Re: q. on Windows integration
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Wladimir Mutel wrote: Hi, 1. Is it possible for Cygwin X server to use native raster and ttf fonts provided by enclosing Windows environment ? If not, what scale of changes would be required to implement this ? What subsystems and libraries should be touched ? Yes, it's possible. AFAIU, that's what the xorg-x11-fscl package does (though possibly only with enclosed fonts). But perusing its structure and the postinstall script should prove instructive... 2. Is it possible to derive XKB settings from existing keyboard layout settings already done in Windows ? I.e., use the same layout set and switching rules as other Windows apps do ? If not, the question again is - what modules should be reworked, and to what extent ? Again, AFAIK, XWin.exe already does that -- and the previous maintainer, Alexander Gottwald, went to great lengths to keep the keyboard detection tables as complete as possible -- search the archives of cygwin-xfree for keyboard. If you have a keyboard layout that isn't automatically detected, it needs to be added to the table -- again, the archives should also contain the procedure for reporting such layouts; perhaps the current Cygwin/X maintainer will be able to integrate the new layout into the code. Thank you in advance for your replies. I think these changes could be useful for users and make Cygwin/X more natively-lookingbehaving Windows application. Btw, rootless mode is great ! You've heard of -multiwindow, right? That's as native as it gets. :-) If it proved to be implementable, these font/xkb integrations should be as well. They're already implemented, it's just a matter of getting them teased out via configuration. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: Font initialization?
Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted. On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Kenneth Corbin wrote: On Wednesday 07 December 2005 07:54, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Kenneth Corbin wrote: Hi folks, I have an application that needs some non-standard fonts. It's easy enough to add a manually new directory to the font path. What I haven't figured out is how to configure Cygwin/X to add the new font path directory when it starts up. Searching man X for font.*path shows that this could be accomplished with xset +fp DIR (the manpage also gives an example of exactly how to do this). There's also a -fp option to X, but I'm not sure it does what you want. HTH, Igor Thanks Igor, I figured that out from the man pages. What I haven't figured out is where I can put that xset +fp where it will be automatically executed at cygwin/X startup. This depends on how you start Cygwin/X. If you use startxwin.sh, just edit it and put the xset command right after the XWin invocation (though beware that the file will get overwritten every time you update X-startup-scripts). If you use startx, you should be able to put it in your ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xserverrc... HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: Font initialization?
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Kenneth Corbin wrote: Hi folks, I have an application that needs some non-standard fonts. It's easy enough to add a manually new directory to the font path. What I haven't figured out is how to configure Cygwin/X to add the new font path directory when it starts up. Searching man X for font.*path shows that this could be accomplished with xset +fp DIR (the manpage also gives an example of exactly how to do this). There's also a -fp option to X, but I'm not sure it does what you want. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: Problem with numerical input for certain applications in Cygwin
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, scott Langford wrote: I am running Cygwin to ssh onto a Linux server which handles a couple of applications that I use for design work. When I run the applications there are various fill forms which require numeric entry. For some reason I cannot make any numeric input into these forms. The same forms have character entry which works fine. I tried the FAQ and users Guide but could not find any examples of this exact problem. I have some Linux support but that person was basically at a loss. I am not sure where to look to correct this problem. When I run directly on my Linux server I do not have this problem. I suspect there is some setup in my startx.sh file that may help. Any suggestions? You haven't specified exactly *how* you invoke the applications on Linux, but I suspect they are X applications and you invoke them via the X forwarding feature of ssh. This makes your question off-topic for the main list, and on-topic for the cygwin-xfree list (which the Reply-To of this message points to). If you aren't using X, please follow-up to the main list with more details. As for your problem, in the absense of more information, it looks like you're seeing weird Num-Lock-related behavior, which is a known problem with Cygwin/X. Try using the digits above the alphabetical keys instead of the keypad. I also seem to recall some recipes for making Num-Lock work properly -- searching the cygwin-xfree archives may help. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: Is Cygwin/X compatible with HP's mwm?
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, km4hr wrote: Is Cygwin/X compatible with the mwm (Motif Window Manager) that comes with HPUX 10.20? Or is Cygwin/X only supposed to work with Linux? I have an application that works fine with Redhat's X server, Exceed, and Reflections, but not Cygwin/X. I was hoping to use Cygwin/X instead of the commercial X servers. But Cygwin/X doesn't communicate with mwm. I've been trying for days but it's just not working. Application windows all appear normal in Cygwin/X but there is no interaction with the window manager. For example, I can't move windows on the screen. The last window created is the only one that gets focus. Clicking on the others does nothing. Window manager pull down menus don't display. In short, there is no interaction at all between Cygwin/X and the mwm window manager. Is anyone out there using Cygwin/X successfully in this environment? Does anyone know if Cygwin/X has been tested with HP's mwm? I also tried the twm window manager that comes with HPUX 10.20. Is doesn't work right either. The problems are similar but not exactly the same. In the case of twm an outline of the last window created is attached to the mouse pointer. Clicking on the desktop causes the window to be completed and appear normal. I am able to interact with the window manager after that. But what's going on with this weird behavior? Hard to say without any information on how you start the X server[*]. A couple of WAGs: don't run the X server in multiwindow mode (or you'll get two window managers trying to outdo each other), and check that your NumLock is not on. Also, are you connecting to the HPUX machine via ssh? If so, read http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-ssh-no-x11forwarding. HTH, Igor [*] It's recommended that you attach /tmp/XWin.log from the failed session. -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: rxvt fonts size setting problem for X/Cygwin
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, faif cn wrote: Hello All, I use rxvt in cygwin in dos shell without X. Font size is set on .Xdefaults as Rxvt*font: Lucida Console-14 But when I run rxvt in X, the fonts size of rxvt terminal is too small. The same setting seems not affect rxvt in X? How can I keep fonts as same as big in cygwin dos shell? First off, if you use rxvt, it's not a DOS shell. Secondly, X uses a different font selection scheme from W11 (the X interface wrapper around the native Windows calls that rxvt uses). W11 uses Windows font names. For a list of available X fonts, run xlsfonts (or use xfontsel to select fonts visually). I don't know of an easy way to dispatch to a font name based on whether you're running X or native. You could try playing with window names and using this as a selector in your .Xdefaults... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: rxvt fonts size setting problem for X/Cygwin
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Leo wrote: On 11/22/05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, faif cn wrote: Hello All, I use rxvt in cygwin in dos shell without X. Font size is set on .Xdefaults as Rxvt*font: Lucida Console-14 But when I run rxvt in X, the fonts size of rxvt terminal is too small. The same setting seems not affect rxvt in X? How can I keep fonts as same as big in cygwin dos shell? First off, if you use rxvt, it's not a DOS shell. Secondly, X uses a different font selection scheme from W11 (the X interface wrapper around the native Windows calls that rxvt uses). W11 uses Windows font names. For a list of available X fonts, run xlsfonts (or use xfontsel to select fonts visually). Thank you. If I understand you right, the fonts name shown by xlsfonts or xfontsel should be used for X. Yes. But I changed .Xdefaults font section by using name listed by xlsfonts, the native rxvt fonts changes, whereas X version rxvt doesn't. Am I missing your points? I don't think so. When I do this, the font changes in both the Windows mode and the X mode (to different things, of course). How do you invoke the X-mode rxvt? Do you have a script or an alias that passes the -fn option to rxvt? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: Linking propbem with gtk libraries
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Laitio Mika (Sysline) wrote: [snip] Do you know what changes are needed to gcc -g -O2 -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lpangoxft-1.0 -lXft -lfreetype -lz -lXrender -lXext -lfontconfig -lpangox-1.0 -lX11 -lpango-1.0 -lm -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lintl -liconv -o hello.exe main.o command? Yes. Move 'main.o' before all the '-l' flags (typical newbie mistake). See also http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.programming.html#faq.programming.linker (which should, IMO, be extended to cover object linking as well). HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: my 3 heads = apps in the dead zone
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Chris Green wrote: On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 09:51:12AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Is this a problem with the app, cygwin/x, x.org, Win or my config? Ultimately, window placement is the responsibility of the window manager. However, most window managers assume a single rectangular desktop area. Hmph, not any more according to most 'modern' window manager programmers. I've had this discussion with two lots of developers of same and both have now given up any support for positioning of windows through the window manager. At least user control of where the window is positioned is no longer done using the window manager configuration. This does not contradict what I said. Even if all the window manager does is pass the user's preference of where to place the window directly to the X server, it's still up to the window manager to act as a liaison to the server. If there is no user preference specified, the window manager should be the one placing the window (even if it just defaults to (0,0)). I'd be happier to find out that some window manager does support irregularly shaped displays (and even happier to know that someone was working on getting the windows native WM to support them). :-) Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: Auto hidden taskbar stays hidden
On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Thomas Gilgin wrote: Hello all, thanks for your answers. I'll try to make it a little bit more clear: I'm talking about the *windows* task bar. Both Keep taskbar on top of other windows and the auto hide option are checked. Using Windows 2000 (5.00.2195) Service Pack 3 For starting X (sorry I'm a newbie to X), I use C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\startxwin.bat, which contains run XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error Hide root window of the tray icon is checked (is this allowed?). It's checked by default for multiwindow mode. As long as native windows applications have the focus or none of the windows is maximized, everything works as expected. But if an X application has the focus *and* any other (native or non-native) Window is maximized the taskbar does not show, if I move the mouse to the bottom of the desktop. Pressing the windows key or Ctrl+Esc makes it show (maybe because the xterm looses focus?) I still can't reproduce this behavior on WinXP. I've tried the exact steps (except that X was running on display :1) and my taskbar unhides with no problems. If this is a bug in X, it's Win2k-specific. Any more information I could provide (or I should read)? Let's go with Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Please provide the information requested in that link. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: Auto hidden taskbar stays hidden
On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote: Thomas Gilgin wrote: Hi list, I use an auto hiding taskbar. If an application, e.g. xterm or a native windows application is maximized, the task bar does not appear if the mouse pointer is moved to the border of the desktop. If no window is maximized, it works as expected. Is this a bug or my fault? :-) Could be a bug, since it doesn't react this way on Linux with Gnome and a maximized xterm. Haven't had a chance to try it on Cygwin-X myself though... Larry, I think the OP was referring to the *Windows* taskbar, not the one provided by one of the X window managers (e.g., Gnome). The phrasing is confusing as well, especially the part that says e.g. xterm or a native windows application -- does this mean that this is reproducible for him even with native Windows apps? If so, it's a Windows bug and has nothing to do with X. FWIW, the OP didn't provide details of his OS, nor how X was run (i.e., multiwindow, rootless, rooted), nor which window manager he was running (in the rootless/rooted mode). I've just tried to and couldn't reproduce this problem on WinXP with X running in either multiwindow or rootless (twm, fvwm) mode. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: changes in monitor resolution
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Roger Levy wrote: Hi, I use Cygwin/X on my laptop all the time, and I often switch back and forth between my XGA laptop display and an SXGA external monitor. (I use startxwin.bat to start the X server.) What I find is that when I start xwin while my laptop display is active, and then switch to the external monitor, nothing displaying through X is visible on the bottom and right-hand sides of the display. I assume that this is because startxwin.bat detected my monitor resolution as XGA and so configured its resolution as 1024x768, and doesn't automatically resize when I switch displays. I can fix this by closing the X server and then restarting it, but then I have to close all my X clients too. Is there a way to either (a) automatically start X with SXGA resolution, or (b) manually resize X after I switch monitors, without restarting it? (a) is possible -- you can pass screen size parameters to X. For (b), see if -multiplemonitors does the right thing; if not, you're out of luck. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: connection to hostname:0.0 refused by server when running via XDMCP
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Reinhard Mueller wrote: Igor, Am Mittwoch, den 26.10.2005, 10:27 +0200 schrieb Reinhard Müller: $ su sabine xterm Xlib: connection to dhcp0.europe.localnet:0.0 refused by server Thanks for your hint. I tried to set xhost + localhost in the terminal before doing the su (didn't work), but I guess I have to do that on the Windows machine (the machine where the X server runs), so I wonder which is the correct place to add it. Sorry, I think I may have misunderstood what you were trying to do. Looks like you do su sabine on the *remote* machine -- I thought you tried this locally. By default, X (in XDMCP mode) limits the connections to the user logged in via XDMCP from the target machine. If you want other users to connect (whether those from the X server machine, or those from the XDMCP target machine), you'll need to add them to the access list with the xhost command. You may need to specify the host to add in the form that xhost understands (i.e., the full machine name instead of localhost). See the xhost manpage for details. The xhost command needs to be invoked by the user who has control over the X server (e.g., from the remote xterm). HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: connection to hostname:0.0 refused by server when running via XDMCP
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Reinhard Müller wrote: Hello, all, I use cygwin/x to make my Windows PC a X Windows terminal: I connect to my GNU/Linux machine via XDMCP. Everything works fine as long as I don't want to change the user. However, when I try to execute a program as a different user, I get the following error message: $ su sabine xterm Xlib: connection to dhcp0.europe.localnet:0.0 refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified xterm Xt error: Can't open display: dhcp0.europe.localnet:0.0 (dhcp0.europe.localnet is the name of the Windows PC where cygwin/x runs) Any hint about how to fix this is highly appreciated. You'll need to allow connections from localhost: try xhost + localhost from the original user. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: gnome-terminal and vte: works fine
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Per Lundberg wrote: Dear list subscribers, I have managed to get vte and gnome-terminal compiled and running on Cygwin/XFree. Seems to be working fine also, and it's nice to have when you are stuck in the Windows world. Attached is the patch for vte (based on another patch I found on the net, very small modifications to get the patch to apply with latest vte). vte is a package neccessary for the compilation of gnome-terminal. gnome-terminal compiles right out of the box (2.12.0, latest version) but there is some problems with the help files (because of missing scrollkeeper-preinstall). If you go into each of the help/XX subdirectories and run a manual make gnome-terminal-XX.omf.out, it will generate these files anyway, but I have not tested whether the online help works or not. Good to know. You might want to test these before adding the package to the distribution. I hope this makes someone happy. :-) How do we now go ahead and get these packages into the netinstaller? Two ways. One is http://cygwin.com/setup.html, but that requires an active maiintainer, who is subscribed to the cygwin-apps list. The other is providing a custom mirror with just that package, and having the users download it unofficially (look at the setup.exe homepage link on the above page). If you choose to go with the first approach, you'll need to ITP the package(s) on cygwin-apps. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: XDMCP issues
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Loic Domaigne wrote: Hi Chris, Does have someone an idea what's going wrong? It sounds almost like a permissions/security problem, i.e. your XP box won't *allow* a remote XDMCP to open the display. I do what you;re trying to do on Windows 2000 and I don't remember any problems like this but it may well be that XP is being more 'secure'. You can 'ping my_XP_box' from the Linux box OK can you? Your post invited me to have a look at the /var/log/messages on my Linux Box. I saw that kdm couldn't map the IP to the hostname of my XP box. I made a corresponding entry in /etc/hosts... Et voilà! IT'S WORKING!!! Thanks a lot Chris. You put me on the right path. The solaris 9 box is also working (I had the same problem as on the Linux box). For the record, http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-audit-client-rejected could've helped too. The message is not quite the same, though -- time to update the FAQ? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: mouse pointer disappearing w/ Thunderbird
