[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libcanberra-0.28-2

2012-04-01 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following packages have been updated for the Cygwin distribution: *** libcanberra0-0.28-2 *** libcanberra-devel-0.28-2 *** libcanberra-gtk0-0.28-2 *** libcanberra-gtk-deve-0.28-2 *** libcanberra-gtk3_0-0.28-2 *** libcanberra-gtk3-devel-0.28-2 *** gtk2.0-canberra-module-0.28-2 *** gtk3

Re: X server crash when running texworks

2012-03-29 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 2012-03-29 14:59, Ken Brown wrote: OK, I'm running it now and have attached gdb to it. The good news is that I've been running it for a couple hours with no crash, and I've used texworks and have opened many tex files and pdf files in it without a problem. The bad news is that texworks

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: fvwm-2.6.4-1

2012-03-29 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following package has been updated for the Cygwin distribution: *** fvwm-2.6.4-1 Fvwm is a window manager for X11. It is designed to minimize memory consumption, provide a 3D look to window frames, and a virtual desktop. This is a long-overdue update to the latest upstream release

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: freetype2-2.4.9-2

2012-03-28 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** freetype2-demos-2.4.9-1 *** libfreetype6-2.4.9-1 *** libfreetype-devel-2.4.9-1 FreeType 2 is a software font engine that is designed to be small, efficient, highly customizable and portable while capable of producing high

Re: X server crash when running texworks

2012-03-28 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 2012-03-24 14:47, Ken Brown wrote: 1. Install texworks-0.4.3-1 from Cygwin Ports. 2. Create two tex files in your home directory, say test1.tex and test2.tex. I don't know if the contents matter, but in my case both files contain the following: \documentclass{article} \begin{document} Hello

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: freetype2-2.4.9-1

2012-03-26 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** freetype2-demos-2.4.9-1 *** libfreetype6-2.4.9-1 *** libfreetype-devel-2.4.9-1 FreeType 2 is a software font engine that is designed to be small, efficient, highly customizable and portable while capable of producing high

Re: Linking Errors related to X11

2012-03-22 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin-X)
On 3/22/2012 10:33 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 07:04:54PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin-X) wrote: On 3/21/2012 6:19 PM, Tom Szczesny wrote: I am attempting to port the aplus-fsf-4.22 package (available at www.aplusdev.org) to cygwin, and I'm getting linking errors related

Re: Linking Errors related to X11

2012-03-22 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin-X)
with the app's configure script, not Cygwin. You should report this to the maintainers. -- Larry _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email

Re: Linking Errors related to X11

2012-03-22 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
/include is then it is unlikely that you are going to be successful here. Especially, as I just discovered, this package unconditionally requires libnsl functions and defines (in src/dap/*), which Cygwin does not provide. Yaakov -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe

Re: Linking Errors related to X11

2012-03-22 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin-X)
configure script, not Cygwin. You should report this to the maintainers. The lib for src/dap is ../../src/dap/.libs/libdap.a The lib for src/AplusGUI is ../../src/ApluGUI/.libs/libAplusGUI.a What file contains the lib for X11 in cygwin? The one you've been trying to tell it to use

Re: Linking Errors related to X11

2012-03-22 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 2012-03-22 15:22, Tom Szczesny wrote: Yaakov wrote: Especially, as I just discovered, this package unconditionally requires libnsl functions and defines (in src/dap/*), which Cygwin does not provide. How can you tell that? I get a null response when I execute: Tom@Toshiba /usr/local/aplus

Re: Linking Errors related to X11

2012-03-22 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
a very old version of libtool which is not guaranteed to work on Cygwin. This is why running autoreconf is standard procedure when building autoconf-based packages. Yaakov -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: Linking Errors related to X11

2012-03-21 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin-X)
On 3/21/2012 6:19 PM, Tom Szczesny wrote: I am attempting to port the aplus-fsf-4.22 package (available at www.aplusdev.org) to cygwin, and I'm getting linking errors related to X11. I can build the package successfully on Gentoo Linux. The build on cygwin fails at /aplus-fsf-4.22/src/main

