Re: Any move to xorg v7?

2007-02-10 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Brian Dessent wrote: > It's not a matter of porting per se. You can use x.org R7 with Cygwin > right now, through Cygwin Ports. (But that's of course a separate > project so use its mailing list for problems.) The issue is that Cygwin > currently

Re: Compiling XWin (modular Xorg)

2007-12-11 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Janjaap Bos wrote: > The changes I made are all in the patch. Let me know when you have > suggestions, and whether you're able to build it. Perhaps Yaakov is > willing to check it with his findings. Thank you VERY much. I will try to look into this

Re: Still seeking a Cygwin/X maintainer

2008-03-13 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Reini Urban wrote: | You same to have no problem to update it regularly on your site. | | Don't you want to do it to catch up with GNOME and gtk2? I had wanted to ever since modular X117.0, and the client code works beautifully, but as I've mention

Re: Help

2008-04-17 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Igor Peshansky wrote: | On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, dharini sutharsan wrote: | |> Hello Sir |> i want to use XV for my educational work and i couldn understand the |> installation procedure... kindly guide me in installing Xv... |> |> I hav cygwin and can

Re: New Maintainer

2008-06-05 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Charles Wilson wrote: | The only real difference is that the *nixes would provide only the DLL | (so) package 'libxext6' and the -devel package 'libxext-devel'; there's | nothing specific in this case that really needs to go in a "base" | package 'l

Re: Trouble finding dependencies when Building kdelibs

2008-07-02 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote: | You're probably better off emailing Ralf directly. Although he is | subscribed to at least a some of the Cygwin lists, he's not guaranteed | to see this. I don't know how many other people here have tried this | but

Re: Porting a graphics library linking to xwindows and tcl/tk

2008-08-04 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Michael Rogers wrote: | I've posted on this earlier but I think I can ask the question more intelligently now. | I'm trying to port a graphing/plotting package (xgrafix - *not* one I wrote but one that's freely available - google "xoopic") from a ty

Re: External functions in a (to a) DLL?

2008-08-06 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Michael Rogers wrote: | I had been attempting to port a graphing/plotting library developed on *nix/xwindows and using tcl/dk. It came in a standard tarball distribution with config and automake scripts set up for the expected *nix platorms. After w

Re: Can you make a DLL from a library that requires caller-defined functions?

2008-08-07 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTWLL ! Michael Rogers wrote: | Yes, precisely. It has symbols for routines that are declared in a | header file and called in some of the library routines. But they | are actually required to be defined in the call

Re: Can you make a DLL from a library that requires caller-defined functions?

2008-08-07 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Once again, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTWLL ! Michael Rogers wrote: | The problem now that the linker doesn't like the undefined references | for a static library any better then it does for a DLL. I can get | a static library file if I just

Re: X11R7.4 multiwindow ignoring title bars for geometry

2008-11-11 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 David Rothenberger wrote: > I start the X server in multiwindow mode using /bin/startxwin.sh. If I > then type > > xterm -geometry +0+0 > > into the visible XTerm, the new XTerm shows up in the top-left of the > screen, but the title bar is off t

Re: nedit gives X-error of failed request - also issues with (x)emacs

2008-11-12 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Maarten Vanneste wrote: > Thanks for your quick reply and suggestions. The nedit suggestion does > the trick. I notice that the fonts are a bit messed up, as the text > appears very big (much larger than the original setting). > > The keyboard issue

Re: X11R7.4 is broke

2008-11-12 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 bali asur wrote: > Noticing Yahov's e-mail about the new X11 releases, I have > been attempting to follow Yakov's upgrade path instructions. > The instruction seem to imply that the following packages > must be installed. The instructions tell you t

Re: xmkmf problem with latest X11R7.4

2008-11-12 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > When generating the Makefile with xmkmf from latest X11R7.4 > for Xaw3d I get the following lines in the Makefile > > SOXAWREV = SharedXawRev > DEPXAWLIB = > XAWLIB = -lXaw > > and the following with the old release. > >

HEADSUP: cygwin-xfree announcements

2008-11-12 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Please be aware that announcements on cygwin-xfree-announce are not currently being echoed to this list as they were in the past. We are working on automating this, but in the meantime please subscribe to the - -announce list separately if you want

