Re: How do I start WM?

2010-02-25 Thread Holger Krull
Am 25.02.2010 03:54, schrieb Kenneth Wolcott: If I don't set the DISPLAY environment variable then it complains about it not being set. If I do set the DISPLAY environment variable then it complains about not being able to use it. $ openbox-session which: no hsetroot in [PATH content

Re: How do I start WM?

2010-02-25 Thread Holger Krull
Am 25.02.2010 12:18, schrieb Yaakov (Cygwin/X): On 2010-02-25 04:25, Holger Krull wrote: I can confirm problems with openbox. It does not start everytime i try on my computer and i get the same behavior that you described, a short view of the black background. Openbox is just a window manager

Re: How do I start WM?

2010-02-24 Thread Holger Krull
Am 23.02.2010 15:11, schrieb Joseph Ess: How do I start XWindows in full screen mode with OpenBox window manager? It used to be that I'd just put the command for the window manager at the end of startxwin.bat. Now that file's gone away. I can't use startxwin.exe as it is multi-window only. I

Re: How do I start WM?

2010-02-24 Thread Holger Krull
Am 24.02.2010 21:21, schrieb Kenneth Wolcott: Hi; To achive this, create a icon that points to C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startx Edit /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc and change twm to openbox That changes the behavior for all users. I tried this last advice. I get

Re: How do I start WM?

2010-02-24 Thread Holger Krull
Am 24.02.2010 23:56, schrieb Kenneth Wolcott: Hi Holger; 1. Do you have a .xinitrc in your home directory? (try ls -la ) If so, delete it. I do not have a ~/.xinitrc in either /home/kwolcott 2. Will it start if you manually enter startx in a cygwin shell? I was able to start twm

Re: 1.7.1: no xdmcp login prompt after upgrade

2010-01-22 Thread Holger Krull
Am 15.01.2010 21:32, schrieb Paxton, Michael: After upgrading to Cygwin/X 1.7.1, XDMCP query to any remote host no longer produces a login prompt. All XDMCP connections functioned correctly prior to upgrade. Examination of an iptrace report (ipreport10.out) on the remote host shows that

Re: startxwin.exe without lingering DOS window

2010-01-06 Thread Holger Krull
Am 07.01.2010, 00:14 Uhr, schrieb Raul Acevedo r...@cantara.com: How do you run startxwin.exe so that it doesn't leave a lingering MS-DOS window after it starts the programs in ~/.startwinrc? C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startxwin.exe -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: problem with connection to debian with Cygwin X

2008-05-28 Thread Holger Krull
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I connect from windows to rest of machines with cygwin with the instruction X -query ip address. To one debian machine run perfectly, but the others machines don't run. I receive the error 43395 [main] X 4716 child_copy: linked dll data write copy failed

Re: Couldn't startx. could not open default font 'fixed'

2008-05-03 Thread Holger Krull
Gosha Osipov schrieb: Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from li st! Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress (full log file attached). I deleted cygwin and completely downloaded if from

Re: How to start up X directly, in a startx-like manner?

2008-04-17 Thread Holger Krull
Robert Latest schrieb: I like to use cygwin in a self-contained, maximized window in which my window manager runs (fvwm). Currently I start this by first opening a bash shell and then typeng startx, which then reads my .xinitrc and does what I want. However, I'd like this to happen on a single

Re: How to start up X directly, in a startx-like manner?

2008-04-17 Thread Holger Krull
Holger Krull schrieb: Robert Latest schrieb: I like to use cygwin in a self-contained, maximized window in which my window manager runs (fvwm). Currently I start this by first opening a bash shell and then typeng startx, which then reads my .xinitrc and does what I want. However, I'd like

Re: FW: How to create an icon to startx with no extra CMD.EXE window

2008-04-09 Thread Holger Krull
Siegfried Heintze (Aditi) schrieb: I use: E:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c -l 'run bash -c -l CYGWIN=server Xwin.exe :0 -query 192.168.11.1 -from 192.168.11.2 -once -dpi 120 ' If you don't have cygserver running you should delete CYGWIN=server, if you don't need larger fonts delete -dpi 120