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gnome-vfs2-2.24.4-2

2012-03-16 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following packages have been updated for the Cygwin distribution: *** gnome-vfs2-2.24.4-2 *** libgnomevfs2_0-2.24.4-2 *** libgnomevfs2-devel-2.24.4-2 This release has been rebuilt for openssl-1.0.1. -- Yaakov Cygwin/X CYGWIN-XFREE-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: qt4-4.7.4-4

2012-03-16 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The Qt4 packages have been rebuilt for the new openssl-1.0.1. MIT-SHM support has also been disabled due to various issues. -- Yaakov Cygwin/X CYGWIN-XFREE-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO == If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-xfree-announce mailing

Re: Need help gathering log data for gretl_x11 v1.9.7 crashing in Cygwin 1.7.11

2012-03-14 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
? To reproduce, build and run gretl : http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ WFM. Yaakov Cygwin/X -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: qscintilla2-2.6.1-1

2012-03-04 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following packages have been added to the Cygwin distribution: *** libqscintilla2_8-2.6.1-1 *** libqscintilla2-common-2.6.1-1 *** libqscintilla2-devel-2.6.1-1 QScintilla is a port to Qt of the Scintilla C++ editor control. -- Yaakov Cygwin/X CYGWIN-XFREE-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO

Building ROOT (was Re: Updated: qt4-4.7.4-3)

2012-03-04 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
=/usr/include/qt4 --with-qt-libdir=/usr/lib/qt4/lib 21 | tee /tmp/build-ROOT.log $ make 21 | tee -a /tmp/build-ROOT.log ROOT builds fine with QT4 4.5 on Cygwin and on GNU/Linux Kubuntu with QT4 4.7.4. I have unrelated problems building ROOT: Generating dictionary graf3d/g3d/src/G__G3D.cxx

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: fontconfig-2.8.0-2

2012-03-01 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following packages have been updated for the Cygwin distribution: *** fontconfig-2.8.0-2 *** libfontconfig1-2.8.0-2 *** libfontconfig-devel-2.8.0-2 Fontconfig is a library designed to provide system-wide font configuration, customization and application access. This release adds the TeX

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: qt4-4.7.4-3, New: phonon-4.5.1-2

2012-03-01 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
I have finally updated Qt4 in the Cygwin distribution to 4.7.4. Besides all the upstream changes, this release includes the following packaging changes as well: * QtSql drivers for MySQL, ODBC, and TDS * Enabled the GTK+ GUI style * Phonon support in QtWebKit, qtconfig, and qtdemo (backends

Re: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken.

2012-02-27 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Mon, 2012-02-27 at 11:20 -0500, George Barrick wrote: I went and re-installed my antivirus so that its files would be stored in a better directory. That has fixed my problem, as the av still slips .dll's into the execution stack when I run cygwin processes, but now my system knows

Re: XWin.exe: _XSERVTransSocketUNIXAccept: accept() failed

2012-02-16 Thread cygwin at sipxx.com
that the Windows firewall has a blanket allow rule for XWin.exe. I can't place the exact update that caused this problem, but I believe it was not having this issue in December 2011. I am never more than a week behind on updating cygwin. I tried falling back to the previous 1.11.4-2 version of xorg

Re: Cygwin StartXwin cursor

2012-02-16 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTWLL !! On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 15:01 -0800, Dion Chen wrote: I use 'C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startxwin.exe' to start the X Server without problem on the Windows Vista Business OS. When the X window starts, What X window? If you

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mesa-7.11.2-1

2012-02-06 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
of xorg-server will NOT work with this version of mesa. -- Yaakov Cygwin/X CYGWIN-XFREE-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO == If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-xfree-announce mailing list, please use the automated form at: http://cygwin.com/lists.html

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xterm-278-1

2012-02-06 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following package has been updated for the Cygwin distribution: *** xterm-278-1 The xterm program is a terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that can't use the window system directly. This is an update

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xinit-1.3.2-1

2012-02-06 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
xinit has been updated to 1.3.2. Besides the latest upstream improvements, this release includes the following changes: * The -displayfd argument handing has been improved. * Two unnecessary warnings have been removed. -- Yaakov Cygwin/X CYGWIN-XFREE-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO

Re: How to properly start xwin at windows seven startup?