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Rob Siklos wrote: Hi All, I don't quite know what to do with this, so I'll just tell you what I'm seeing and hopefully you'll be able to tell me what the next steps are. I *think* this is a cygwin x bug. I'm using Mozilla Thunderbird as my e-mail client, and I've noticed that if I move the mouse over top of an X window (say, an x-term) during the time that the new message notification popus up on my taskbar, my mouse pointer will disappear, and won't reappear over any other X window until I restart XWin. Any idea what this could be? It probably is a Cygwin/X bug -- I've heard it mentioned before. I don't think there is a fix, but there *is* a workaround -- the X menu (which you get by right-clicking on the X icon in the system tray) should have a Show Cursor item, which will make the cursor reappear. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: mkdir: cannot create directory `/cygdrive/h': No such file or directory
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Todd Shoenfelt wrote: I've recently installed Cygwin to my XP machine for the first time. When I launch the bash window, I get: snip mkdir: cannot create directory `/cygdrive/h': No such file or directory Copying skeleton files. These files are for the user to personalise their cygwin experience. These will never be overwritten. /usr/bin/install: cannot create directory `/cygdrive/h': No such file or directory /usr/bin/install: cannot create directory `/cygdrive/h': No such file or directory /usr/bin/install: cannot create directory `/cygdrive/h': No such file or directory bash: cd: /cygdrive/h: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/skel /snip It looks like Cygwin is trying to store some session data. I do end up getting a functioning command line, but the 'h' directory isn't created. Cygwin is installed here: C:/cygwin/cygdrive. I've done 'mkdir C:/cygwin/cygdrive/h', but the error persists. How do I get these messages to go away? First, this is a general Cygwin issue, and has nothing to do with Cygwin/X. I'm redirecting this reply to the main Cygwin list -- please remove cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com from further discussion. Note that the cygwin-xfree list adds an extra Reply-To, so you'll have to manually remove it if you get this message via that list. Whenever you first run the Cygwin shell as a new user, some skeleton files are copied into your home directory automatically. The home directory (or $HOME in Unix-speak) is determined according to the rules described at http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.home. /cygdrive is a virtual directory, which is the parent directory for all Windows drive letters. IOW, even though / is C:/cygwin, /cygdrive/h is NOT C:/cygwin/cygdrive/h, it's H:/. For some reason, Cygwin thinks your $HOME is /cygdrive/h (or H:\). If you do have the HOME environment variable set in Windows, that could explain your problem. If you don't have the H: drive, simply unset the HOME variable in the Windows environment -- it'll be set appropriately by Cygwin. If you do have the H: drive occasionally (e.g., it's a network drive), and some other program needs this setting of the HOME environment variable, you can edit /cygwin.bat to unset HOME before starting the Cygwin shell. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: XWin hangs on opening xterms
On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Norbert Harendt wrote: Hello, I updated cygwin a few days ago, now my xwindow-remote sessions are often hanging and are consuming a lot of cpu-power. In detail: I am running a W2K-machine with 2 cpus and connect to a linux-X-server via cygwins XWin -query 192.168.1.100 -once in order to get the logon-screen of the linux-server. Before last days update all was performing very will (but now i don't know which version that was) Now i get the following output: [snip] At this point the Cygin/X-windows hangs. Did you let it run long enough? Looks like it's trying to fork, and the DLLs are being loaded. Does the CPU show any activity during the hang? Does the disk? Try running it under strace to see if it's really a hang, a busy loop, etc. If you get any output at all during the hang, XWin is probably doing something useful. but than the logon screen of the linuxserver appears in the Cygwin/X-Window and i am able to login. The initialisation of the X-desktop is done as usual. But every time i open an xterm, the Cygwin/X-Window hangs again. Again killing the second XWin.exe brings Cygwin/X-Window back to life, producing an output similar to the following ** 332281787 [main] XWin 804 fork_parent: child 1476 died waiting for dll loading ** Can anybody tell me, what is happening Yes. XWin forks to be able to spawn off a process (in this case, xterm). You have killed the forked child, thus XWin is not able to create the xterm process. Don't do that. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: X11 forwarding connection refused
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Anna Barnes wrote: Hi I'm sorry I know this question has been asked many times but I have searched FAQ and followed all the suggestions listed there for X11 forwarding, for example I have set X11 forwarding to yes in the ssh_config files on both the client and the server. I have also set the DISPLAY variable, and tried using xhost + I have also tried some of the solutions previously mentioned but I still get the error message when I try and run any of the applications on our apps server... connect localhost port 6000: connection refused X connection to nimbus:12.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown) I will also add that I never get any of these problems with my apple mac versions of X11. Sounds like the X server is not accepting connections. Can you run local X clients (e.g., xterm)? FWIW, you don't need to use xhost + with ssh forwarding. Also, see if http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-ssh-no-x11forwarding helps... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: Basic question 2 - Copy from Windows and paste to cygwin or X
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Herbert Eppel wrote: On 28.09.2005 13:43 UK Time, Soong, SylokeJ wrote: I am already doing that (-clipboard), among others: run XWin -screen 0 1750 1350 -multiplemonitors -emulate3buttons -scrollbars -clipboard -silent-dup-error Thanks, but would you mind elaborating a little? As I explained in a previous message, it's been a few years since I used Unix when I worked at University and my Unix knowledge has never been brilliant and has become even rustier since then... I start my X environment with the following command: startx -- -screen 0 1200 900 where would -clipoard fit in, and what does it actually do? man startx explains that the options after '--' are passed directly to the server. -clipboard is one such option. man XWin explains what that option actually does (i.e., synchronizes the X keyboard with the Windows one). HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: Basic question 2 - Copy from Windows and paste to cygwin or X
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Herbert Eppel wrote: On 28.09.2005 15:52 UK Time, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: I start my X environment with the following command: startx -- -screen 0 1200 900 where would -clipoard fit in, and what does it actually do? man startx explains that the options after '--' are passed directly to the server. -clipboard is one such option. man XWin explains what that option actually does (i.e., synchronizes the X keyboard with the Windows one). HTH, Thanks. However, I seems something is wrong somewhere. With my usual command (i.e. startx -- -screen 0 1200 900) X runs OK, although I just noticed that I get some feedback relating to clipboard in the main cygwin window (see http://homepage.ntlworld.com/herb.eppel_new/temp/Cygwin1.jpg) Right -- this says that clipboard support isn't enabled. When I first tried startx -- -screen 0 1200 900 -clipboard some clipboard error messages appeared - see http://homepage.ntlworld.com/herb.eppel_new/temp/Cygwin2.jpg Those are just warnings -- the clipboard thread is started. I just tried the same command again. This time there are no clipboard error messages (see http://homepage.ntlworld.com/herb.eppel_new/temp/Cygwin3.jpg), but the clipboard still doesn't work. What am I doing wrong? Please provide the exact steps you use to test the clipboard operation, and any messages or results that make you believe it doesn't work. Hint: X has multiple selection buffers; the clipboard support synchronizes what's called primary selection; some applications (e.g., Mozilla) use a different buffer for their selection storage. It would also help if you posted /tmp/XWin.log (instead of those screenshots). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: Basic question X - whatever
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Herbert Eppel wrote: Success 8-) Thanks a lot for all contributions! Just one more thing for now: I think I may find it a little difficult to get used to pressing the left and right mouse button simultaneously. Is there an alternative (without losing my double-click function for the scroll wheel button)? Depending on the application, you may be able to set up keyboard shortcuts to do this. For a bash example, see http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.copy-and-paste (or try searching the archives of the main Cygwin mailing list for copy paste -- I'm sure there were recipes for various key combinations). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: second report
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Alexander Schwez wrote: Hallo, I send you second report with ERRORs in using WAVE function. Some more I have printing Stack trace in Window X~. Thank you, Alex Schwez,Lübeck, Germany. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ PATH=/usr/openwin/bin:$PATH [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ startx Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 6.8.2.0-4 Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com XWin was started with the following command line: X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard winValidateArgs - g_iNumScreens: 1 iMaxConsecutiveScreen: 1 (II) XF86Config is not supported (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information (==) FontPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ winDetectSupportedEngines - Windows NT/2000/XP winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw installed winDetectSupportedEngines - DirectDraw4 installed winDetectSupportedEngines - Returning, supported engines 0007 winSetEngine - Multi Window or Rootless = ShadowGDI winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel winAllocateFBShadowGDI - Creating DIB with width: 1152 height: 864 depth: 32 winFinishScreenInitFB - Masks: 00ff ff00 00ff winInitVisualsShadowGDI - Masks 00ff ff00 00ff BPRGB 8 d 24 bpp 32 null screen fn ReparentWindow null screen fn RestackWindow InitQueue - Calling pthread_mutex_init InitQueue - pthread_mutex_init returned InitQueue - Calling pthread_cond_init InitQueue - pthread_cond_init returned winInitMultiWindowWM - Hello winInitMultiWindowWM - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Hello winMultiWindowXMsgProc - Calling pthread_mutex_lock () MIT-SHM extension disabled due to lack of kernel support XFree86-Bigfont extension local-client optimization disabled due to lack of shared memory support in the kernel (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31 (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: 0407 (0407) (--) Using preset keyboard for German (Germany) (407), type 4 Rules = xorg Model = pc105 Layout = de Variant = (null) Options = (null) (EE) Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap (--) 3 mouse buttons found Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list! winPointerWarpCursor - Discarding first warp: 576 432 winInitMultiWindowWM - pthread_mutex_lock () returned. winProcEstablishConnection - Hello winInitClipboard () winProcEstablishConnection - winInitClipboard returned. winClipboardProc - Hello DetectUnicodeSupport - Windows NT/2000/XP winInitMultiWindowWM - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned. winMultiWindowXMsgProc - pthread_mutex_lock () returned. winClipboardProc - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 winInitMultiWindowWM - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 winMultiWindowXMsgProc - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned. winMultiWindowXMsgProc - DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 winMultiWindowXMsgProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the display. winClipboardProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the display. winInitMultiWindowWM - XOpenDisplay () returned and successfully opened the display. winMultiWindowXMsgProcErrorHandler - ERROR: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) winMultiWindowXMsgProcErrorHandler - ERROR: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) winMultiWindowXMsgProcErrorHandler - ERROR: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) See http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2005-09/msg00184.html. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: Problem using Cygwin, Dual Monitor, with External DVI
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Andy Glew wrote: I have a problem whereby X text does not render correctly, in a configuration involving dual monitors, an external DVI monitor in addition to the LCD monitor on my laptop. It renders in other configurations using these monitors and this laptop. I am using Cygwin/X [*] on an IBM ThinkPad T42p. The T42p is docked in ^^^ Did you mean to include a footnote for this? an IBM 2878 docking station. The docking station is connected to an IBM ThinkVision monitor via a DVI cable. When I am in dual monitor mode (i.e. driving both monitors independently, with the external DVI monitor Windows' primary desktop), Cygwin/X applications such as xterm and GNU EMACS do not render on the external DVI monitor. Their X windows (I am running Cygwin/X in multiwindow mode, so their X windows are also Windows windows) are blank - nothing displays. When I drag these windows over to the secondary monitor, the laptop's LCD display, they render. Moreover, it is obvious that everything I typed while the window was on the external DVI monitor is now visible. Therefore, stuff is being added to X Windows' concept of what should be displayed on the window - it is just not getting sent to the screen. Similarly, when I drag the X windows back from the secondary, laptop, LCD, onto the external DVI monitor, the windows drag correctly. The old contents of the window display on the external DVI monitor, but nothing new gets drawn. --- However, when I am driving only the external DVI monitor, but not also driving the LCD at the same time, everything is drawn. That is how I am writing this message. --- Normally, at home I use Cygwin/X with an external analog video monitor in dual display mode with my laptop's LCD tablet. This is one of the first times I habve used an external DVI monitor. --- Configuration info: Now, how can I tell what versions of Cygwind and Cygwin/X I am running? Attaching the output of uname -svr and /tmp/XWin.log is usually enough for most X problems. For general Cygwin problems, it's best to attach the output of cygcheck -svr, as requested in the Cygwin problem reporting guidelines at http://cygwin.com/problems.html. The external DVI monitor is reported by Window's device manager as a Plug and Play monitor, on an ATI Monility Fire GL T2. The laptop LCD panel is an IBM Thinkpad 1400 x 1050 LCD panel, also on ATI Monility Fire GL T2. That said, let me take a guess: try using the -multiplemonitors option of XWin, and see if it solves your problem. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: ssh and X server
On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Mario dos Reis wrote: I have recently installed Cygwin on my home PC (WinXP). I have tried to ssh to a solaris system and then running netscape, gut I get the followig error message and netscape terminates: X Error of failed request: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) Major opcode of failed request: 73 (X_GetImage) Resource id in failed request: 0x3a Serial number of failed request: 121 Current serial number in output stream: 121 To be honest I have no clue of what's going on. I normally log onto the same solaris machine from my linux laptop at work, and have no problem running netscape. Does http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-ssh-no-x11forwarding help? Look especially at the second and fourth answers. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: running CygwinX with a limited user account
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Bart Bacon wrote: To the Gurus of CygwinX, I've noticed that in order to run CygwinX on separate accounts on the same machine, all users must have computer administrator privileges under the Windows XP Professional operating system. Is there any work around to allow users with limited privileges (such as my daughter) to access CygwinX? Cygwin does not seem to have this problem. Thanks for a great product and hopefully a response to this question. It would help to know exactly what error messages you're getting from the limited account, but it sounds like the problem of not being able to overwrite either /tmp/.X11-unix or /tmp/XWin.log. X creates a directory in /tmp that is owned by the last user who ran X (and, of course, so is the log file). The next user may need to have administrative privileges to overwrite the directory and log. One possible solution is to have a different /tmp for your daughter's account -- see man mount for user mounts. Let us know if it helps. If not, please give a better description of your problem, with the steps to reproduce it and the error messages you see. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: Apologies over using Subject line for 'reference'
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, John Ormerod wrote: This might be off-subject, but I think has a general reference. I've used forums (or fora) and newsgroups for years, but I've never come across this format before. I couldn't find any guidance on how to use it, so it's all been guesswork - my first attempt had a subject something like Testing as I was unsure about the use of ' at dot com' rather than [EMAIL PROTECTED] for example. I've had a few responses appear as an email, but most I can only see via the browser and there's no way to use that for a reply. I wondered how people were replying and getting the reference to form the discussion tree. And I'm still non the wiser, but at least I know what not to do now. Sorry. FWIW, I mostly reply via the browser. See if http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-09/msg00989.html helps. GMane also allows you to get a full raw copy of a given message to reply to. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
X announcements
I seem to recall some discussion about why X announcements weren't forwarded to this list from cygwin-xfree-announce (the way they are to the main Cygwin list from cygwin-announce), but can't find it at the moment. Could someone refresh my memory? Are the reasons still relevant? Thanks, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: setup PATH variable by PATH=%PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin
Ugh, top-posting. Reformatted... On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Mark Paulus wrote: On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 12:33:23 -0400 (EDT), PoWah Wong wrote: I want to setup my PATH variable by following the instructions of Chapter 4. Using Cygwin/X, section startx at http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using.html. After doing PATH=%PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin my original path is lost. I use windows XP SP2. [snip] The statement should read: PATH=%PATH%:/usr/X11R6/bin Note the trailing % on PATH. That is a Windowism. No, actually, since the example is in a shell, the statement should read PATH=$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin (note the quotes and the '$'). I'd update the HTML in CVS, but it looks like a generated file, and I couldn't find the source. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: Batch conversion between vector graphics?
