07-11 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 10/07/2009 09:42, Reini Urban wrote: With the latest server and cygwin-1.7 my previous xlib test form clisp new-clx fail. XCloseDisplay() = okay but all subsequent XOpenDisplay() to the same display fail now with No protocol specified. This worked before. I've also enabled IPV6, which might

Re: [1.7] XWin still fails with SunOS 10

2009-07-08 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 07/07/2009 21:36, jose isaias cabrera wrote: I updated from the old cygwin to the new 1.7 by installing the new 1.7 in c:\cygwinx directory. The reason why was because I wanted to see if a problem that I previously had was fixed with a SunOS 10 server. When I run this command, XWin -once

Re: Blank title bars

2009-07-08 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 17/06/2009 10:19, Csaba Raduly wrote: For some reason, changes to the title bar text result in a blank title bar instead until the window loses focus. For example, a new NEdit window will have a blank title bar until I click on another window or the desktop. Then the filename appears. If I

Re: 1.7 no start menu entry to launch X Server?

2009-07-06 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 05/07/2009 23:56, William Deegan wrote: Greetings, Some time in the last few months the X Win Server start menu item was removed. I just did a fresh install on a new machine and it's not longer there. It was really useful. Any chance of getting it reinstated? I think this is a packaging

Re: Cygwin 1.7 hangs with my .xinitrc

2009-07-06 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 04/07/2009 17:48, David A Bagley wrote: Hi I like to start X with a whole bunch of windows instead of creating each time. In Cygwin 1.5 I did this with no problem. In 1.7 this hangs. It hangs in a way where I can't open anything else and have to pull the power to computer. If I comment

Re: XWin freezes on xkbcomp

2009-07-06 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 02/07/2009 19:08, Zdrojewski, Tye wrote: After recently reinstalling cygwin, XWin freezes when I try to run it. There are two XWin processes running when it is frozen. When the XWin process with the smaller memory footprint was killed, the following went into the log, and it appeared to

Re: fastpath 0 - xterm?

2009-07-06 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 29/06/2009 19:29, Tom Roche wrote: Since I'm not seeing this in the FAQ, I wanted to propose the following item: what would be required to go from zero to xterm? I.e. from a Cygwin-less windows box (windows= 2k) to getting a Cygwin/X xterm up on one's screen? From my recent experience, it

Re: Current directory '.' included in startxwin.bat PATH bad practice

2009-07-06 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 26/06/2009 17:53, Rob Gillen wrote: PROPOSAL: please remove the current directory from the PATH setting in startxwin.bat. Yes, that's not right. Thanks for pointing it out. I've queued up a patch to fix that. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

Re: Mouse chording question

2009-07-02 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 02/07/2009 05:50, Peter Scott wrote: Hello. I would like to migrate from eXceed to Cygwin for the performance improvement, What performance improvement? The performance/price ratio is infinitely better, ofc :-) but there is a feature I currently have that I have not figured out in

Re: Question for Corinna (was Re: Novice Question)

2009-07-01 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 01/07/2009 16:42, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jun 29 10:50, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:09:12PM +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote: Andy wrote: /opt/wip/cygport-svn/xorg-server/xorg-server-1.6.0-10/src/xorg-server-1.6.0/ os/access.c (gdb) p *ifr $1 = {ifa_next = 0x1447798

Re: Proposed patch to system.XWinrc

2009-06-30 Thread Jon TURNEY
Jon TURNEY wrote: jose isaias cabrera wrote: Ken Brown wrote... What's the reason for launching everything using sh rather than bash? If I'm reading the bash documentation correctly, it means that ~/.bash_profile won't get executed (though it would get executed if it were renamed ~/.profile

[1.7] Call for Testing - Accelerated GL (AIGLX) for the Cygwin/X X server

2009-06-30 Thread Jon TURNEY
I've made a git repo available on freedesktop.org which contains the work I've been doing to add hardware-accelerated indirect GLX to the Cygwin/X server, which is basically a complete rewrite as the code has rusted severely due to server changes since the last time it was touched. This can be

Re: Cannot convert string nil2 to type FontStruct, was: post-upgrade problems

2009-06-29 Thread Jon TURNEY
Tom Roche wrote: Tom Roche Mon, May 25, 2009 at 3:54 PM Jon TURNEY Wed, May 27, 2009 at 4:48 PM (heavily edited) http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-how-do-i-get-rid-of-xterm-menu http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-where-are-my-fonts Thanks: those (and fiddling