Re: nedit gives X-error of failed request - also issues with (x)emacs

2008-11-12 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jon TURNEY wrote: > Hmm... this looks very much like a log from the old 6.8.99 monolithic server, > rather than 1.5.3 you should have just installed. This is definitely NOT 1.5.3, here's why: > XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization di

Re: Login without password using rsh / rlogin

2008-11-13 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Albert van der Velde wrote: > Could you help me with the next problem I'm facing. I use Cygwin within > our company to automate some tasks on a Windows server. Thefor I > installed inetutils and use rlogind and rshd to login without password. > On Un

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xtrans-1.2.2-2

2008-11-13 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin net distribution: *** xtrans-1.2.2-2 I added a patch to silence the bogus warning "Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root" from the X servers, once they are rebuilt. Yaakov Cygwin/X

Re: startx is failing in X11R7.4

2008-11-13 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 bali asur wrote: > Fatal server error: > Can't read lock file /tmp/.X0-lock Stale lock? Yaakov Cygwin/X -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEAREIAAYFAkkb94

Re: Upgrade broke Openbox

2008-11-13 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTWLL !! Joseph Ess wrote: > The upgrade yesterday did bad things to Openbox. See this screenshot for > reference: > http://w3.gwis.com/~slomojoe/images/openboxscreenshot.jpg Ouch. > Any advice for getting openbox

Re: Packaging library only packages with latest cygport

2008-11-13 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > I'm in the process of packaging Xaw3D. Your latest patch to > xorg-xf-files works by the way. Glad to hear it. > I have a question regarding packaging library only packages like for > example your libXmu package. > > The s

Re: Fwd: Xwindows won't start (Can't read lock file)

2008-11-13 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jon TURNEY wrote: > Sadly, I have no theory about how this could be happening, except perhaps it > could be related to 'unusual' permissions on /tmp which could somehow let you > create but not rename a file (so the output of 'ls -al /tmp' might enli

Re: X server 1.5.3-2 candidate

2008-11-13 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jon TURNEY wrote: > Works for me. > > It doesn't seem to be possible to build Xwin using just the stuff in the > cygwin distro: Kdrive's kxv.c requires headers from videoproto. I guess this > is failing to honour a configure check properly somewher

Re: xman port

2008-11-13 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Eric Lassauge wrote: > Rebuilt xman package because a problem remains for /etc/X11/app-defaults/Xman, > as Windows is not uppercase aware xman.exe gets installed as > etc/X11/app-defaults/Xman.exe instead of Xman-*.ad (you can verify in the > xman-1.

Re: Fwd: Xwindows won't start (Can't read lock file)

2008-11-13 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jon TURNEY wrote: > Ok, my archaeological investigations in this area have revealed that this > locking code probably wasn't enabled in 6.8.99. I don't think it is actually > giving any benefit, since we also have a native named mutex is used in the

Re: X server 1.5.3-2 candidate

2008-11-13 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jon TURNEY wrote: > Actually, this seems to be more complex than I first thought. Running any of > the mesa demo programs works fine locally, but causes a server segfault when I > do it over ssh to a linux box Let me give you some background.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] X11R7.4

2008-11-13 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 (Resending here because it wasn't echoed at the time and obviously a lot of people haven't seen it.) Cygwin/X has been updated to X.Org X11R7.4. WHAT'S NEW IN X11R7.4? == * Each program, library, set of headers, set of fonts,

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xman-1.0.3-3

2008-11-13 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin net distribution: *** xman-1.0.3-3 This release fixes the installation of the app-defaults file and groff formatting handling, and adds man.conf support. Yaakov Cygwin/X DOWNLOAD: =

Re: Fixing problems with new X11

2008-11-13 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jon TURNEY wrote: > Hmm.. thinking about this, perhaps the best thing to do is create a new > shortcut which links to startxwin.bat, so that the end-user at least has some > chance of a discoverable means of launching the server which should work. T

GLX on XWin (was Re: X server 1.5.3-2 candidate)

2008-11-13 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 07:12:42PM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: >> Unfortunately I don't have a linux box to experiment with... :-( > > There's always http://www.virtualbox.org/ if