On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Angel Tsankov wrote: Does cygwin include an application suitable for batch conversion of .fig files to .eps? If so, what is it? fig2dev, in the transfig package. Granted, transfig could use a better description in the installer... HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: Cygwin/X under XP fails to start only on 2nd User Account
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Iain Campbell wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Iain Campbell wrote: I'm new to the list. Hi! I have two accounts on my laptop, one for use on my home network and the other for use at my place of work. I'm going nuts trying to get X working on my office account, even though it's perfectly fine on my personal account. --snipped-- Start here: Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html I suspect it's either a mount issue, or a permission one. Seeing the output of cygcheck -svr will likely provide enough information to decide which one. Please make sure you *attach* the output, rather than include it in-line. Thanks, Igor. I've had a peek at the file (attached) and I'm none the wiser :-) The file you attached shows a lot of information about your system that's useful for those who know where to look -- saves asking a whole bunch of thy this -- what do you see? questions. According to the cygcheck output, your mounts look good (i.e., you've installed Cygwin for all users). The next step is to look at /tmp/XWin.log for the exact fatal error you get (you mentioned it was non-specific, but didn't paste the exact message in). You aren't trying to run the two X sessions (for the office account and the home one) at the same time, by any chance, are you? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: Problem solved, sort of (was Re: Cygwin/X under XP fails to start only on 2nd User Account)
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Iain Campbell wrote: Tried starting X using 'startx' from the problem account and discovered a vital clue. There was an error message suggesting that the process couldn't write to /tmp/XWin.log Ah, good, that was my next question... :-) I'm glad you found the problem. Rather than delete the file, I've set permissions to 0777 and it fixes my problem. I am, however, if this was the correct way to fix it. That's exactly the correct way to fix it (well, permissions should really be 0666). There is no other way to allow different users to write to the same file (short of adding individual ACLs, but not all POSIX tools understand those). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: Matlab Segmentation Fault error
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, René Berber wrote: Joe Andersen wrote: Not sure if this is a Cygwin problem, but it seems to be. I just installed cygwin so I could run Matlab on the unix servers at school from my windows laptop. Now that I;ve got rid of zonealarm, cygwin generallty works fine. However, when I try to run matlab after having ssh'ed to crest (our server), I get segmentation fault and matlab doesn't run. Here is how I log on: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ssh -X -l crest.*** I assume you started X windows first on your laptop. [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Last login: Mon Aug 29 15:59:01 2005 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ matlab Segmentation fault This is happening on the server, not your laptop, so the problem may be on the server. Have you tried running matlab on an X terminal connected directly to the server? start matlab with the following flags -nojvm -nodisplay -nosplash -nodisplay (in various combinations) Is there something I should change settings wise to make things work? Or is SSh the wrong protocol here? Ssh should not cause any problem, I use it all the time to have a graphical interface for Solaris and Linux. You just have to make sure that the environment variable DISPLAY is set correctly (on the server) and that your host (laptop in this case) has security permission to access the X server (xhost +laptop name or address). A couple of comments: this is almost certainly a bug in Matlab or one of the libraries it uses -- it should not crash like this. Also, this is an X-related issue, and thus belongs on the cygwin-xfree list, not the main one -- please direct all follow-ups there (should happen automatically with the current Reply-To). That said, you may find http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-ssh-no-x11forwarding helpful for finding a workaround for your problem. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: Remote login, then nothing happens
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Andy Schmidgall wrote: Peter Valdemar Morch wrote: Hi, This is a mailing list about the X server in Cygwin. Sounds to me like you are asking about ssh specific stuff. I'm not sure this is true -- this pertains to X forwarding over ssh, so IMO belongs on this list. Andy Schmidgall mrflippy-at-tresgeek.net |Lists| wrote: I'm running cygwin/X on my Windows XP Home box, and am trying to connect to my Linux (Fedora Core 4) box. X runs fine on my windows machine, but I can't seem to get the remote connection working. I've tried ssh -X, ssh -Y, multiple combinations of options for those. All result in the same thing: I'm asked for my password, I enter it, and then... nothing. Nothing else happens. The logs on the linux box indicate that it accepted the ssh session. X Forwarding is enabled in my ssh config file on the linux box. I've read and reread the FAQ and documentation. I see nothing of note in any logs that I can find. Any ideas what might be wrong? If you open a non-X cygwin session in a dos box, and then type: cygwin-prompt DISPLAY=:0 xwininfo.exe -root Does that show information or an error message? It waits a minute, and then gives me: xwininfo: unable to open display ':0' usage: xwininfo [-options ...] Heh. To get X forwarding over ssh, you need at least 2 things: a running X server, and for ssh to know which display the X server runs on[*]. The above seems to indicate that the X server is either not running, or is running on the wrong display. (and then a bunch of options) cygwin-prompt DISPLAY=:0 ssh -Y [EMAIL PROTECTED] do you then get a Password: prompt? If you do, and you enter your linux password, do you then get a prompt on your linux box? If not, this question is probably not related to X at all. Contact e.g. another cygwin list. I get a password prompt, but after entering my password, nothing else happens. I do not get a command prompt after entering my password. Does the same happen if you run ssh -x (note the lowercase) without DISPLAY= and -Y? If so, you may indeed have a general ssh issue -- try to get a working prompt first, and then set up X forwarding. If there is another list I should be sending this too, please let me know. I wasn't quite sure what specific area the problem fell under. I think until we determine otherwise, let's continue this on cygwin-xfree. One more place to check is your startup scripts on the remote machine. Do they change the value of DISPLAY (they shouldn't -- it should be left at whatever ssh sets it to)? Do they try to launch an X client if DISPLAY is set (that could be what's causing the apparent hang)? Igor [*] Well, there are more configuration options to check, but the two things above are required regardless of the configuration. -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: Cygwin for exporting CDROM
Wrong list, redirected. This has nothing to do with Cygwin/X. Please remove cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com from further discussion. On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, clresid wrote: Dear Sir/Mdm, Is there a way for me to export the CDROM of my PC and allow a remote mount from another unix system (such as Sun or SGI) to read the CDROM data? Thank you. You could try using the nfs-server package. Please read the documentation carefully before using. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: Problem commands cygwin
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Raúl Lorenzo Boullosa wrote: Hi, I downloaded CygWin and installed, with base and X11 packages. If i use the startxwin.bat and get error below. So I went to FAQ and DOCs to solve the problem about opening fonts. Now, I open a console with bash --login -i and it doesn´t exist mount, umount, ls command. If i type any command before i get this error: bash: mount: Command not found bash: ls Command not found Sounds like a non-X-related mount problem to me. But it's just a guess, pending details. The only commands works I found are help, exit. :) Yep, those are bash builtins, not external programs like ls. So i can´t solve the problem, whats happend? I'd suggest reporting this to the main Cygwin list, following the guidelines at http://cygwin.com/problems.html. Particularly, we would need the information about your system that cygcheck -svr provides -- please be sure to *attach* that output to your message. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: Spam: XFree86 maintainer
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 23 09:19, Alan Hourihane wrote: On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 13:33 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 22 12:09, Øyvind Harboe wrote: I miss Alexander :-) Any word on a new cygwin-xfree maintainer? Unfortunately not. Is anybody willing to step up, perhaps somebody who already looked into the xfree sources more than once? If no one steps up for the job, then I'll volunteer. But my time is limited, so I won't be able to make releases at the frequency Alexander did. Thanks for the offer! It's worth a couple of gold starts. We'll just wait for cgf to wake up now... ;-) Why wait for CGF? You have the power to give out gold stars too, you know... :-) I'm sure he'll confirm these. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: Latex in Cygwin lost?
Wrong list, redirected. Please remove cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com from further replies. On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, xzou wrote: Dear Cygwin folks, I installed Cygwin/X in Feb, 2005, and it has been working very well. This passed weekend I wad trying add the xfig, and after downloading and reinstalling, yes I have xfig now. However, the latex and tex do not work any more, but amstex still works. When I run latex, I got the following message: $ latex meta.tex This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) file:line:error style messages enabled. %-line parsing enabled. kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.fmt tcfmgr: config file `tcfmgr.map' (usually in $TEXMFMAIN/texconfig) not found. fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found. I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'! and when I run tex I got the following: $ tex ams-00.tex This is TeXk, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.4) file:line:error style messages enabled. %-line parsing enabled. kpathsea: Running mktexfmt tex.fmt tcfmgr: config file `tcfmgr.map' (usually in $TEXMFMAIN/texconfig) not found. fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found. I can't find the format file `tex.fmt'! I am a mathematician, and use latex a lot. Does anybody have any suggestion/idea in solving this problem? Many thanks Xingfu Zou, University of Western Ontario (Canada) What does cygcheck -cv tetex tetex-base tetex-bin tetex-tiny tetex-extra show? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: MOUSE MOVE EVENT + CTRL + LEFT CLICK not recognized?
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, jason cafarelli wrote: I've recently started using cygwin in place of XVision. One of my programs uses ctrl + left click to move a mouse cursor around the screen. For some reason CYGwin does not seem to recognize the ctrl key being held down. Is this a newb setup/configuration problem or something more serious? Two other xservers i have tested with recognize the ctrl+click. What does xev show? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: X11 icons without stripes?
Wrong list, redirected. Please remove cygwin at cygwin dot com from further messages. On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Torsten Bronger wrote: I use Cygwin under Win2k. When I start X11 apps remotely on a Linux box through an ssh -X tunnel, their icons (e.g. in the taskbar) have black horizontal stripes. Is there a way to get rid of them? Try ssh -Y instead of ssh -X. For reasons, see the Cygwin/X FAQ (http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-ssh-no-x11forwarding). HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: more in insert and copy from clipboard
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, J. David Boyd wrote: Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, J. David Boyd wrote: Is there some setting that tells Cygwin to use/not use the windows clipboard. [snip] For the longest time, I have been merryly cutting and pasting between firefox, notepad, a bash shell, emacs, etc, all using ctrl-insert and shft-insert. Sometime in the recent past, this no longer works. I can cut and paste between all of my cygwin programs no problem, but there is no communication with the windows side of things. [snip] There is no 'Properties' item. I'm running in Cygwin X-windows, and doing everything under X. My bash is running in an xterm, started with this command line (without the line break, of course): xterm -sl 5000 -sb -rightbar -ms red -cr red -fg black -bg white -e /usr/local/bin/bash -l Ah, so you're using an xterm. This makes the question off-topic for this list. I've redirected my reply to the right list, and set the Reply-To: accordingly. Please remove cygwin at cygwin dot com from further discussion of this, unless it veers back to something relevant to Cygwin at large, and not just Cygwin/X. My best example would be to wget something from a URL in a file. Last week (two, three weeks ago?) I would have used the mouse to highlight the text in firefox (notepad, openoffice.org), then pressed Ctl-Ins to copy it into the clipboard. (Or clicked on copy in the menus, it worked either way.) Then I would have moved into my xterm, and type 'wget ' and then pressed shift-ins, to paste from the clipboard. I hit enter, and wget worked perfect. Now, I do it all the same, but the shift-ins pastes whatever I last ctl-ins from a cygwin-X window. I don't recall changing any settings anywhere, but something might have changed in some internal Cygwin settings file, somewhere... This has nothing to do with Cygwin settings -- it's an internal setting of the X server. My guess would be that either the clipboard thread isn't starting properly, or you need to run xwinclip instead of using the -clipboard parameter. Looking at (and posting) /tmp/XWin.log would help. The X clipboard settings are generally confusing -- they have at least 4 clipboards, only one of which corresponds to the system clipboard. As far as I know, the recent X servers are pretty good at doing the copy/paste with the system clipboard, but there's always the possibility of misconfiguration or some other factor that affects this. Perhaps the people on the Cygwin/X list will have more helpful comments. If this doesn't help, please describe exactly what you're trying to do, what worked before, and what doesn't work now. Getting some information about your system as requested in http://cygwin.com/problems.html would also help. Okay, here is the output from my cygcheck -s -r -v output: (sorry, but it goes on for quite a while...) [snip] That's why we prefer it attached to the message, rather than included inline. At first glance[*], nothing looks wrong. HTH, Igor [*] For the Cygwin/X folks: rather than waste bandwidth, the original post on cygwin@ was http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-08/msg00204.html. -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: fatal error occurred. my mozilla installation failed. what to do?
