Re: rxvt window size change not detected

2008-03-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, xerces8 wrote: Hi! Found this problem: - start bash in rxvt (C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -sl 5000 -fn 20 -bg black -fg white -sr -e bash --login -i) - less /etc/passwd - maximize the rxvt window - quit less (key "q") - type a long command line in bash expected behavior : - wo

Re: Problem with arrow keys in x-based applications on cygwin

2008-01-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Per Thorlacius wrote: Hi Im running the newest version of Cygwin on Win 2k Pro. In the Cygwin standard shell my left and right arrow keys work fine. However, if I start an xterm or any other x-based application from the cygwin standard shell, the left and right arrow keys a

Re: xmessage color

2007-12-14 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Tom Bruning wrote: I am a newbie using cygwin/x. I have tried to find an answer in all documentation I can find but to no avail I am trying to send a message through xmessage that includes color escape sequences. I can display color in a normal xterm window but in xmessag

Re: xterm 6.8.99 - no unicode support

2007-12-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, Derek Martin wrote: It appears that the latest xterm (6.8.99) is built without Unicode ^ cygwin package ^^ (xorg version is unrelated to xterm)

Re: Unicode/widechar xterm

2007-11-06 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Brian Dessent wrote: Robert Uhl wrote: Recent builds of xterm don't have --with-wide-chars (or whatever) enabled. Any good reason why not? Connecting to a Unicode terminal with a non-unicode xterm has...interesting...results. Cygwin/newlib only supports the C locale, so

Re: Unicode/widechar xterm

2007-11-06 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Robert Uhl wrote: Recent builds of xterm don't have --with-wide-chars (or whatever) enabled. Any good reason why not? Connecting to a Unicode terminal with a non-unicode xterm has...interesting...results. cygwin doesn't afaik have "recent" builds of xterm. See ht

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

2007-10-22 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Paul McFerrin wrote: Under cygwin, I installed *ALL* of the xorg-x11-* packages but I am still missing the X(7) man page. Where can I find one? With xterm, the middle mouse button is essentailly a soft-scroll in that the scroll bars moves with the mouse pointer. I would

Re: What is xargs?

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

Re: scroll

2007-09-07 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Reid Thompson wrote: you may prefer rxvt over xterm the options are pretty much the same Some of the options are (for scrolling - yes). Font-switching is different for instance. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- Unsubscribe

Re: font and screen size

2007-09-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, 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 cygwin version of xterm. Is there any o

Re: xterm(229-1) does not accept "-u8"

2007-08-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, neomjp wrote: I understand that cygwin has limited support for locale, but even so, many small utilities in cygwin packages can work with UTF-8, such as sed, awk, perl, ruby, grep, cat, head, tail, less(with LESSCHARSET="utf-8") and so on. These are the things used v

Re: xterm(229-1) does not accept "-u8"

2007-08-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, neomjp wrote: Similar problem was reported before for xterm-185-2, and the cause was that --enable-wide-chars was not used at the configuration step. (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-03/msg00616.html) I wonder if it is also the case this time. yes (but even

Re: Cygwin X server 'reset' command

2007-08-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: Hello, I am using the Xterm that ships with Cygwin. I forget ("xterm -v" would show the patch level), but Cygwin's got a moderately old xterm. See http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html for details on xterm's version

Re: line drawing characters in vt100 xterm

2007-05-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 29 May 2007, J. David Boyd wrote: Howdy Sometime, I can connect to a customer system, and the vt100 terminal does a great job of drawing lines. Other time, I get + and - and | characters instead. A clue please? Where do I start troubleshooting this? start with the $TERM environme

Re: Logging xterm contents to a file.

2007-05-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Mansoorali Kudsi wrote: Well, to confirm, I didn't want to print contents of a single screen but everything which comes to the screen once I start the "log to file"... I hope recompiling xterm with --enable-logging would resolve this issue... if it doesn't, I get to fix it

Re: Logging xterm contents to a file.

2007-05-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Holger Krull wrote: Holger Krull schrieb: Mansoorali Kudsi schrieb: Is it possible to save the entire contents of a xterm window into a file? (using anything other than "script") Maybe doing a screen -L in xterm will do what you want. It will create a file called screenl

Re: Logging xterm contents to a file.

