Re: Trouble compiling xorg-server-1.5.3-6

2009-02-07 Thread Jon TURNEY
Jared Silva wrote: Jon TURNEY wrote: Just a guess, but do you not have the libtool package installed? http://x.cygwin.com/docs/cg/prog-build-native.html#prog-compiling $ cygcheck -c | grep libtool libtool 1.5b-2 OK I tried reinstalling libtool, but no

Re: Trouble compiling xorg-server-1.5.3-6

2009-02-06 Thread Jon TURNEY
Jared Silva wrote: Any help is greatly appreciated. $ cygport xorg-server-1.5.3-6.cygport all [...] Compiling xorg-server-1.5.3-6 autoreconf-2.63: Entering directory `.' autoreconf-2.63: configure.ac: not using Gettext autoreconf-2.63: running: aclocal --force autoreconf-2.63: configure.ac: t

Re: rgb.txt not honored in X7?

2009-02-04 Thread Jon TURNEY
Mike Ayers wrote: However, in Cygwin X11R7, even though the rgb.txt file is the same, but in the new location, Which is the new location? I've been looking in the manual and FAQ, but seem to have acquired an embarassing blind spot that prevents me from knowing where to put startu

Re: rgb.txt not honored in X7?

2009-02-04 Thread Jon TURNEY
If you are *really* using X7, then your problem is probably that colour wasn't supported until X9, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System#Release_history However, I suspect you mean X version 11 release 7 :-) Jared Silva wrote: In Cygwin X11R6 and Exceed 10, the additional colors in

Re: Cygwin/X (XWin) falls down when using -fp option

2009-02-03 Thread Jon TURNEY
Jana Skleničková wrote: Because I couldn't find anything unusual or helpful in the logs I captured packets using Wireshark. So far I found this: Solaris to Cygwin X11, Request, opcode: 51 (SetFontPath) opcode: 51 (SetFontPath) unused request-lenth: 14 str-number

Re: Unable to load any usable iso8859 font

2009-02-03 Thread Jon TURNEY
Dan Moulding wrote: This time, I was getting "Unable to load any usable iso8859 font" errors anytime I'd try to start xterm. I searched the FAQs and the web, but was unable to find any suggestions that led to a solution. At one point, while trying to fix the problem, I also got the "could not ope

Re: Restore Alt-Ctl-Backspace As Server Kill

2009-02-03 Thread Jon TURNEY
Tim Daneliuk wrote: Tim Daneliuk wrote: I really hate the assignment of Alt-F4 to kill a running X-server. What magic must I perform to set it back to the more traditional Alt-Ctl-Backspace combo? Thanks. Let me ask this more properly. I know how to use -nounixkill and -nowinkill to prevent

Re: X / gtk-x11 / flicker and other problems

2009-02-03 Thread Jon TURNEY
John Emmas wrote: I've been 'tinkering around' with Cygwin for a few months now. Not doing anything serious with it - just finding out about it. And in the main, I like it. The only disappointment (sorry guys) is 'X11' (or maybe the problems are with gtk-x11). Either way, I've been hugely dis

Re: cygwin and matlab 7.7 problems

2009-01-29 Thread Jon TURNEY
jchas5 wrote: I have a pretty interesting problem, I installed a new version of matlab on an ubuntu linux box. Two users in my group are using cygwin on their PC's to connect and export the matlab displays back to their local machines. Both users are having problems with the Matlab gui; both are

Re: Broken Font Loading

2009-01-29 Thread Jon TURNEY
Robert Martin wrote: I recently accidentally upgraded my Cygwin/X to Version 1.5.3. One of the applications I use, amrvis, from Berkeley lab now crashes when I try to get a line plot when it still works with a previous version of Cygwin/X on another machine (the about dialog just says the dia

Re: Semaphore handle leaks in WindowMaker with latest Xorg distribution

2009-01-28 Thread Jon TURNEY
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Jon TURNEY wrote: So I guess suspicion first falls that this leak is somewhere in one of the updated X DLLs... The question is then, how can we track this down? This actually turned out to be easier to track down than I thought. Using process explorer on 'w

Re: XWin with "rootless" option crashes on Vista

2009-01-27 Thread Jon TURNEY
rincewind wrote: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda Please try completely uninstalling the Logitech software, make sure you're running the current versions of Cygwin and X11, and try again. Your reply seems to be missing "I've tried uninstalling this and the problem remains"

Re: Cygwin/X (XWin) falls down when using -fp option

2009-01-27 Thread Jon TURNEY
Jana Skleničková wrote: I upgraded to latest (I believe) version of Cygwin (uname -a=CYGWIN_NT-5.1 my_computer_name 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34 i686 Cygwin) and after that I experience problem running XWin to a computer running Solaris OS, when font path is set to remote font server. [...

