On 01/05/2015 04:06 AM, Laurens Blankers wrote:
snip
Since I believe the rest of what you wrote above has been covered in one
form or another since my last reply, I won't bore anyone with my responses.
This leaves just one very critical piece of business which absolutely must
be addressed:
A:
On 01/04/2015 06:41 AM, Laurens Blankers wrote:
On 2015-01-04 00:02, Larry Hall (Cygwin-X) wrote:
The fact that the recent
changes interfere with previous usage is an issue that needs attention for
sure but reverting, while the maintainer's call, just trades misbehaviour
in the eyes of one
On 01/03/2015 03:03 AM, Laurens Blankers wrote:
On 3-1-2015 04:48, Larry Hall (Cygwin-X) wrote:
But the functionality in the latest release of the xinit corrects some
long-standing Cygwin incompatibilities with startx, so there's
no benefit to turning back as a strategy.
This is exactly why I
On 01/02/2015 03:35 PM, schilpfamily wrote:
rolling back to 1.3.2-1 fixed it. thank you very much for this, i was
really pulling my hair out on this. i read your request to the
maintainers and fully agree. while i only brought up this one bug,
since it was basically making cygwin/x useless,
On 12/15/2014 09:49 PM, Will Parsons wrote:
Marco Atzeri wrote:
On 12/12/2014 7:07 PM, Will Parsons wrote:
For several years now I have been starting X windows by clicking on an
icon on my desktop that is a link to C:\cygwin\bin\startxwin.exe. It
has recently ceased to work because
On 12/15/2014 10:30 PM, Will Parsons wrote:
Larry Hall (Cygwin-X) wrote:
On 12/15/2014 09:49 PM, Will Parsons wrote:
Marco Atzeri wrote:
On 12/12/2014 7:07 PM, Will Parsons wrote:
For several years now I have been starting X windows by clicking on an
icon on my desktop that is a link to C
On 10/21/2014 04:59 PM, t s wrote:
webpage; http://cygwinports.org/
says to issue the command;
cygstart -- /path/to/setup-x86.exe -K http://cygwinports.org/ports.gpg
so I issued;
cygstart -- e:/setup-x86_64.exe -K http://cygwinports.org/ports.gpg
at first this command worked. Now it
On 10/21/2013 12:45 AM, Matt D. wrote:
Copy/paste seems to be broken when attempting to copy a large block of text
from X to Windows. See the attachment for an example.
Copying the text from Windows to X seems fine but the reverse causes the
mouse cursor to spin and then a blank string to
On 10/21/2013 6:40 PM, Matt D. wrote:
Larry,
This is the cygwin-xfree list?
Right. My apologies.
--
Larry
_
A: Yes.
Q: Are you sure?
A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
Q: Why is top posting
On 10/3/2013 12:46 PM, Erik Soderquist wrote:
snip
I just fired up a 64-bit Ubuntu VM I had laying around, installed firefox,
and tunneled it to cygwin64/X on my win7-64 machine. X isn't even visible in
the task manager when I sort descending by PF delta, CPU, or memory. This in
spite of having
On 9/10/2013 5:16 PM, Andreas Girgensohn wrote:
On a different note, when running gdb, I noticed that XWin.exe twice
receives a SIGSYS when starting. That does not affect normal
operations.
Right. This is fine. If you find this annoying or want to use the
facilities provided by Cygserver
On 7/12/2013 5:40 PM, STEVEN SITTSER wrote:
Until recently I was using Cygwin/X under Cygwin 1.5.18 on Windows XP.
The windows displayed by our in-house X applications had resize borders -
I could resize the windows by grabbing an edge.
Now, I am using Cygwin/X 1.12.1 under Cygwin 1.7.14 on
On 6/11/2013 12:46 AM, Dan Piraner wrote:
P.S. I tried to paste my CygCheck.out contents here but the email
bounced with a message saying it exceeded the maximum size. Please let
me know if there are any particular subsections that I should send.