2007-05-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Gary Johnson wrote: On 2007-05-08, Mansoorali Kudsi wrote: Hi, Really dumb question. but hope somebody replies to this one? Is it possible to save the entire contents of a xterm window into a file? (using anything other than "script") e.g. for a putty window, we have

Re: Logging xterm contents to a file.

2007-05-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Mansoorali Kudsi wrote: Is it possible to save the entire contents of a xterm window into a file? (using anything other than "script") e.g. for a putty window, we have an option of logging all the contents of the putty window into a file just by doing a right click and givin

Re: Xterm, rxvt, mrxvt, etc....

2007-05-07 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 7 May 2007, Gustavo Seabra wrote: Hi all, Thanks a lot to Thomas Dickey, Thorsten Kampe and Charles Wilson for taking time to answer my question. I'm very sorry if it lead to some argument, that has never been my intent. All I wanted to know was something like a side-by-side p

Re: Xterm, rxvt, mrxvt, etc....

2007-05-06 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 6 May 2007, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Thomas Dickey (Sun, 6 May 2007 13:36:31 -0400 (EDT)) On Sun, 6 May 2007, Thorsten Kampe wrote: You are confusing things. Quoting you: '"support" is relative. There's apparently no X maintainer [...]'. If you don't

Re: Xterm, rxvt, mrxvt, etc....

2007-05-06 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 6 May 2007, Thorsten Kampe wrote: You are confusing things. Quoting you: '"support" is relative. There's apparently no X maintainer [...]'. If you don't 'care for the role of "cygwin maintainer"' then that's obviously nonsense as X is maintained upstream. not at all: X upstream doesn't

Re: Xterm, rxvt, mrxvt, etc....

2007-05-06 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 6 May 2007, Charles Wilson wrote: Thomas Dickey wrote: On Sat, 5 May 2007, Charles Wilson wrote: The fact is, rxvt upstream is dead, dead, dead. It has shuffled off this mortal coil. Joined the choir invisible. It is an EX-terminal. The terminal is terminal. thanks for agreeing

Re: Xterm, rxvt, mrxvt, etc....

2007-05-06 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 5 May 2007, Charles Wilson wrote: The fact is, rxvt upstream is dead, dead, dead. It has shuffled off this mortal coil. Joined the choir invisible. It is an EX-terminal. The terminal is terminal. thanks for agreeing with me. It has no maintainer. Frankly, I prefer rxvt-unicode on

Re: Xterm, rxvt, mrxvt, etc....

2007-05-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 5 May 2007, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Thomas Dickey (Sat, 5 May 2007 10:12:18 -0400 (EDT)) On Sat, 5 May 2007, Gustavo Seabra wrote: I just wonder what is the current status of terminals for X in Cygwin. I currently use xterm, but I've seen people using rxvt and mrxvt. Also, I

Re: Xterm, rxvt, mrxvt, etc....

2007-05-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 5 May 2007, Gustavo Seabra wrote: Hi all, I just wonder what is the current status of terminals for X in Cygwin. I currently use xterm, but I've seen people using rxvt and mrxvt. Also, I heard that rxvt is actually currently supported in Cygwin, something that xterm apparently isn't.

Re: Stand-alone console-application with cygwin

2007-02-18 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, pez wrote: I have recently switched my development-tool from VisualStudio to Eclipse using cygwin as C++ environment. Everything works fine on my PC, where I have installed cygwin, but on my customers computer I get the Errormessage "Terminal not found: cygwin" when I try t

Re: Question about the license.

2007-02-14 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Alan James Caruana wrote: Hi, I was wondering as to which license applies to the software I downloaded. I got the source code I am using from Xorg. More specifically, I downloaded the xorg-server package from the release site of Xorg. I know that Cygwin and Cygwin/X are

Re: xterm with Log to File feature?

2006-11-15 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Gary Johnson wrote: I was wondering if there was a way to enable xterm's Log to File feature with Cygwin's xterm. I've read the previous thread on this topic, "need xterm to log to a file", http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-12/msg00083.html, including Thomas Dickey

RE: "huge" font as default?