Re: Problem with X (disappears) and Sun Directory Server Console

2008-01-28 Thread Holger Krull
ohaya schrieb: startconsole. This causes the console GUI to appear but when I type in my username/password, everything, including the original xterm window disappears. I've tried access the admin console using Hummingbird Exceed, and that seems to work fine. This problem only occurs when

Re: pdfEdit versus cygwin/ X windows

2008-01-04 Thread Holger Krull
Defoucault, Herve schrieb: Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' Conclusion. === Do you have any idea or should I contact the cygwin/X team ? I suppose I missed a configuration somewhere I think that you should check some cygwin/X howtos.

Re: Fwd: ForwardX11 not working

2007-12-14 Thread Holger Krull
Mirko Vukovic schrieb: - I have ran ssh-host-config and set CYGWIN=ntsec server. I said yes to privilege separation, and I have an sshd user in /etc/passwd - I have set DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 in .bash_profile ^^ Don't do this. Really

Re: problem with xterm

2007-12-06 Thread Holger Krull
Pelotudo schrieb: [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ ssh -X network [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Warning: untrusted X11 forwarding setup failed: xauth key data not generated Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. user edt [1] 18207 user connect 127.0.0.1 port 6000:

Re: helP: malfunction of the x window system

2007-12-04 Thread Holger Krull
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: XWin was started with teh following command line: X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard _XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListener: failed to create listener for local Fatal server error: Cannot establish

Re: Pasting and copying between X and Windows

2007-12-03 Thread Holger Krull
jose isaias cabrera schrieb: cygwin XWin, I would love to paste and copy between the two worlds. I have googled the issue, but nothing seems to be very updated. Everything seems to be old or has no real answer. Is this possible? Yes, add -clipboard to the Xwin Parameters. -- Unsubscribe

Re: Using XWin.exe to connect to a linux X Server

2007-11-30 Thread Holger Krull
jose isaias cabrera schrieb: jose isaias cabrera schrieb: I am trying to connect to a Gentoo X Server and it is connecting, but I don't seem to be able to open an xterm. All I get is a full screen without anything. I am running this command: XWin -query d-tuxedo Are you sure XDMCP is

Re: Using XWin.exe to connect to a linux X Server

2007-11-30 Thread Holger Krull
jose isaias cabrera schrieb: Greetings. I am trying to connect to a Gentoo X Server and it is connecting, but I don't seem to be able to open an xterm. All I get is a full screen without anything. I am running this command: XWin -query d-tuxedo Are you sure XDMCP is enabled on this

Re: Using XWin.exe to connect to a linux X Server

2007-11-30 Thread Holger Krull
jose isaias cabrera schrieb: I am trying to connect to a Gentoo X Server and it is connecting, but I don't seem to be able to open an xterm. All I get is a full screen without anything. I am running this command: XWin -query d-tuxedo Are you sure XDMCP is enabled on this server? Try Xwin

Re: FW: Problem starting xwin in windows domain

2007-11-29 Thread Holger Krull
Paul Mulcahy schrieb: Maybe you have a problem with ntfs file permissions. The domain users must have at least write access to tmp and their home directory, and read access to most of the rest. The domain Administrator I suspect it is somewhere in permissions but I have allowed the user and

Re: DISPLAY set up

2007-11-24 Thread Holger Krull
Hernan Praddaude schrieb: I installed cigwin and I'm able to get the full screen and the pointer but nothing else. At some stage of the trying process I receive the error msg. that DISPLAY is not set. Maybe you tell us how you start Xwin, what application you try to use and what you did

Re: A problem about the fonts when i remote login the suse from my windowsXP box

2007-11-12 Thread Holger Krull
Terrylai schrieb: try XWin -screen 0 1280x800x16 -dpi 120 or even higher dpi setting -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ:

Re: Xargs....