Re: Novice Question

2009-06-29 Thread Jon TURNEY
Andy wrote: /opt/wip/cygport-svn/xorg-server/xorg-server-1.6.0-10/src/xorg-server-1.6.0/ os/access.c (gdb) p *ifr $1 = {ifa_next = 0x1447798, ifa_name = 0x14474c4 {B8B51884-C69A-4592-B65D-89ABB3DCF18D}, ifa_flags = 69635, ifa_addr = 0x14474f0, ifa_netmask = 0x14475f0, ifa_dstaddr = 0x0,

Re: [1.7] Socket problems after xorg-server update

2009-06-29 Thread Jon TURNEY
Ken Brown wrote: On 6/28/2009 2:17 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: Ken Brown wrote: After I upgraded to xorg-server-1.6.0-10, XWin.exe exited immediately with the following error message in the log file: _XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6 Although it's clear as mud

[1.7] Building the X server

2009-06-29 Thread Jon TURNEY
To help anyone who might like to debug their own problems with the new 1.6 X server, I've made a git repo available on freedesktop.org which contains the X.Org X server 1.6 branch with the 70 or so additional patches which were applied to produce the Cygwin/X 1.6.0.0 (20090401) release. A

Re: Novice Question

2009-06-28 Thread Jon TURNEY
Andys wrote: Trying to get the lastest X to run on Cygwin 1-7 but only seem to be able to get a core dump the log: Firstly, thanks very much for trying it out and reporting the problem. XWin was started with the following command line: /usr/bin/XWin -multiwindow -clipboard

Re: [1.7] Socket problems after xorg-server update

2009-06-28 Thread Jon TURNEY
Ken Brown wrote: After I upgraded to xorg-server-1.6.0-10, XWin.exe exited immediately with the following error message in the log file: _XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6 Although it's clear as mud, this message should not be a fatal error, just a warning.

Re: Novice Question

2009-06-28 Thread Jon TURNEY
Andy wrote: Jon, Thanks for your help Yes your correct the IP6 had nothing to do with the problem ..(again thanks) Well, I think perhaps the situation is a bit more complex that that :-) Here is the backtrace requested Thanks very much, very helpful. I wonder if I might trouble you to

Re: [Xwin 1.7]: copy from rxvt-x to windows application does not work

2009-06-25 Thread Jon TURNEY
I'm fairly sure I set Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com on my previous mail. Please don't ignore that or get a mailer which doesn't ignore it :-) Frédéric Bron wrote: If I run rxvt-x (1.5 or 1.7) with Xwin (1.7), when I select something in the terminal output and then type Ctrl-V in any

Re: OpenGL-1.1.0 link problem (glXMakeCurrent undefined symbols)

2009-06-25 Thread Jon TURNEY
André Bleau wrote: Phan, Linh H wrote: /usr/local/src/inventor2/lib/database/src/so/SoOffscreenRenderer.c++:173: undefined reference to `_glXDestroyGLXPixmap' Yeurk! The problem here is that you are trying to mix to incompatible things: 1- libraries from the w32api package (-lglu32

Re: gvim 7.2-1: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

2009-06-23 Thread Jon TURNEY
Lachlan Andrew wrote: Greetings, I've just installed gvim 7.2-1 on the current version of Cygwin. Why I type gvim, it complains % gvim (gvim:4216): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed (gvim:4216): Pango-CRITICAL **: _pango_engine_shape_shape:

Re: Windows 7 RC1 and Cygwin 1.7

2009-06-23 Thread Jon TURNEY
4) In multiwindow, if two programs overlap, then Aero Peek will show the correct shape for each window but the contents of one window superimposed on the other in their stacking order. Yes, I've seen the same behaviour with the TaskSwitchXP alt+tab replacement. This is a consequence of the

Re: Proposed patch to system.XWinrc

2009-06-23 Thread Jon TURNEY
jose isaias cabrera wrote: Ken Brown wrote... What's the reason for launching everything using sh rather than bash? If I'm reading the bash documentation correctly, it means that ~/.bash_profile won't get executed (though it would get executed if it were renamed ~/.profile). Ken I've