2012-02-02 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Thu, 2012-02-02 at 09:49 -0800, David Karr wrote: I've had an old version of Cygwin running on a WinXP laptop for quite a while. I made it run startxwin.bat on startup. I'm now setting up the latest Cygwin on a Win7 laptop. The FAQ is saying to not use the startxwin.bat file

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xterm-277-1

2012-01-16 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following package has been updated for the Cygwin distribution: *** xterm-277-1 The xterm program is a terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that can't use the window system directly. This is an update

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: GNOME 3.2 bugfixes

2011-12-31 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
sometimes not responding to mouse input in multiwindow mode. * Various updates to audiofile, gdk-pixbuf2.0, libgsf, python-gi, shared-mime-info, and vala. Yaakov Cygwin/X CYGWIN-XFREE-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO == If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-xfree

Re: Problems with emacs built against gtk3

2011-12-04 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
on that gvfs ITP right away. It looks like I also need to repackage pango1.0 to remove everyone's old pango.modules file. But despite your subject line, the binaries there are clearly gtk2 based. Was that intended? Yaakov Cygwin/X -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe

Re: Problems with emacs built against gtk3

2011-12-04 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
to be minimalistic wrt the distro. I installed gvfs and all it needs (I have many packages installed frp cygports) but this doesn't fix the problem for me: Emacs still dies... :( I saw this as well, but with the 20111204 snapshot this no longer occurs. Could you try that and let us know? Yaakov Cygwin/X

Re: Problems with emacs built against gtk3

2011-12-02 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 18:04 -0500, Ken Brown wrote: On 11/30/2011 9:09 AM, Ken Brown wrote: On 11/29/2011 10:51 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: This appears to be the same bug. The solution is to launch a DBus session bus *before* starting emacs (or any other gtk3 programs for that matter

Re: Problems with emacs built against gtk3

2011-11-30 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 11:17 +0100, Pavel Holejsovsky wrote: On 11/30/2011 4:51 AM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: 2. The pango warning can already be observed with the current Cygwin emacs after the recent update of the GNOME libraries. To reproduce, install the emacs-X11 package and start

Re: Problems with emacs built against gtk3

2011-11-29 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
action. ** (emacs:3344): WARNING **: Abnormal program termination spawning command line `dbus-launch --autolaunch=0b8f184fe6d82872ee8db8724ecfdb90 --binary-syntax --close-stderr': I think the pango warning is Cygwin specific, but the rest of it might not be. Similar symptoms were reported

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: GNOME 3.2 libraries

2011-11-23 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
-vfs2 * libart_lgpl_2 * libglade2 * libgnome2 * libgnomecanvas2 * libgnomeprint2.2 * libgnomeprintui2.2 * libgnomeui2 * libIDL2 * ORBit2 These libraries are subject to eventual removal once nothing depends on them anymore. Yaakov Cygwin/X -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: freetype2-2.4.7-1

2011-10-26 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** freetype2-demos-2.4.7-1 *** libfreetype6-2.4.7-1 *** libfreetype-devel-2.4.7-1 FreeType 2 is a software font engine that is designed to be small, efficient, highly customizable and portable while capable of producing high

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xterm-276-1

2011-10-18 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following package has been updated for the Cygwin distribution: *** xterm-276-1 This is an update to the latest upstream release. -- Yaakov Cygwin/X CYGWIN-XFREE-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO == If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-xfree-announce

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: freetype2-2.4.6-1

2011-10-18 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** freetype2-demos-2.4.6-1 *** libfreetype6-2.4.6-1 *** libfreetype-devel-2.4.6-1 FreeType 2 is a software font engine that is designed to be small, efficient, highly customizable and portable while capable of producing high