2007-10-22 Thread Holger Krull
xerces8 schrieb: From: Hall Nation [EMAIL PROTECTED] I need to know about the xargs command. What does it do ? You also need to know about the man command. And google ;-) Is this a replay of older messages? Didn't we have that before? That man is a troll or a bot. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: XWin Multiwindow fails to start

2007-10-22 Thread Holger Krull
Nick Douma schrieb: No one who has any suggestions... ? Not for your main problem. Just the general idea that sometimes deleting and reinstalling helps to solve strange problems. On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 11:38:33AM +0200, Nick Douma wrote: I'm using the latest version of Cygwin, and Xwin

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

2007-10-22 Thread Holger Krull
Paul McFerrin schrieb: 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? it is man XWin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: CygwinX xwin after login black screen

2007-10-11 Thread Holger Krull
ludek_coufal schrieb: I have problem connect with CygwinX to SUSE 10 (SLES). 1. Procedure: - startxwin.bat (Sidenote: You don't need startxwin.bat if you do:) - xwin :1 -query 132.9.1.3 -from 132.9.1.94 - login screen is displayed - enter username and password 1.What Windowmanger do

Re: sftp how insert @

2007-10-11 Thread Holger Krull
ludek_coufal schrieb: I can test sftp, but I can not change keyboard and insert, enter @. Procedure: - startxwin.bat - I can enter (sftp [EMAIL PROTECTED])but how insert @? On keyboard @ not work. (You don't need X11 to run sftp) Most likely you need to uncomment the following entrys

Re: sftp how insert @

2007-10-11 Thread Holger Krull
xerces8 schrieb: @ is not a 8 bit character, so those changes in .inputrc should not be needed. Probably the keyboard layout for X11 is wrong. Cut paste from any other program should work just fine. You are right, i should have checked. So using setxkbmap will probably help. Or not using

Re: Checking if the X Server is running

2007-10-02 Thread Holger Krull
As someone pointed out in another post the sequence ps |grep has a risk of finding grep itself in the list. The command pgrep combines both and hasn't that risk. Thanks Holger. Now this works perfectly. It does open up a Windows cmd window – which remains open until I finish with my app –

Re: Checking if the X Server is running

2007-10-01 Thread Holger Krull
O. Olson schrieb: --- Holger Krull [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Teach your email program to not include the full email adress while quoting! #!/bin/sh if `ps | grep XWin /dev/null` I suggest using grep -i to make it case ignoring. I found a cygwin installation that has Xwin

Re: Checking if the X Server is running

2007-10-01 Thread Holger Krull
Holger Krull schrieb: I was to fast on my last email. I tested it now: You need (on windows): set DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -l /home/krull/test.sh (it is important that there is no space between 0.0 and ) test.sh: #!/bin/sh ps |grep -i /xwin /dev/null if [ $? -eq 0

Re: Checking if the X Server is running

2007-10-01 Thread Holger Krull
Holger Krull schrieb: Holger Krull schrieb: I was to fast on my last email. I tested it now: You need (on windows): set DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -l /home/krull/test.sh (it is important that there is no space between 0.0 and ) test.sh: #!/bin/sh ps |grep -i /xwin

Re: Windows GUI apps from xterm

2007-09-30 Thread Holger Krull
Igor Peshansky schrieb: Now from the same cygwin shell, if I run rsh any_unix_machine, I am now logged into a unix box, now I run rsh terminal_server_name, I am now back on the terminal server. Now if I run calc, it doesn't work, attached are 2 snapshots. so you have terminal-server -unix

Re: Checking if the X Server is running

2007-09-30 Thread Holger Krull
O. Olson schrieb: Is there any way of checking if the X Server is currently running? Because if you try this again, it gives you “A fatal error” … which does not crash your computer – but is a bit annoying to me. There probably is a more elegant solution but doing ps |grep Xwin

Re: Checking if the X Server is running

2007-09-30 Thread Holger Krull
O. Olson schrieb: --- Holger Krull [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: There probably is a more elegant solution but doing ps |grep Xwin /dev/null || run Xwin -your options here will only start Xwin if it is not running already. (Assuming you will only start one Xwin) I don’t think I

Re: Checking if the X Server is running

2007-09-30 Thread Holger Krull
O. Olson schrieb: ps |grep XWin /dev/null ||XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error to work from the Cygwin Command Prompt as well as from a script file (.sh). I am now trying to copy and modify my startxwin.bat file – to see if it can do I suggest you start the shell script from a

Re: Xdmcp too slow with SOME Linux accounts.