Re: Font issues on two different machines after update to latest xorg-server

2009-01-27 Thread Jon TURNEY
William Deegan wrote: Yesterday and today I updated two different machines to the latest xorg-server version, on both machines, after the upgrade it could no longer find the fixed font. The issue went away after rolling back to 1.5.3-4. Attached is my cygcheck -s output. Please let me know if

Re: was "missing fonts?" in cyg...@cygwin.com

2009-01-27 Thread Jon TURNEY (Cygwin/X)
Siegmar Gross wrote: >> I have upgraded Cygwin to X11R7.4. In the past I could read my e-mail >> via "ssh" and "dtmail" from a Solaris machine with a nice font. Now I I assume there are some warnings emitted by dtmail when it starts indicating that it can't use the font it wants to use? I would b

Re: X Error of failed request: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)

2009-01-23 Thread Jon TURNEY
marzio.vid...@ec.europa.eu wrote: I recently updated my Cygwin installation and I'm facing a strange problem now. I use Cygwin (Xwin X Server release 6.8.99.901-4) on Windows XP to work on a fully patched Solaris 9 workstation. When I try to run VNC on the Solaris workstation, it pops up the VNC

Re: Updated: nedit-5.5-4

2009-01-23 Thread Jon TURNEY
David Monksfield wrote: On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 11:54:05 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 09:15:44AM +, David Monksfield wrote: Since the X server update, some NEdit windows won't resize any more. I can't grab a corner, and the 'Resize' option in the window menu is gre

Re: Keyboard map screwed up after launching xemacs

2009-01-23 Thread Jon TURNEY
Andreas Eibach wrote: Jon TURNEY wrote: Forgive my ignorance about german keyboard usage, but is the tilde character used in some kind of composition sequence which isn't working anymore? Or do you just want to type lots of tildes? (In case that it went down the drain: One is e

Re: No repetition of keys in X11R7

2009-01-23 Thread Jon TURNEY
Rodrigo Medina wrote: Jon Turney wrote: You might try "xset q" to check what the reported key repeat settings are Using xset I have discovered the following: After starting XWin with $ XWin -multiwindow -clipboard & XWin.0.log says: (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=3

Building xdvik (was Re: Failure of XtGetApplicationResources() in X11R7.4)

2009-01-23 Thread Jon TURNEY
Jon TURNEY wrote: >> Warning: No type converter registered for '' to '<81>ìÀ' conversion. [...] Warning: No type converter registered for '<90>' to '' conversion. I took a quick look at this, there's definitely something strange

Re: PATCH: Fix mwextwm mode to build again

2009-01-23 Thread Jon TURNEY
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jon TURNEY wrote: This fixes multiwindow external window manager('-mwextwm') mode to build again. Note this depends on Apple's Xplugin.h to build the rootless extension (just for some typedefs I thin

Re: [patch 0/7] X server patchset

2009-01-21 Thread Jon TURNEY
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Jon TURNEY wrote: This mail is followed by a series of patches, mainly fixing cosmetic issues in -multiwindow mode. This is incremental to my patchset of 20081218 I *think* I have everything in Ports SVN now. I have excluded the patches for SKIP_TASKBAR and log

Re: [patch 5/7] Cygwin/X: Add a timestamp to log messages

2009-01-20 Thread Jon TURNEY
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Jon TURNEY wrote: This patch causes timestamps to be added to -help output as well. Could you fix this, or should I skip the patch for -5? Oh, erm...oops. Just drop it for the moment then... I'll take another look when I have time. -- Unsubscribe

Re: [patch 0/7] X server patchset

2009-01-16 Thread Jon TURNEY
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Jon TURNEY wrote: This mail is followed by a series of patches, mainly fixing cosmetic issues in -multiwindow mode. This is incremental to my patchset of 20081218 Updated to include the correct version of 1/7, add a proper attribution to 4/7, and fix various typos

Re: [patch 1/7] Cygwin/X: Make transient windows resizable again

2009-01-16 Thread Jon TURNEY
Sigh. Somehow a broken version of this patch ended up in the queue :-( Cygwin/X: Make transient windows resizable again This reverts the change in from-xming-patch11 which makes parented windows non-resizeable Because this was trying to do something which we should be doing, as an alternativ