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xkeyboard-config-2.4.1-1

2011-10-18 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following package has been updated for the Cygwin distribution: *** xkeyboard-config-2.4.1-1 xkeyboard-config provides the keyboard configuration database for the X server. This is an update to the latest upstream version. -- Yaakov Cygwin/X CYGWIN-XFREE-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xterm-275b-1

2011-10-05 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following package has been updated for the Cygwin distribution: *** xterm-275b-1 xterm is a terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that can't use the window system directly. This release includes an upstream

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cairo-1.10.2-1

2011-10-04 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following package has been updated for the Cygwin distribution: * libcairo2-1.10.2-1 * libcairo-devel-1.10.2-1 This is an update to the latest upstream version, which is required for GNOME 3.0. Yaakov Cygwin/X CYGWIN-XFREE-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xterm-275-1

2011-10-04 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following package has been updated for the Cygwin distribution: *** xterm-275-1 xterm is a terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that can't use the window system directly. This is an update to the latest

[ANNOUNCEMENT] X11R7.6

2011-10-04 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
Cygwin/X has been (finally!) updated to X.Org X11R7.6. WHAT'S NEW IN X11R7.6? == * Over 260 binary packages have been updated, including the latest upstream improvements and bug fixes, all built with GCC 4.5. * The xorg-server package has been rebuilt to match the updated

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: freetype2-2.4.5-1

2011-10-04 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** freetype2-demos-2.4.5-1 *** libfreetype6-2.4.5-1 *** libfreetype-devel-2.4.5-1 FreeType 2 is a software font engine that is designed to be small, efficient, highly customizable and portable while capable of producing high

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: nas-1.9.3-1

2011-10-04 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** nas-1.9.3-1 *** libaudio2-1.9.3-1 *** libaudio-devel-1.9.3-1 The Network Audio System is a network-transparent, client/server audio system based on the X11 protocol. This is an update to the latest version of NAS

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: shared-mime-info-0.90-1

2011-10-04 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following package has been updated for the Cygwin distribution: *** shared-mime-info-0.90-1 This package provides the FreeDesktop.org MIME type database. This release is an update to the latest upstream version. -- Yaakov Cygwin/X CYGWIN-XFREE-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: WindowMaker-0.92.1pre2-2

2011-10-04 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following packages has been updated for the Cygwin distribution: *** WindowMaker-0.92.1pre2-2 *** libWINGs-devel-0.92.1pre2-2 *** libWMaker-devel-0.92.1pre2-2 *** libwraster-devel-0.92.1pre2-2 *** libwraster3-0.92.1pre2-2 Window Maker is the GNU window manager for the X Window System

Re: Computer upgrade breaks CYGWIN X

2011-08-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin-X)
On 8/16/2011 1:57 PM, McBroom, Robert C wrote: lhall wrote: On 8/12/2011 9:44 AM, McBroom, Robert C wrote: snip rm3@mcbroomrc2 ~ $ 1 [main] emacs-X11 5540 C:\cygwin\bin\emacs-X11.exe: *** fatal error - unable to remap \\?\C:\cygwin\lib\gtk-2.0\2.10.0\loaders\cygpixbufloader-xpm.dll

Re: Computer upgrade breaks CYGWIN X

2011-08-12 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin-X)
On 8/12/2011 9:44 AM, McBroom, Robert C wrote: snip rm3@mcbroomrc2 ~ $ 1 [main] emacs-X11 5540 C:\cygwin\bin\emacs-X11.exe: *** fatal error - unable to remap \\?\C:\cygwin\lib\gtk-2.0\2.10.0\loaders\cygpixbufloader-xpm.dll to same address as parent: 0x37 != 0x3F Stack trace

Re: multiwindow and always-on-top

2011-07-24 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Sun, 2011-07-24 at 13:54 +0200, Ekkard Gerlach wrote: Hi, I start cygwin with c:\cygwin\bin\XWin.exe -multiwindow -ac on WinXP and I can send X programs. Works! Now want that the programs rest always-on-top. Google detects not much about that item. Who can help? http://x.cygwin.com