2007-09-19 Thread Holger Krull
Michael Giroux schrieb: Do the CygwinX developers watch this list? As far as i know xwin is unmaintained at the moment. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/

Re: FW: Uninstalling Cygwin/X ??

2007-09-17 Thread Holger Krull
Lisa Di lorenzo schrieb: p.s. I'd like to uninstall it so that I can re-install it, in the hopes of having a 'home' directory created for me the second time around: C:\cygwin\home\ I read that this should happen if I install Cygwin/X to the properly instructed places in the installation

Re: Xdmcp too slow with SOME Linux accounts.

2007-09-12 Thread Holger Krull
Jean-Claude Gervais schrieb: The IS a drawback though, it doesn't give you the full desktop with the background and everything you might be looking for, but in practice the things you really want are the apps, anyway. That is not true, if you tunnel through ssh you can easily start kde, gnome

Re: Xdmcp too slow with SOME Linux accounts.

2007-09-12 Thread Holger Krull
Jean-Claude Gervais schrieb: Michael, I am assuming you are invoking the ssh connection from a graphical xterm window, it won't work from a console-mode bash prompt. It will if you set DISPLAY right before starting ssh. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: xterm changed from german to english

2007-09-12 Thread Holger Krull
Sebastian Posch schrieb: I have a german WindowsXP installation with a german keyboard. Since yesterday all of a sudden I get only english input in xterm. y is z, - is / ... I still have german input in bash and DOS prompt, so I tried restarting the X server and reinstalling xterm, but it

Re: Windows GUI apps from xterm

2007-09-12 Thread Holger Krull
Keep things on the list please. Now from the same cygwin shell, if I run rsh any_unix_machine, I am now logged into a unix box, now I run rsh terminal_server_name, I am now back on the terminal server. Now if I run calc, it doesn't work, attached are 2 snapshots. so you have terminal-server

Re: Windows GUI apps from xterm

2007-09-12 Thread Holger Krull
xerces8 schrieb: Holger Krull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : Keep things on the list please. Now from the same cygwin shell, if I run rsh any_unix_machine, I am now logged into a unix box, now I run rsh terminal_server_name, I am now back on the terminal server. Now if I run calc, it doesn't work

Re: Xdmcp too slow with SOME Linux accounts.

2007-09-11 Thread Holger Krull
Michael Giroux schrieb: From this, it seems the response issue is somehow related to these clients. Since I'm only starting one client (Eclipse) the others I have no way of knowing what the others are. Yes you do. Make an addtional connection with ssh and make ps print all processes for

Re: Fonts on X-forwarded apps are too small

2007-09-10 Thread Holger Krull
Reuben D. Budiardja schrieb: At first I thought this has something to do with resolution / DPI of cygwin X server, but I couldn't find any info on how to configure it (and I'm not really sure if this the problem/solution). the option for setting dpi is named -dpi Start Xwin with -dpi 120 or

Re: How to turn off text antialias ?

2007-09-10 Thread Holger Krull
xerces8 schrieb: I find the text/font antialias blurry and want to turn it off. How do I do that ? The app is gaim running on a remote debian etch system. gaim uses gtk if i remember right, so setting GDK_USE_XFT=0 before starting it may be enough. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: How to turn off text antialias ?