Re: [patch 4/7] Cygwin/X: Invent a scan code if we dont have one

2009-01-16 Thread Jon TURNEY
Reini Urban wrote: Shouldn't we properly attribute Paul Loewenstein at least in the patch who came up with this idea. Indeed, thanks for pointing out this oversight. Revised patch attached. That's what happens to people who don't use diff :-) Cygwin/X: Invent a scan code if we don't have one

Re: [patch 0/7] X server patchset

2009-01-15 Thread Jon TURNEY
Ah, and what do you think about the attached change to the .cygport file itself to propagate the distribution patchlevel into the version number? --- xorg-server-1.5.3-4.cygport.bak 2009-01-12 22:57:06.0 + +++ xorg-server-1.5.3-4.cygport 2009-01-12 23:26:52.0 + @@ -62

[patch 6/7] Cygwin/X: Allow pointer warping to work in rootless modes

2009-01-15 Thread Jon TURNEY
Mouse pointer warping in multiwindow/rootless mode was never implemented, due to concerns that moving the mouse pointer without asking might be rude This patch allows X applications to move the mouse pointer in rootless modes, Let's hope they don't abuse this privilege ;-) --- xserver/hw/xwin/wi

[patch 7/7] Cygwin/X: Unmap windows when they are minimized and map them again when the are restored

2009-01-15 Thread Jon TURNEY
At the moment, when a window is minimized, it is moved to (0,0) on the shadow framebuffer. This can leads to various problems: tooltips and menus can 'punch through' from an apparently minimized window if the mouse pointer is positioned over the native frame of another X window which covers the se

[patch 5/7] Cygwin/X: Add a timestamp to log messages

2009-01-15 Thread Jon TURNEY
Add a timestamp to log messages Also tidy up a few stray "\n" issues --- xserver/dix/registry.c |2 +- xserver/hw/xwin/winprocarg.c |4 ++-- xserver/os/log.c | 18 -- 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) Index: xorg-server-1.5.3/xserver/os

[patch 3/7] Cygwin/X: Improve mouse tracking for moving/resizing undecorated windows

2009-01-15 Thread Jon TURNEY
In -multiwindow mode, tell Windows we wish to capture the mouse when a button is down. This causes Windows to continue to send movement events for the mouse even if the mouse pointer moves outside the window frame. This helps greatly with undecorated windows which have regions you can grab to mov

[patch 4/7] Cygwin/X: Invent a scan code if we dont have one

2009-01-15 Thread Jon TURNEY
Apparently, fake keypresses generated by speech recognizers may not bother with a scan code, so look up what scan code corresponds to the virtual key code if this occurs --- xserver/hw/xwin/winkeybd.c |7 +++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) Index: xorg-server-1.5.3/xserver/hw/xwin/winkey

[patch 2/7] Xming: Reduce MOUSE_POLLING_INTERVAL

2009-01-15 Thread Jon TURNEY
Reduce MOUSE_POLLING_INTERVAL from 500ms to 50ms In -multiwindow mode, this determines how quickly X windows can track the mouse when it is outside any X window... Move the cursor around an xeyes, and you will see what this timing effects. --- xserver/hw/xwin/win.h |1 +

[patch 1/7] Cygwin/X: Make transient windows resizable again

2009-01-15 Thread Jon TURNEY
This reverts the change in from-xming-patch11 which makes parented windows non-resizeable Because this was trying to do something which we should be doing, as an alternative we try checking WM_NORMAL_HINTS for windows which shouldn't be resizable If a window has a maximum size specified, no ma

[patch 0/7] X server patchset

2009-01-15 Thread Jon TURNEY
Yaakov, This mail is followed by a series of patches, mainly fixing cosmetic issues in -multiwindow mode. This is incremental to my patchset of 20081218 * Revert to making transient windows resizable. From WM_NORMAL_HINTS, try to identify windows which shouldn't be resizable and make then no

Re: multiwindow support for _NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_TASKBAR

2009-01-15 Thread Jon TURNEY
Jon TURNEY wrote: Jon TURNEY wrote: Yes, I see the same behaviour. When I looked into this, it seems to be because the taskbar doesn't re-evaluate if the window should be in it or not when the style is changed, but only when a ShowWindow() occurs. Attached is an updated version of