2006-10-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Crider, Joseph A wrote: You can change the starting font by adding it to the file ~/.Xresources. I use the line XTerm.*.font: 9x15 to get the appearance I want (I think this is the same as the Large font). Use the command xlsfonts to get a complete list of available

Re: Background-color of bash

2006-10-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, -Patrick wrote: As far as the resource file, that would be ideal for setting default values? Please oblige as to where it's located...? something like (am not where I can check) /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults or /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults The files for xt

Re: Background-color of bash

2006-10-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, -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 programs like ddd, emac

Re: gcc output from remote machine shows up strange on cygwin xterm

2006-10-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Brian Dessent wrote: The solution is simple: Use a terminal that supports unicode. Well, then he wouldn't be using cygwin, right? xterm could if cygwin could - but the last I read, cygwin handled only a handful of 8-bit locales. (Using putty doesn't count, and having

Re: gcc output from remote machine shows up strange on cygwin xterm

2006-10-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Russ Lewis wrote: I ssh from my local Cygwin installation to a remote Linux box (Fedora Core 5 on AMD64). When I run gcc on the remote machine, certain parts of various error messages show up strangely; things between single quotes show up as the character â. However, wh

Re: Problem with xterm menu displaying too small

2006-09-28 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Kris Thielemans wrote: Hi On one of the PCs that I use, I have a problem that the menu that xterm displays if you control-click (left,middle or right), e.g. to change the font-size, is too small. It shows only 2 lines, and not all characters. http://invisible-island.net/x

Re: WinXP Taskbar Overlaps Maximized xterm

2006-09-28 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Tim Daneliuk wrote: Thomas Dickey wrote: On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote: There's a similar issue with KDE and xterm on RHEL 3. So it could also be "is" doesn't appear to be the right tense, since RHEL 3 was released a few year

Re: WinXP Taskbar Overlaps Maximized xterm

2006-09-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote: There's a similar issue with KDE and xterm on RHEL 3. So it could also be "is" doesn't appear to be the right tense, since RHEL 3 was released a few years ago and is not the current version. iirc, cygwin's still distributing xterm patch #202,

Re: howto stop the beep in cygwin ??

2006-07-04 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Ed Bech wrote: XTerm*VT100.visualBell: true Great, thx again a lot. XTerm*VT100.reverseVideo: true Just a litle PB with the reverseVideo Mode, which became white when you move another xterm above it, kind of bug with redrawing of the background color. Such bug disappear

Re: howto stop the beep in cygwin ??

2006-07-03 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Ed Bech wrote: Thomas Dickey his.com> writes: xterm's visibleBell resource (which is toggleable via the control/left/mouse menu) does that. thanks a lot Thomas, I am now secured from beeing banned of my desk :) It is contol/middle click mouse/ with my cygwi

Re: Keycodes and rxvt-unicode

2006-07-03 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: rxvt (and derived things such as Eterm, aterm, wterm, urxvt) use a different escape sequence for modifiers with function-keys. Is it possible to determine what these escape sequences are? I assume once they are determined I should add them to my .inp

Re: Keycodes and rxvt-unicode

2006-07-03 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: I'm having a bit of a problem with urxvt and key-codes with vim. I have key-map setup such that Control-PageUp / PageDown switch between buffers (bp / bn). This key-mapping works fine under and xterm, but just rings the system bell under urxvt. The o

Re: howto stop the beep in cygwin ??

2006-06-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Edouard BECHETOILLE wrote: Hi, xset b off does not work in cygwin xterm. How to stop this noise ? I really need your help. (I'll be kicked out soon by my co-desk fellow) xterm's visibleBell resource (which is toggleable via the control/left/mouse menu) does that. -- Tho

Re: Problem with -multiwindow and -clipboard when using -nolisten tcp

2006-05-18 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 17 May 2006, Brian Dessent wrote: Brian Dessent wrote: Additionally, you are violating the GPL because you offer binaries with Er, sorry... X11 isn't GPL, my fault. I fired off without thinking... like I said, it's a pretty common occurance. otoh, some people on this list choose t