First, I just have to cite Heinlein: When in danger, or in doubt -- Run in circles, scream, and shout. Then I'd like to cite the Cygwin problem reporting page at http://cygwin.com/problems.html, which has some useful hints on how to report problems properly. For Cygwin/X crashes, it's usually also useful to provide XWin.log. Besides the above, lacking the details of the error, it's quite impossible to help you. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: XFree86 command line installation
Karthik, Reposting the same question every 24 hours will not get you closer to the answer. On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Rajagopalan, Karthik wrote: Hi, This is a question about Cygwin-XFree86 installation. To dispell a myth, there is no such thing as a separate XFree86 installation. There is a Cygwin installer, named setup.exe, which can be used to install *any* Cygwin packages, including the Cygwin/X ones. Which, BTW, makes this question less appropriate for the cygwin-xfree list, and more appropriate for the main Cygwin list, which is where I'm redirecting this reply. Please remove cygwin-xfree from further discussion unless it comes to Cygwin/X-specific points. I am trying to install XFree86 from command line in silent mode without any user interface. Another note: the Cygwin/X implementation has switched from the XFree86 codebase to the X.org codebase a long while ago. I suspect you want to install the current versions of the X packages. Calling them XFree86 is likely to result in confusion. But on using the command structure setup.exe -L -R c:\test\xfree86 -q -l c:\cygwin -n -5 I am seeing the progress bar dialog. Is it not possible to install completely in silent mode? No, it is currently not possible. The Cygwin installer is a graphical application. You can run it in unattended mode, but you cannot tell it to not create a Window. That said, there may be other tools that allow opening a GUI application without a window. You could use one of those tools to invoke setup.exe, which will hide the main window. Before you ask, I'm not aware of any Cygwin tools that would do this. I'd suggest checking the MS Knowledge Base. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
Re: compiling flpsed under Cygwin
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Stephen P. Harris wrote: - Original Message - From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. [snip] SH: So change the FAQ and the name of the mailing list. Why is your sayso tobe considered authoritative and the FAQ dismissed? [snip] 1) You display either ignorance of the FAQ or presume that others should regard your interpretation of the FAQ as superior to that doc. See http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#CGF. [snip] 3) Sombody must be in charge of putting files on the download list. So I presume there is at least one person besides me who would recognize what the the term compatility file refers to when used in the context of X11 library package files. To me, your statement demonstrates your personal lack of knowledge. [snip] Your persistence seems worthy, but your discrimination falls short. [snip] The problem of the so error message jumped out at you. It didn't need a first-level tier help script approach used by technicians of limited experience. Also I didn't know .so files were forbidden to Cygwin since my Apache directory is full of them, installed by Cygwin. So from 0) your statement Cygwin/Windows do not use .so files seems Cygwin/Windows does not use *Linux* .so files. Copying a *Linux* .so file to Cygwin and expecting it to work shows total ignorance of what Cygwin is and how it works (see the What isn't Cygwin section at the top of the Cygwin web page). As for the rest of your points, see below. [snip] 1. If you are truly using XFree86 then you're off-topic for this mailing list. We don't support XFree86 anymore. Unless you are in charge of this list with the power of refuting the FAQ the use of we seems yet another case of the we consisting of an X-man with a mouse in his pocket. People with little qualification habitually use the term we to hide their inexperience. It advertises their feeling of being on insecure ground. As a matter of fact, he *is* in charge. See http://cygwin.com/who.html. FYI, Brian Dessent, whose very valid help you so frivolously dismissed as first-level tier help script approach, is the maintainer of Cygwin's apache packages, as well as the Cygwin install program, so he's well aware of the issues of compiling programs in Cygwin. I will be moving on, Stephen Yes, I think you'd better. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA
Re: compiling flpsed under Cygwin
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Stephen P. Harris wrote: - Original Message - From: Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Stephen P. Harris wrote: - Original Message - From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. [snip] SH: So change the FAQ and the name of the mailing list. Why is your sayso tobe considered authoritative and the FAQ dismissed? [snip] 1) You display either ignorance of the FAQ or presume that others should regard your interpretation of the FAQ as superior to that doc. See http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#CGF. I suppose this is an appeal to authority type of argument. I criticized the fact that the Cygwin FAQ and CGF's statements contradict each other. Do you think mentioning his title erases the contradiction? It's not his title that is in question here. The Cygwin project is run by volunteers. Chris and Corinna and others make their contributions to Cygwin on their own time. There is no official support for Cygwin (unless you buy a Red Hat license). So it's quite understandable that documentation is sometimes incomplete, and that other users contribute support when and to the extent that they are able. It was Chris Faylor who wrote: 1. If you are truly using XFree86 then you're off-topic for this mailing list. We don't support XFree86 anymore. SH: That may be, but how am I to know that? The FAQ says: Almost anything related to Cygwin is on-topic here. Please note, that this is not a mailing list for the discussion of general Windows topics. There are many many other places for that on the Internet. Also note, that if you are interested in the Cygwin XFree86 project which is porting the XFree86 code to Windows, then the correct mailing list for this discussion is [EMAIL PROTECTED] SH: I assume then that the FAQ does not need to be amended and that Chris Faylor can contradict the FAQ whenever he chooses. No, the point is that the FAQ *does* need to be amended, but http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI. Unless someone volunteers their time to make changes to the FAQ, this isn't going to happen. SH: Igor, bring up titles does not refute evidence of a written contradiction in policy. Your point about qualifications does nothing to rebut my point that the policies are contradictory. Do you think you make the point that such contradictions are ok, depending on who makes them? Yes, precisely. The point I make is that Chris, by the virtue of being the project leader, is the ultimate authority on all things Cygwin. If he contradicts the FAQ, then the FAQ is wrong. By contradicting it publicly, the issue is now on the mailing lists, and there is a chance that someone will volunteer their time to produce the corrections to the FAQ (which, BTW, Chris does not maintain). You are replying to an imaginary issue, his qualifications, rather than my point which is that the statements are contradictory. I do not dispute that his statements are contradictory. What I was trying to tell you by showing you his qualifications is that if he contradicts the FAQ, he's most probably right. And so on. I do think CFG should not make statements contradictory to the FAQ, or assume the responsibility of editing the FAQ so that it does not mislead users; not when you push reading the documentation. Again, Cygwin is a volunteer-run project. Until the Cygwin FAQ maintainer has the time to take CGF's statements and incorporate them into the FAQ, the FAQ will be out of date. FAQ updates do happen occasionally, and this information will likely find its way into the FAQ at some point. Nobody knows when. Cygwin users should try reading the mailing list archives to see if any documentation is out of date. If they don't read the archives, they should not be surprised when FAQ errors are pointed out to them on the mailing lists. If they are surprised or offended by the documentation being out of date, they can return the product for a full refund. Instead of complaining that the FAQ is out of date, you can help the cause by coming up with the proper wording and creating a patch against the FAQ sources (which are publicly available in CVS). You don't even need a copyright assignment for this, IIRC. It would make the FAQ maintainer's job much easier, and is likely to bring those particular FAQ entries up-to-date sooner. If you are unwilling to do that, you cannot demand that someone else spend their time doing it. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire
Re: How do I add my site as a mirror
This has nothing to do with Cygwin/X. Redirecting to the main cygwin list. Please remove cygwin-xfree from further messages in this thread. On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Lisandro Weissheimer wrote: What do I have to do to add my website as a mirror? See http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html, last sentence before Site List. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA
Re: Initial run of BASH doesn't initialize home directory
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Thomas Smith wrote: I was able to get Cygwin to run without problems and then decided to try Cygwin/X to take advantage of X. I completely uninstalled Cygwin... Why?! ...as follows: - Deleted the Desktop and Start Menu shortcuts. - Deleted C:\cygwin - Deleted Cygnus Solutions from the Registry. I removed all of the downloaded source Cygwin files and started the Cygwin/X installer--everything seems to install correctly. The only There is no such thing as a Cygwin/X installer. There is a Cygwin installer which installs the xorg-* family of Cygwin packages. non-default packages I select are: gcc vim nano inetutils openssh xorg-x11-base xorg-x11-devel xorg-x11-man-pages When I start the Cygwin Bash Shell for the first, I get dropped to a shell prompt and placed in /usr/bin. My Home directory isn't created and the general Cygwin environment doesn't work--that is, I'm not able to execute any commands. In fact, no files even appear in /usr/bin. This isn't an X-related problem, and thus belongs on the main Cygwin list. Please remove cygwin-xfree from further messages. I've researched this problem and haven't been able to locate a solution. I'm also not sure how to start troubleshooting it. Any ideas as to how I can start troubleshooting this problem? Please read and follow the Cygwin problem reporting guidelines at http://cygwin.com/problems.html. Please pay particular attention to the part that asks you to attach the output of cygcheck -svr. It might also help to know how you're starting bash. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA
RE: Newbie needs help getting GUI
Ugh, top-posting. Reformatted... On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Peter Urban wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. Subject: Newbie needs help getting GUI Depending on the desktop environment you have to run different programs which startup the GUI: Gnome: gnome-session KDE: startkde CDE: dtsession X11: ~/.xinitrc (this will do the same as startx) You can start a single program by typing it's name: $ mozilla $ gimp You can add this to the ssh commandline for easy access: ssh -Y [EMAIL PROTECTED] gnome-session This will login and start the remote gnome desktop. Please note that running the remote desktop with multiwindow mode will result in a strange window layout, so are best used in the windowed mode (omiting the -multiwindow parameter). Thanks for the quick response! I'm not certain which environment is available on the Red Hat machine and I don't have physical access to it. It's running Red Hat Enterprise 4. I tried 'ssh -Y [EMAIL PROTECTED] gnome-session' and get the following... (gnome-session:6144): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: Either run the ssh command from an xterm that pops up when you start X, or set your DISPLAY in the shell that you run ssh from (i.e., run it as DISPLAY=:0 ssh -Y [EMAIL PROTECTED] gnome-session ). Then, I tried 'ssh -Y [EMAIL PROTECTED] startkde' and get the following... /usr/bin/startkde: line 70: xsetroot: command not found /usr/bin/startkde: line 189: xset: command not found /usr/bin/startkde: line 192: xset: command not found /usr/bin/startkde: line 202: xsetroot: command not found startkde: Starting up... ksplash: cannot connect to X server kdeinit: Abortin. $DISPLAY is not set. Warning: connect() failed: :No such file or directory ksmserver: cannot connect to X server startkde: Shutting down... Warning: connect() failed: :No such file or directory Error: Can't contact kdeinit! startkde: Running shutdown scripts... startkde: Done. Same as above. Is there something that must be configured on the Red Hat workstation? No, it's your local thing. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA
Re: Help about xorg-x11-fnts
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Alireza Ghasemi wrote: Hello, I have downloaded xorg-x11-fonts-6.8 but I don't know how to compile it.There is no typical Makefile and no configure script.Please explain me step by step how to compile it and get use of X11 in Cygwin.I have downloaded all other needed packages But it is very difficult for me to download huge 16 MB xorg-x11-fnts binary file. I copied the package to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts Don't copy it -- use the Cygwin setup program to install it. The X.Org X packages use Imakefiles instead of Makefiles -- there's adequate documentation on X.org. But read on. but again When I try to run X I get error about 'fixed font'. What should I do? Normally, you'd be referred to the Cygwin/X FAQ at http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-error-font-eof. However, in this case, that would be useless, as you didn't use a prescribed procedure to install the packages, so anything could be happening. This kind of installation isn't (and cannot be) supported on the Cygwin lists. Igor P.S. Your spacebar key seems to be malfunctioning. -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: Duplication error upon startx with XWin :0; No terminal with XWin :1
On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Angus Veitch wrote: First of all, thanks to Alexander and Igor for responding to my last message. I'm edging my way forward, but haven't seen the light just yet. I'm still not having much success running startx or xdmcp. It's even possible that some of what I am observing is perfectly healthy, and it is my expectations or understanding of the program that are wrong. Since I don't know whether all my problems are related, I'll deal with startxwin.bat in this email and with startxdmcp.bat in the next one. Sorry for all the logs! I'm running a freshly downloaded cygwin/x, and am trying to connect WinXP to a (nearly) freshly installed Linux box running MEPIS. If I run startxwin.bat with the line XWin :0 -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error, I successfully load a terminal, but attempting to run startx invokes: Fatal server error: InitOutput - Duplicate invocation on display number: 0. The full XWin.log follows: [snip] If it really is a duplicate invocation on the same window station, you should have an X icon in your system tray. You could quit the current X server, and your new one would come up. I can't find any other xwin processes running (perhaps I don't know what to look for), ps -W | grep -i xwin but to keep xwin happy, I instead run startxwin.bat with XWin :1 (...etc). The result is that I get no terminal at all -- the cygwin/x window is just a blank grey screen. The XWin.log follows: - Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 6.8.2.0-3 Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com XWin was started with the following command line: /usr/X11R6/bin/XWin :1 -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error [snip] winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress winClipboardProc - winClipboardFlushWindowsMessageQueue trapped WM_QUIT message, exiting main loop. winClipboardProc - XDestroyWindow succeeded. winClipboardIOErrorHandler! winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress - So, my question is: Why is the terminal missing when I run startwinx.bat with display number :1 rather than :0? You're basically attempting to start two multiwindow window managers on the same underlying Windows desktop. If I understand this correctly, the multiwindow manager needs some sort of exclusive access to the underlying Windows interface to delegate all of the window handling, and having more than one of them makes them interfere with each other. Try starting the second XWin without the -multiwindow parameter, and see if it helps. You don't want -multiwindow for XDMCP anyway. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
RE: Cygwin doesn't recognize the Canadian French keyboard
Daniel, Please make sure your mailer respects the Reply-To: header -- I set it for a reason. There was no need to Cc: me -- I read the list. On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Daniel Landry wrote: On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Ah. I'm going to venture a guess and say that it's not simply an xterm, but an xterm running bash[*] that doesn't work, and direct you to http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html#SEC48. [*] bash uses readline, and, most likely, so does the python interpreter environment (top-level?). Your guess is right. At which point this stops being an X-related problem, and is better discussed on the main list. I've set the Reply-To: accordingly (though the xfree list is likely to add another pointing to itself). I have followed the link and adapt to my specific need but it seems that I have missed something. Accented characters are printed as if convert-meta is set to on. As an example e (e acute) is displayed as \351. Displayed by what? If you type echo é at the bash prompt, does that display properly? What about echo -e '\0351'? These are my home configuration files # .bashrc ? ^ Huh? alias less='less -r' alias ls='ls -F --color=tty --show-control-chars' export LANG=fr export LC_ALL=fr_CA export LC_CTYPE=iso-8859-1 export OUTPUT_CHARSET=iso-8859-1 export LESSCHARSET=iso8859 setxkbmap ca_enhanced # .inputrc set meta-flag on # enable 8-bit input set convert-meta off # don't strip 8-bit characters set input-meta on # enable 8-bit input set output-meta on# display 8-bit characters correctly What does bind -v | grep meta show when run from bash? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: Errors: Duplicate invocation and can't find dll's