2007-09-10 Thread Holger Krull
xerces8 schrieb: From: Holger Krull [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:16:40 +0200 xerces8 schrieb: I find the text/font antialias blurry and want to turn it off. How do I do that ? The app is gaim running on a remote debian etch system. gaim uses gtk if i remember right, so

Re: font and screen size

2007-09-06 Thread Holger Krull
Cole Radcliffe schrieb: That is weird. I do not have a .Xdefaults in my home directory. I do have a .Xauthority-c file, which is empty. I downloaded it pretty recently, maybe we are working with different versions. That is no suprise. If you have no .Xdefaults, then just create it. --

Re: Windows GUI apps from xterm

2007-09-06 Thread Holger Krull
Mahdi A Sbeih schrieb: I am on windows terminal server win_ts: When executing a windows GUI application such as calc from a cygwin shell, it works just fine, without setting any DISPLAY env variable. No surprise here. Windows applications don't use X11, so they don't look for DISPLAY. Now

Re: font and screen size

2007-09-06 Thread Holger Krull
Cole Radcliffe schrieb: So that xterm will automatically know to look in .Xdefaults if I make that file? Yes. How does it know that? Because it has been build that way. Almost any program that uses X11 will honor the settings in .Xdefaults. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Xdmcp too slow with SOME Linux accounts.

2007-09-05 Thread Holger Krull
Mario Scheble schrieb: Hello. Please, I need some help with the following problem. My PC has Windows XP and is part of a WorkGroup with a Debian Linux network. I installed Cygwin, and XDMCP properly works when I login on a remote machine to ONE Linux account. But when I login to ANOTHER

Re: Xdmcp too slow with SOME Linux accounts.

2007-09-05 Thread Holger Krull
Michael Giroux schrieb: On 9/5/07, Holger Krull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Without knowing what is started when you login it is impossible to give further advice. Does stty have any effect? If yes, what options should be applied? Don't think so. As far as I can tell, my .bash_profile

Re: font and screen size

2007-09-05 Thread Holger Krull
Cole Radcliffe schrieb: this. I could just set the -fn option which stands for font name and use a font that has a large standard size but someone would need to explain to me how to set that up! xterm font type and size are usually set in the file .Xdefaults add something like:

Re: X forward problem

2007-08-18 Thread Holger Krull
liang schrieb: Sorry to bother your guys. I am trying to set up a sshd server on a super computer running on XP and set up putty on my laptop under XP too. I want my laptop to run under X window, but I really have a trouble. I searched several days on google, mailing list, FAQ, user guide

Re: Revisiting the cradle problem

2007-08-09 Thread Holger Krull
Scott Mohnkern schrieb: I assume Cygwin is using this environment variable to set the default shell, and that's what's causing the problem. Is there a way to start Cygwin (We're using Xstart.bat) to tell it NOT to use this variable? I don't think so, but i could be wrong. How about setting

Re: wrong keyboard layout

2007-08-09 Thread Holger Krull
HXdaverdi Cakir schrieb: (--) Using preset keyboard for German (Switzerland) (807), type 4 But xterm always cames up with an english layout. Is the layout really english, or are the german characters just missing? If the later is true you should try to edit .inputrc and uncomment: # Allow

Re: X-Windows not starting up

2007-08-08 Thread Holger Krull
jason allen schrieb: Hi Cygwin, Please help!! X-Windows eeps hanging. See below. 6 [main] X 1272 child_copy: linked dll data write copy failed, 0x3E3000..0 Maybe it is the same problem: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-01/msg00782.html -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Cannot Start X

2007-08-07 Thread Holger Krull
Marco Schuler schrieb: XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error Here is the content of the XWin.log: (WW) /tmp mounted int textmode _XSERVTransmkdir: ERROR: euid != 0,directory /tmp/.X11-unix will not be created. Check if you can write in the dir /tmp/.X11-unix and delete

Re: Cannot Start X

2007-08-07 Thread Holger Krull
Marco Schuler schrieb: On 8/7/07, Holger Krull x wrote: Please make your email Program not quote the full email adress. Why is everything mounted in textmode? Hm, I don't know. That's just what cygwin did on installation. Is there any problem about this? Well, usually

Re: Cannot Start X

2007-08-07 Thread Holger Krull
Marco Schuler schrieb: Why is everything mounted in textmode? Hm, I don't know. That's just what cygwin did on installation. Is there any problem about this? Well, usually it is not what cygwin does. I don't know if it does any paticular harm, but there is no reason to have / mounted