Re: Cygwin/Xterm scroll while selecting text

2006-05-07 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 7 May 2006, Doug Bohl wrote: Yeah, Thomas is right. I personally don't like the scrollbars, I just use the scrollwheel on my mouse to scroll up and down text in xterm. So my method for selecting a large amount of text is: - scroll to location of beginning text - right click once on e

Re: Cygwin/Xterm scroll while selecting text

2006-05-04 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 4 May 2006, Bill Shaffer wrote: Hello All: I am sorry if this is a repeat question - I've searched for a while and haven't found anthing. is there a way to get xterm to scroll up or down while selecting text, when the cursor hits the top/bottom of the window? Currently I am limited

RE: (n00b question) How does one activate the scrollbar in an xterm?

2006-04-06 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Soong, SylokeJ wrote: I'm thinking that both .Xdefaults and xterm do not depend on the window mgr, so that .Xdefaults entries as well as xterm cmd options should function similarly on any x window mgr - at least when specifically about the xterm scroll history. Is its scrol

Re: xclipboard

2006-04-06 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, 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 highli

Re: App titles in xterms appearing in wrong windows

2006-03-16 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Brent Eagles wrote: Hi, I must be doing something obviously wrong, but I am having trouble with titles for programs running under X. The title changes do not appear on some applications use the cygwin-specific call to write the title-string, rather than use xterm's escape

Re: windows XP : cygwin -X server not opening

2006-03-15 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Alexander wrote: Ok. He should check if he did install the recomended configuration within the Windows setup: For all Users. if yes he should start the Shared memory Service that is where the SHM-MIT is comming from and probably also the mutex pthread. For this he can rtf

Re: xterm -x 'foo; bar; baz' problem

2006-01-06 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Sam Steingold wrote: On linux, $ xterm -e 'foo; bar; baz' starts xterm, then runs shell, executing foo, then bar, then baz. on cygwin, I get an error in the xterm "No absolute path for shell: foo; bar; baz" That's a bug in xterm patch #202 which is fixed in patch #203. The

Re: "No absolute path for shell:" error

2005-11-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Douglas Spearot wrote: Thank you for the response Thomas. I downloaded the source from the website that you listed below. When I try to run the 'configure' file that you created to build XTERM, I get a number of error messages (all of which say the same thing): "The proc

Re: "No absolute path for shell:" error

2005-11-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Douglas Spearot wrote: Following that post, I typed xterm -v to find out what patch I was using: $ xterm -v Cygwin 6.8.2.0(202) I'll assume that this means that I am using patch 202. I re-installed the yes (the other text is whatever the imake configuration claimed at t

Re: rxvt fonts size setting problem for X/Cygwin

2005-11-22 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, faif cn wrote: I use rxvt in cygwin in dos shell without X. Font size is set on ".Xdefaults" as "Rxvt*font: Lucida Console-14" ... I don't know of an easy way to dispatch to a font name based on whether you're running X or nat

Re: xterm scrollbar

2005-11-14 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Rácz Miklós wrote: hi I use XTerm*scrollBar: on in my .Xdefaults file. The scroll bar is on the left side. Does anyone know how to put it to the right side ? xterm -rightbar -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: port existing x windows application to win32

2005-11-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Eliah Kagan wrote: For the record (especially since issues of attributed accuracy are being raised later in the thread) I did not write the following: hmm - go back and count the ">" marks (I didn't misquote anything, as your text illustrates well enough ;-) -- Thomas E.

Re: port existing x windows application to win32

2005-11-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: Thomas Dickey wrote: The X library source is not GPL. Likewise ncurses. Stating that it is "effectively" GPL is at best misleading, since it is possible for someone to take the same source to a different place and use it without cygwin.