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Angus Veitch wrote: I have just installed the X components of Cygwin and am hoping to eventually connect with XDMCP to my Linux machine. But I'm having some serious teething problems. First, XWin seems to be having difficulty finding the dlls. If I run XWin -query [computer name] I First I get an error message saying that it can't find cygwin1.dll. If I copy that dll file from the cygwin\bin\ directory into C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin, the error message changes to another dll. If I copy that dll to the X11R6\bin directory, it moves onto yet another one that it can't find. NO, NO, NO! Please don't do that. Remove the DLLs you copied and instead add C:\cygwin\bin to your PATH. If I run startxwin.bat instead, I don't get the dll error. That's because startxwin.bat adds C:\cygwin\bin to the PATH. But when I try to run startx, I get: winCheckDisplayNumber - Cygwin/X is already running on display 0 Fatal server error: InitOutput - Duplicate invocation on display number: 0. Exiting. And what's cryptic about that message? You've already run X on display 0 -- use display 1 if you want another instance. If I try startxdmcp.bat, I get a similar result: mkdir: Cannot create /tmp/.X11-unix with root ownership winCheckDisplayNumber - Cygwin/X is already running on display 0 Fatal server error: InitOutput - Duplicate invocation on display number: 0. Exiting. Ditto. The supposed cause of this error is that I am running two sessions of XWin, but that is simply not the case. I get the same results if I add :1 to the batch files. Is someone else running X on that machine? Are you using terminal services? Any suggestions? Hmm, what does ps -W | grep -i xwin show? PS. This may be relevant: When I installed Cygwin/X, selected all of the X components, rather than just the ones that are automatically selected by the x-org base package or whatever it was called. Is this bad? Shouldn't be. Please see the Cygwin problem reporting guidelines at http://cygwin.com/problems.html for the right way of reporting your installation information (particularly the part about attaching the output of cygcheck -svr). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
RE: Cygwin doesn't recognize the Canadian French keyboard
Ugh, top-posting. Reformatted. On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Daniel Landry wrote: -Message d'origine- De: Daniel Landry Date: 6 juillet 2005 16:34 A:'Alexander Gottwald'; 'cygwin-xfreeatcygwin.com' Also, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. -Message d'origine- De: Alexander Gottwald Date: 6 juillet 2005 14:56 On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Daniel Landry wrote: Running setxkbmap with each layouts (ca, fr_CA, ca_enhanced) don't fix the problem. In all case, the French accents are replaced by a BEEP and any character is displayed. However, I can make a cut and paste from WinXP without any problem. ca_enhanced uses deadkeys. ^,` are deadkeys. pressing ^ and A will compose A [snip] I'm familiar with deadkeys, but they don't work on my Cygwin installation. The e character is a special key that doesn't request any deadkey and it doesn't work either. Using any accented character give always the same result: BEEP without any character displayed. All other characters seem to work correctly. I give a try to the fr mapping with the same result. One of my co-workers has also installed Cygwin on his computer and he obtained the same results as mine. I made an upgrade this morning to be certain that I'm having the last Cygwin version. If it can help, my computer is a Dell Latitude C840. [snip] I have found my problem. I had tried cut and paste functions in Emacs but try the new keyboard mapping in Xterm. In fact, ca_enhanced keyboard was working in some application, but not on others. Emacs, vim, nano see well the new mapping. Xterm and some other applications like python interpreter environment don't see it, but I can't make any cut and paste with accented character either. I'll see case by case for the configuration of these applications but it is no more a keyboard-mapping problem. [snip] Ah. I'm going to venture a guess and say that it's not simply an xterm, but an xterm running bash[*] that doesn't work, and direct you to http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html#SEC48. HTH, Igor [*] bash uses readline, and, most likely, so does the python interpreter environment (top-level?). -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: Numlock and java applications
Wrong list. Questions about Cygwin/X should be sent to the cygwin-xfree list. Redirecting. On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Casolaro, Didier wrote: Hello, I'm developping and testing java application under KDE (3.4.0) environment trough cygwing running on Windows XP. If numlock key is active, some keys of my keyboard (enter, arrows, numpad keys, backspace) don't work any more with any java application. Is there any patch anywhere to make java application working properly without having to unlock numlock key? Thanx for your answer... AFAIK, no. But you may get other answers on the cygwin-xfree list. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: 6.8.2.0-2: Shift and control keys don't operate
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Ed Greenberg wrote: --On Wednesday, June 22, 2005 8:56 PM +0200 Alexander Gottwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. Ed Greenberg wrote: Following up my own post. I note while running xev that the shift and control keys do not cause events. The xev output window indicates all the other keys, but not those. That's odd. What kind of keyboard do you have? Maybe there are programs running which grab some of the keys and translate them to a different kind of messages. This is a pretty plain vanilla Win XP Prof SP2 installation. Can somebody on XP SP2 with a US keyboard please run xev and see if shift and control keys generate scancodes? They do here: --- Cutting here may damage your screen KeyPress event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x101, root 0x37, subw 0x0, time 29187866, (177,177), root:(241,260), state 0x0, keycode 49 (keysym 0xffe1, Shift_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False KeyRelease event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x101, root 0x37, subw 0x0, time 29188050, (177,177), root:(241,260), state 0x1, keycode 49 (keysym 0xffe1, Shift_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: KeyPress event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x101, root 0x37, subw 0x0, time 29188767, (177,177), root:(241,260), state 0x0, keycode 61 (keysym 0xffe2, Shift_R), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False KeyRelease event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x101, root 0x37, subw 0x0, time 29188952, (177,177), root:(241,260), state 0x1, keycode 61 (keysym 0xffe2, Shift_R), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: KeyPress event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x101, root 0x37, subw 0x0, time 29190504, (177,177), root:(241,260), state 0x0, keycode 36 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False KeyRelease event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x101, root 0x37, subw 0x0, time 29190800, (177,177), root:(241,260), state 0x4, keycode 36 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: KeyPress event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x101, root 0x37, subw 0x0, time 29191359, (177,177), root:(241,260), state 0x0, keycode 94 (keysym 0xffe4, Control_R), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False KeyRelease event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x101, root 0x37, subw 0x0, time 29191592, (177,177), root:(241,260), state 0x4, keycode 94 (keysym 0xffe4, Control_R), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: KeyPress event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x101, root 0x37, subw 0x0, time 29194456, (177,177), root:(241,260), state 0x0, keycode 96 (keysym 0xffea, Alt_R), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False KeyRelease event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0x101, root 0x37, subw 0x0, time 29194671, (177,177), root:(241,260), state 0x8, keycode 96 (keysym 0xffea, Alt_R), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: --- Cutting here may damage your screen Left Alt and Fn don't generate any events (Windows intercepts both). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
RE: Mouse button copy/paste not working
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Alexander Gottwald wrote: Actually the FAQ needs some cleanup. There are a lot of old entries which should be moved to a section Removed entries too separate them from the active ones but to keep the links and references working. Alexander, if you're cleaning up the FAQ anyway, you might want to coordinate with Joshua on the Cygwin-friendly firewalls question (see http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-06/msg00926.html). Just a heads-up. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: Mouse button copy/paste not working
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Charles Packer wrote: As a Unix veteran but first-time Cygwin user, I've discovered that I can't paste selected text with the middle button under these circumstances: I have logged into a remote Unix system and start some X Wrong list. Please follow-up to cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com (I've set the Reply-To: accordingly). window from there -- an xterm, say, or xedit. I select text in one of those windows (by dragging with the left button down) and then try to paste somewhere else in the window. It will paste only if the selected text is still highlighted. This is not right; it should have been copied to some buffer that is still available to the middle button even if the originally selected text is no longer highlighted. Oddly enough, the problem doesn't exist with the local Cygwin xterms and xedit -- only with those that the remote system creates. For what it's worth, the .xinitrc script that Cygwin uses in this installation runs xwinclip and then wmaker. The invocation of twm has been commented out. When I do a ps, I see that wmaker appears twice. Incidentally, occasionally the middle button does worse than merely not paste; it kills the window. The error message showing in the main Cygwin xterm is: BadAtom(invalid Atom parameter); Major opcode of failed request: 18(X_Change Property). See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#remote (please read the whole section). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: Mouse button copy/paste not working
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Charles Packer wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#remote (please read the whole section). Igor Typical Unix-head response (Read the whole book...). I initially wrote please read the whole section 5 (which is only one printed page long, BTW), but then omitted the section number because I thought it was self-evident. Apparently not. There is nothing in the FAQ that deals with this problem. However, perusing the Cygwin/X installation instructions, under the section on logging on to remote clients, I noticed the suggested ssh command: ssh -Y -l username hostdomain. I checked to see what our PC guy had set me up with under the alias he had given me: ssh -X -l myname $1. Changing -X to -Y made all the difference and solved the problem. Returning to the FAQ, there is a question X forwarding does not work does not work with OpenSSH under Cygwin That is the exact question I pointed you to. in which the answer I needed is embedded as an afterthought. Suggestion: Add to the FAQ a question specifically mentioning the symptoms I described. The symptoms are there (i.e., the BadAtom message). True, they are not in the form of a question -- the FAQ maintainer reads this list and I'm sure will see your suggestion. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: cyg/lib DLL naming
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Peciva Jan wrote: As AGO pointed out, searching for libfreetype.dll is non-portable, dangerous, and silly. Not me, who is doing that, but one large SW open-source library. Therefore it is clear, that it have to link with other libraries in the system that it is using. Right, but that doesn't make the current approach any less dangerous, non-portable, or silly. You may want to contact the authors of Coin and let the know about this bug in their code. Things turned in to the OS ideas. And I am not interrested in them, I want to simply fix the incompatibility between Coin library and Cygwin. Not quite. These are dynamic loading ideas. Building a bridge DLL is hardly an OS-level thing. However, I can see your problem, as the code to look up the freetype DLL is probably hard-wired into Coin, and there isn't much you can do about it. As you mentioned, you could use some nasty workarounds (like providing your own stub libfreetype.dll in your application directory, which should be found first, and which links to the appropriate freetype DLL), but eventually Coin should be fixed. Coin library is important for us, because we are using it for visualization on our university (we are not the authors of the library). I think, you are missing the point. This compatibility library breaks the compatibility with non-cygwin world (see the previous discussion). No, I believe *you* are missing the point. [...] :-) If I skip all offensive words, I have to thank you for the discussion. You're welcome. However, my profanity filter is overheating while trying to find any offensive words in my previous message. Would you mind letting me know what they were, so that I could add them to the filter? Or do you mean If I skip all offensive words that come to mind? :-) Let me give you the last question: If I understand it correctly, I can not link with cygwin based DLLs without a special handling code. Am I true? In this context (linking from a pure Win32 application), yes, you need to put some initialization code in (with the latest snapshot, that is). A rejoinder question, though: if you're buidling a native Win32 application, why not use the native build of freetype as well? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: cyg/lib DLL naming
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Peciva Jan wrote: our cross-platform application is working on Linux and Windows but not on Cygwin when X are installed. The problem has been tracked down and as a result: What is the reason for naming /usr/X11R6/bin/libfreetype.dll and not cygfreetype.dll ? This is an old library from the XFree86-dll-compat package and the package is only required by program which have not been updated to the naming structure which is used for over year now. Thanks for the response. I am glad that cyg prefix is planned to be used everywhere. However, can you give me some hints when will be the package or the DLL probably removed? Why do you care? It's a *compatibility* library, there for *old* executables. If you link with freetype now, the new DLLs should be used automatically. I think, you are missing the point. This compatibility library breaks the compatibility with non-cygwin world (see the previous discussion). No, I believe *you* are missing the point. As AGO pointed out, searching for libfreetype.dll is non-portable, dangerous, and silly. If you wish to use freetype, why not link with an appropriate import library and let it pick up the known DLL? If you want to do this conditionally, you could even create a bridge DLL, and load *that* via the dlopen() calls. Therefore, I was asking, WHY is it prefixed lib* and not cyg* Because that was the convention the maintainer chose at the time. and WHEN will it be removed to get this bug fixed. Probably never. Again, *this is not a bug*. If this breaks your application, it's a bug in your application, which is non-portable and will need to be fixed. Anyway, I know, that it may take some time to get the things happen. An indefinite amount of time. Even if TeXmacs gets recompiled to use the newer libfreetype packages, the compatibility library will probably still be around, since many unofficial packages may depend on it as well. It won't be installed by default, but you can't count on any particular machine not having that DLL. I should probably consider some nasty workarounds. Yes, you should. Except, as I suggested above, they need not be particularly nasty. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: cyg/lib DLL naming
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Peciva Jan wrote: [snip] (*) I am expecting that I have understood it well, that I can not link MSVC compiled applications and cygwin-gcc compiled DLLs. And this is not completely true anymore either. There were some fixes in the recent snapshots of Cygwin that allow cygwin1.dll to be loaded dynamically from elsewhere (see the cygwin-patches archives for the discussion). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: cyg/lib DLL naming
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Peciva Jan wrote: our cross-platform application is working on Linux and Windows but not on Cygwin when X are installed. The problem has been tracked down and as a result: What is the reason for naming /usr/X11R6/bin/libfreetype.dll and not cygfreetype.dll ? This is an old library from the XFree86-dll-compat package and the package is only required by program which have not been updated to the naming structure which is used for over year now. Thanks for the response. I am glad that cyg prefix is planned to be used everywhere. However, can you give me some hints when will be the package or the DLL probably removed? Why do you care? It's a *compatibility* library, there for *old* executables. If you link with freetype now, the new DLLs should be used automatically. All you need is the libfreetype2-devel package, as well as libfreetype26 (the runtime). Note that libfreetype26 contains cygfreetype-6.dll. However, to answer your question, the compatibility packages are usually around until the last application using them switches to linking with the new runtime. Since there's no way to know when that happens (because others may have unofficial applications), the DLLs stay around practically forever. Now that the Cygwin Time Machine is operational, though, this may change. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: xterm and right click and 'print window'
