Charles Packer wrote:
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#remote (please
read
the whole section).
Igor
Typical Unix-head response (Read the whole book...). There
is nothing
in the FAQ that deals with this problem. However, perusing
the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I have begun to use Cygwin on Windows and I have tried every
technique I could find on the web for changing from the
default black-on-white colours of Xterm (and perhaps other X
applications) to something that's easier to look at. None of
the techniques
Griffey Matthew wrote:
XWin.log
Hi,
I am getting the attached log file produced in the Cygwin/tmp
directory on my PC when i try to run x against one of our
Solaris 2.8 boxes - although it
can connect fine to the other similar Solaris boxes. It opens a
window but doesn't get as far as
Larry Griffith wrote:
Dear List Members,
I'm a newbie to Cygwin who is trying to learn how to run
an OpenGL program under Cygwin-X. I used a standard program
written by SGI (called cube.c) that I know runs correctly
under Solaris 9, using gcc and the Mesa library, so I don't
think the
Tom Smith wrote:
With all due respect, Igor, I think you missed my point.
The point is this:
1) I ran the Cygwin setup.exe and the Cygwin/X setup.exe
(a distinction made by the cygwin.com web site itself) on the
same computer.
It's the same installer, just linked to different pages with
As info
I start X by
using a shortcut to open an rxvt window running bash ( see below for
contents of shortcut scripts ).
(If you do not have rxvt, use setup to get it, it is
unbelievable to me that with billions of dollars MS cannot include a
decent command prompt.)
Then,
Rob wrote:
Here is my XWin error message. I have searched archives and FAQ's and
have found nothing on this. Perhaps I missed something. All I get is
and xterm window. No Windowmaker. I understand that -multiwindow is
not to be used with an externer window manager but I cannot find the
Andy Schmidgall wrote:
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
(and then a bunch of options)
cygwin-prompt DISPLAY=:0 ssh -Y [EMAIL PROTECTED]
do you then get a
Password:
prompt?
If you do, and you enter your linux password, do you then get a prompt
on your linux box? If not, this question is
Mark Paulus wrote:
The statement should read:
PATH=%PATH%:/usr/X11R6/bin
Note the trailing % on PATH. That is a Windowism.
On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 12:33:23 -0400 (EDT), PoWah Wong wrote:
I want to setup my PATH variable by following the
instructions of Chapter 4. Using Cygwin/X, section
Mark Paulus wrote:
The statement should read:
PATH=%PATH%:/usr/X11R6/bin
Note the trailing % on PATH. That is a Windowism.
yep -- that's a typo --
$ PATH=%PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin
should be
$ PATH=$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin
reid
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Johan Grönqvist wrote:
I get exactly the same error message when I try to start X while already
having X running. My guess is therefore that you have already started x
successfully, but you do not know it. Try starting xterm instead and see
if it works.
You may have to set a DISPLAY variable
John Ormerod wrote:
Hello
I've been struggling all day in what is a new world for me. I
need to have GUI access to a Linux system that runs in a
did you comment out this line from your .bat file?
If you did, uncomment it.
run xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l
...snip
REM Startup the X Server
Try the following.
Open a cygwin bash shell, using cygwin.bat.
make sure that X is not running,,,
$ ps -ef | grep X
should not list Xwin
from the command line call
$ startxwin.sh
what does this result in?
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John Ormerod wrote:
you have to give permissions for remotes hosts to open apps on your
server.
in a cygwin bash prompt enter
$ xhost +
note that this will give 'everyone' permissions to open a window on your
server.
you could do
$ xhost ip-addr-of-machine-you-want-to-allow-to-open-apps
or
Soong, SylokeJ wrote:
When I first downloaded and installed cygwin
my ulterior motive was - if there are free
complex stuffs like FTP servers, J2EE servers,
Java IDEs, etc, there must be a free piece of
software for X/Win on Windows. My ulterior
was, where I would prove to those charging an
dorth wrote:
hi all,
how to resolve this error, please advise, thank you
bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!
bash-2.05b$
creating /tmp should resolve it.
mkdir /tmp
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Herbert Eppel wrote:
On 28.09.2005 13:43 UK Time, Soong, SylokeJ wrote:
I am already doing that (-clipboard), among others:
run XWin -screen 0 1750 1350 -multiplemonitors -emulate3buttons
-scrollbars -clipboard -silent-dup-error
Thanks, but would you mind elaborating a little?