Re: Cannot Start X

2007-08-07 Thread Holger Krull
Marco Schuler schrieb: But I'd say the textmode is not the problem why I cannot start X? No, but it is a hint that there is something wrong with your cygwin installation. Attach the output of cygcheck -c Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' winDeinitMultiWindowWM -

Re: Mouse not working with Ghostview menus

2007-07-26 Thread Holger Krull
Jean-Paul Mendes schrieb: Hi, Why don't the side menus within Ghostview 1.5 work with the mouse ? The mouse works just fine everywhere else, even in Ghostview but as no effect whatsoever on the side menus. This is one of the command lines I've tried in the Cygwin bash shell. xwin.exe

Re: gcc version 3.2.2

2007-07-21 Thread Holger Krull
syam prasad schrieb: I am facing with lot of issues with gcc 3.4.4 regarding .dll build. Where can i downlaod gcc 3.2.2 . I serached in all mirrop sites, but failed to find it. Please help me. Not quite a question for cygwin-xfree, you probably should ask the cygwin list. But i doubt that a

Re: Running gnome on a remote machine

2007-07-13 Thread Holger Krull
Scott Mohnkern schrieb: I'm interested in opening up the Cygwin Xserver, and then connecting to a remote machine, and starting the gnome desktop. Log is below. command I used: /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin.exe :9 -query hostname try :9 -query hostnames.dotted.decimal.address -from

Re: X Server failing to start

2007-07-12 Thread Holger Krull
Raj Mandair schrieb: The X Server in cygwin is failing to start with the startx command. Attached is the log file. Please advise. http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-error-font-eof -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: cygwin/x with Vista

2007-06-27 Thread Holger Krull
Sodel Vazquez-Reyes schrieb: I am wondering if there is a version for Windows Vista because I have installed the current version, the installation process finished correctly, but cygwin/X didn't work. There is no version for Vista. X11 from cygwin has problems with Vista (search the

Re: error message

2007-06-20 Thread Holger Krull
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Fatal server error: cannot open log file /tmp/XWin.log I tried fixing it by reinstalling everything, but that didn't work. What do I do? Check if /tmp/XWin.log exists. If so it probably has the wrong owner, so delete it. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Copy images from xapplication to msword with XFree86 as XServer

2007-06-20 Thread Holger Krull
Javvaji, Ramareddy schrieb: Is there any restriction or settings that one has to explicitly do with Xwin.exe while trying to copy an image from an Xapplication to MS Word ? First, with XFree86 as Xserver, can we able to copy image from an Xapplication and paste it to MS word? As far as i

Re: Multiple Session Question

2007-06-07 Thread Holger Krull
Duane Ellis schrieb: I've got cygwin working well via SSH to single host, single window. I connect via SSH, and run startkde - I get the KDE desktop in one single window. Works great! How do I connect to a second machine at the same time. You will need Xwin :1 for the second and Xwin :2

Re: RH-EL-4 -vrs- RH-EL-5

2007-06-07 Thread Holger Krull
Duane Ellis schrieb: Now, New machine RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 But when connecting to RH-EL-5 - provided I do nothing with the keyboard it works perfectly. I suspect RH-EL-5 is provoking something in CygwinX - I do not know. The Still starting a complete kde? Try starting netscape alone

Re: Disruptive screen resolution change when using remote desktop

2007-05-23 Thread Holger Krull
Mansoorali Kudsi schrieb: Was there any reply to this mail? I too face this issue and am eager to know the solution... No there wasn't. And as far as i know there is no real solution for this problem, because the screen depth (amount of colors) changes when using the remote desktop (reduces to

Re: Logging xterm contents to a file.

2007-05-08 Thread Holger Krull
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 screenlog that contains all output. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Logging xterm contents to a file.

2007-05-08 Thread Holger Krull
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 screenlog that contains all output. I should

Re: Logging xterm contents to a file.

2007-05-08 Thread Holger Krull
Thomas Dickey schrieb: 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

Re: how to install dejavu font ?