On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, J. David Boyd wrote: Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, J. David Boyd wrote: Has anyone found a way to make this feature work, on any version of windows, with any printer? This works for me. WinXP, networked printer. As long as the PRINTER variable is exported. I've had no luck so far, and am grasping for clues. I've defined my $PRINTER as //quantex2/hplaserj, which prints okay from windows, but not cygwin. Open a regular bash window (no X), and type echo $PRINTER. If that prints the correct thing, try bash -c 'echo $PRINTER'. If that works too, type xterm -display 127.0.0.1:0, and from that xterm type echo $PRINTER. If you see the correct printer in all 3 cases, the Print Window command should work (it does for me). Alternatively, since all xterm does is pipe stuff to lpr, does lpr -P //quantex2/hplaserj /etc/passwd print /etc/passwd to that printer (just to make sure lpr works)? Igor All the variable expansion looks fine, so maybe it is an lpr problem. When I try the command line lpr -P //quantex2/HPLaserJ /etc/passwd I get the error printer name is invalid. When I go back to what my profile set up, which is HP LaserJet 6P, I actually get output. I was thinking all along that I couldn't use that name, but perhaps cygwin's lpr has been patched to use the windows resource name? lpr interacts directly with the print spooler, so whatever name is used for the printer in Windows, lpr will also use. I also noticed that nothing came out of the printer until I sent another file... That may be because your driver needs to be set up to send a FF after each job. There may be an lpr option for that as well, not sure. And, are you setup for DOS endings or Unix? Unix, of course. But it doesn't matter for lpr -- it's all pipes anyway. So, I can print from the command line. But, after closing my terms and opening some new ones (just to be sure I have the correct environment), and verifying that $PRINTER is still HP LaserJet 6P, I get nothing from 'Print window', and I don't see any errors. I wonder if there is a log somewhere that I can peruse. If you start an xterm from a bash console window, all error messages from that xterm go into the console window. Otherwise, you can redirect the stdout/stderr of the xterm to a file. Anyway, thanks for the help. I guess I won't worry about it for now. I can always do an Alt-PrtScn and paste it somewhere to print it. It would be interesting to find out why your config doesn't work. Do you have PRINTER set in the global Windows environment? How do you start your xterm? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: xterm and right click and 'print window'
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, J. David Boyd wrote: Has anyone found a way to make this feature work, on any version of windows, with any printer? This works for me. WinXP, networked printer. As long as the PRINTER variable is exported. I've had no luck so far, and am grasping for clues. I've defined my $PRINTER as //quantex2/hplaserj, which prints okay from windows, but not cygwin. Open a regular bash window (no X), and type echo $PRINTER. If that prints the correct thing, try bash -c 'echo $PRINTER'. If that works too, type xterm -display 127.0.0.1:0, and from that xterm type echo $PRINTER. If you see the correct printer in all 3 cases, the Print Window command should work (it does for me). Alternatively, since all xterm does is pipe stuff to lpr, does lpr -P //quantex2/hplaserj /etc/passwd print /etc/passwd to that printer (just to make sure lpr works)? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: Cygwin Fonts
On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Bharat Ruparel wrote: Hello Igor, I got your contact information while searching through Google and looking for an answer to my quest for using Fonts in cygwin or more correctly Cygwin/X. I must admit that I am new to Cygwin and I don't know much about xwindows except that I have worked within the Solaris environment using the Hummingbird Exceed software quite a bit. Bharat, Sending Cygwin-related questions by personal mail is frowned upon in the Cygwin community. Questions about Cygwin are usually best sent to one of the Cygwin mailing lists (in this case, the cygwin-xfree list -- see http://cygwin.com/lists.html#available-lists). Not only will you get access to more expertise than any one person could provide, but your questions and the answers to them will be archived on the web for others to find. For your convenience, I'm Cc'ing this reply to the appropriate list, and setting Reply-To accordingly. I was trying to use Nedit editor in the Cygwin environment since that is what I was used to at my previous job. To my joy, I found it in the Cygwin installation. However, I have a problem using it in the Cygwin program. The fonts that I get when I execute startx are painfully small for a 50 year old like myself. I am trying to make them bigger and have trouble understanding what needs to be done from the documentation that I see on the Cygwin site. Could you help me out by giving instructions in simple steps that I can use to accomplish this task? If you're asking how to change fonts in nedit, I'd say the Nedit maintainer would be a better person to answer this. If it's the font size of the initial xterm that bothers you, right-click on the xterm window while pressing the Ctrl key, and select Huge from the fonts menu that pops up. You can also edit the .Xdefaults file in your home directory and add the following line to it: XTerm*VT100*font: 10x20 This changes the default font to something larger (the one that you get with Huge, in fact). HTH, Igor P.S. The cygwin-xfree list sets the Reply-To to the list address automatically, so you may want to subscribe to cygwin-xfree to make sure you haven't missed any replies... -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
RE: Cygwin Fonts
Ug. Top-posting... Reformatted. On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Bharat Ruparel wrote: -Original Message- From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 11:46 AM To: Bharat Ruparel Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. Subject: Re: Cygwin Fonts On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Bharat Ruparel wrote: Hello Igor, I got your contact information while searching through Google and looking for an answer to my quest for using Fonts in cygwin or more correctly Cygwin/X. I must admit that I am new to Cygwin and I don't know much about xwindows except that I have worked within the Solaris environment using the Hummingbird Exceed software quite a bit. Bharat, Sending Cygwin-related questions by personal mail is frowned upon in the Cygwin community. Questions about Cygwin are usually best sent to one of the Cygwin mailing lists (in this case, the cygwin-xfree list -- see http://cygwin.com/lists.html#available-lists). Not only will you get access to more expertise than any one person could provide, but your questions and the answers to them will be archived on the web for others to find. For your convenience, I'm Cc'ing this reply to the appropriate list, and setting Reply-To accordingly. I was trying to use Nedit editor in the Cygwin environment since that is what I was used to at my previous job. To my joy, I found it in the Cygwin installation. However, I have a problem using it in the Cygwin program. The fonts that I get when I execute startx are painfully small for a 50 year old like myself. I am trying to make them bigger and have trouble understanding what needs to be done from the documentation that I see on the Cygwin site. Could you help me out by giving instructions in simple steps that I can use to accomplish this task? If you're asking how to change fonts in nedit, I'd say the Nedit maintainer would be a better person to answer this. If it's the font size of the initial xterm that bothers you, right-click on the xterm window while pressing the Ctrl key, and select Huge from the fonts menu that pops up. You can also edit the .Xdefaults file in your home directory and add the following line to it: XTerm*VT100*font: 10x20 This changes the default font to something larger (the one that you get with Huge, in fact). HTH, Igor P.S. The cygwin-xfree list sets the Reply-To to the list address automatically, so you may want to subscribe to cygwin-xfree to make sure you haven't missed any replies... Hello Igor, My apologies for sending you a question by personal email, I simply didn't know any better. From now on, I will post my question cygwin-xfree list as you indicated. Bharat, No need to apologize. Proper netiquette is different in different online communities. No way to know them all... Also, please review the available Cygwin lists for future posting. This list (cygwin-xfree) is for questions that relate to Cygwin/X. If you have general Cygwin questions, please use the main Cygwin list. Thanks for the tip, I was looking to make the fonts in the initial xterm window and what you just told me works great! It would be nice if these things were included in the documentation section somewhere on the Cygwin site. It is a great product which people like myself could benefit from if the information was a bit easier to find. FYI, this information was in no way Cygwin-specific. A Google search for xterm fonts finds lots of recipes for this in the first page of matches. For this kind of information, the Cygwin/X FAQ is a good place to look. The commands I listed come almost directly from the xterm man page (see the RESOURCES section and the fontMenu part of the MENUS section). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: Displaying remote Xclients without server window
On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Stephan Wehner wrote: I'm thinking about setting up an X server on a Windows machine without the server window itself. I want an xterm running on the remote (e.g. Linux) machine to be visible on my local machine as its own window, which can be moved around, minimized, resized etc. on the Windows machine just like any other Windows application window. Then, if I run e.g. ghostview in that xterm, the new window appears on my Windows machine. You must be thinking of multiwindow mode. This is already the default in the latest versions of the xorg-x11 packages. Just run startx or startxwin.sh, or use the -multiwindow parameter when invoking XWin. On the off chance you want to run your own window manager and still not see the root window, try the -rootless parameter instead. There are also display forwarding issues (e.g., via ssh), but you'd have those even with the root window. In addition, these remotely running windows show up separately on my Windows taskbar. Yep, definitely multiwindow. :-) Plus, available remote applications appear in the Windows Start Menu automagically, and when launched run on the remote machine, but display on the Windows machine. (The user sees no difference, except maybe for authentication) Is it already possible with existing (cygwin) code? Or other packages? Heh. That's something you'd have to do yourself. You can create a Windows shortcut that starts the X server, and then starts an xterm on the remote machine with DISPLAY set appropriately. FWIW, I found that it's usually better to run a local xterm that runs ssh instead of running a remote xterm over ssh (as you said, the user sees no difference). In case you're interested, here's the command line for my shortcut (I don't check for a running X server -- I leave that as an exercise for the reader): c:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /bin/bash --login -c /usr/bin/xterm -display 127.0.0.1:0 -bg '#ff' -fn 10x20 -rw -cu -si -sk -sb -sl 5000 +cn -T 'Remote xterm' -n 'Remote xterm' -e /usr/bin/ssh -C -X -2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: sshd and X
On Wed, 25 May 2005, Boaz Harrosh wrote: Alexander Gottwald wrote: Maybe ssh -v -v -v wil give you a clue what is happening. Right!! try running sshd in a consul in the foreground. (Check what switch makes it run in the foreground (-d?)) Both -D and -d do (Cygwin's ssh-host-config uses the -D option for the service). -d is much more verbose (into the system log, which by default is the Windows Event Log), and will only accept one connection. Than see what prints you have. If this works it is not the end. SYSTEM user is different than the foreground user, sshd is very picky about permissions been to low or to high. You can run sshd from a SYSTEM-owned shell (Google for system owned shell shortcut). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: rxvt in search of libX11.dll
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Didier BRETIN wrote: Hello, I have installed some X11 packages and the 'startx' is working. I have xterm. But when I want to launch 'rxvt' it says to me that it doesn't find libX11.dll. As I understand it, rxvt will first look for cygX11-6.dll, which is in xorg-x11-bin-dlls, and only then for libX11.dll (which is in XFree86-lib-compat). The fact that it doesn't find cygX11-6.dll probably indicates that you don't have /usr/X11R6/bin in your PATH. However, without the system information requested in the Cygwin problem reporting guidelines at http://cygwin.com/problems.html, the above is just a guess. I launch a find / -name 'libX11.dll' on my cygwin installation and this file is not existing. What is the package for this library I need to install ? The answer to which package should I install to get file A almost always involves the Cygwin package search page at http://cygwin.com/packages. A search for libX11.dll there points to the XFree86-lib-compat package. However, as I said, you probably just need to add /usr/X11R6/bin to your PATH. One other point: rxvt has a Windows native mode, which doesn't require a running X server. You can invoke rxvt with -display :0 to get the Windows native mode (it uses libW11.dll, which comes with the rxvt package, and doesn't need X installed). HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: Cannot connect to a Sun server using xterm
On Wed, 4 May 2005, a12 wrote: Alexander Gottwald skrev: On Wed, 4 May 2005, a12 wrote: Pardon my ignorance, but what am I supposed to do to solve the problem ? Start XWin. Which means: use XDMCP don't use xterm. Please correct me, if I am wrong. You're wrong. It means exactly what it says: run startx (or startxwin.bat, or start XWin.exe ..., or any of your favorite methods for starting the X server on your local machine) before running ssh -X/Y. And please don't top-post. Thanks. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: rdesktop build on cygwin gone wrong
On Tue, 3 May 2005, jose isaias cabrera wrote: Thanks Dave, that worked perfectly. Just a little note for the folks out there like me... :-) I couldn't find patch, so I re-ran the cygwin setup.exe again and found the patchutils on the Devel Category. :-) The patch utility is part of the (surprise, surprise) patch package. Luckily for you, the patchutils package depends on the patch package, so setup installed it for you at no extra cost. For the future, if you need to find out which package contains a particular utility, use the Cygwin package search page at http://cygwin.com/packages/. It usually helps to append .exe to the name of the executable, or prepend bin/ to it (the .exe trick doesn't work for symlinks and shell scripts). However, I couldn't find autoreconfig, Hmm, let's see: http://cygwin.com/packages/, type in bin/autoreconf, hit Go, and voila -- Found 6 matches for bin/autoreconf. I'll let you actually perform the above to find out which packages contain it. so I just, rm -rf rdesktop-1.4.0 tar -xvf rdesktop-1.4.0.tar cd rdesktop-1.4.0 patch -p1 ../rdesktop.patch ./configure make make install and I have rdesktop 1.4.0. thanks Dave. josé - Original Message - From: jose isaias cabrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ehm, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: Problems with arrow keys and delete
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Thomas Dickey wrote: iirc, NumLock would simply prevent the key from being recognized. The description above hints that the application doesn't expect to see the 2 which is sent to denote that the shift-key is pressed. Ah, yes. I noticed similar behaviour with fvwm and desktop switching on shift-alt-arrow_key which did not work if numlock was switched on. It then produced just 4C in xterm (2C with shift, 3C with alt). I'm not sure what would make the ESC [ lost. A shell with the wrong TERM setting would interpret ESC [ as Meta-[, and treat the rest of the sequence as separate characters. Igor Just checking here, if I set NumLock (and am using cygwin), I don't see xterm lose that information. With xterm #198 (which shouldn't be different - this code is not that recent), I'm seeing things like ESC [ 1 ; 2 A whether or not NumLock is set. -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: downgrade a 5-button- to a 3-button-mouse
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Hermann-Josef Beckers wrote: cygwin-xfree-owneratcygwindotcom schrieb am 18.04.2005 18:54:11: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. I've placed a small program on http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~goal/xfree/msgtest.exe which will dump the messages to the console. Please run it and report what it prints when pressing the onscreen keys and what it reports when pressing the physical key. Attached two files: keyboard.out contains the messages, when entering F6 via the attached keyboard. menu.out contains the messages generated by clicking the button labeled F6 in the panel. NB. I had a problem in using msgtest.exe from a bash prompt. The X server was active, but no window appeared and msgtest.exe didn't spew any messages. I had to start a xterm from the bash prompt and then start msgtest.exe. In bash, you needed to say DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 msgtest In an xterm, the DISPLAY is already set. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: Checked on FAQ but..