As I
Reid Thompson wrote:
Herbert Eppel wrote:
On 28.09.2005 13:43 UK Time, Soong, SylokeJ wrote:
I am already doing that (-clipboard), among others:
run XWin -screen 0 1750 1350 -multiplemonitors -emulate3buttons
-scrollbars -clipboard -silent-dup-error
Thanks, but would you mind elaborating
Herbert Eppel wrote:
On 28.09.2005 16:48 UK Time, Reid Thompson wrote:
Herbert Eppel wrote:
Can the cygwin X server be prevented from placing an icon in the
Windows system tray?
Thank you.
highlight with left mouse button, paste with middlebutton/scrollwheel
Highlight what
- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Herbert Eppel
Sent: Wed,
September 28, 2005 12:08 PM
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Basic question 3 - system tray icon
On 28.09.2005 16:48 UK Time, Reid Thompson wrote:
Herbert Eppel wrote:
Can the cygwin X server be prevented from placing an icon
Herbert Eppel wrote:
On 28.09.2005 17:45 UK Time, Reid Thompson wrote:
highlight with left mouse button, paste with
middlebutton/scrollwheel
Highlight what?
Are we talking about the same thing, or are you referring to my
Basic question 2???
sorry -- meant to post that to the copy
Herbert Eppel wrote:
On 28.09.2005 18:04 UK Time, Soong, SylokeJ wrote:
With the clipboard enabled, do you know how to highlight, copy
paste
Nice subject line - I'm not really sure why I started this Basic
Question no. nonsense - it was bound to lead to confusion, sorry!
between win/xp
Shah Sharif wrote:
Hi,
I was trying to run X server after my I have intalled
the cygwin.
I have chosen to install 'all' the packages.
In order to run the X server I have typed in the
following command:
/usr/X11R6/bin/startx
use /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh
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Andy Little wrote:
Hi to the Folks at Cygwin-X,
I am trying to get XWindows running on my WinXP box
using Cygwin. I am
hoping to write some C++ applications using it.
I am however totally confused by what to do after
building the XWindows
sources.
1) Should I copy the
Jack Tanner wrote:
startxwin.bat invokes xterm with the -ms red switch, which sets the
(mouse) pointer color to red. Is it possible to specify the
same value
using a resource in .Xdefaults?
$ xterm -version
Cygwin 6.8.2.0(202)
Rxvt.cursorColor:red
xterm.cursorColor:red
or
Charles Li wrote:
Hi,
I would like to install dillo browser on cygwinx. Is
there a document one of you can point me to? Or a
general page for installing softwares on cygwinX.
On the download site, it has:
Debian, GNU-Darwin, Slackware and RPMs
Which one should I use?
Thanks.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am receiving the following errors when I attempt to access Cygwin.
(Embedded image moved to file: pic13966.jpg)
Tom Sherman
CTC Communications
NOC Tech
781-522-8752
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
NOTICE OF
Alec stewart wrote:
Hello All,
I have installed g++ for Windows on my System and was trying to build
a project on the same. It is like this that when I disable the GUI
portion from my project my project builds very fine and executable
works fine also but when I want to enable the GUI portion
Charles Li wrote:
Can someone recommend a decent, and easy to build, web
browser for cgywinX?
Thanks.
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Afro_PL wrote:
Hello there.
I have little problem when in XTerm i write xinit:
A fatal error has ocurred and Cygwin/X will now exit.
Please open /tmp/Xwin.log for more information.
Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
Release: 6.8.2.0-4
Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
XWin was started with the
Doug Bohl wrote:
After much turmoil, I've managed to get a number of window managers
running in Cygwin/X. What I'm wondering is this: Is it at all
possible to allow my windows programs to be managed by my Cygwin/X
window manager? Presently, if I'm in -fullscreen mode and I'm running
some X
X windows had been stable for quite a while for me( in continuous use,
days, sometimes weeks at at time). Over the past couple of weeks it's
begun crashing fairly regularly. The XWin.log has these final
statements in it:
winClipboardProc - Call to select () failed: -1. Bailing.