2007-05-05 Thread Holger Krull
Didier BRETIN schrieb: On 04/05/2007 16:01, Holger Krull wrote: Didier BRETIN schrieb: I installed cygwin/X on my XP box and it's running well. I would like to use the dejavu font (http://dejavu.sf.net/) under X. Do you know how I can install them ? I don't know if this is enough

Re: how to install dejavu font ?

2007-05-05 Thread Holger Krull
Holger Krull schrieb: Didier BRETIN schrieb: On 04/05/2007 16:01, Holger Krull wrote: Didier BRETIN schrieb: I installed cygwin/X on my XP box and it's running well. I would like to use the dejavu font (http://dejavu.sf.net/) under X. Do you know how I can install them ? I don't know

Re: how to install dejavu font ?

2007-05-04 Thread Holger Krull
Didier BRETIN schrieb: I installed cygwin/X on my XP box and it's running well. I would like to use the dejavu font (http://dejavu.sf.net/) under X. Do you know how I can install them ? I don't know if this is enough, but putting the font in /usr/cygwin/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF will be a good

Re: X Server cycling when trying to connect to gdm/dtlogin.

2007-05-01 Thread Holger Krull
Chris Eagan schrieb: I'm trying to use Cygwin/X to connect to remote machines' gdm or dtlogin session managers. XWin.exe -query hostname Does anything change if you use XWin -query numeric.ip.address -from numeric.ip.address ? And create and use a new user on your unix box to get a clean

Re: display depth changing when using remote desktop and -multiwindow option, unable to set depth manually with -multiwindow

2007-05-01 Thread Holger Krull
Jason May schrieb: I believe that Cygwin is detecting the optimal display settings on startup and determining it to be less than 32-bit when initiated through remote desktop. I would use the -depth command line option to manually set the depth to 32 bits, but this does not work with

Re: Drag N Drop in Windows XP

2007-04-30 Thread Holger Krull
Stanley Nguyen schrieb: Stanley Nguyen schrieb: I'm telnetting to this java app from a Windows XP machine with cygwin as my xterm server. Everything works great except drag-n-drop. Everytime I try to drag something from one panel to the other panel within the same xwindows, the mouse icon

Re: Drag N Drop in Windows XP

2007-04-30 Thread Holger Krull
Stanley Nguyen schrieb: Drag and Drog is governed by the window manager, so how did you start Xwin and your java application? I use the standard startxwin.bat to start Cygwin X Server. I believe it is %RUN% XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error by default. Then I telnet into my

Re: Xaccess config when VPN changes local IP

2007-04-29 Thread Holger Krull
Terrence Branscombe schrieb: When I establish a VPN connection to my work network from my Windows system at home the Windows host IP changes from 192.168.0.X to an IP Check if !DisplayManager.requestPort:0 is in your xdm-config. And check if xdm is really listening on Port udp/177. %RUN%

Re: XDMCP remote login freezes for Gnome desktop, but not XFCE.

2007-04-29 Thread Holger Krull
Dustin Harriman schrieb: Using a Cygwin bash shell, I can log into an XFCE desktop just fine with the command X -query sila :1, (then I choose XFCE session at GDM). See attached screenshot cygwin_to_remote_xfce_no_problem.png. Create a new user on the linux box (to make sure it is nothing

Re: Drag N Drop in Windows XP

2007-04-29 Thread Holger Krull
Stanley Nguyen schrieb: I'm telnetting to this java app from a Windows XP machine with cygwin as my xterm server. Everything works great except drag-n-drop. Everytime I try to drag something from one panel to the other panel within the same xwindows, the mouse icon changes to the little

Re: can't startup startx in cygwin

2007-04-28 Thread Holger Krull
Katherine J Merrill schrieb: Started poking around. Decided to delete and reinstall everything. Worked once, then would just get hung again when I startx. Went to Did you use the same user on first and second attempt? I get these two errors from the log: could not init font path element

Re: FW: Wide char support on cygwin

2007-04-27 Thread Holger Krull
Arthi N (RBIN/ECM2) schrieb: But I have included the needed header inspite of that I get the error !) error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of `wostream' with no type 2) error: `std::wostream' should have been declared inside `std' 3) error: `wostream' is neither