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-server-1.10.3-1

2011-07-20 Thread cygwin
Jon TURNEY wrote: On 20/07/2011 03:25, Linda Walsh wrote: Jon TURNEY wrote: The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** xorg-server-1.10.3-1 *** xorg-server-dmx-1.10.3-1 How can I install 'just' those packages (from the command line

Re: X on win 7

2011-07-07 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin-X)
On 7/7/2011 10:24 AM, Daniel Bienstock wrote: Hello, I have a new Dell Dimension M6600 with Windows 7 SP 1. I have disabled the Windows firewall and added rules to allow programs in cygwin and cygwin\bin to run. I am using cygwin 1.7.9 (I also use older cygwins on many 32-bit Windows machines

Re: Re: X on win 7

2011-07-07 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
on my machine. Is there a way I can identify the culprit? Thanks in advance. Windows Defender, a default component of Win7, is BLODA, so I'd start by permanently disabling the WinDefend service. (We should probably note that in BLODA itself.) Yaakov Cygwin/X -- Unsubscribe info: http

Re: lxterminal complains Bind on socket failed: Invalid argument on first invocation.

2011-06-28 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 12:51 +0800, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: My problem is that lxterminal only works the second time I run it (not first, third etc.) lxterminal is not provided by the distribution. If you are referring to the Ports package, then please follow up on the cygwin-ports-general

Re: Still can't run XServer or any apps that require it

2011-04-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin-X)
is a rather limited workaround, rather than a solution for these issues (for reasons which have been discussed extensively in the past) There has been a recent cygwin DLL change which *might* help in this situation, so I'd suggest you try the 2011-04-07 snapshot from [1] and see if that makes a difference

Re: xterm access violations (again)

2011-03-23 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 19:16 -0600, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: Thomas, that may well be true, but the latest one in the Cygwin repository reports (261). It shows up as 261-1 in setup.exe I just built 269 and will uploaded it with the rest of the X11 updates. Yaakov Cygwin/X -- Unsubscribe

Re: complains about the cygwin/gcc binaries

2011-01-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 1/27/2011 2:36 PM, wxie wrote: In the ROOT downloading website: http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/production-version-528 It says: Note that the performance of cygwin/gcc binaries is currently very poor; we only pro vide this build as an unsupported toy. We strongly recommend to use

Re: Reproducible assertion failure in XCB

2011-01-21 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
with that, as there have been several fixes in this area since 1.3.3 I can do that today or tomorrow --- but could someone kindly point me to the repository? I thought you mean the Cygwin experimental respository, but that turns out not to be the case. See http://sourceware.org/cygwinports/. -- Larry

Re: can not startx

2011-01-13 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 1/13/2011 5:35 AM, Reinier Post wrote: Yaakov (Cygwin/Xyselkowitzat users.sourceforge.net writes: On 05/01/2010 16:56, eric lin wrote: this is my /var/log/XWin.0.log where I think problm cause, fail startx, please help, eric Sigh. Lets try this again: Problem reports: http

Re: X server does not start from bash nor start menu

2010-11-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 11/10/2010 12:38 PM, ed wrote: On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Jon TURNEYjon.tur...@... wrote: ^^ http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR Can you start the X server by typing 'XWin' into a bash shell? Does that produce any

Re: Updated: xorg-server-1.9.2-1

2010-11-08 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 11/8/2010 6:48 AM, Fergus wrote: PS It kills me not to copy this to cygwin at cygwin dot com which I feel will have a much wider readership and skill set amongst that readership, but anybody sinning in this regard is always referred straight to Cygwin-X. Because this is where those

Re: Xserver and VNC

2010-10-29 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 12:55 +0530, Ajay Jain wrote: I am using the following cygwin: 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) 2010-08-31, which is quite the latest. Similarly, the Xserver is Release: 1.8.2.0 (10802000) Build Date: 2010-08-06. I am a little hesitant to try out the experimental version or to risk my

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-server-1.9.0-2 (TEST)

2010-10-25 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
:(.bss+0x4): first defined here collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Building xserver 1.9 requires a version of libXfont which will be uploaded shortly together with the rest of X11R7.6. Yaakov Cygwin/X -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http