Simon Keen wrote:
I am trying to run remote clients on an X server using telnet, but am
encountering an error. My setup is as follows:
- runnning X server on Cygwin_NT-5.1 on a windows XP Professional
laptop. I initiate this by running the default startxwin.bat from the
directory
David wrote:
Hi,
I have XWin 6.8.2.0-4 and am running on Windows2000
professional, starting it like this:
XWin -multiplemonitors -clipboard -rootless -screen ...
And, I am runing fvwm2 as the window manager, and a couple
of xterms in it.
So, I left mouse click to highlight some text, and
Soong, SylokeJ wrote:
I have not done this with cygwin-x before,
but I do it with my sun solaris.
Create .Xdefaults at home directory if does not already exists.
google or man xterm should tell you more.
Enter/append lines similar to these:
xterm*scrollBar: true
xterm*saveLines: 4000
VEGH, Janos wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to use your Win32 X server.
The first step was perfect, I accepted all the default settings,
I proceeded as shown in the step-by step tutorial.
I successfully installed it, I have the bash (DOS) box.
Even I can make a limited use of it, like
[EMAIL
On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 03:45 -0400, -Patrick wrote:
This may seem trivial to some, but at least to me it affects
productivity. I would like to know how I can change the background-color
of the X- bash shell. So when I do 'startx' at the cygwin shell, I get
the X terminal, which leads to
On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 20:18 +0100, Simon Crombie wrote:
Thanks for the information about changing the defaults for X-term windows.
How can I amend this to get scroll bars to appear? And can you set the
default window size there as well?
Grateful for any advice.
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Charles Wilson wrote:
Sigh. cygwin's rxvt is not broken. It works for me, and about 2000
others.
+1 --I have been using cygwin rxvt for several years (Xwin and Win) --
has fulfilled every terminal need that I have.
kudos to the 'maintainer'??.
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On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 10:50 -0400, Duane Ellis wrote:
Hello,
I've got cygwin working well via SSH to single host, single window.
I connect via SSH, and run startkde - I get the KDE desktop in one
single window. Works great!
How do I connect to a second machine at the same time.
See
sorry, -sr is rxvt try
$ xterm -sb -ls -sr -rightbar 1000 -bg CornflowerBlue -fg LemonChiffon
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$ xterm -sb -ls -rightbar -sl 1000 -bg CornflowerBlue -fg LemonChiffon
What does that give you?
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how bout -fn 12x24
On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 13:26 -0500, Cole Radcliffe wrote:
I tried to change the font size with the option -fs after the xterm
command however xterm did not recognize that option even though it
appeared in man xterm. I am guessing that it was just not compiled
into the
run xlsfonts and pick one
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Cole Radcliffe wrote:
OK. I think it was not working because I was just appending options to
-e /usr/bin/bash -l in the startx batch file which for
some reason does not work for any option I append (the shell just dies
quickly).
One interesting thing I found is that if I replace the %RUN%
Cole Radcliffe wrote:
Thanks for the help with the font size. Now why does why does %RUN%
XWin -silent-dup-error -scrollbars give me a terminal with no scroll
bars?
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On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 00:22 -0500, Cole Radcliffe wrote:
%RUN% xterm -fn 10x20 -scrollbar -e /usr/bin/bash -l does not work for me
I also tried it with -scrollBar
That's because -scrollbar is not a valid command line parameter tor
xterm.
%RUN% xterm -fn 10x20 -sb -sl 2500 -e /usr/bin/bash
Reid Thompson wrote:
Cole Radcliffe wrote:
What are the XWin server options you are using with that Reid? Mine
which are %RUN% XWin -clipboard -silent-dup-error -multiwindow give
some weird object that looks like a scrollbar on the side but it does
not allow you to scroll
my options
Cole Radcliffe wrote:
What are the XWin server options you are using with that Reid? Mine
which are %RUN% XWin -clipboard -silent-dup-error -multiwindow give
some weird object that looks like a scrollbar on the side but it does
not allow you to scroll
my options are the same - XWin
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 09:42 -0500, jose isaias cabrera wrote:
Holger Krull escribio,
jose isaias cabrera schrieb:
Greetings.
I am trying to connect to a Gentoo X Server and it is connecting, but I
don't seem to be able to open an xterm. All I get is a full screen
without
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 09:38 -0500, jose isaias cabrera wrote:
Hi,
DISPLAY on the Linux box must be set to the IP address of the cygwin box.
H...