Re: configure error in X build - cpp requires -undef

2009-01-14 Thread Jon TURNEY
g the patches. Looks like I need to add more detailed instructions in the Contributor's Guide... > The version is 1.0.5-1. No, that's not right. Jon TURNEY wrote: Tom George wrote: I am trying to build the Cygwin/X following the instructions in the Cygwin/X Contributors Guide. When

Re: configure error in X build - cpp requires -undef

2009-01-13 Thread Jon TURNEY
Tom George wrote: I am trying to build the Cygwin/X following the instructions in the Cygwin/X Contributors Guide. When I run ./configure --prefix=/usr the last few lines of output are: ... checking if /usr/bin/cpp requires -undef... configure: error: /usr/bin/cpp defines unix with or witho

Re: cursor warp [+PATCH]

2009-01-12 Thread Jon TURNEY
Jon TURNEY wrote: Tom George wrote: Cursor warping does not work with the -multiwindow option. It works fine in the single window mode. I saw some vague references to this but nothing to indicate it will be fixed. Are there any plans to fix this? The first step towards fixing this is a

Re: Using xfs but still get "Missing charsets" warnings.

2009-01-12 Thread Jon TURNEY
joel.mo...@l-3com.com wrote: I am starting Cygwin/X via the startxdmcp.bat file with the command: XWin -query %REMOTE_HOST% -nodecoration -lesspointer -fp tcp/%REMOTE_HOST%:7000 -once -clipboard going to HP-UX 11.11 with dtlogin. Everything seems fine until I go to launch various apps, at which p

Re: Semaphore handle leaks in WindowMaker with latest Xorg distribution

2009-01-12 Thread Jon TURNEY
Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Hi After switching to the latest Xorg packages (still under cygwin-1.5), WindowMaker-0.90.0-2 stops working after more or less 36 hours continues uptime of my laptop. When this happens I see the following in a bash window from where I started my X environment via startx:

Re: Windows Vista Speech Recognition and Cygwin/X

2009-01-10 Thread Jon TURNEY
Paul Loewenstein wrote: The XWin server uses primarily hardware scan codes for interpreting the windows WM_KEYDOWN and WM_SYSKEYDOWN messages. Unfortunately, Vista speech recognition (WSR) doesn't bother to fill in the scancode field in the lParam entry. Neither does SendKeys.SendWait(), wh

Re: wrong user path parsing /usr/bin/startx ?

2009-01-08 Thread Jon TURNEY
Bouat, Jerome wrote: Hello, After updating cygwin, I'm not able to start X. --- bo...@rfideleg99 /cygdrive $ startx /usr/bin/startx: line 37: [: too many arguments /usr/bin/startx: line 106: [: too many arguments xauth: (argv):1: unknown command "and\" giving up. xinit: Connection refused (

[PATCH] xinit: avoid some 'keyboard not working' cases

2009-01-07 Thread Jon TURNEY
Yaakov, Attached is a patch against the xinit package in cygports svn: * In an attempt to avoid some instances of the ever popular "I upgraded X and now my keyboard doesn't work" problem, update the X server starting sample scripts to actively unset XKEYSYMDB etc., environment variables, rathe

Re: (EE) Keyboardlayout "Russian" (00000419) is unknown

2009-01-06 Thread Jon TURNEY
suitable font 'xterm +lc -u8 -fn -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1' At least, now I can mash on keys and random cyrillic letters come up :-) [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2008-12/msg00079.html [2] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-bash-e

Re: XWin keyboard problem after upgrade

2009-01-06 Thread Jon TURNEY
Markus Moeller wrote: "Jon TURNEY" wrote in message news:49636e4d.9080...@dronecode.org.uk... Markus Moeller wrote: When I upgraded my cygwin installation to 2.573.2.3 on Windows Vista XWin doesn't take anymore keyboard input. The previous version was working fine and I could

Re: Windows scaling

2009-01-06 Thread Jon TURNEY
Jon TURNEY wrote: Gionatan Danti wrote: Hi all, I have a question regarding CygWin/X. I would like to know if there is a method to scale a window, similar to what is possible with UltraVNC and its scaling option. To be more clear, I will explain my setup. I have a Linux server where run a

Re: /tmp/.X0-lock problem

2009-01-06 Thread Jon TURNEY
Charles Swenson wrote: FAQ 3.4. Fatal server error: Can't read lock file /tmp/.X0-lock I just installed cygwin for the first time (newbie) on a XP-SP3 laptop to gain access to my Linux systems. Install was straight forward but I ran into this error as noted in the FAQ file upon launching X (Star