Re: Xserver and VNC

2010-10-13 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 23:26 -0600, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: I have the same problem from time to time. I use RealVNC but have also tried TightVNC - neither one improves the situation. You could also try an X11 VNC client. Cygwin Ports provides TigerVNC, Vinagre (GNOME), and KRDC (KDE

Re: Latest Cygwin X hangs when mouse is used to highlight text

2010-09-14 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 9/14/2010 4:05 PM, Brian Kelly wrote: Also - tried GVim, and it locked when I only got one character highlighted. Tried minTTY, and it works perfectly (of course it's not X-based). The cut-and-paste works flawlessly. Again, why X highlighting and cut-and-paste worked yesterday and not today

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gvim-7.3.003-1

2010-08-19 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following package has been updated for the Cygwin distribution: *** gvim-7.3.003-1 gVim provides a GTK+ GUI for the Vim text editor. This is an update to the latest upstream version with the current patchset, and requires a simultaneous 7.3.x update to the vim package in order to operate

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated xorg-server-1.8.2-1

2010-08-06 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following package has been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** xorg-server-1.8.2-1 *** xorg-server-dmx-1.8.2-1 This is an update to the latest upstream release of the X servers. Support for RANDR display resizing was added. In windowed mode, this requires the XWin -resize option

Re: Using konsole in Cygwin

2010-08-06 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 8/6/2010 4:21 AM, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Fri, 6 Aug 2010, JOHNER Jean 066030 wrote: On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, Thomas Dickey wrote: iirc, cygwin has xterm, rxvt and rxvt-unicode which are very nice tools. And also Mintty which is great. But console has also interesting features (multiple

Re: GNOME on cygwin

2010-08-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 8/4/2010 6:33 PM, Timares, Brian (HP) wrote: Raul Acevedo wrote: My real question is what is the point of these packages, if GNOME is not actually in them. It's a bit confusing and I wasted a chunk of time trying to install GNOME through Cygwin only to find out it's not possible. Brian

Re: GNOME on cygwin

2010-08-04 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
inevitable situation in community-run FOSS projects). OTOH, I do feel that Cygwin would be a much better product with the GNOME and KDE libraries and applications commonly found in Linux distros, and I've lost count of how many people struggle to build things which are already available

Re: Resizing problem

2010-07-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 7/16/2010 10:39 AM, Olwe Melwasul wrote: On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: ^ http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. On 15/07/2010 18:02, Olwe Melwasul wrote: I installed cygwin/xcygwin 1.7.5 with KDE. I don't

Re: Bug or WAD? Midnight Commander F10 different in xterm than native or rxvt

2010-07-08 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
, it exits to the original directory from which MC was started. Do you think this a bug in MC or is it WAD? If you think it's a bug in MC I will gladly debug it myself, I just want to know if it's WAD for xterm's first. I am using a fresh cygwin + cygwin/X install on WinXP SP3, and I will supply the usual

Re: Slow response to keypresses in xorg-server-1.8.0-1

2010-07-01 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 7/1/2010 4:49 PM, Leigh Orf wrote: Hi, just joined the list. I updated to the latest cygwin today and was having the same problem with X just freezing up in the background. Your fix did the trick. I am profoundly grateful, it was making me batty. Since I've never overwritten an installed

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: GNOME 2.30.2 platform

2010-07-01 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The GNOME platform libraries have been updated to the latest 2.30.2 stable release. This is the last scheduled release for GNOME 2.x. GNOME 3.0 debuts this fall with a number of changes to the library stack; further details of that transition will be announced at a later time. -- CYGWIN-XFREE

Re: startxwin/XWin won't start properly

2010-06-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
and figure out what they give you and what they don't when matching them against what you need/want. You may find that the solution you want is simply an extension of something that's already there, saving you time and effort all around. If you decide to create a patch, those would go to the cygwin

Re: startxwin/XWin won't start properly

2010-06-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 6/29/2010 10:50 AM, Bradley, Mike wrote: Hi, All was good, till a couple weeks ago when I added some packages to cygwin, and several packages where also upgraded. Then xterm response time became very slow. I tried a second upgrade yesterday, and now I cannot even start an xterm, nor