We ask that you *attach* the cygcheck output
On 6/6/2013 12:41 PM, mathog wrote:
Details:
Cygwin/X Xserver package version 1.11.1-1 built 2011-10-05
This version is notably old. I might suggest that you update to the
latest and retest before spending much time looking into the code for the
problem. You may luck out. :-)
--
Larry
On 3/22/2013 3:59 PM, McBroom, Robert C wrote:
A new Windows 7 32 system with a fresh install of CYGWIN can't see any
mapped network or shared drives on my other systems. On the older XP system
IT tells me to replace and on another older Windows 7 32 system, CYGWIN
could access all drives. What
On 3/22/2013 4:50 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin-X) wrote:
On 3/22/2013 3:59 PM, McBroom, Robert C wrote:
A new Windows 7 32 system with a fresh install of CYGWIN can't see any
mapped network or shared drives on my other systems. On the older XP system
IT tells me to replace and on another older
On 1/7/2013 10:08 PM, MyBig SpamEmail wrote:
snip
Also, I am trying to figure out how to resolve this issue going
forward. Will the obsolete OpenGL package always be available to use
in the future, or will this package eventually be completely dropped
from Cygwin? (I hope not, this may make
On 4/24/2012 2:58 AM, Marc Girod wrote:
Larry Hall (Cygwin-X) wrote:
Get rid of the real dups. You only need the one in /usr/bin.
I don't know how they got there. They are not in my normal path.
Somehow my procedure to run cygcheck must have injected them.
I add them in neither
On 4/24/2012 5:12 PM, Marc Girod wrote:
Larry Hall (Cygwin-X) wrote:
Don't worry about the duplicated paths. I'm saying get rid of the
actual duplicated DLLs.
Sorry, but I have none.
My understanding is that the report was only the result of the duplicated
paths.
Running cygcheck again
On 4/23/2012 5:47 AM, Marc Girod wrote:
snip
Incidentally, I saw there:
Warning: There are multiple cygwin1.dlls on your path
So, I checked:
bin for d in $(echo $PATH | tr : '\n'); do if [ -r $d/cygwin1.dll ]; then
echo $d; fi; done
/usr/bin
/usr/bin
bin echo $PATH | tr : '\n'
On 3/22/2012 10:33 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 07:04:54PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin-X) wrote:
On 3/21/2012 6:19 PM, Tom Szczesny wrote:
I am attempting to port the aplus-fsf-4.22 package (available at
www.aplusdev.org) to cygwin,
and I'm getting linking errors related
On 3/22/2012 3:46 PM, Tom Szczesny wrote:
Blunt is fine ( I don't mind).
To repeat what I reported in an earlier note:
When I set:
X_INCLUDES =
X_LIBS = -lX11
I get:
g++ -O2 -o aplus.exe mainC.o aplus_main.o aplus_uext.o matherr.o
-L/usr/local/aplus-fsf-4.22/src/IPC
On 3/22/2012 4:54 PM, Tom Szczesny wrote:
Larry Hall wrote:
That's because the Makefile generated by the configure script *ignores*
X_LIBS. You'll need to force -lX11 into the link line of every affected
Makefile. if you want it to link against this library. This is a problem
with the app's
On 3/21/2012 6:19 PM, Tom Szczesny wrote:
I am attempting to port the aplus-fsf-4.22 package (available at
www.aplusdev.org) to cygwin,
and I'm getting linking errors related to X11.
I can build the package successfully on Gentoo Linux.
The build on cygwin fails at
On 8/16/2011 1:57 PM, McBroom, Robert C wrote:
lhall wrote:
On 8/12/2011 9:44 AM, McBroom, Robert C wrote:
snip
rm3@mcbroomrc2 ~
$ 1 [main] emacs-X11 5540 C:\cygwin\bin\emacs-X11.exe: *** fatal error -
unable to remap
\\?\C:\cygwin\lib\gtk-2.0\2.10.0\loaders\cygpixbufloader-xpm.dll
On 8/12/2011 9:44 AM, McBroom, Robert C wrote:
snip
rm3@mcbroomrc2 ~
$ 1 [main] emacs-X11 5540 C:\cygwin\bin\emacs-X11.exe: *** fatal error -
unable to remap
\\?\C:\cygwin\lib\gtk-2.0\2.10.0\loaders\cygpixbufloader-xpm.dll to same
address as parent: 0x37 != 0x3F
Stack trace:
On 7/7/2011 10:24 AM, Daniel Bienstock wrote:
Hello,
I have a new Dell Dimension M6600 with Windows 7 SP 1. I have disabled
the Windows firewall and added rules to allow programs in cygwin and
cygwin\bin to run.