Re: Proposed patch to system.XWinrc

2009-06-20 Thread Jon TURNEY
Ken Brown wrote: On 6/17/2009 3:17 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: + emacs execbash -l -c /usr/bin/emacs notepad execnotepad xload execxload -display %display% # Comment } The most important part of this is changing the way emacs is called; the original version

Re: [Xwin 1.7]: copy from rxvt-x to windows application does not work

2009-06-20 Thread Jon TURNEY
Frédéric Bron wrote: If I run rxvt-x (1.5 or 1.7) with Xwin (1.7), when I select something in the terminal output and then type Ctrl-V in any Windows application, this does not work. Some application say that the clipboard is like corrupted. In general, if I type Ctrl-V several times, after a

Re: WORKAROUND: Unable to load any usable iso8859 font

2009-06-17 Thread Jon TURNEY
Forwarded to list, unread Please read http://cygwin.com/problems.html#personal-email linked_puffb...@comcast.net wrote: Dear Jon Turney, Today I installed cygwin from scratch on a new laptop with Vista Home Premium. I have gotten the Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font. message when

Re: XWin Server shortcut broken

2009-06-17 Thread Jon TURNEY
Frank Mori Hess wrote: I did an install of cygwin/x and the xwin server shortcut it installs in the start menu didn't work. I had to go into its properties and set the Start in: field to C:\ This may be due to the fact that my home directory is at H:\ Running the command

Re: Xwin does not start because CYGWIN_ROOT is wrong in startxwin.bat

2009-06-17 Thread Jon TURNEY
Frédéric Bron wrote: This bug is valid for 1.5 and 1.7: I have installed cygwin in D:\cygwin-1.5 but startxwin.bat contains SET CYGWIN_ROOT=\cygwin It should be updated to SET CYGWIN_ROOT=\cygwin-1.5 Can someone change this in the installation process? Also the Start in directory should also

Re: XWinrc suggestion

2009-06-17 Thread Jon TURNEY
It would be perhaps better to teach startxwin.bat to use .xserverrc for this purpose, just like startx does. This could probably be achieved by changing startxwin.bat to use startx to start the server, rather than starting it directly :-) There are a few ancillary issues with doing this,

Re: can't open Xterm

2009-06-17 Thread Jon TURNEY
dingyang wrote: Hi, All: I just installed cygwin using setup.exe under WinXP operation system, but I can't start X Windows. I've checked and even reinstall X11 again. When I try, I get a pop-up that says: A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit. Please open /tmp/XWin.log for

Re: Proposed patch to system.XWinrc

2009-06-17 Thread Jon TURNEY
Ken Brown wrote: I recommend that the xorg-server maintainers consider the following patch to system.XWinrc: --- system.XWinrc.orig 2009-02-22 12:27:28.0 -0500 +++ system.XWinrc 2009-06-09 11:57:50.328125000 -0400 @@ -79,8 +79,8 @@ // Make some menus... menu apps { -

Re: Singular CAS: why not in Cygwin menu?

2009-06-17 Thread Jon TURNEY
(following up to a mail to the main cygwin list) Frédéric Bron wrote: Why the need to have Singular CAS outside the Cygwin menu? It makes 3 menus for cygwin: Cygwin, Cygwin-X and Singular CAS. In terms of folders for people who do not have administrator privileges, it makes 4 folders: -

Re: Windows 7 RC1 and Cygwin 1.7

2009-06-08 Thread Jon TURNEY
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 15/05/2009 15:13, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: I have installed Windows 7 RC1 (64-bit) as well as Cygwin 1.7, including the Xorg stuff in the Cygwin setup-1.7.exe file Same here. I have also noticed the following issues: 1) In multiwindow mode, all X programs are

Re: AltGr sometimes generates Control_L

2009-06-08 Thread Jon TURNEY
Hannu Koivisto wrote: Greetings, I run Cygwin/X with XWin.exe -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error. I start xev from shell and start pressing(releasing) a and AltGr keys consecutively: a AltGr a AltGr ... ---8-- KeyPress event,

Re: post-upgrade problems

2009-05-27 Thread Jon TURNEY
Tom Roche wrote: summary: After upgrading from X 6.8.99.901-1 to 7.4-1, I had font problems, but could launch an xterm from the new cygwin. After attempting to fix that by installing fonts, I cannot launch an xterm from the new cygwin. details: I'm attempting to debug a problem with the cygwin

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