Re: startxwin/XWin won't start properly

2010-06-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 6/29/2010 6:56 PM, Bradley, Mike wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@... [mailto:cygwin-xfree-ow...@...] On Behalf Of Larry Hall (Cygwin X) Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 6:40 PM To: cygwin-xf...@... Subject: Re: startxwin/XWin won't start properly http://cygwin.com

Re: startxwin/XWin won't start properly

2010-06-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 6/30/2010 1:07 AM, Bradley, Mike wrote: OK, I removed my old cygwin installation (the directory which contains/usr, /bin/, etc.), and re-installed a new version. I kept the cygwin_package directory, but setup.exe did not remember my previous installation. In the past I have had to install

Re: startx doesn't run proprely

2010-06-24 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 6/24/2010 11:58 PM, hakob...@ualberta.ca wrote: Dear Cygwin helper, After the startx command it doesn't open X terminal. In fact, it sometimes open Xterm sometimes not, givin the following error message: Welcom to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 6.8.99.901-4

Re: startx doesn't run proprely

2010-06-24 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2010-06/msg00021.html Yaakov -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/

Updated: GNOME 2.30.1 platform

2010-06-22 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The GNOME platform libraries have been updated for GNOME 2.30.1, and the Python bindings have been rebuilt for Python 2.6. Besides the routine updates for each module, several GIRepository modules have been added (Atk1.0, GdkPixbuf2.0, Gtk2.0, Wnck1.0). Yaakov Cygwin/X CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: GNOME 2.30.1 platform

2010-06-22 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The GNOME platform libraries have been updated for GNOME 2.30.1, and the Python bindings have been rebuilt for Python 2.6. Besides the routine updates for each module, several GIRepository modules have been added (Atk1.0, GdkPixbuf2.0, Gtk2.0, Wnck1.0). Yaakov Cygwin/X CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE

Re: cygwin problem

2010-06-13 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Sun, 2010-06-13 at 13:19 -0600, hakobyan wrote: Could you help me to solve the following problem, please. Each time I run startx, I get the following error message: A fatal error has occured and Cygwin/X will now exit, Please open /tmp/XWin.log for more information. Vendor

Re: How to remotly launch application with SSH and Cygwin/X server

2010-06-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 2/26/2010 2:07 PM, __Ricardo__ wrote: X23G8c wrote: From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree- ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of __Ricardo__ Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 8:09 AM didn't help too :( I have Win XP SP2, under this system I had installed Cygwin 1.5 and launch

Re: Fatal error

2010-06-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 6/9/2010 1:14 PM, marvin.man...@oracle.com wrote: I get the following fatal error with my windows xp machine. A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit. Please open /tmp/XWin.log for more information. Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 6.8.99.901-4

Re: frequently getting a STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION exception under win7

2010-06-08 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
initialization, retry 0, exit code 0x600, errno 11 xterm: Error 29, errno 11: Resource temporarily unavailable Reason: spawn: fork() failed Please provide solution if someone happened to know. 1) BLODA 2) rebaseall Yaakov Cygwin/X -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

Re: xterm no longer accepts keyboard input

2010-05-06 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 5/6/2010 3:18 AM, Jyh-Shyong Ho wrote: I read a series of discussion on this problem, have you been able to solve this problem? http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-i-cant-type-anything -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc

Re: problem in openin xterm

2010-04-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 4/23/2010 11:42 PM, hakob...@ualberta.ca wrote: Dear Cygwin expert, After installin cygwin on my laptop (vista) I have a problem in opening X window (xterm). After tryinmg several times it opens the xterm. Could you tell me the reason of this problem? Please read and follow the problem

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-server-1.8.0-1 (TEST)

2010-04-02 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following package has been updated for Cygwin 1.7: * xorg-server-1.8.0-1 (TEST) This package contains XWin and the other X.Org X11 servers. This is the first official release of the xserver 1.8 series. It is currently available as a test release, and will be made stable in approximately