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Samuel Wang wrote: Please help with this error message; $ startx [snip] cat: /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/swang/.Xauthority: No such file or directory This is spurious. [: and: unknown operand [: and: unknown operand These are due to spaces in your $HOME. As a workaround, use $HOME with no spaces in it (see the FAQ), but the startx script *should* be fixed. FWIW, I submitted fixes for it a while ago -- I wonder if they made it into the current version, or if this was a problem I didn't cover... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
RE: Multiple XWin.exe programs loading and no xterm
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Phil Betts wrote: IIRC, there was talk a while back of making the multiwindow manager an external client. I don't know if anythng has been done in this direction, but if this were done, there would at least be a consistent startup for all WMs. There is an external MWWM client, but, IIRC, it doesn't work too well ATM. Kensuke would be the best person to talk about it, I guess... An alternative that I've not seen raised before: I was wondering if it would be possible to run XWin as a Windows service (presumably via cygserver). Services are run by 'cygrunsrv', not 'cygserver'. 'cygserver' provides Unix shared memory and IPC services for Cygwin. The upside is that it would probably make more sense to those coming to X from a Windows background. The downside is that there are so many different ways to start X (i.e. local/remote, multiwindow/external WM etc.) that you'd still need to support the traditional startup methods. Well, I don't recall if XWin has a way of selecting the next available display (I do know it's not on by default, even if it exists), but that would be pretty much a must in coping with an X service when one needs to also start an XDMCP query, for example. I know zip about the issues involved in running as a Windows service, but if it's simple, it may be something to consider, perhaps as a default installation. It's pretty simple to start a program as a service. One wouldn't want to have it as a default option, certainly, but a config script akin to that of other service packages (e.g., cron, openssh, cygserver, etc) that *installs* such a service for the user to start would be very useful. As a sidenote, historically (IMHO), X startup has been a bit of a mess. A lot of old X servers were started by running X and a WM in the background, then running xterm as a foreground task, just to enable switching (or more likely restarting) window managers. If they inadvertently closed the initial xterm, the poor user was stuffed! I know - I was that user! It would be trivial to write a keepX program that connects to the server and does nothing (but is a client, so X stays around even if no other clients are present). If such a program were contributed to the xorg packages (or, better yet, the upstream X distribution), the default xinitrc could invoke it in the background before the xterm. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: always-on-top bug
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Jack Tanner wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: The splashscreen of an app being displayed over ssh X11 forwarding stays on top of other windows instead of going to background when I select a Windows window. Normally, I would've never noticed this since splashscreens usually whiz by, but I was on a slow connection, and this was very noticeable. Was this in multiwindow mode, or in rootless/rooted mode? If the former, then AFAIU this is expected behavior -- the windows are managed by the Yes, this was in multiwindow mode. But multiwindow mode doesn't use the internal Windows window manager, does it? I had thought it used an emulation of it that tried to be as similar as possible. As Alexander said, multiwindow mode is a thin layer on top of the internal Windows window manager. All of the X hints and attributes (like always-on-top) are translated to the corresponding Windows hints and attributes by the multiwindow layer. A native Windows OpenOffice.org starts with a splashscreen that I can send to the background by clicking on a different window. An X11-forwarded OOo starts with a splashscreen that stays on top no matter what. Does this mean that the Windows OOo doesn't draw its splashscreen with an always-on-top instruction? Possibly. You'd need to look at the source to find that out. They do use different windowing libraries, so I wouldn't be surprised if the code that deals with splash screens is radically different... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: Missing libs when compiling GTK+ code
On Sun, 27 Mar 2005, Radek Vokal wrote: On Sat, 26 Mar 2005, Radek Vokal wrote: On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 20:26:36 +0100, Gerrit P. Haase [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. Radek Vokal wrote: I'm trying to compile my project under Cygwin/X and faced several problems. The first one was missing libXrender.la file. Thanx to this mailing list I've solved this issue but right after fixing this the makefile reports: gcc.exe: /usr/lib/libgpg-error.dll.a: No such file or directory [snip] gcc.exe: /usr/lib/libiconv.dll.a: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [myproject.exe] Error 1 etc. Strange that all these files are present in these directories. Am I missing some PATH configuration or ldconfig stuff? Just a guess: what about the permissions on these files? Can you do `ls /usr/lib/libiconv.dll.a` as the same user who issues the make command? How looks the link command used? This looks fine. Does permission really mather in Cygwin anyway? I see all these listed files, ls -l /usr/lib/libiconv.dll.a says -rwxr-x---+ 1 rat Users 7630 Jul 6 2004 /usr/lib/libiconv.dll.a* which seems to be ok. Does it help if you run gcc with CYGWIN=notraverse? Igor -- I think I do sth wrong. I started with helloword example trying to compile it with gcc -mms-bitfields -mno-cygwin -mwindows helloworld.c -o helloworld.exe `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0` `pkg-config --libs gtk+-2.0` but I get several errors starting with helloword.c:1:21: gtk/gtk.h: No such file or directory which looks really supicious. When I try to locate gtk.h file I find it in /usr/include/gtk-1.2/gtk/gtk.h /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtk.h Brian is correct in that -mno-cygwin will make gcc look for the header files, etc, in different places. However, since your original e-mail mentioned link errors rather than missing include file errors, and the missing libraries are in the standard Cygwin locations, I'm assuming you originally tried to use gcc without -mno-cygwin. FWIW, it might be a good idea to drop -mwindows as well... Igor, what does it mean CYGWIN=notraverse? It means to add notraverse to the value of the CYGWIN environment variable before running gcc. In bash, you can do it all on one line, e.g., CYGWIN=$CYGWIN notraverse gcc ... This expands on Gerrit's question about permissions. You may have too-strict permission settings on some directories. Newer Cygwin versions by default check not only the permissions on files, but also the permissions on all the directories in the path that is traversed to reach those files. The notraverse setting turns off this checking. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: always-on-top bug
On Sun, 27 Mar 2005, Jack Tanner wrote: The splashscreen of an app being displayed over ssh X11 forwarding stays on top of other windows instead of going to background when I select a Windows window. Normally, I would've never noticed this since splashscreens usually whiz by, but I was on a slow connection, and this was very noticeable. Was this in multiwindow mode, or in rootless/rooted mode? If the former, then AFAIU this is expected behavior -- the windows are managed by the native Windows window manager, and any always-on-top hints are translated to the Windows always-on-top attribute, which makes your window *really* stay on top of others. If the latter, does it make other X windows stay on top of the Windows windows? If so, this sounds like a bug. If not, I can't see how this is possible, as the rootless mode is implemented via one large window with transparent areas, IIRC. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: Fwd: GLXUnsupportedPrivateRequest error with Xwin_gl.exe
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, David Cameron wrote: However, Gazebo now dies immediately after with the cryptic message Bad System Call: $ gazebo.exe example.world *** Gazebo 0.5.1 *** using display [127.0.0.1:0.0] rendering: [GLX offscreen] direct [no] RGBA [8 8 8 8] depth [16] Bad system call I know nothing about Gazebo, but the Bad system call message is usually an indication that cygserver is not running when an application invokes either shared memory or IPC functionality. See /usr/share/doc/cygserver.README. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: Missing libs when compiling GTK+ code
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005, Radek Vokal wrote: On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 20:26:36 +0100, Gerrit P. Haase [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. Radek Vokal wrote: I'm trying to compile my project under Cygwin/X and faced several problems. The first one was missing libXrender.la file. Thanx to this mailing list I've solved this issue but right after fixing this the makefile reports: gcc.exe: /usr/lib/libgpg-error.dll.a: No such file or directory [snip] gcc.exe: /usr/lib/libiconv.dll.a: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [myproject.exe] Error 1 etc. Strange that all these files are present in these directories. Am I missing some PATH configuration or ldconfig stuff? Just a guess: what about the permissions on these files? Can you do `ls /usr/lib/libiconv.dll.a` as the same user who issues the make command? How looks the link command used? This looks fine. Does permission really mather in Cygwin anyway? I see all these listed files, ls -l /usr/lib/libiconv.dll.a says -rwxr-x---+ 1 rat Users 7630 Jul 6 2004 /usr/lib/libiconv.dll.a* which seems to be ok. Does it help if you run gcc with CYGWIN=notraverse? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: Corrupted overlapping pull-down menus
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Matthew Johnson wrote: [snip] I don't know exactly what version of Cygwin I'm using (how can I tell?), You can tell by opening a Cygwin shell and typing, cygcheck --version. No. The output of cygcheck --version has *very little correlation* with the installed version of Cygwin. The way to find out the version of Cygwin you're using is the same as that of finding out the version of Linux (or any other Unix) that's being used: uname -r. The installed version of Cygwin (and other packages) is also part of the output of cygcheck -svr. In fact, it is a oftne a really good idea to run cygcheck -svr cygchout and attach the file 'cygchout' to email to this list, since many people can spot the problem right away from that output. The output of cygcheck -svr provides information about the Cygwin installation. Sometimes there are configuration issues that result in certain symptoms, and having that output available can help either confirm or rule out those configuration issues as the cause of the poster's symptoms. OTOH, there are many guidelines for posting Cygwin-related questions to the lists, all of which are listed at http://cygwin.com/problems.html. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: launch server x without startx command
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Alexis Cothenet wrote: Hi all, I'm working using Cygwin XFree86. I'd like to avoid to type startx each time i click on the cygwin icon (lazy attitude;-) in a such way i could work directly in the X shell when i click on it. I have seen http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-01/msg00476.html ( tried with my own ip) but it doesn't work for me. i'm working with tcsh shell. Maybe there is a place where i could launch the startx script ? Does someone know how i could manage that ? Alexis, In exactly what way doesn't it work for you? Does the X server produce an error, or do X clients report that no server is detected? If the latter, make sure you have DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 in your environment, otherwise the X apps won't know about the X server. If the former, please post the exact command you're trying to add. FWIW, in the newer versions of Cygwin, you may be better off with using setsid XWin [options] instead of XWin [options] . One typo in the message you referred to is that xwin is lowercase, while the executable is named XWin, but on most systems this shouldn't matter. An alternative solution that was discussed (but I'm not aware of any resolution) is to write a script that conditionally starts the X server if it's not already running, and kick it off in every X client shortcut. Igor P.S. Of course, there's always http://cygwin.com/problems.html. -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: F1 F4 do not work with xwin-6.8.1.0-10
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Ehud Karni wrote: The problem: F1 and F4 don't work with xwin-6.8.1.0-10. Temporary workaround - using xmodmap: xmodmap -e keycode 208 = 0xffbe # set F1 xmodmap -e keycode 211 = 0xffc1 # set F4 Notes: It seems that the problem caused by the keycodes assigned to F1 and F4. They should have been on keycodes 67 / 70 but they are on 208 / 211. I did not have this problem with any previous version of Xwin. (i.e. xwin-6.8.1.0-9 or before). uname -a: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 p4-1700-xp 1.5.12(0.116/4/2) 2004-11-10 08:34 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin Below are the `xev' output and XWin.log [snip] The obvious question: is your NumLock on? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: resolution smaller than application
Yuk, top posting... Reformatted. On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Mordechai_Pniel wrote: Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] 25/01/2005 21:02 Please respond to cygwin-xfree Again, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR (Please configure your mailer to not quote raw e-mail addresses in your replies). We have enough spam out there as it is. This *is* possible even in Lotus Notes (at least it is in R6). Also, please make sure your mailer respects the Reply-To header. On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Mordechai_Pniel wrote: On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, mpniel wrote: My Windows Xp resolution is smaller than the real Xwindows application resolution that i am running. So i get only a section of the Xwindows screen application. Is it possible to get all the real Xwindows screen on my Windows XP? BTW, what is the size of your X application? When you imply that it doesn't fit on the XP screen, and then say that you set your X window size to be the same as your XP screen, it's pretty confusing... You still didn't answer this one. I'm going to assume for the rest of this message that your X application is 1280x1024. [snip] So, to summarize, try cygstart XWin :0 -screen 0 1280 1024 -scrollbars -query %REMOTE_HOST% -lesspointer -clipboard and see if you get a big enough window for your X app with scrollbars. Command failed with error: $ cygstart XWin :0 -screen 0 1280 1024 -scrollbars -query %REMOTE_HOST% -lesspointer -clipboard cygstart: bad argument -screen: unknown option Whoops. Make that cygstart -- XWin :0 -screen 0 1280 1024 -scrollbars -query %REMOTE_HOST% -lesspointer -clipboard Sorry about the confusion, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: subscribe donaldatziesig.org
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Donald R. Ziesig wrote: Hopefully this is the way to subscribe to this list. http://cygwin.com/lists.html#subscribe-unsubscribe Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: resolution smaller than application
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Mordechai_Pniel wrote: On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: cygstart -- XWin :0 -screen 0 1280 1024 -scrollbars -query %REMOTE_HOST% -lesspointer -clipboard Great Igor !! Now it works ok. But just could you tell me why must use the command cygstart instead of run ? run will hide the main window in some cases. You can try it, and if it works for you -- great. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: question about using Cygwin/X from 2 WinXPpro logins