I am using cygwin 1.7.9 (I also use older cygwins on many 32-bit Windows
On 4/26/2011 1:16 AM, David M. Karr wrote:
On 4/25/2011 10:07 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 04:23:56PM +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote:
On 23/04/2011 17:47, David M. Karr wrote:
Almost a week ago now, I've been unable to run my XServer, and thus any
of the
apps that normally
On 1/27/2011 2:36 PM, wxie wrote:
In the ROOT downloading website:
http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/production-version-528
It says:
Note that the performance of cygwin/gcc binaries is currently very poor; we
only pro vide this build as an unsupported toy. We strongly recommend to use
the
On 1/21/2011 1:42 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote:
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Jon TURNEY
jon.turney wrote:
There is a libX11_6 1.4.0-1 package in cygwinports (along with all the other
excellent work Yaakov has been doing packaging X11R7.6), it would be great
if you could test with that, as
On 1/13/2011 5:35 AM, Reinier Post wrote:
Yaakov (Cygwin/Xyselkowitzat users.sourceforge.net writes:
On 05/01/2010 16:56, eric lin wrote:
this is my /var/log/XWin.0.log
where I think problm cause, fail startx, please help, eric
Sigh. Lets try this again:
Problem reports:
On 11/10/2010 12:38 PM, ed wrote:
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Jon TURNEYjon.tur...@... wrote:
^^
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR
Can you start the X server by typing 'XWin' into a bash shell? Does that
produce any
On 11/8/2010 6:48 AM, Fergus wrote:
PS It kills me not to copy this to cygwin at cygwin dot com which I feel will
have a much wider readership and skill set amongst that readership, but
anybody sinning in this regard is always referred straight to Cygwin-X.
Because this is where those
On 9/14/2010 4:05 PM, Brian Kelly wrote:
Also - tried GVim, and it locked when I only got one character highlighted.
Tried minTTY, and it works perfectly (of course it's not X-based). The
cut-and-paste works flawlessly.
Again, why X highlighting and cut-and-paste worked yesterday and not today
On 8/6/2010 4:21 AM, Thomas Dickey wrote:
On Fri, 6 Aug 2010, JOHNER Jean 066030 wrote:
On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, Thomas Dickey wrote:
iirc, cygwin has xterm, rxvt and rxvt-unicode
which are very nice tools. And also Mintty which is great.
But console has also interesting features (multiple
On 8/4/2010 6:33 PM, Timares, Brian (HP) wrote:
Raul Acevedo wrote:
My real question is what is the point of these packages, if GNOME is
not actually in them. It's a bit confusing and I wasted a chunk of time
trying to install GNOME through Cygwin only to find out it's not possible.
Brian,
On 7/16/2010 10:39 AM, Olwe Melwasul wrote:
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote:
^
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks.
On 15/07/2010 18:02, Olwe Melwasul wrote:
I installed cygwin/xcygwin 1.7.5 with KDE.
I don't
On 7/8/2010 10:35 PM, Peter Farley wrote:
I don't know if this is the right place to ask this question, but if it is
not please advise me where to send it.
Midnight Commander exits with F10, and in a native bash window or rxvt F10
exits to the last directory viewed. In an xterm though, it
On 7/1/2010 4:49 PM, Leigh Orf wrote:
Hi, just joined the list. I updated to the latest cygwin today and was
having the same problem with X just freezing up in the background.
Your fix did the trick. I am profoundly grateful, it was making me
batty.
Since I've never overwritten an installed
On 6/30/2010 11:22 AM, Timares, Brian (Harris) wrote:
What Mike and I want is actually pretty reasonable. We want to be able
to preserve the work we do in picking the wheat from the chaff (from our
point of view) to avoid having our coworkers or ourselves duplicate that
work, whether they
On 6/29/2010 10:50 AM, Bradley, Mike wrote:
Hi,
All was good, till a couple weeks ago when I added some packages to cygwin,
and several packages where also upgraded. Then xterm response time became
very slow. I tried a second upgrade yesterday, and now I cannot even start
an xterm, nor will
On 6/29/2010 6:56 PM, Bradley, Mike wrote:
-Original Message-
From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@... [mailto:cygwin-xfree-ow...@...] On Behalf Of Larry
Hall (Cygwin X)
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 6:40 PM
To: cygwin-xf...@...