Re: FW: Wide char support on cygwin

2007-04-27 Thread Holger Krull
Arthi N (RBIN/ECM2) schrieb: Errors got during compilation : wstreamtest.cpp: In function `int main()': wstreamtest.cpp:17: error: `wistringstream' undeclared (first use this f I get the same. Very weird. Looks as if porting from Sun isn't as easy as suspected. There is entry in

Re: FW: Wide char support on cygwin

2007-04-26 Thread Holger Krull
Arthi N (RBIN/ECM2) schrieb: Hello All, Using -mnocygwin I could compile wstring , but wostream functions and wcswcs functions are not compiling on cygwin . If you are using -mnocygwin you are not compiling a cygwin application any more. Instead it is MINGW32. --

Re: Problem connecting

2007-04-19 Thread Holger Krull
Robert Dail schrieb: I cannot connect to our linux server using cygwinthere is an error. AUDIT: Thu Apr 12 09:12:32 2007: 1512 XWin: client 18 rejected from IP 158.123.81.9 Are you sure that this isn't just your linux server that doesn't like you? Is your X-Server working with local

Re: Can't start XFS

2007-04-18 Thread Holger Krull
Dell'Anna Michele (TERNA) schrieb: I added the fonts path to /etc/X11/fs/config but when I try to start xfs service I receive the following message: FontTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.font-unix should be set to root I searched in mailing list but I didn't find nothing usefull. Anybody could

Re: Changing port number

2007-04-13 Thread Holger Krull
Zxarr schrieb: I'm attempting to install Cygwin/X on our backup server, which is WIndows 2003, running Data Protector 5.5 Data Protector uses port 6000 and 6001 for backup clients to connect to initiate backups. Is there any way of changing the Xwin port form 6000 to something else??

Re: Larger fonts + ClearType

2007-04-11 Thread Holger Krull
Gleb Belov schrieb: I have a high resolution on my laptop and I would like to have larger fonts in menus etc. I tried to consult XFree86 website but no idea... Start Xwin with -dpi 120 (if that is to large try 100) Moreover, it seems like the ClearType setting works for XWin fonts, too. At

Re: XDMCP with cygwin kill kdesktop

2007-03-28 Thread Holger Krull
Cyril Aubert schrieb: Just after login, I open terminal to kill process kdesktop in order to delete the red hat wallpaper. A really weird method to change the background image. Is there a better way to delete the Linux wallpaper that to to kill kdesktop ? Yes. Use kcontrol / Appearance /

Re: XDMCP with cygwin kill kdesktop

2007-03-28 Thread Holger Krull
Cyril Aubert schrieb: Thank you for reply. I find in last topic the way to display only kicker by running $ XWin -multiwindow -clipboard $ kdeinit +kicker But these launch kicker form cygwin platform, and I would like to access to my server application so to my server kicker. Well, you

Re: XWin 100% CPU usage for Java applications on Vista

2007-03-24 Thread Holger Krull
3. On a linux machine, run this command: export DISPLAY=__VISTA_HOST__:0.0 4. Start a Java GUI application, on the linux machine. For example, use the jconsole command, from the Java JDK. 5. After the GUI is displayed on the Vista machine, lock the computer, then unlock it. The

Re: XWin 100% CPU usage for Java applications on Vista

2007-03-24 Thread Holger Krull
Vladimir Nicolici schrieb: On 3/24/07, Holger Krull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had similar problems and found that starting the X Server with -engine 1 will help. Give it a try. I tested, unfortunately, it doesn't work. And I just discovered that opening and closing the About window from

Re: XWin 100% CPU usage for Java applications on Vista

2007-03-24 Thread Holger Krull
Vladimir Nicolici schrieb: With remote desktop, if I loose the connection with my work computer, nothing bad happens, I just reconnect after reestablishing the connection. And remote desktop uses far less bandwidth than X protocol. freenx can provide the same for linux. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Urgent Help

2007-03-21 Thread Holger Krull
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: info. Xwin was started with the command-line: /usr/X11R6/XWin -multiwindo -clipboard -silent-dup-error _XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running Looks like this is a

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