Re: using WindowMaker instead of twm

2003-01-30 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Quan Ding (03-01-30 22:53 +0100) > So how do I use windowmaker instead of twm? /usr/X11R6/bin/wmaker.inst /usr/X11R6/bin/wmchlocale de # change this to your locale startx > (or does cygwin come with any other better window manager?) Windowmaker is allright. Thorsten -- Content-Type: text/exp

rxvt-unicode default colors

2007-04-17 Thread Thorsten Kampe
Hi, I started using rxvt-unicode - but unfortunately it has a kind of yellow as the default foreground colour and a kind of ugly aubergine as its background colour. Urxvt reads my .Xdefaults where I set "Rxvt*background: Black" (don't know where the foreground is defined). The standard rxvt di

Re: Problems with Startx even after rebaseall

2007-04-30 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Robert Neville (Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:18:15 -0700) > I am not sure if this is the appropriate group. In addition, searching through > these gmane newsgroups is not straightforward since Google groups does not > return them. > > Startx fails to initialize when it worked yesterday. I ran setup and

Re: Problems with Startx even after rebaseall

2007-05-01 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Robert Neville (Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:45:46 -0700) > On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:47:39 +0100, Thorsten Kampe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >* Robert Neville (Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:18:15 -0700) > >> I am not sure if this is the appropriate group. In addition, searching >

Re: Problems with Startx even after rebaseall

2007-05-02 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Robert Neville (Tue, 01 May 2007 14:09:59 -0700) > On Tue, 1 May 2007 08:55:47 +0100, Thorsten Kampe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >* Robert Neville (Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:45:46 -0700) > >> On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:47:39 +0100, Thorsten Kampe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: Problems with Startx even after rebaseall

2007-05-02 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Robert Neville (Wed, 02 May 2007 12:19:45 -0700) > On Wed, 2 May 2007 09:57:08 +0100, Thorsten Kampe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >* Robert Neville (Tue, 01 May 2007 14:09:59 -0700) > >> On Tue, 1 May 2007 08:55:47 +0100, Thorsten Kampe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: Problems with Startx even after rebaseall

2007-05-05 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Robert Neville (Sat, 05 May 2007 00:10:50 -0700) > On Thu, 3 May 2007 00:22:50 +0100, Thorsten Kampe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> _XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed > >> _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already runn

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

2007-05-05 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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 > > heard > > that rxvt is actually currentl

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

2007-05-06 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Thomas Dickey (Sun, 6 May 2007 10:49:23 -0400 (EDT)) > 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 invis

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

2007-05-06 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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 'care for the role

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

2007-05-08 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Reid Thompson (Tue, 08 May 2007 07:00:45 -0400) > 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

Re: shell properties

2007-08-15 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Cole Radcliffe (Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:13:37 -0500) > when I do a startx, I get a new window shell with properties different > from the one on which I typed startx. The problem is I want to change > the font size on this new window and I do not know how. Also, is it > possibly to directly open x11 w

Alt-Tab and KDE

2007-08-22 Thread Thorsten Kampe
Hi, I'm using Konsole and I've got a problem with Alt-Tab: whenever I cycle from Konsole to other Windows programs and get back to Konsole the left most "Session" menu has the focus (as if I had pressed Tab by itself) and I have to press Escape again to switch the focus to the command line whe

Two issues with Xwin

2007-08-25 Thread Thorsten Kampe
Hi, I have two issues that I've been experiencing for quite a long time: * using a terminal and a shell I often have to enter Enter or Tab twice to get the desired effect. How come? * I regularly "lose" the mouse pointer and I'm unable to the the cursor anymore in applications like Konsole (ei

Re: Two issues with Xwin

2007-08-27 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Larry Hall (Cygwin X) (Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:10:28 -0400) > On 08/25/2007, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > * I regularly "lose" the mouse pointer and I'm unable to the the cursor > > anymore in applications like Konsole (either natively or running as X > > clie

RE: Two issues with Xwin

2007-08-27 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Ronald Fischer (Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:42:20 +0200) > > * using a terminal and a shell I often have to enter Enter or Tab > > twice to get the desired effect. How come? > > Which effect do you desire? (Filename completion, command completion, > ...)? The desired effect for the Enter key would be

RE: RE: Two issues with Xwin

2007-08-27 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Ronald Fischer (Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:57:34 +0200) > This suggest that different dot-files are sourced in the two cases. > When I run bash (in my case) either from cmd or started by XWin, I > also have differences in which dot-files are sourced, so this is the > first place you might want to look.

RE: RE: RE: Two issues with Xwin

2007-08-29 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Ronald Fischer (Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:20:18 +0200) > > Thorsten wrote: > > I have two issues that I've been experiencing for quite a long time: > > > > * using a terminal and a shell I often have to enter Enter or Tab > > twice to get the desired effect. How come? [...] > At the time the OP had ju

Re: Upgrade woes.

2008-11-23 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Eric Roode (Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:21:37 -0500) > I do check www.cygwin.com before doing (what I think is going to be) a > routine upgrade. If there's nothing in the news there, I assume that > what I'm getting is just an upgrade of existing packages that I > already have installed. Is that such a f