Subject: Re: startxwin/XWin won't start properly
http://cygwin.com
On 6/30/2010 1:07 AM, Bradley, Mike wrote:
OK, I removed my old cygwin installation (the directory which contains/usr,
/bin/, etc.), and re-installed a new version. I kept the cygwin_package
directory, but setup.exe did not remember my previous installation. In the
past I have had to install
On 6/24/2010 11:58 PM, hakob...@ualberta.ca wrote:
Dear Cygwin helper,
After the startx command it doesn't open X terminal. In fact, it
sometimes open Xterm sometimes not, givin the following error message:
Welcom to the XWin X Server
Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
Release: 6.8.99.901-4
On 2/26/2010 2:07 PM, __Ricardo__ wrote:
X23G8c wrote:
From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-
ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of __Ricardo__
Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 8:09 AM
didn't help too :(
I have Win XP SP2, under this system I had installed Cygwin 1.5 and
launch
On 6/9/2010 1:14 PM, marvin.man...@oracle.com wrote:
I get the following fatal error with my windows xp machine.
A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit.
Please open /tmp/XWin.log for more information.
Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
Release: 6.8.99.901-4
On 5/6/2010 3:18 AM, Jyh-Shyong Ho wrote:
I read a series of discussion on this problem, have you been able to solve this
problem?
http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-i-cant-type-anything
--
Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.
On 4/23/2010 11:42 PM, hakob...@ualberta.ca wrote:
Dear Cygwin expert,
After installin cygwin on my laptop (vista) I have a problem in opening
X window (xterm). After tryinmg several times it opens the xterm. Could
you tell me the reason of this problem?
Please read and follow the problem
On 3/19/2010 9:09 AM, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
$ xterm Xt error: Can't open display:
xterm: DISPLAY is not set
Do I have to set DISPLAY manually? And if yes, what should it read?
For the mintty test case, yes, you need to set DISPLAY. Use this:
export DISPLAY=:0.0
--
Larry Hall
On 3/5/2010 10:06 AM, scotch123 wrote:
Hello,
My apologies for the newbie question.
I've been looking for an explanation of what each section of a Cygwin
/etc/passwd/ user entry means, specifically the segments between the user
name and the home directory and bash shell:
On 3/2/2010 12:19 AM, Babak Fallah wrote:
Dear Madam/Sir,
I upgraded my OS from Windows XP to Windows 7 and installed the
Cygwin/X but have problem running Xwin.exe in the new OS. Since it was
running well in XP I changed the compatibility to Windows XP but it
didn't help (my computer does not
On 02/23/2010 01:10 PM, Skublics Benedek wrote:
Dear Cygwin Team,
I tried to install cygwin to use xfig. I do everithing that this page said:
http://www.cs.usask.ca/~wew036/latex/xfig.html
These instructions are out-of-date. Try contacting the author to get them
updated to reflect the
On 02/19/2010 07:25 PM, Jerry Lowry wrote:
is anyone seeing this or do I send it to myself each time.
Nope, it goes to the list as you would expect:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2010-02/msg00111.html
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2010-02/msg00099.html
If you're ever unsure, just
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU - Reformatted.
On 02/17/2010 09:46 AM, Dr. M. C. Nelson wrote:
-Original Message-
From: cygwin-xfree-owner at cygwin dot com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner at cygwin
dot com] On Behalf Of Larry Hall (Cygwin X
On 02/16/2010 05:54 PM, Dr. M. C. Nelson wrote:
Okay, I agree we need better information. So, I think I want to start again
with a clean install. I understand that the procedure for removing cygwin is
to just delete everything. Does it create any registry entries that should
be deleted?
On 02/09/2010 06:31 PM, Fabien Tillay wrote:
Hi,
I've got a problem with Cygwin/X server (via Cygwin 1.7.1)
Assuming we have a PC on Linux called X and a PC on Windows called Y.
I want to send a SSH command from X to Y which launchs firefox on Y.
(ie Windows)
Firstly, if I go to Y (Windows)
On 02/02/2010 08:18 PM, Dr. M. C. Nelson wrote:
We installed cygwin/x on a new acer laptop (vista).
The X server does not start from the icon, and the x server does not start
from the command line startx
Your XWin.0.log file indicates that the server is already started. This
means the
On 01/21/2010 02:24 PM, Paxton, Michael wrote:
Tony,
Try installing from http://cygwin.com/win-9x.html to get version 1.5.25.
Although it states it is only for supporting Windows 95/98/Me, it may
work to get your functionality back.
This is 1.5.25 as you noted and, as such, will work as well
On 01/19/2010 01:17 PM, Mark Lillibridge wrote:
Hi.
I don't appear to have gotten any response to my message sent to
this list January 12 (copied below). Do I have the right list? Am I
supposed to use a different mechanism to report bugs with the Cygwin X
server? Please help.