Re: port existing x windows application to win32

2005-11-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I'm really wondering what you're up to. Michel's choice of words might You shouldn't have to wonder if you read my response rather than cut/paste from a boilerplate response regarding the cygwin dll. The X library source is not GPL. Likewise ncur

Re: port existing x windows application to win32

2005-11-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Michel Bardiaux wrote: So, I was right (rather than 'disregardable'). And that's from the horse's mouth, so to speak. Which brings back my query: is there a free but not GPL version of the X client libraries for Win32? rofl I have a better suggestion: since you don't und

Re: port existing x windows application to win32

2005-11-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Michel Bardiaux wrote: Thomas Dickey wrote: I assume you refer to the cygwin FAQ: I'm aware of it. Looks like you read this, but still don't understand it. (Perhaps you should discuss this on the regular cygwin mailing list). But I am not sure it can be ap

Re: port existing x windows application to win32

2005-11-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Michel Bardiaux wrote: Thomas Dickey wrote: On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Michel Bardiaux wrote: Eliah Kagan wrote: There is of course a cygwin port of the X11 *client* libraries, but what if you cant put your app under GPL? Is there a pure mingw port of the X11 client lib

Re: port existing x windows application to win32

2005-11-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Michel Bardiaux wrote: Eliah Kagan wrote: There is of course a cygwin port of the X11 *client* libraries, but what if you cant put your app under GPL? Is there a pure mingw port of the X11 client lib? The X11 client libraries aren't GPL. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invis

Re: web browser for cgywin

2005-10-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 23 Oct 2005, Eliah Kagan wrote: On 10/23/05, Reid Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Charles Li wrote: Can someone recommend a decent, and easy to build, web browser for cgywinX? Or, if you're willing to expend a bit more effort, you could compile Firefox against cygwin.dll (this

Re: xterm pointer color

2005-10-17 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Jack Tanner wrote: Thomas Dickey, if you happen to catch this thread, please consider changing the manpage for xterm so that the -ms switch refers to the pointerColor resource. ok -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net

Re: Page Up and Page Down

2005-09-17 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, Mike Hicks wrote: [whoops, forgot to CC: this to the list] On 9/16/05, Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Mike Hicks wrote: On my Linux box at home, I believe xterm always produces ^[[5~ and ^[[6~ It sounds like your Linux system is r

RE: Page Up and Page Down

2005-09-16 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Reid Thompson wrote: if nothing else, remap the sequences in your .[g]vimrc file(s). that's a backwards solution (but as a last resort ;-) Also, use setup to download rxvt and see if that provides you a better 'terminal' no - just to refresh my memory I ran it just no

Re: Page Up and Page Down

2005-09-16 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Mike Hicks wrote: Hi. I have what appears to be a plain US 104-key keyboard manufactured by/for Compaq. Using xterm, when I press the Pg Up key on the number keypad, I get the character sequence ^[[5~ and I get ^[[6~ for Pg Dn (^[ is actually a single character, escape).

Re: Running Commands with xterm -e

2005-08-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Paul Atzberger wrote: When using xterm to run a command such as: xterm -hold -e "man ls" cygwin reports the error message: no absolute path found for shell : man ls However, if the command is run with: xterm -hold -e man ls everything appears to work fine. That s

RE: cygwin-xfree Digest - How do I change colours in Xterm etc.

2005-06-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Baksik, Frederick (NM75) wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 1:23 PM To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin-xfree Digest - How do I change colours in

Re: Cygwin dtterm

2005-06-15 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Thontesh Renukarya wrote: Hi, I need "dtterm" for Cygwin to run test cases. Can I know is it available? If available please let me know the location for downloading the dtterm setup. I don't believe it is available. xterm should work. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible

Re: TrueType problem + question

2005-06-07 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Alexander Gottwald wrote: Other programs (like xterm, gvim and other gtk2 based programs) use client side fonts which are named with the true font name. In xterm: xterm -fn

Re: TrueType problem + question

2005-06-07 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Alexander Gottwald wrote: Other programs (like xterm, gvim and other gtk2 based programs) use client side fonts which are named with the true font name. In xterm: xterm -fn -microsoft-tahoma-bold-r-normal--24-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 xterm -fa "Tahoma 24" -fs 24

Re: Bold Double Strike vs. Bold different color

2005-05-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 7 May 2005, jose isaias cabrera wrote: Thank you Thomas! Sometimes, well, you try too hard. I have been through these and kept trying different settings. I appreciate your help, folks! yes - I run into that problem (thinking I've tried all of the combinations). Thanks. no problem -- Th