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xinit-1.1.0-3

2008-11-14 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin net distribution: *** xinit-1.1.0-3 This release adds a Windows Start Menu shortcut to the startxwin script, making it easier to launch XWin and an xterm. Yaakov Cygwin/X DOWNLOAD:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-server-1.5.3-2

2008-11-14 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin net distribution: *** xorg-server-1.5.3-2 These are the changes in this release: * Additional fixes to multiwindow mode: Qt4 program icons display correctly; window geometry take window decora

Re: libXaw8 replacement

2008-11-14 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Ken Brown wrote: > gcc -o xdvi-xaw.exe browser.o dl_list.o dvi-draw.o dvi-init.o dvisel.o > encodings.o events.o exit-handlers.o filehist.o font-open.o gf.o > string_list.o hypertex.o image-magick.o main.o mime.o my-snprintf.o > my-vsnprintf.o pagehi

Re: Warning: No xauth data

2008-11-14 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jon TURNEY wrote: > Hmmm it seems that ssh needs to run xauth to do connection forwarding, but > is still trying to use /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth, rather than /usr/bin/xauth (and > prints a slightly misleading message in this case) > > In which case,

Re: /usr/lib/X11 replaced

2008-11-15 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Ian Puleston wrote: > OK, I've now removed the /usr/lib/X11 link as per the notes and then ran > setup to reinstall everything that I had installed in the x11 section of > setup, plus rxvt. It re-created a /usr/lib/X11 directory containing just > Xcm

Re: XOrg 7.4 issues with -multiwindow

2008-11-16 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTWLL !! Uh Huh wrote: > I think the problem lies with the Windows-style window manager xwinwm? http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree-announce/2008-11/msg0.html Yaakov Cygwin/X -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: XWin Server starting everything offscreen

2008-11-16 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Mark A. Ziesemer wrote: > However, it seems that some part of this (the XWin window manager?) is getting > confused by the multi-monitor window geometry. I have 2 monitors, 1280x1024, > with the primary on the right and the secondary on the left. W

Re: XOrg 7.4 Issue with -multiwindow

2008-11-16 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Uh Huh wrote: > Hmmm, no, actually, I read that several times, and I do see messages > regarding that extension not being there if manually starting xwinwm. > > I don't entirely understand the significance. Then perhaps a refresher on exactly what

Re: xorg-xserver-1.5.3-2: Dialogs that save their positions keep drifting downwards

2008-11-16 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Cesar Strauss wrote: > There is a GTK application (gschem from www.geda.seul.org) that saves > the position of its sub-dialogs when they close, so they reopen at the > same place. > > Up to now, on Cygwin/X, this didn't always work well: in multi-wi

FAQ: X11 forwarding

2008-11-16 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 For all those having issues with untrusted X11 forwarding (IOW ssh -X): 1) First, please (re-)read this: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#remote 2) I can confirm that ssh is hardcoded to look for xauth in /usr/X11R6/bin. The 5.1p1-9

Re: XWin Server starting everything offscreen

2008-11-16 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jon TURNEY wrote: > I was actually thinking the other day about how the bit of code which does > this might be wrong. :S > > I suspect the problem is that when you have the secondary to the left of the > primary, the windows on that monitor have neg

Re: cygwin-x-doc refresh

2008-11-16 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jon TURNEY wrote: > I've finished off a first pass at updating the cygwin-x-doc package I started > some time ago. Updating the text was a bit less traumatic than expected as it > makes good use of entities for things like filenames and paths > > I

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libXi-1.1.4-1

2008-11-16 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin net distribution: *** libXi6-1.1.4-1 *** libXi-devel-1.1.4-1 This is the latest upstream bugfix release. Yaakov Cygwin/X DOWNLOAD: = Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka

Re: GLX on XWin (was Re: X server 1.5.3-2 candidate)

2008-11-16 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: > glxgears worked, albeit *extremely* slowly. Using SSH data compression (with the -C flag) improved this considerably. It still runs ~10% the FPS of a local instance, but it's still responsive. > the

Re: X 7.4 ignores most keyboard input

2008-11-17 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Mike Conley wrote: > Hi. After upgrading my X server, I find that X programs ignore most keyboard > input entirely, with the exception of the numeric keypad. I tried again with > a > fresh install and got the same results. Log file (generated by