Re: XIO error (104) in plotting program

2009-01-06 Thread Jon TURNEY
ScKaSx wrote: Hi All, I use a plotting program based on the plotutils package that works on a PC but which I am having trouble running in BootCamp on my macbook pro. The code compiles correctly but when I execute it, it will show the plot for only a second (on a new window) until that window sh

Re: multiwindow support for _NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_TASKBAR

2009-01-06 Thread Jon TURNEY
Jon TURNEY wrote: so needs more work... Just noticed this completely breaks override-redirect windows, so erm.. yes... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ

Re: multiwindow support for _NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_TASKBAR

2009-01-06 Thread Jon TURNEY
Jon TURNEY wrote: Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: I have noticed that normal windows don't appear in the taskbar until they are refocused upon. Can you confirm? Ping? I'm not dead, just sleeping ;-) Yes, I see the same behaviour. When I looked into this, it s

Re: (EE) Keyboardlayout "Russian" (00000419) is unknown

2009-01-06 Thread Jon TURNEY
gwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-i-cant-type-anything Regards, Sergey On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 10:14 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: Sergey Talchuk wrote: Hello, could you please help me to resolve the following problem: (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "0419" (0419) (EE)

Re: XWin keyboard problem after upgrade

2009-01-06 Thread Jon TURNEY
Markus Moeller wrote: When I upgraded my cygwin installation to 2.573.2.3 on Windows Vista XWin doesn't take anymore keyboard input. The previous version was working fine and I could forward xterms from my Unix server. Now I get the xterm but I can not type anything into the windows. I can do

Re: PATCH:

2009-01-02 Thread Jon TURNEY
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Jon TURNEY wrote: Here's a small patch-set you could use to update cygports: http://www.dronecode.org.uk/cygwin/cygwin-xorg-server-patch-set-update-20081218.tar.bz2 In addition to the above, this includes patches: * an update to the keyboard layout mapping

Re: Updated: nedit-5.5-4

2009-01-02 Thread Jon TURNEY
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 corner, and the 'Resize' option in the wind

Re: (EE) Keyboardlayout "Russian" (00000419) is unknown

2009-01-02 Thread Jon TURNEY
Sergey Talchuk wrote: Hello, could you please help me to resolve the following problem: (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "0419" (0419) (EE) Keyboardlayout "Russian" (0419) is unknown I'm using: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34 i686 Cygwin Keyboard model: Dell SK8115

Re: /tmp/.X0-lock problem

2009-01-02 Thread Jon TURNEY
Charles Swenson wrote: FAQ 3.4. Fatal server error: Can't read lock file /tmp/.X0-lock I just installed cygwin for the first time (newbie) on a XP-SP3 laptop to gain access to my Linux systems. Install was straight forward but I ran into this error as noted in the FAQ file upon launching X (Star

Re: multiwindow support for _NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_TASKBAR

2009-01-02 Thread Jon TURNEY
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: I have noticed that normal windows don't appear in the taskbar until they are refocused upon. Can you confirm? Ping? I'm not dead, just sleeping ;-) Yes, I see the same behaviour. When I looked into this, it seems to be because the taskba

Re: Failure of XtGetApplicationResources() in X11R7.

2008-12-19 Thread Jon TURNEY
Rodrigo Medina wrote: To the X11 mantainer: I am trying to compile the last version of xdvik (22.84.14) with X11R7. The execution of xdvi-xaw3d stops with Segmentation fault. Using gdb I have determined that the failure is due to the function XtGetApplicationResources() of the Xt library. Tha

Re: PATCH:

2008-12-19 Thread Jon TURNEY
Colin Harrison wrote: Can't think what the option achieves anyway. You can't run duplicate display-numbers, so warning the user is **always** a good idea. Maybe an idea too-far, but I've never used -silent-dup-error, it is a little daft..so lets just ditch it? The usefulness is that you can w

Re: PATCH:

2008-12-19 Thread Jon TURNEY
Colin Harrison wrote: Hi, Jon wrote * The patch to really fix -silent-dup-error I don't get this? How does this manifest itself, perhaps my test is different? (I don't have server lock file(s)) Yes, I think this due to the lock file code. OsInit() does a LockServer() before OsVendorInit()

Re: No repetition of keys in X11R7

2008-12-18 Thread Jon TURNEY
Rodrigo Medina wrote: Jon Turney wrote: This keyboard layout should be auto-detected, so you shouldn't need to do anything to get it work Actually the X11 us international map that XWin puts is quite different from the Windows us-international map, the map us(intl) is more simil

Re: Cannot type in xterm

2008-12-18 Thread Jon TURNEY
Lee S Parsons wrote: Never mind, I found a solution. I found that, just as the FAQ says, the file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB Does not exist. However, as the file /usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB does, I created a symbolic link pointing from the inexistent file to the one that does now exist, and li

Re: cursor warp

2008-12-18 Thread Jon TURNEY
Tom George wrote: Cursor warping does not work with the -multiwindow option. It works fine in the single window mode. I saw some vague references to this but nothing to indicate it will be fixed. Are there any plans to fix this? The first step towards fixing this is a description of the proble

Re: PATCH:

2008-12-18 Thread Jon TURNEY
It seems I got distracted by something shiny whilst writing the original email. The subject should be something like "PATCH: Fix some keyboard strangeness". Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: There seem to be a couple of reported problem which seem to be due to the fact that virtual core keyboard doesn

Re: Windows scaling

2008-12-16 Thread Jon TURNEY
Gionatan Danti wrote: Hi all, I have a question regarding CygWin/X. I would like to know if there is a method to scale a window, similar to what is possible with UltraVNC and its scaling option. To be more clear, I will explain my setup. I have a Linux server where run a fixed-resolution applic

PATCH:

2008-12-16 Thread Jon TURNEY
There seem to be a couple of reported problem which seem to be due to the fact that virtual core keyboard doesn't get the updated with the state of the windows keyboard device until the first keypress. This can lead to oddness in the behaviour of clients started from bash in a DOS window befo

Re: Swiss German Keyboard Layout - Some Keys Not Found

2008-12-16 Thread Jon TURNEY
Sascha Tayefeh wrote: Dear all, I have been trying to set the Swiss German keyboard layout: $ setxkbmap.exe ch -model pc105 Fortunately, most of the keys are recognised ... unfortunately, some are not. äöü are not recognised at all. Furthermore, some combinations with the right meta key don't

Re: Small update for X server 1.5.3 patch set

2008-12-14 Thread Jon TURNEY
Colin Harrison wrote: Hi, Colin said I thing that's what the static last_pf stuff in my dixfonts patch does? That was an old bodge, that worked but was not that clever. Better to not call 'InitFonts()' other than on serverGeneration 1 and not call 'FreeFonts()' unless shutting down Excelle

Re: X11R7.4-1 can't read keyboard

2008-12-11 Thread Jon TURNEY
Zdzislaw Meglicki wrote: After having upgraded X11 from the previous version I had installed (and working) on my Cygwin laptop, I found that the new X11R7.4-1 server doesn't read the keyboard. All X11 apps I have tried are keyboard-deaf. I have also noticed another thing. The keyboard seems to

X package font requires need tidying-up

2008-12-10 Thread Jon TURNEY
Yaakov, There's a few packaging oddities with regards to X fonts requirements, which could probably do with tidying up. I guess for dependency purposes we are assuming that any installed client is going to be run on a local X server, in which case it needs to ensure that fonts it needs are

Re: xterm-237-2 still has no UTF-8 support

2008-12-10 Thread Jon TURNEY
neomjp wrote: > On 2008/12/10 0:39, Yongwei Wu wrote: >>> 1. xterm +lc -u8 >> I got these messages: >> >> Warning: Cannot convert string >> > "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" > to type FontStruct >> Warning: Cannot convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct > These are

Re: Small update for X server 1.5.3 patch set

2008-12-10 Thread Jon TURNEY
Jon TURNEY wrote: > * Always enable built-in fonts; disable other FPEs if --enable-builtin-fonts I've reworked this last one slightly from the form you had it in, but I've just realized now that your version was actually correct. If BUILTIN_FONTS is defined, we want to disable

Re: Keyboard map screwed up after launching xemacs

2008-12-09 Thread Jon TURNEY
Jon TURNEY wrote: Andreas Eibach wrote: Hi, when I have X running and start off (latest) xemacs & from the command line, my German keyboard is non-existing. WTF? Even the important tilde character can't be typed anymore. Not only until I quit xemacs, my keymap in xterm works again as

Re: adobe-courier not found

2008-12-08 Thread Jon TURNEY
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Mattias Hellström wrote: Restarting the Xserver once more fixed it. Thanks for the help with diagnostics tools to all. For addition to the FAQ: after installing server-side fonts, the server must be restarted for them t

Re: xterm: buttons work but cannot type text at the prompt

2008-12-08 Thread Jon TURNEY
Carl R. Crawford wrote: With the new release of X11, xterm comes up and its buttons work. However, I cannot type text at the prompt. I am running X11 w/o a window manager. A number of other applications that require text input also do not work. How do I get text input to work? http://x.cygwin.

Re: X, backingstore and opengl

2008-12-08 Thread Jon TURNEY
Angelo Graziosi wrote: Jon TURNEY wrote so perhaps you could try ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/XWin.20081204180806.exe.bz2 and see if that one fails for you Now it fails! For the sake of completeness, attached the stackdump files and the GDB infos as requested here [1], cygcheck.out in [2

Re: X11 apps failing after upgrade

2008-12-08 Thread Jon TURNEY
James Ferguson wrote: So perhaps what you need to do is uninstall the dpi100 font package? Just to confirm - I removed the 100dpi fonts, and now my display is back to what it was before the recent major X update. Unfortunately, Cygwin thinks other installs are dependent on the the 100dpi fonts

Re: Keyboard map screwed up after launching xemacs

2008-12-08 Thread Jon TURNEY
Andreas Eibach wrote: Hi, when I have X running and start off (latest) xemacs & from the command line, my German keyboard is non-existing. WTF? Even the important tilde character can't be typed anymore. Not only until I quit xemacs, my keymap in xterm works again as expected. Are you saying t

Re: Need some help with linking errors when building latest GTK+

2008-12-08 Thread Jon TURNEY
Andreas Eibach wrote: Hi, I'm simply unable to build latest GTK+ (2.14.5) on cygwin atm. I have a bit of building experience, though, so it might simply be a Cygwin-specific thing I don't (yet) know about. (NOTE: This may be a long post.) Has anyone ever fiddled with this recently? I'd apprec

Re: xview: hello word does not launch

2008-12-08 Thread Jon TURNEY
Carl R. Crawford wrote: Thank you for replying. While I thought that it was a connect problem, you were correct and it is font issue. There are two problems. 1) Sun put specific fonts in the public domain and they are available thru setup.exe. 2) xview uses a number of fonts, e.g., lucida-mediu

Re: adobe-courier not found

2008-12-08 Thread Jon TURNEY
Mattias Hellström wrote: How can I solve the following error (when trying to view emacs from remote linux machine)? No fonts match `-adobe-courier-medium-r-*-*-12-120-75-75-*-*-*-*' I haved tried to install all fonts but the particular one does not seam to exist. This font should be provided

Re: X11 apps failing after upgrade

2008-12-05 Thread Jon TURNEY
James Ferguson wrote: What is the failure mode for running emacs on an unpatched Solaris? Same before and after the patch (the almost immediate BadAtom error). Are you sure that the stack trace points back to XCreateIC() in an emacs built --without-xim run on an unpatched Solaris? However

Re: X11 apps failing after upgrade

2008-12-05 Thread Jon TURNEY
TOY Richard wrote: Jon First problem is something to do with permissions. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src $ cygport xorg-server-1.5.3-4.cygport prep compile [...] Compiling xorg-server-1.5.3-4 autoreconf-2.63: Entering directory `.' autoreconf-2.63: configure.ac: not using Gettext autoreconf-2.63

Re: X11 apps failing after upgrade

2008-12-05 Thread Jon TURNEY
James Ferguson wrote: If you're building emacs yourself, you might try to ./configure it --without-xim to see if that makes a difference, or if it just fails in a different place. That worked - Thank you... Now I can run Emacs (from the non-production Solaris machine I'm allowed to patch). T

Re: X11 apps failing after upgrade

2008-12-05 Thread Jon TURNEY
James Ferguson wrote: But anyway, when my Emacs fails, it does not trigger the breakpoint. My xterm gave me a BadAlloc, but the Solaris patch fixed that. My instructions were really aimed at investigating the XkbSetNamedIndicator problem, and the report that installing the Solaris patches made

Re: X, backingstore and opengl

2008-12-04 Thread Jon TURNEY
Angelo Grandiosity wrote: Jon TURNEY wrote: glxgears, glxinfo are GL demo programs which come with mesa (the OpenGL library) It would be useful if you could install the mesa package and check if glxinfo, glxgears work for you. You have ignored my cygchec.out here [1]. I have those

Re: I Cannot Start the X Server

2008-12-04 Thread Jon TURNEY
Michael Wehr wrote: Fatal server error: Can't read lock file /tmp/.X0-lock http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-cant-read-lock-file I have searched the internet and tried a number of solutions to no avail. :S -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Pr

Re: X11 apps failing after upgrade

2008-12-04 Thread Jon TURNEY
Jon TURNEY wrote: If you are willing to do some further investigation, it would be a great help if you could: * build the X server from source with debugging enabled (no, don't run away! the autotoolized modular server is much easier to work with the monolithic imaked monstr

Re: X11 apps failing after upgrade

2008-12-04 Thread Jon TURNEY
Richard Toy wrote: Hi We get all the same issues described in [1]. Furthermore, installing the Solaris patch mentioned in [2] made *NO* difference (we are using Solaris 9). :-( Any suggestions as to how to progress this issue further? If you are willing to do some further investigation, i

Re: "Can't read lock file" problem: Cygwin/X FAQ solution doesn't work for me

2008-12-04 Thread Jon TURNEY
Rich Signell wrote: Cygwin gurus, After happily using cygwin-X for many years, I have just encountered my first true frustration. After updating my cygwin distribution earlier this week, I found that I can no longer start X windows, getting the same "can't read lock file" that other users have

Re: fonts and xterm

2008-12-03 Thread Jon TURNEY
JP de Vooght wrote: Hello all, I have recently updated to the newest XWin and have noticed the following on my Vista laptop: - whenever I open an xterm as indicated below, the scrollbar does not work and the window is not rendered at the bottom and on the right where small bands reveal the back

Re: X, backingstore and opengl

2008-12-03 Thread Jon TURNEY
Angelo Graziosi wrote: Jon TURNEY wrote: I'm sorry, your our previous mail hadn't really made it clear to me that there was problem with glxgears etc. Just for my comprehension, can you explain again what happens if you run glxinfo and glxgears on 1.5.3-4. Really, in my post

Re: X, backingstore and opengl

2008-12-02 Thread Jon TURNEY
Angelo Graziosi wrote: Jon TURNEY wrote: Ok, I've tried this and a few other things an I can't reproduce this, so I'd like your help to get a backtrace if you are willing: 1. Download http://www.dronecode.org.uk/cygwin/XWin.exe.bz2 (this is a build of XWin with debugging symb

Re: X11 apps failing after upgrade

2008-12-02 Thread Jon TURNEY
James Ferguson wrote: My client machine is Solaris. Everything worked fine before the update. I'm running the installed startxwin.bat startup (with xterm REM'd out). I can display xclock fine. xterm appears up, but as soon as I hit a key it crashes with: $ xterm xterm: warning, error event

Re: Recent X11 upgrade and getting _gl?? Undefined references compiling another package

2008-12-02 Thread Jon TURNEY
Brian Keener wrote: I periodically do test compile for OpenSceneGraph in Cygwin and up until I recently accidentally updated to the latest X11 stuff the compiles had been working fine. With the recent change I now getting a lot of undefined references for various _gl?? References. I posted t

Re: PATCH: Fix mwextwm mode to build again

2008-12-02 Thread Jon TURNEY
Colin Harrison wrote: Hi, Jon TURNEY wrote Based on somebody else's patch, I'm can't remember who's... I'll give you one guess. Sorry. I managed to confuse myself somehow. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports

Re: Installed CygwinX and xhost not found

2008-12-02 Thread Jon TURNEY
RICHARD RASO wrote: So I have searched the FAQs and found a note that says to add a path statement to correct this problem. for missing xhost, the correct FAQ is http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-where-is-xxyzy If it's the Cygwin/X FAQ which has given you the wrong advice to

Re: X, backingstore and opengl

2008-11-29 Thread Jon TURNEY
Angelo Graziosi wrote: I agree with all BUT NOT with THIS: 1.5.3-4 +bsok (redrawing of area under menus is messed up) In my case (hsimple.C test) 1.5.3-4 +bsGIVES server segfault Are you sure you have started 1.5.3-4 with '+bs'? Indeed I have verified that '1.5.3-4 +bs' works fin

PATCH: Fix -silent-dup-error (for real this time)

2008-11-28 Thread Jon TURNEY
-silent-dup-error is still broken, despite my previous attempt to fix it, which only worked with -nolock. Updated version of cygwin-fix-silent-dup-error.patch attached really fixes it. Fix the long-broken -silent-dup-error option --- xserver/hw/xwin/InitOutput.c | 87 ---

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