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-server 1.7.6-2, 1.7.99.902-1 (TEST)

2010-03-22 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following package has been updated for Cygwin 1.7: * xorg-server-1.7.6-2 * xorg-server-1.7.99.902-1 (TEST) This package contains XWin and the other X.Org X11 servers. This release fixes an erroneous /tmp mounted in textmode warning. A new 1.8 release candidate has also been made

Re: problems starting xterm

2010-03-19 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 3/19/2010 9:09 AM, Markus Hoenicka wrote: $ xterm Xt error: Can't open display: xterm: DISPLAY is not set Do I have to set DISPLAY manually? And if yes, what should it read? For the mintty test case, yes, you need to set DISPLAY. Use this: export DISPLAY=:0.0 -- Larry Hall

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: xorg-server 1.7.6-1, 1.7.99.901-2 (TEST)

2010-03-18 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following package has been updated for Cygwin 1.7: * xorg-server-1.7.6-1 * xorg-server-1.7.99.901-2 (TEST) This package contains XWin and the other X.Org X11 servers. This is an update to the latest stable upstream release. A new snapshot of the 1.8 beta series has also been made

Re: XTrap in X11R7 - your Nov 2008 posting

2010-03-16 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
and unmaintained extensions, I think your time would be better served porting your code to XTest. Yaakov Cygwin/X -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ

Re: XTrap in X11R7 - your Nov 2008 posting

2010-03-16 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
, but knowing the current development plan, I strongly suggest you not waste your and others' time and just port your software to XTest/RECORD. Yaakov Cygwin/X -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation

Re: What do the Cygwin passwd file entry sections mean?

2010-03-05 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 3/5/2010 10:06 AM, scotch123 wrote: Hello, My apologies for the newbie question. I've been looking for an explanation of what each section of a Cygwin /etc/passwd/ user entry means, specifically the segments between the user name and the home directory and bash shell: corinna:unused:11001

Re: Problem running Xwin.exe in Windows 7

2010-03-01 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
On 3/2/2010 12:19 AM, Babak Fallah wrote: Dear Madam/Sir, I upgraded my OS from Windows XP to Windows 7 and installed the Cygwin/X but have problem running Xwin.exe in the new OS. Since it was running well in XP I changed the compatibility to Windows XP but it didn't help (my computer does

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: xorg-server 1.7.5-1, 1.7.99.901-1 (TEST)

2010-02-25 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following package has been updated for Cygwin 1.7: * xorg-server-1.7.5-1 * xorg-server-1.7.99.901-1 (TEST) This package contains XWin and the other X.Org X11 servers. This is an update to the latest stable upstream release. A snapshot of the 1.8 beta series has also been made available

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mesa-7.6.1-1

2010-02-25 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following packages have been updated for Cygwin 1.7: * libGL-devel-7.6.1-1 * libGL1-7.6.1-1 * libGLU-devel-7.6.1-1 * libGLU1-7.6.1-1 * libGLw-devel-7.6.1-1 * libGLw1-7.6.1-1 * libOSMesa-devel-7.6.1-1 * libOSMesa7-7.6.1-1 * mesa-7.6.1-1 This is an update to the latest stable upstream version

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libX11-1.3.3-1

2010-02-25 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following packages have been updated for Cygwin 1.7: * libX11_6-1.3.3-1 * libX11-devel-1.3.3-1 * libX11-xcb1-1.3.3-1 * libX11-xcb-devel-1.3.3-1 libX11, aka Xlib, is the core library of the X11 protocol. This is an update to the latest upstream release. Yaakov Cygwin/X CYGWIN-XFREE

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: WindowMaker-0.92.1pre2-1

2010-02-25 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following packages has been updated/added for Cygwin 1.7: *** WindowMaker-0.92.1pre2-1 *** libWINGs-devel-0.92.1pre2-1 *** libWMaker-devel-0.92.1pre2-1 *** libwraster-devel-0.92.1pre2-1 *** libwraster3-0.92.1pre2-1 Window Maker is the GNU window manager for the X Window System

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