Re: XWin Server starting everything offscreen

2008-11-17 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Mark A. Ziesemer wrote: >> I don't have a multihead setup, so I'm unable to test any of this. > > I'm sorry. Do you just not have one, or you don't want one? :-) http://cygwin.com/donations.html :-) Yaakov Cygwin/X -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: Problems with Cygwin/X xterm -- not responding to keyboard

2008-11-17 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Back, Michael wrote: > I'm still having problems with Xdefaults -- can't yet get XTerm to respond to > the following: > > XTerm.VT100.font: -*-bitstream vera sans > mono-medium-*-r-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > XTerm.VT100.boldFont: -*-bits

Re: openbox scrambled after xorg 7.4 update

2008-11-18 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Voelker, Bernhard wrote: > my openbox window manager is not usable anymore: the menues, window > titles etc. are not rendered correctly and can't be read anymore. > > Is openbox supported with the new xorg version? > Any other ideas? http://cygwin.

Re: Connecting to an XServer with XWin

2008-11-18 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Scott Fordin wrote: > Just so you all know, it looks like installing the Xorg-related > packages on my Solaris 10 machine (not difficult using the Sun > Update Manager tool (/bin/updatemanager)) did the trick. No more > X resource crashes on things l

Re: Small update for X server 1.5.3 patch set

2008-11-18 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jon TURNEY wrote: > Please find at the URL below a small update to the xorg server patch > set. Committed; could you please svn up and test? I also changed the log location patch to use a separate log for each display (e.g. XWin.0.log), as is done

Re: X11R7 and rebasing

2008-11-19 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Angelo Graziosi wrote: > I have seen that after the release of X11R7, many problems are partially > resolved by rebasing. Some time ago, I remember that on cigwin-apps list > there was the suggestion that the package maintainer should build their > p

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: nas/libaudio2/libaudio-devel-1.9.1-2

2008-11-19 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The following packages have been added to the Cygwin net release: +++ nas-1.9.1-2 +++ libaudio2-1.9.1-2 +++ libaudio-devel-1.9.1-2 The Network Audio System is a network-transparent, client/server audio system based on X11. Yaakov Cygwin/X DOWNL

Re: Upgrade woes.

2008-11-19 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Back, Michael wrote: > I solved this one by "guessing" and loading the right font pack... > Which font pack contains this one?: > > app-image-san-004:station: Warning: Can't chmod /dev/console > XView warning: Cannot load font set '-*-screen-bold-

Re: X11R7 and rebasing

2008-11-19 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How's that? What, exactly, does libtool have to do with cygwin's fork > emulation code? > > The closest libtool comes to this issue is the fact that it > automatically turns on enable-auto-image-base -- which should help >

Re: Documentation

2008-11-19 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jonathan Johansen wrote: > I've tried installing the Cygwin X11 server to try to be able to run an > X app, but the cygwin installation packages were completely different to > the ones mentioned on the website and in the documentation. I had to > se

XWin requires tty for console log output

2008-11-20 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jon, For some reason which I have yet to investigate, XWin requires a tty to the log to the terminal. That means it will output to terminal in VTs, but will not work in ordinary cmd/bash shells without setting CYGWIN=tty; instead you will see a cmd

Re: Small update for X server 1.5.3 patch set

2008-11-20 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jon TURNEY wrote: > Works for me. > > Note that you don't actually need to the formatting of the log file name > yourself, LogInit() already has code to replace "%s" in the log file name with > the display name. I was aware of that, but it wasn't b

Re: Problem with OpenGL on new X serverl

2008-11-20 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Florent Fievez wrote: > I have a problem running new X server 1.5.3 with openGL. Since this > update, X crash when launching an OpenGL client from SunOS server. > Since the application we are developing use OpenGL, it's a big problem > for me (I have

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libXaw-1.0.5-1

2008-11-20 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin net distribution: *** libXaw6-1.0.5-1 *** libXaw7-1.0.5-1 *** libXaw-devel-1.0.5-1 This is the latest upstream release. Even though all references to the xaw.m4 macro has been removed upstream

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xtrans-1.2.2-3

2008-11-20 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin net distribution: *** xtrans-1.2.2-3 I added a patch to avoid the bogus error "euid != 0, directory /tmp/.X11-unix will not be created" from the X servers, once they are rebuilt. Yaakov Cygwi

