Re: Xdmcp too slow with SOME Linux accounts.

2007-09-12 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Michel, One alternative you could try is ssh-ing to the host you want to run the programs on and invoking the programs directly and comparing the graphics-update performance. In essence this means issuing the following command: ssh -Y [EMAIL PROTECTED] program The 'Y' parameter

Re: Xdmcp too slow with SOME Linux accounts.

2007-09-12 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Michael, I am assuming you are invoking the ssh connection from a graphical xterm window, it won't work from a console-mode bash prompt. Other than that, it might mean that X forwarding is not enabled on the host you are connecting to. For the record, I just tried the

Re: A thought about stuck keys

2007-08-23 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Harold, (are you still around?) OK, I know it's been a while, but I think I might have figured it out; If you look in Windows' Keyboard Control-Panel applet, you can set the Repeat Delay and the Repeat Rate for the keyboard... If on computerA you press a key and then let go of the key, that

Re: Cygwin X server 'reset' command

2007-08-21 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
My xterm version is: $ xterm -v Cygwin 6.8.2.0(202) in console mode TERM is set like the following: TERM=cygwin In graphical mode TERM is set like the following: TERM=xterm Executing the following DOES clear the screen and the backscroll buffer in graphical mode (thanks, Mansoorali): printf

Adding fonts

2007-08-20 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Hi, Is there a simple way to add fonts to Cygwin's X server? For example, I have a true-type font called TAHOMA.TTF that I would like to make available to the X Server. Are all the host operating system's fonts automatically available to the X server? Do I have to perform any special actions to

Re: Ctrl got stuck

2005-05-31 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Tobias, if you were to type lots of AltGr key combinations, could you reproduce the problem every time? On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 16:21 +0200, Tobias Polzin wrote: Hi, first of all: Thanks for the great cygwin-xfree! I have one major problem with it: Occasionly (approx every 2 hours,

Re: sshd and X

2005-05-26 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
: Hi, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: Running an application gives a different error now also. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ xcalc X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). you need to run xauth

sshd and X

2005-05-25 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Hello, I've installed the Cygwin/X ssh daemon as a service under Windows 2000. It works fine. I can go sit at Linux box and ssh into the machine running Windows 2000. ssh -Y [EMAIL PROTECTED] Once I am logged in, I'd like to run an X11 application. For example

Re: sshd and X

2005-05-25 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
it. What's the best course of action? Thanks On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 14:09 +0200, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Wed, 25 May 2005, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: ssh -Y [EMAIL PROTECTED] Once I am logged in, I'd like to run an X11 application. For example xcalc. If I execute xcalc

Re: sshd and X

2005-05-25 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
2005, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: Thanks ago, I can't seem to change the settings in the config files. I am logged on to the machine a me/domain The user I am logged on as is in the W2K machine's Administrators group. But the config file is owned by SYSTEM and I

Re: sshd and X

2005-05-25 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
There is no /etc/ssh/ folder. All the ssh-related files are in /etc Is that normal? Also, what should I try next? thanks. On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 15:25 +0200, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Wed, 25 May 2005, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: ago, Are you sure the linux box id the problem? Sorry

Re: sshd and X

2005-05-25 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
side. Cheers, Sebastien On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 10:07:40AM -0400, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: Thanks, Ago. Using the instructions you provided, I was able to edit the file and enable X11Forwarding yes I've restarted the ssh daemon, but it still doesn,t work, the DISPLAY

Re: sshd and X

2005-05-25 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
are successfully logged in to this server!!! basename: invalid option -- b Try `basename --help' for more information. -bash: [: =: unary operator expected [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 17:14 +0200, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Wed, 25 May 2005, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: Thanks

Re: sshd and X

2005-05-25 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
There is no trace after the X11 forwarding request. Should there be? If there should be, what does this tell us? On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 11:23 -0400, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: debug1: Entering interactive session. debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing.

Re: sshd and X

2005-05-25 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
OK, the machine hadn't rebooted, that was causing a problem. After reboot, the login responses have changed: error in locking authority file /cygdrive/y/jcgervais/.Xauthority [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ssh -Y neptune [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Last login: Wed May 25 23:37:00 2005 from pluto

Re: gaim 'BadWindow' crashes fixed

2004-07-13 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Jul 2004, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: You wouldn't happen to know how to fix the WindowMaker Preferences Utility corrupted icons bug, would you? Maybe this is the long standing bug with lz77 compressed tiff files in the windowmaker package with libtiff without lz77 algorithm

Re: gaim 'BadWindow' crashes fixed

2004-07-06 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
, would you? I did find one or two messages on the subject, but no one seemed to have a solution. On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 04:23, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: It turns out that the key to avoiding this is invoking the SSH connection with the '-Y

gaim 'BadWindow' crashes fixed

2004-07-05 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Hello, I've been having the same problem: Every time I float my mouse pointer over a widget that produces a bubble-help-text, gaim would exit with a X crash. This would only happen when tunneling X over SSH from a Windows box running Cygwin to a Linux box where gaim executes. It turns out that

GTK

2004-01-29 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Hi, A year or so ago, to compile GTK apps to run under Cygwin, you had to patch the GTK source and the glib sources. I was just wondering if this is still the case? I've googled a bit, but found mostly dead links. Anyone have some info on the subject? Thanks.

cygpcre-0.dll missing from default install

2003-12-29 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Hello and thanks in advance! I installed cygwin using www.cygwin.com/setup.exe and default packages selected on a computer running Windows 2000 that has never had Cygwin installed on it. tried running less after and --- less.exe - Unable To Locate DLL

Re: Cygwin Setup 99%

2003-10-15 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
A bit of bad luck here: I'm reinstalling Cygwin on a newly formatted machine this morning. So what do I do to get it installed now? The setup is hung. Do I cancel and run it again? What? Thanks. On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 18:13, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Wayne, While we can't expect everyone to

Re: [Fwd: Send loss of focus notification when changing focus to a Windows app?]

2003-09-24 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Um, does anyone here have a clue to what I'm referring to? I tried to be as clear as possible. On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 13:23, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: Is it possible to tell X that it has lost focus when a Windows app gains focus

Re: [Fwd: Send loss of focus notification when changing focus to a Windowsapp?]

2003-09-24 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
: Jean-Claude Gervais [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Cygwin-XFree [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Fwd: Send loss of focus notification when changing focus to aWindowsapp?] Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 13:23:33 -0400 Is it possible to tell X that it has lost focus when a Windows app

Re: Send loss of focus notification ...

2003-09-24 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Sep 2003, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: Um, does anyone here have a clue to what I'm referring to? I tried to be as clear as possible. Sorry, it seems no one researches this with a high priority. So the best thing would be to examine the problem yourself and to send a patch. bye

Re: [Fwd: Send loss of focus notification when changing focus to a Windows app?]

2003-09-24 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
. Otherwise, it will have to wait a while. Harold Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: Um, does anyone here have a clue to what I'm referring to? I tried to be as clear as possible. On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 13:23, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: Is it possible to tell X that it has lost focus when

[Fwd: Send loss of focus notification when changing focus to a Windows app?]

2003-09-23 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Is it possible to tell X that it has lost focus when a Windows app gains focus? ---BeginMessage--- Hi, I'm runnng the WindowMaker that comes with Cygwin XFree with the following options: XWin -nowinkill -multiplemonitors -nodecoraion -rootless -clipboard And I've noticed one small

Send loss of focus notification when changing focus to a Windows app?

2003-09-21 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Hi, I'm runnng the WindowMaker that comes with Cygwin XFree with the following options: XWin -nowinkill -multiplemonitors -nodecoraion -rootless -clipboard And I've noticed one small detail: When changing from window to window on X, WindowMaker sems to be able to track who is active

XWin and -multiplemonitors works once, but not twice?

2003-07-02 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
When I run XWin with the following: start /B XWin -engine 1 -nowinkill -multiplemonitors -nodecoration -rootless -clipboard It does open and span both my monitors. If I close XWin and start it again, however, it only displays on the first monitor. The log file claims that both monitors are not

RE: OT - Terminal embedded in desktop

2003-06-05 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
for a stock xterm (the simpler - the better), removing the call that creates the window, and using root drawing calls instead of window drawing calls? I know it won't be *that* simple, but as a general direction, does the above look feasible? Igor On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: Hi

RE: OT - Terminal embedded in desktop

2003-06-03 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
in desktop --- Jean-Claude Gervais [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Also, the terminal window, since it is the desktop, would not have a border, would take up the entire desktop and could not be moved. It would not appear in the window list of the window manager

OT - Terminal embedded in desktop

2003-06-02 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Hello, I am looking for a tool or window manager, I’m not really sure, that lets you do what Windows does with Active Desktop. That is, I am trying to set it up so that my term window IS the desktop. That means that Icons on the desktop would appear on top of

RE: transparent + tinted terminal aterm compiled works OK

2003-04-12 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Raphaël, Cool! Is the Term window only displays contents when you move or resize it bug also fixed? Thanks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Raphaël Mugneret Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2003 4:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Transparent terminal window?

2003-04-05 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
binary avialable on cygwin try to compile http://aterm.sourceforge.net/ for more screenshots http://xplanet.sourceforge.net/ cheers biju CyGNOME = Cygwin + GNOME http://cygnome.sourceforge.net/ --- Jean-Claude Gervais [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm running WindowMaker, and I

Transparent terminal window?

2003-04-04 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Hi, I'm running WindowMaker, and I was wondering; does anyone know how to get transparent terminal windows? Can you do it with stock Cygwin-XFree or do you have to download and compile a specific terminal emulator? Thanks in advance.

Clipboard bug - Crash

2003-04-02 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Hi, I hope this hasn't already been reported; Steps to reproduce: Use the latest release version of Cygwin-XFree Start any text editor. Repeatedly paste a block of text into the editor until there is more than 30-40 KB of text in there. Select all the

RE: Latest release observations

2003-03-31 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Just in case someone else out there is having this same problem; both video cards must be set to the same bit depth for -multiplemonitors to work properly. Now if I could just get XWin compiled to see if the WM_DISPLAYCHANGE fix will work... -Original Message- Subject: Latest release

RE: Latest release observations

2003-03-31 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jean-Claude Gervais Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 12:06 PM To: Cygwin-XFree Subject: RE: Latest release observations One thing I might mention; I did some digging, and the XWin window seems to be receiving a WM_DISPLAYCHANGE http

Latest release observations

2003-03-29 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Hi, I have just reinstalled my machine and therefore had to do a fresh install of Cygwin. -multiplemonitors now works fine on my home machine, but for some reason, it still only uses one display on my computer at work. I'll have a look at the log file and post back when I get a

A thought about stuck keys

2003-03-04 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Hi, I am using Microsoft Netmeeting to control a box running Cygwin XFree, and like some of you have already noted, occasionally whatever is typed on the keyboard gets echoed several times, acting almost like a stuck key. This seems to happen to me MUCH, MUCH more when I am working

RE: A thought about stuck keys

2003-03-04 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
? If not, then this may be a problem in xterm, not in Cygwin. I would really like to know the answer to this one. Harold Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: Hi, I am using Microsoft Netmeeting to control a box running Cygwin XFree, and like some of you have already noted, occasionally whatever

Errors running setup updater

2002-12-17 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Hi, Running the updater as I do periodically, tonight it gave me a series of errors. It actually did this on two machines that I keep up to date. Any ideas why this is happening and how to fix it? LOG INCLUDED

RE: Cygwin GNOME 1.4 binary packages

2002-12-12 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
At most it only seems to be a configuration problem, and not a bug. Like if it can't find your fonts? I'm no expert. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Fraser Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 3:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

RE: Rootless mode

2002-12-12 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
This may be obvious, but the difference between the two is that Windows sends you a bunch of messages when you're dragging the window when fulldrag is in effect... So it might be some message handler repositioning the window during one of those notifications... Maybe a WM_SIZE or

RE: Rootless mode

2002-12-12 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
reset when the messages are processed. Or, it could be as simple as returning the wrong value after processing these messages, causing Windows to send them again. Harold -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jean-Claude Gervais Sent: Thursday

RE: SSH XFree86

2002-11-22 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Hi John, I use SSH the same way that you do, and although I can't be sure to solve your problem, here are a couple recommendations; Use the -C parameter with SSH so that it will compress your data, this will speed your sessions. Make sure your DISPLAY environment variable

RE: Preventing X server resets

2002-11-18 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
if a machine running an X server is rebooted then the server is lost, and there's typically no way to tell the clients where to reconnect to Isn't that what xmove does?

RE: XWin.exe -- xinit link

2002-11-17 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
xinit from the Cygwin command-line and read the 1st 3 paragraphs. From: Jean-Claude Gervais [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: XWin.exe -- xinit link Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 10:08:07 -0500 Thanks Artur, But that's not quite the info I

XWin.exe -- xinit link

2002-11-16 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Hello, If I start xinit, it in turn seems to start XWin. My question is What parameters does it use to start XWin? Where does it get the parameters? Is it executing a script?

RE: XWin.exe -- xinit link

2002-11-16 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Thanks Artur, But that's not quite the info I was looking for; You see, when I type startxwin.bat or startxwin.sh, I get a DIFFERENT result than from starting xinit by itself. Yet, xinit does start XWin, only it is starting it in windowed mode... Which is OK, but I'm

Newbie question -

2002-11-15 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Is there a way to invoke XDMCP AFTER the fact? Once I have started a local window manager, I'd like to do an XDMCP query, but running XWin again creates a second instance of X that is independent of my current window session. I tried running XDM ?!? And it replies only root wants to run xdm... But

RE: Preventing X server resets

2002-11-15 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Hi, Would xmove also be a possibility? From what I understand, xmove can be used to disconnect an X session from a host without the session actually closing. You can then move the display to another machineand resume where you left off.. You can also simply reattach to

RE: Running XDMCP server

2002-11-15 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
-Claude Gervais wrote: I tried running XDM ?!? And it replies only root wants to run xdm... But there is no user called root on my system... Thanks. An equal and opposite reaction... Is it possible to run XDMCP as a server (sorry probably wrong terminology) on the cygwin side, so I can run say

RE: Newbie question -

2002-11-15 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
time, assuming that this was possible? Did you assume that the window managers would share the screen, that a new window would popup with the XDMCP session? What were you envisioning? Harold Harold Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: Is there a way to invoke XDMCP AFTER the fact? Once I have started

RE: Quake3 Arena Dedicated

2002-11-10 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
A hopeless case! I love it. Seriously, Mario, are you trying to simply run Quake3 or are you trying to port it? I think you might be able to get Quake3 to run natively on Cygwin easily, if you had its source code and simply recompiled it. After all, it's mostly a question of running the 3D

RE: Running multiple servers from Windows Terminal Server

2002-11-07 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Hi Salah, I can attest that XWin will work over RDP and over Netmeeting too. One thing, I usually use -engine 1, so that the drawing will be done by GDI because RDP didn't seem to be able to get the data (all I would get was a big white square or a big transparent square).

Rootless mode with Query mode

2002-11-06 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Hi, If I start XWin with the following parameters, :0 -rootless -query hostname I get the Redhat login dialog box, which appears with NO background. This is good. Then when I log in, whether I select GNOME or KDE, the KDE/GNOME desktop background always appears.

RE: XFree leaking memory?

2002-11-05 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
BoundsChecker. I use it all the time to find memory leaks. I wonder if you can use it on something compiled with GCC... It should be able to see bad parameters and leaks resulting from calls to the Win32 API, but I wonder if that would be the extent of what it can trap. In other words, it might

RE: XFree leaking memory?

2002-11-05 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Thanks Ralf, There is also this tool - http://devel-home.kde.org/~sewardj/ Not sure if it can be used on Cygwin, but I think it might. Anyhow, I'll run some tests and report back. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: xfree leaking memory? - XWin trace.zip

2002-11-05 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
I ran XWin under Boundschecker with the following parameters: :0 -engine 1 -rootless -lesspointer Note that I didn't recompile or modify XWin from its current distribution version to do this. After starting it, I ran another instance of Boundschecker and under this one, I started WMAKER. Once

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin/XFree86 Package: x2x-1.27-2

2002-11-04 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Great news Thomas, Um, since you know so much about dual-displays, maybe you could help me? I'm running Cygwin XFree on a machine inside which I have installed two video cards; this in effect creates a really large Windows desktop. I'm just wondering if you know of any

RE: Fun weekend

2002-11-04 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Really cool post-mortem Harold! I've also got an 80GB HD (UDMA) and a Radeon All-In-Wonder (but the older model) And yeah, been there, done that too! When Windows gets in a funk like that, there isn't a whole lot to do. If I remember correctly though, you can run Regedit in DOS mode and make

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin/XFree86 Package: x2x-1.27-2

2002-11-04 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
be realized. Harold Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: Great news Thomas, Um, since you know so much about dual-displays, maybe you could help me? I'm running Cygwin XFree on a machine inside which I have installed two video cards; this in effect creates a really large Windows desktop. I'm

RE: Multiple monitors

2002-11-04 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner;cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Harold L Hunt II Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 12:23 PM So, what you really want is to be able to say ``start screen 0 on physical monitor x'', right? That way the rootless X would pop up on

True-type Fonts on *nixes and Cygwin XFree also?

2002-10-27 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Hi, I recently read this article http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ And applied the procedure to my Linux machine. My question is, how relevant is this to Cygwin? Meaning, does Cygwin use True-Type and anti-aliased fonts? If Cygwin can use anti-aliased

XWinClip

2002-10-25 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Hi, I've followed the posted instructions for downloading and installing XWinClip, but for some odd reason, I get the following error when trying to extract the .EXE: bunzip2 xwinclip-Test06.exe.bz2 bunzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out. Possible reason follows. bunzip2:

RE: Rootless: how to get wm menu?

2002-10-25 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
If you are running WindowMaker, pressing F12 gets the root menu. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner;cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Jehan Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 11:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Rootless: how to get wm menu? Keith D. Tyler

RE: XWinClip

2002-10-25 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
permissions on--Cygwin's /tmp is a good candidate. Double-check the permissions in Explorer, and make sure you're the owner of the directory. You may also want to double-check that you've run mkpasswd -d /etc/passwd if you're in a domain. - Bradey -Original Message- From: Jean-Claude Gervais

RE: No Taskbar Icon (Was: Re: -Rootless AND -NoDecoration)

2002-10-25 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Here's a heretic opinion: I want a taskbar icon for EACH X application! Nyah! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner;cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Randall R Schulz Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 1:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: No Taskbar Icon (Was: Re:

RE: XWinClip - bunzip2 - problem solved!

2002-10-25 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: XWinClip Make sure that you have the latest cygwin1.dll from yesterday's release (run setup.exe again). Several issues related to the now default ``ntsec'' option were corrected, and one of these fixes may resolve your problems. Harold Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: Hi Bradey

RE: Rootless mode only works on one monitor

2002-10-20 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
monitors.) /Marcus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner;cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Jean-Claude Gervais Sent: den 20 oktober 2002 21:54 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Rootless mode only works on one monitor Marcus, Could you post

RE: Need help

2002-10-19 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
http://themes.freshmeat.net/articles/view/465/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner;cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Carlton Teel Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 4:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Need help Greetings all, I have been trying to locate the

RE: wmaker signal 11

2002-10-14 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
I can report that if you install Cygwin and choose DOS files instead of UNIX files as a setup option, wmaker crashes on startup as a matter of course. 'course I don't really know WHY that is, but I did observe the fact. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Dual-display

2002-10-14 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
I have a machine with two video cards in it (forms one 2048x768 desktop). I’d like to make XWin start on the second display, is there a way to do that? I think I once read that on Windows, when you have multiple video cards, only the “first” one is accelerated. So the command line would have to

RE: Cygwin Remote: Want to implement a Citrix Metaframe alternative

2002-10-08 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Whoah! Does that actually work Thomas? Slick! Thanks for the tip! I may not have originally asked the question, but I can definitely use your solution! Thanks again. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of

RE: RE Cygwin List posts

2002-10-02 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
? Harold Pille Geert (bizvdm) wrote: I have learned from a reliable source, that Harold has (repeat: HAS) a pain in the ass. Which sometimes explains a person's emotional reactions. But one must admit that Ben did not help to ease the pain. -Original Message- From: Jean-Claude Gervais

RE: How do you gentleuser's start your X stuff?

2002-10-02 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Hi Frank, This list is really all about the Cygwin implementation of X and issues concerning that. If you have generic questions about X development, www.x.org might be a place to start. The comp.windows.x newsgroup might have some people on it that could help you. As

x2x or XWin -screen 0 2048 768 ?

2002-09-26 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Hi, Can anyone point me in the right direction? I've added a second video card to my computer and am running Windows with a large (2048x768) desktop. I'd like to run XWin like that too, but it and all the other apps only maximize on ONE of the screens. Although if a window is not

RE: x2x or XWin -screen 0 2048 768 ?

2002-09-26 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
that helps. Harold Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: Hi, Can anyone point me in the right direction? I've added a second video card to my computer and am running Windows with a large (2048x768) desktop. I'd like to run XWin like that too, but it and all the other apps only maximize

RE: x2x or XWin -screen 0 2048 768 ?

2002-09-26 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Harold, OK then. I'd say the reasonable trade-off that wouldn't hinder existing users would be that you get to specify the size of the X display, to any resolution you want, and ONLY if you have -scrollbars specified, then you can scroll the window around to see all of it OR you can also stretch

RE: RE Cygwin List posts

2002-09-25 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Having problems with your dog, Harold? ;-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Harold L Hunt II Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 4:16 PM To: Benjamin Simmons Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RE Cygwin List posts Ben, See, you aren't

RE: XOpenWin

2002-09-20 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
generally want Win2X we can do that I guess. Pros/cons? Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: Um, was Win2X pitched as a name? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Fraser Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 1:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: XOpenWin

RE: Cygwin-XFree -- RDP -- Cygwin-XFree

2002-09-19 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jean-Claude Gervais Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 9:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cygwin-XFree -- RDP -- Cygwin-XFree Harold, Did you get the results of the Cygwin-XFree -- RDP -- Cygwin-XFree tests I

XWinClip

2002-09-19 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Please forgive the newbie-type question: Using Cygwin-XFree to connect (in query mode) to a Linux box, I couldn't seem to select text from the Linux applications and paste them to Windows. Should I be able to? Is there a web-page somewhere that explains how to get this done with Cygwin and

RE: X client wrapper for Win apps?

2002-09-19 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
-Claude Gervais wrote: It COULD be done! Admittedly, it might not be a snap, but Wine already uses a POSIX layer to accomplish what it needs to do. In our case, it would use Cygwin! wine is in most parts the same as replacing kernel32.dll user32.dll and some other system dependent libraries. So

RE: X client wrapper for Win apps?

2002-09-19 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
wrapper for Win apps? On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: Wine translates GDI calls to X, doesn't it? Yes, and a lot of other things more. The GDI-X translation is only a small part of wine. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723

Cygwin-XFree -- RDP -- Cygwin-XFree

2002-09-17 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Harold, Did you get the results of the Cygwin-XFree -- RDP -- Cygwin-XFree tests I posted last week?

RE: Bug in IMake - Doesn't use DESTLIB

2002-09-10 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Of Alexander Gottwald Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 6:25 AM To: Cygwin-XFree Subject: Re: Bug in IMake - Doesn't use DESTLIB On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: I've been trying to write an Imakefile that copies the shared-library I'm building to a directory specified using

RE: Bug report: Using Cygwin-Xfree through Remote Desktop Sharing (RDP)

2002-09-10 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
) and regular GDI BLTs (Bit-Block Transfers) as the graphics engine; GDI will be less prone to having a problem with RDP. If RDP works with the GDI engine then I know exactly what to fix; if not, I will have to pump you for some more information. Harold Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: This is complicated

RE: Bug report: Using Cygwin-Xfree through Remote Desktop Sharing (RDP)

2002-09-09 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
- IDirectDrawSurface4_Blt () failed: 887601c2 And on and on... From: Jean-Claude Gervais [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Cygwin-XFree [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bug report: Using Cygwin-Xfree through Remote Desktop Sharing (RDP) Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 11:00:28 -0400 This is complicated

Bug in IMake - Doesn't use DESTLIB

2002-09-09 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Hello, I've been trying to write an Imakefile that copies the shared-library I'm building to a directory specified using the DESTLIB variable when the 'make install' target is invoked. Although this works fine on Linux, invoking the 'make install' rule on Cygwin results in the

Bug in IMake - Doesn't use DESTLIB

2002-09-09 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
I'm sorry; I sent this to the list because imake is part of XFree. Is there a way for me to reach imake's maintainer if this query doesn't belong here? Thanks -Original Message- Hello, I've been trying to write an Imakefile that copies the shared-library I'm building to a

Sorta OT - Imakefiles

2002-08-26 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Hi, Does anyone know how to tell an Imakefile to copy a shared-library and it's lib file to a user-specified location instead of the X directories? For example, I have the following Imakefile, and I'd like for the .DLL file to go to one directory, and its complimentary .LIB file to go

GDB, for XFree???

2002-08-11 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Hi, I'm trying to debug an X application with GDB, more specifically, a wxWindows application running under Cygwin Xfree. The problem is that if I invoke my application inside X, by typing gdb app.exe, a Windows application (GDB) pops up with my app loaded in it, but then my

RE: Help with fixing x2x...

2002-07-24 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Sounds like one of the sockets in the FD set is not a socket? Could you post enough of the code so we could see? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Conrad Scott Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 3:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Help

XRoaches

2002-07-22 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Hi, Just wondering; has anyone gotten xroach to work on Cygwin/XFree? It compiles fine, but when you run it, you don't get any roaches... Thanks.

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 61

2002-06-27 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
I second that. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Franz Wolfhagen Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 3:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 61 Your long changelogs are doing a very nice educational reading for me

RE: Cut down xfree server for XDMCP only

2002-06-16 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
I'm trying to run gdbx, and I need cygwinb19.dll to do it. Where can I find that file? I've tried renaming to cygwin1.dll to cygwinb19.dll, but when gdbx starts, the CPU goes to 100% load and gdbx never appears, so that doesn't work. TIA

wxWindows

2002-06-14 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Hi, Has anyone here been able to compile wxWindows on Cygwin? Specifically, producing a build of wxWindows that runs under Cygwin's XFree environment? I'd like to share notes on it if you have. Thanks.