Re: Bold Double Strike vs. Bold different color

2005-05-07 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 07:43:59PM -0400, jose isaias cabrera wrote: > > > Here is my XWin call from startxwin.bat: > run XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -emulate3buttons -silent-dup-error > > Here is my xterm call: > > xterm -geometry 80x60 -sl 5000 -bg black -fg grey -fbb -fb font2 -display > 1

Re: good .Xdefaults

2005-05-07 Thread Thomas Dickey
symbolic link, rgb->rgb.txt. showrgb should print a lot of entries if everything is ok. It does. $ showrgb | grep black 0 0 0 black Still, I get Warning: Color name "black" is not defined. Attention Thomas Dickey: By the way, there's a wrap-around error when that mess

Re: Bold Double Strike vs. Bold different color

2005-05-07 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 11:30:00AM -0400, jose isaias cabrera wrote: > > I am running xterm and I would like to use a different color instead of > bold. I have set all the options and I still get bold double strike > instead of a different color. Any ideas where to change this? My cygwin > b

Re: Problems with arrow keys and delete

2005-04-22 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Thomas Dickey wrote: iirc, NumLock would simply prevent the key from being recognized. The description above hints that the application doesn't expect to see the "2" which is sent to denote that the shift-key is p

Re: Problems with arrow keys and delete

2005-04-22 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Mika Lindman wrote: In Cygwin arrow keys and delete work fine, but in Cygwin/X I just get 2A, 2B etc. codes when pressing these keys. When I start X Server ( xwin -indirect ), arrow keys work in "shifted mode", meaning that when I

Re: Problems with arrow keys and delete

2005-04-22 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Mika Lindman wrote: In Cygwin arrow keys and delete work fine, but in Cygwin/X I just get 2A, 2B etc. codes when pressing these keys. When I start X Server ( xwin -indirect ), arrow keys work in "shifted mode", meaning that when I move with arrow keys in app (OOo or whateve

Re: Hungarian keyboard under cygwin-X

2005-01-26 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, [iso-8859-2] Szabó Bence wrote: Hello, I tried to set up hungarian keyboard under cygwin/X in my winXP box. After trying start X server, in xterm window it doesn't work correctly. If I use latin1 font, the 'Odoubleacute' and 'Udou

Re: right click paste in rxvt

2005-01-14 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Akash Jauhar wrote: hi list i have a question for which i have been trying to find an answer for a long time I normally use a windows machine but sometimes need the power of unix and hence have installed cygwin on my machine. when i connect to any linux machine using putty i ca

Re: xterm

2005-01-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Meadows, Marty wrote: I've downloaded cygwin/x to my windows xp platform. In /usr/X11R6/bin I see the following x clients: xhost, xdpyinfo, xclock, xeyes ... but I don't see xterm. Shouldn't I have an xterm? I also don't see a startx or startxwin.bat file anyplace in the cygwin/

Re: New setup.exe snapshot - please test

2004-12-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Max Bowsher wrote: Version 2.457.2.1 - Fix setup keeping open handles to every tarball it installs during a run. (Which appears to have been indirectly responsible for the weird hangs people have been experiencing.) Is there a bugzilla or other tracking tool for setup.exe ?

Re: Cannot Start XFree version 4.4.0

2004-12-22 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Terrence White wrote: I have cygwin installed, and now I am installing XFree 4.4.0. I don't believe you need to run the -configure, since the cygwin X server does not (unlike the Unix server) contain a variety of loadable drivers. XFree86 -configure -- Thomas E. Dickey http://i

Re: X application crush in korean environment. Korean environment is 'LANG=ko'.

2004-12-18 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, KuYa White wrote: I'm a newbie and korean. A few days ago, I installed cygwin and cygwin-xfree package. And then, I changed locale 'LANG=ko' for korean. Simply, I executed xterm. LANG=ko xterm -e vim I executed vim to write a document in xterm. When I tried to type any key in v

Re: I've lost cut and paste - any ideas why?

2004-12-17 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Chris Green wrote: On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 06:57:14AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: I have an impression that Slackware 10 introduced UTF-8 locales. That's the first thing I'd check. How would one check this and, if it's the cause, fix it? If your environment on t

Re: I've lost cut and paste - any ideas why?

2004-12-17 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Chris Green wrote: I have lost the ability to cut and paste between my slackware Linux desktop and the Windows 2000 system on which I'm running Cygwin/X. It used to work until recently and the only thing I can think of that has changed is that I have upgraded the Slackware from

Re: default font size

2004-12-16 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Josef Dalcolmo wrote: Hello, the default font size within the xterm, that comes up on the default installation of Cygwin is tiny. I would generally prefer a larger size. How do I increase the font size? (there is no XF86Config file any more). The default font size for xterm i

Re: need xterm to log to a file

2004-12-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Al Goodman wrote: Thomas Dickey his.com> writes: On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Al Goodman wrote: ... Thanks for the quick reply!! Your fix worked, of course. no problem -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net

Re: need xterm to log to a file

2004-12-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 06:50:11AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: I see it's a (usually minor) error in xterm, which runs into a cygwin bug. The function creat_as() does a fork/wait, assuming that it has to strip off the setuid/setgid privilges. T

Re: need xterm to log to a file

2004-12-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Al Goodman wrote: On unix, xterm has an option that will enable it to log info typed and displayed to be logged to a file. I downloaded the xterm source and compiled it. When I enabled the option via Cntl-mouse-left-click the window hung. Any suggestions on how to log inpu

Re: problem with tty size in xterm

2004-09-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Thomas Wolff wrote: > I recently reported the bug below. > Now I've come across an issue that might be related and maybe this is > an additional hint; it's Debian bug #202497: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=202497 Probably not. What he's trying to d

Re: tcsh left running after closing down X server

2004-09-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > Jason Farrell Shepherd wrote: > > > Hey guys, > > > > I just installed cygwin on my laptop running XP. It seems > > to be running fine, no problems with the install; however, > > I noticed that if I start several xterms running tcsh, and > > then cl

Re: conflict

2004-08-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
; > On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > > > > So, when can we expect the new version out? Once the above issues are > > &g

Re: startx hangs on WinXP, xinit doesn't

2004-08-22 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Ariel Millennium Thornton wrote: > Hello, pv. > > On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 22:29:04 -0700 (PDT) p v wrote: > > [snip] > > > The only difference in the execution of the two is the > > environment so I experimented and finally I commented > > this portion of startx script - > > > > i

Re: fattem xterm mouse cursor?

2004-07-21 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Tim Hubberstey wrote: > --- Lester Ingber wrote: > > I have software that can give me easily recognizable cursors on > > non-cygwin windows. However, on my Thinkpad/XPPro, on xterm windows, > > I > > often have a terrible time finding/seeing the I-beam mouse cursor. I > > di

Re: fattem xterm mouse cursor?

2004-07-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Lester Ingber wrote: > I have software that can give me easily recognizable cursors on > non-cygwin windows. However, on my Thinkpad/XPPro, on xterm windows, I > often have a terrible time finding/seeing the I-beam mouse cursor. I did > not see any option in the xterm manpag

RE: Differnce between Xfree and Xorg

2004-06-22 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Pille Geert (bizvdm) wrote: > Does "lsof" exist for cygwin? He could use that to find what is using > that address. perhaps something like "Process Explorer" (www.sysinternals.com) will show useful information. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisibl

Re: conflict (Was Re: gv)

2004-06-21 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > One quick comment: Cygwin is only case-insensitive unless > check_case:strict is defined in the CYGWIN environment variable. Your > recent changes will cause it to generate some false positives in that > case. Just FYI. ok. I was considering whet

Re: conflict (Was Re: gv)

2004-06-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > So, when can we expect the new version out? Once the above issues are > fixed, I should be able to release the Cygwin package. FWIW, I'll > maintain it if you won't. there's a conflict-20040420.tgz in my ftp directory now. -- Thomas E.

Re: conflict (Was Re: gv)

2004-06-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > shell scripts also are executable (no suffix). > > Yes, but the testcase specifically tries to induce a conflict between the > current conflict executable (i.e., $BIN/conflict.exe) and the newly > created script (i.e., /tmp/conflict). This doesn't

Re: Cygwin/X Installer

2004-06-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > could could also download the whole release directory from the mirror and > then choose install from local directory and specify the directory where you > downloaded the files. He could - but a recent posting to this list indicated that isn't the r

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