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Banibrata Dutta wrote: Hi, I had installed Cygwin (including Cygwin/X) via the WinXPpro user=Administrator (for the local machine). Did you install for All Users, or Just for Me? BTW, the official guidelines for reporting Cygwin problems and providing relevant information about your system are at http://cygwin.com/problems.html. I can successfully do startx from this account, and do the usual Cygwin/X tasks from this, i.e. create xterms, do xhost+ etc. When i try to start Cygwin/X via the user=myself which belongs to domain=MYDOMAIN, startx fails, saying that xinit could not be found. I did the following... export PATH=$PATH:/usr/X11/bin startx but this has no impact, i.e. no success yet. Isn't it supposed to be /usr/X11R6/bin? Anybody aware / has-clue as to what's up ? Any help would be appreciated. Once you get past the PATH/mount hurdle, you might run into problems with /tmp/.X11-unix/. There are a few solutions: using different displays is one (provided that directory is writable to the world); mounting /tmp as a user mount in a different directory for each user is another. See the thread http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-05/msg00252.html, for example. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: resolution smaller than application
Wrong list, redirecting... Please remove cygwin at cygwin dot com from any follow-ups. On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, mpniel wrote: My Windows Xp resolution is smaller than the real Xwindows application resolution that i am running. So i get only a section of the Xwindows screen application. Is it possible to get all the real Xwindows screen on my Windows XP? or at least to pan with the mouse in order to see the hidden parts of the big screen? or to scale the real Xwindows size to my WIndows Xp size? How are you invoking XWin? Do you use the startxwin.sh script? If so, XWin is invoked in multi-window mode, which uses the Windows screen as the X screen. Try invoking XWin directly, and giving it the -screen parameter (see the man page for instructions on specifying the screen size), and -scrollbars to allow resizing/scrolling. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: Cygwin Xfree not functional on laptop with wireless
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Browning, Jeff wrote: All: I have installed Cygwin Xfree on my T40 laptop and yesterday when in the office over a normal wired ethernet connection, it was working fine. Today, I am working from home over a wireless connection, and Cygwin has become completely non-functional. The bash shell shows nothing, basically it's just dead. Running the startxwin.bat file from a normal DOS window shows the usual start message. The X icon appears, but will display nothing. Eventually, the X icon vanishes, apparently a silent crash. Any clue what is going on here? The bash thing sounds like a general Cygwin problem, so you should take it to the main Cygwin list (redirecting and setting Reply-To:). Do you happen to run a VPN in addition to your wireless connection? Also, please review http://cygwin.com/problems.html to see how you can provide the relevant information about your system. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: XWin/xdmcp fails after PC domain change
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Greg Dotts wrote: I could sure use some help solving a problem with my Cygwin/X (on MS XP Pro SP1 - Fedora 2 xdmcp connection. I recently changed my Samba server setup to PDC and joined my desktop and laptop PC's to the domain which promptly killed my Cygwin/X installations. Step two was a remove/reinstall of Cygwin/X to the latest release on both machines. This resulted in my laptop working, but not my desktop. Next step was to remove the desktop and laptop from the domain and back into the original workgroup and try again. I had to remove/reinstall Cygwin/X again, and again only the laptop will connect. So now I'm scratching my head... I have removed Cygwin/X from my desktop, cleaned the registry, removed all files related to Cygwin/X from the HD and reinstalled. Same result - The XWin window loads but no response from the Fedora server. Below is a copy of the XWin.log file and user variables, but I don't see anything out of the ordinary and I can't find any related entries in any of the Fedora logs. BTW, nothing has changed on the xdmcp server side that I'm aware of... It looks to me like XWin.exe is not making the request to 192.168.1.1??? [snip] Any help would be appreciated and I've RTFM'd and searched the archives. ;-) XDMCP is very sensitive to DNS changes. Make sure that when the server does a reverse DNS lookup on the IP, it gets the same FQDN as supplied by your Cygwin machine. Check /var/log/messages on the server. Do you have a stale /etc/hosts entry, perhaps? See http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/XDMCP-HOWTO/ and http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-04/msg00329.html. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: Display problems with second/subsequent xterm instances
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Lloyd Wood wrote: I've been using cygwin for some months. I have a problem with second and subsequent xterms, which display rather than act on terminal control codes setting colour information. This appears to have broken with a cygwin X upgrade, but I can't be certain. The first xterm created with startx from console is black window, yellow text, green user name, matching the cygwin console, works as you would expect. Subsequent xterms launched from the first xterm (I can't launch xterms from the console window even after setting DISPLAY correctly and telling xhost localhost has permission -- odd) display the character codes instead: \[\033]0;\w\007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\] $ echo $DISPLAY :0.0 \[\033]0;\w\007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\] They're definitely xterms - ctrl right-click gets me the VT Fonts menu (other clicks are intercepted by too-smart-by-half windows links.) I've not set up any special profiles or startup scripts in cygwin. Any ideas? Is your login shell set correctly in /etc/passwd? Looks like the subsequent xterms run /bin/sh instead of /bin/bash... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: X -broadcast
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Brett wrote: Hi, Have been using X -broadcast to connect to a XDM server on my network for months now. However, when another user of cygwin tries, it doesn't work. I've tested it on a couple different XP machines, each with Cygwin installed for ALL USERS. I can resolve this problem by removing the /tmp/XWin.log file manually. It seems that this file is written by the last person to successfully start an X Window, and the permissions are 644. Maybe if the file was written 664, or a different file was written for each $LOGNAME, this problem might go away. Here is what I've come up with that works for me: a startx script to start X: - # startx rm -f /tmp/XWin.log if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo File could not be deleted exit fi X -broadcast /dev/null 21 - I'd be grateful for thoughts on a better solution. Have a separate /tmp for each user -- execute the following once for each user account: mount -fu $USERPROFILE\\Local Settings\Temp /tmp and all of your users should be able to start X the regular way with no interference. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: New setup.exe release candidate - please test
Ugh, top-posting... Oh, well... This behavior is by design. Setup doesn't remember the source packages that were installed -- only the binary ones. One way to fix this would be to introduce dummy (empty) binary packages for the two source-only packages -- feel free to propose this on the cygwin-apps list. Another (proper) fix would be to patch setup.exe -- again, feel free to post a patch on the cygwin-apps list. HTH, Igor On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Alexey N. Solofnenko wrote: Not remembering what was installed seems like a bug to me. - Alexey. Andrew Schulman wrote: New feature-- probably unlikely given the current difficulty just in getting bugs fixed, and that the current setup utility will probably be scrapped altogether in favor of something better. However, if a feature like that were to be implemented, I'd rather see it in those annoying checkboxes at the end. You know, Add an icon to the desktop and Add an icon to the start menu. I've unchecked those boxes about 20 bezillion times, and every time setup forgets and asks me again. -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: Having XP and KDE desktops togather
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Vinod Gupta wrote: My cygwin and xfree86 installed fine on my Windows XP machine. I would like to have both local XP desktop and remote KDE Desktop from Linux server, togather. Works almost OK when I do the following: - Execute startxwin.bat which launches xserver as: run xwin -clipboard -multiwindow - Open ssh client terminal and connect to remote linux server - Execute startkde from the ssh client terminal except for the following problem: The KDE Desktop occupies whole of XP screen and remains in foreground, can not be moved and can not be iconized. So Windows becomes practically inaccessible until I kill KDE Desktop. Any suggestions to make both desktops co-exist? Try omitting the -multiwindow parameter. That way, the KDE desktop will be started in one Windows window that you can manipulate normally. If you also want to open local X clients in multiwindow mode, you can start another (windowed) instance of X for your KDE desktop (i.e., use run XWin :1.0 -clipboard) and ssh with DISPLAY set to :1.0 to start your KDE session. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: Problem with ssh and X
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Dr Christian Hicks wrote: I am trying to connect to a Sun UNIX box and display the graphics on my PC running Cygwin. I am using the command ssh -X -l user-name remote-machine. Wrong list. Redirecting to cygwin-xfree. Please delete cygwin at cygwin dot com from subsequent discussion. The connection is being made OK, but when I try and run something with X graphics I get an error message of the form: X Error (intercepted): BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) Major Request Code : 7 Minor Request Code : 0 Resource ID (XID) : 58 Error Serial Number : 47 XView warning: invalid object (not a pointer), xv_get finished; X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) Major opcode of failed request 7 (X_ReparentWindow) Resource id in failed request: 0x3a Serial number of failed request: 47 Current serial number in output stream: 56 I have a Netgear DG834G router/firewall, neither of which are showing anything in the log. The odd thing is that I tried the same thing from my work PC and it was fine. I updated the whole of my Cygwin installation yesterday. Any help would be very gratefully received. Thanks, Dr Christian Hicks http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#remote, which has the same answer that a Google search for 'BadWindow invalid window parameter ssh site:cygwin.com' (or even 'BadWindow Cygwin') would have shown... HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: _impure_ptr warning in install
On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, george young wrote: [Xwin 6.8.1.0-1, Windows XP pro 5.1, experienced with linux X, not a windows or cygwin hacker] I just did a full uninstall of cygwin everything, using the setup program. Then I installed: [setup version 2.427, from mirror.mcs.anl.gov] base/ cygwin emu engine 1.5.12-1 X11/ X-start-menu-icons 1.0.3-2 X-startup-scripts 1.0.10-2 xorg-x11-base 6.8.1.0-1 net/ inetutils 1.3.2-28 interpreters/ python During the install I several times got the message: The procedure entry point _impure_ptr could not be located in cygwin1.dll Is something broken in the current release? -- George Young Please review the Cygwin problem reporting guidelines at http://cygwin.com/problems.html to see what information is usually requested when reporting Cygwin problems. Particularly, you should have provided the output of cygcheck -svr on your system as an uncompressed text attachment to your message. At a guess, you most likely have more than one Cygwin1.dll on your machine. Run the Windows Find (Start Menu-Search) and search for all instances of Cygwin1.dll. Delete all but the one in your Cygwin's /bin directory, then you should be able to reinstall normally. Igor P.S. This is not a Cygwin/X problem, and thus belongs on the main Cygwin list (cygwin at cygwin dot com). -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: More X11 error messages
On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Daniel Newhouse wrote: I'm cross posting since the X11 developers blame everything on the cywin setup.exe FYI, you didn't, as you misspelled cygwin in the list address as well. But see below. When I try to install it is at 94%(installing everything) and the file that I get a hangup at is etc/postinstall/xorg-x11-fnts.sh When I click cancel on the installation I am then given another error Cannot open file C:\cygwin\var\log\setup.log I think this would be very indicative of the problem. Can you create a c:\cygwin\var\log\setup.log via another program (e.g., notepad)? Are all the components in the above path executable by your user? Is c:\cygwin\var\log writeable? This is a good time to reiterate the fact that the log file that is supposed to be generated by the cygwin installation is not generated on my computer. Umm, of course, that's what the above message states. I am of course, using XP SP 2. I don't expect anyone to help anymore, I am just reporting what goes wrong. Most of the earlier reports of this exact problem were answered in the same exact way as I've just answered you. There were no further replies. And yeah, I tried installing cygwin without x11 first and that doesn't help. Probably because most people don't install all the packages, which I must do. The two statements above are not connected in any way. Installing Cygwin without X11 first doesn't preclude you from installing all the packages. Theoretically, installing everything at once and everything in two parts should produce equivalent installations. The technique of splitting the install process is simply a workaround for a known (and currently being worked on) bug in setup.exe. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: GLX acceleration
Lester, Exactly what kind of speedups are you expecting here? AFAIU, the GLX-accelerated XWin will give you speedup only for programs that use the GLX extension, which automatically excludes most standard X clients (e.g., xterm, emacs, etc). For applications not using the GLX extension, the GLX-accelerated XWin should be no different from the regular XWin. Alexander, please correct me if I'm wrong. Igor On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Lester Ingber wrote: Yes, XWin_GL seems to run OK, though I have not seen any dramatic speedup yet. It is likely that part of this may be due to memory problems I seem to be having in the latest xorg downloads, with XWin and now also with XWin_GL. (I only seem to have these problems in xterm and rxvt, not in a Cygwin console window.) [snip] --8-- top cut 2/2 - bottom 2/2 ---8-- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= In an effort to get better performance on my ThinkPad/XPPRo I'm considering adding the experimental GLX acceleration module offered under setup. Is anyone using this? I've tested it with some programs including the glut suite. Some of the glut examples fail but most work well. How do you turn it on? Just install it and run XWin_GL.exe instead of XWin.exe. Any feedback is welcome. BTW: Only the multiwindow mode is useful with the accelerated server since the OpenGL drawing surface is not translated to match the window boundaries in windowed moded. bye ago -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
Re: Problems with ssh and tunnelling with cygwin 1.5.12
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Nick Wisniewski wrote: Dave Korn wrote: that ought to give you enough information to find out what's wrong. Try ssh -v -v -v rest of options and see what that tells you. I try this and it hangs with a response: debug2: x11_get_proto: /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth -f /tmp/ssh-LuCdTO1472/xauthfile generate unix:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 untrusted timeout 1200 2/dev/null When I kill sh.exe from the task manager, it hangs again immediately with the response: debug2: x11_get_proto: /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth list unix:0 . 2/dev/null When I kill sh.exe again, it continues as normal. On Fri, Nov 12, 2004, I wrote among other things: I don't recall any option that would make ssh start a shell on the local machine. Are your ssh config files customized? Are you running keychain, or autossh, or any other ssh-related scripts? xauth is a script (well, a program). What happens if you run those exact commands from the command line? Also, try stracing the ssh process (as Dave Korn suggested) and see where sh hangs (use something like strace -o ssh.strace ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] and browse ssh.strace). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT