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-server-1.5.3-3

2008-11-20 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin net distribution: *** xorg-server-1.5.3-3 These are the changes in this release: * Log changes: - - In addition to the XWin logs now being found in /var/log (as of the last release), now a sep

multiwindow support for _NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_TASKBAR

2008-11-20 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jon, Following up on our discussion about multiwindow not honouring _NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_TASKBAR. The attached patch was what I had in mind but it has no effect. I'm posting this now to at least start the discussion. You may wish to refer to the FD

Re: libXaw3d7 Package Uninstall Hangs

2008-11-20 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 hughgs wrote: > Any ideas on the problem? I was hoping to find the actual commands that > setup.exe uses during updates to narrow down the actual command that fails > but I wasn't able to find anything on the web. Sounds like something similar to t

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xscope-1.1-2

2008-11-21 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin net distribution: *** xscope-1.1-2 This package has been rebuilt with the newest xtrans to silence the messages about /tmp/.X11-unix creation and ownership. Yaakov Cygwin/X DOWNLOAD: ==

Re: xmkmf creates wrong MANPATH entry in Makefiles

2008-11-22 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > When generating Makefiles with latest xmkmf the resulting Makefiles have > some bogus entries. Fixed in xorg-cf-files-1.0.2-7. But I'm curious, what are you building that still uses imake so extensively? Yaakov Cygwin/X -

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-cf-files-1.0.2-7

2008-11-22 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin net distribution: *** xorg-cf-files-1.0.2-7 This release fixes the definitions of MANPATH, FONTDIR, and ENCODINGSDIR. Yaakov Cygwin/X DOWNLOAD: = Note that downloads from sources.re

Re: [Packaging bug] motif-config references -L/usr/X11R6/lib in latest libXm-devel-0.95.0-2

2008-11-22 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > motif-config references -L/usr/X11R6/lib in latest libXm-devel-0.95.0-2 This is actually hard-coded in the source, not because it was using that directory (I zapped my /usr/X11R6 before the transition). Since everything has

Xinerama

2008-11-22 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jon, Looking further into Xinerama, I think I brushed it off too early. It is *very* widely supported[1], and while XRandR is supposed to replace it, actual implementation and usage may be some time off. I also think that there may be some potenti

Re: pmconfig from proxymngr-1.0.1-1 references to deprecated /usr/X11R6 hirarchy

2008-11-23 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > 09:40 PM [531]> cat /usr/lib/X11/proxymngr/pmconfig | grep /X11 > lbx managed /usr/X11R6/bin/lbxproxy lbxproxy is obsolete and long gone, so this is harmless. Yaakov Cygwin/X -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-cf-files-1.0.2-7

2008-11-23 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > Actually only FONTDIR and ENCODINGSDIR are fixed. My true feelings about imake are simply not printable. What other package this size would take 8 releases to (maybe) get right? At least cygport takes care of /usr/man -> /

Re: X server 1.5.3-2 candidate

2008-11-23 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jon TURNEY wrote: > After doing some tracing into the server, and looking at the difference > between the successful and failing remote cases, it seems that we really > do have a direct context in the success case, whereas in the failure > case we ha

Re: where is /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLw.a on cygwin?

2008-11-23 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Phan, Linh H wrote: > I went to setup-1.7.exe to get the libGLw-devel. setup put libGLw.dll in > /usr/lib/libGLw.dll.a but it also put all these files: > in /usr/bin and removed it from my /usr/X11R6/bin. It also removed alot of > other > files f

Re: X server 1.5.3-4 candidate

2008-11-24 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jon TURNEY wrote: > Ah, yes, much better way of fixing the makefile, thank you. When you deal with as many packages as I have, you get to know autotools really well. :-) > Tested this with a few more remote GLX demo programs and clients, seems > to

Fundraising for new computer

2009-05-15 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
Cygwin/X users, Last fall, with Jon's technical assistance, I took on updating the long-unmaintained Cygwin/X and released X11R7.4. Since then we have released over 30 package updated, including six patch revisions to the server. Work on preparing X.Org Server 1.6 and GNOME 2.26 for Cygwin 1.7 w