But DISPLAY on the cygwin box must be set to either localhost or the IP
address of this machine.
Ok, this one was set to d-tuxedo,
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 12:23 -0700, Siegfried Heintze (Aditi) wrote:
When I run startx it creates an xterm for me. But this xterm does not have a
scroll bar. I like to create xterms with -sl 3000 -sb so I get lots of
history. How can I make startx create an xterm with these options?
Thanks,
On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 11:34 -0500, Nick Deubert wrote:
Hey everyone,
First off thanks for your hard work on cygwin/X it is very
appreciated. I upgraded to the new Xorg last week and I have had one
you didn't mention whether you'd ran setup.exe and re-installed vim --
perhaps one, or more, of
On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 11:49 -0700, Mike Ayers wrote:
From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-
ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Joel Gwynn
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 8:27 AM
And now, sporadically, when I run startxwin.sh, sometimes it works, ie
opens up the
Joel Gwynn wrote:
Ha! That seems to do it. Although I also have to wait a bit between
closing the xwin window and restarting, but that's not so bad. I
guess there's some process that takes awhile to exit.
possibly having to wait for the X server socket to completely free up between
between
Timares, Brian (Patriot) wrote:
On Friday, November 13, 2009 Csaba Raduly wrote:
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Olivia Cheronet wrote:
I have recently started to work with Cygwin/X.
Until now, I have been starting Cygwin/X by using startxwin.bat in
the
Cygwin bash shell. Everything seemed
baseball07 wrote:
Thank you for the suggestion. Could you please type out the syntax. I'm a
newbie to Linux code. Thank you very much.
ssh -Y usern...@host
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wgw...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Hi:
I sent this post earlier this week and have not received any replies.
If this is the wrong place to post this,
please let me know where I should.
Thanks
Hi All:
This is my first post here. I've never had a
WALLACE, ANDREW F (ATTLABS) wrote:
Dear Cygwin/x developers,
I have a laptop with 2 GB of RAM running Window XP Professional Version
2002. Do I need more RAM for Cygwin/x to work effectively?
No. i've ran X with 512, 768, and 1000MB fine.
I wasn't attempting to run Gnome or KDE desktops,
Try this:
Copy the shortcut as mentioned earlier in the email trail.
set the Target to be:
C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startx --
/usr/bin/Xwin.exe
Note the double quotes around the last argument. Without them, Xwin.exe doesn't start on my box. startx also
would
On 2/24/2010 9:54 PM, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
Apparently I'm missing some components...
$ openbox-session
which: no hsetroot in [PATH content deleted]
which: no esetroot in [PATH content deleted]
xsetroot: unable to open display 'KWOLCOTT-T61:0.0'
which: no gnome-settings-daemon in [PATH
twm
I would assume (yea, I'm sticking my neck out) I could comment out twm and
substitute another WM. Doing so works with WindowMaker. It doesn't with
OpenBox.
Reid Thompson suggested doing something similar here:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2010-02/msg00149.html
What am I doing
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 12:32 -0800, Joseph Ess wrote:
From: Yaakov (Cygwin/X) yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net
Openbox is just a WM. It does not provide a panel, pager, or other
desktop components.
Maybe I'm thinking of BlackBox, since it has a toolbar.
Thanks,
Joe
these
On 2/26/2010 6:40 PM, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
Hi;
Now, if it isn't asking too much, I'd like to use KDE as my Window
Manager and I'd like some KDE-based utilities, like konsole and karm
(? the task/time manager).
I don't see a great deal of visible difference between twm and
openbox, but
On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 10:54 +0100, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
Hi,
I have plenty of shells installed (bash, ash, dash), and they work ok
in MinTTY. I'm afraid I'm missing some simple but important setting
somewhere. Any ideas?
what happens when you call xterm from the mintty command line?
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On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 04:59:11PM -0400, matias kaukonen wrote:
1. Could someone pls post instructions about how to reply to an existing post.
2. I have a font I'd like to use and its located at
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF with
administrator permissions.
3. How can I make this font the
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:33:14AM -0400, Reid Thompson wrote:
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 04:59:11PM -0400, matias kaukonen wrote:
1. Could someone pls post instructions about how to reply to an existing
post.
a starting point would be to google
mailing list netiquette
some pointers
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:00:21PM -0400, matias kaukonen wrote:
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