Thanks
On 01/19/2010 01:22 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
Carl R. Crawford sent the following at Tuesday, January 19, 2010 11:01 AM
I just upgraded to the latest version of X11. A program that previously
worked fine now reports the following error:
Applications that do not use this
On 01/16/2010 12:56 PM, Andrew Senior wrote:
I've had cygwin installed for a year on my Thinkpad T61, running
Windows XP professional, and just ran the latest setup.exe from
cygwin.com.
At installation time there were some complaints about in use files,
On 12/07/2009 06:13 PM, Mike Ayers wrote:
I'm asking because what I have noticed about Windows 7
Home Edition is that even though I have created a user for myself with
administrative priveleges, unless I tell the OS that I want to
run a program as the administrator it will default to the
On 12/03/2009 04:07 PM, Fredrik Staxeng wrote:
What is the recommended/preferred way to start X in 1.7? In 1.5
I used a modified version of startxwin.bat. And where do I
put my .xinitrc/.xsession script?
What about startxwin.bat doesn't work for you? There shouldn't be
differences between 1.5
On 12/03/2009 10:47 PM, Timares, Brian (Harris Corp.) wrote:
I do appreciate all the terrific replies--I've been on the net for
awhile and this is one of the friendliest lists I've been on.
Do you mind if I frame this and hang it on the Cygwin home page. ;-)
--
Larry Hall
On 12/01/2009 12:29 PM, Mike Ayers wrote:
Apologies for sending this to the list, but I could not find the answer
on the web pages. I'm having a few quirks with the mailing list that I'd like
to ask the postmaster about, but I can't find a contact point. Does anyone
know of one?
On 11/20/2009 04:45 AM, Hemal Pandya wrote:
Hello,
It seems psexec (from sysinternals) does not work correctly under
cygwin-X. If I run it at the bash prompt in a command window it
completes normally but from a rxvt or xterm window it stops after the
first line of output from the remote
On 11/11/2009 02:40 AM, Fergus wrote:
Q4 Why are questions about X specifically directed to a different
mailing list? Apart from occasional high-frequency dialogue as at
present, posts about X are (or seem to me to be) no more frequent than
posts about grep or ls or chmod or ... . The main
On 11/04/2009 05:05 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
I saw support for dual installations in a recent announcement on Cygwin's
main list. I've also seen quite a few problems reported against 1.7 in the
compatibility department, but I realize that gives no indication of the
number of users who don't
On 11/02/2009 03:11 PM, Massimo Giovannini wrote:
Hi, I think I managed to obtain the cygcheck.out, which I attached after
having added C:\cygwing\bin to the path of windows.
Yes I am not an expert of unix and I am sorry, but I need this
application to run Matlab on a cluster in interactive
On 11/02/2009 11:36 AM, BharathX wrote:
Is there nobody who could help me?
We're sorry. All of our agents are currently helping other posters. Your post
is very important to us. Please hang on and someone will be with you shortly!
Where have I heard this before? ;-)
Sorry, I can't help
On 11/01/2009 01:41 PM, Massimo Giovannini wrote:
2009/11/01 12:38:38 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c
/etc/postinstall/terminfo0.sh
2009/11/01 12:40:16 abnormal exit: exit code=128
This is your problem. The postinstall scripts are failing. Are you installing
with administrator privileges?
On 11/01/2009 06:18 PM, Massimo Giovannini wrote:
Yes I am using admin privileges.
I tried to use startrun C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c/etc/postinstall/terminfo0.sh
But nothing happens (actually a black window opens for a second and then it
closes)...
Any idea?
Open a console window (cmd.exe)
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU
On 11/01/2009 07:33 PM, Massimo Giovannini wrote:
-Original Message-
From: cygwin-xfree-owner [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner...] On Behalf Of Larry
Hall (Cygwin X)
^
Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 7:20 PM
Hm, let's see. Last time, among other things, I pointed you at:
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU
and
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR
I suppose ignoring the first is only a minor politeness infraction but the
latter is
rather rude. Please be considerate in your posts. Thanks.
On
On 11/01/2009 10:35 PM, Massimo Giovannini wrote:
Sorry,it is my first time on this website, and I did not understand
those links were for me...I thought it was some sort of signature.
Everything seems complicated here and also the language seems very
cryptic..
Acronyms are certainly cryptic,
On 10/29/2009 11:56 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#RSN :-)
---
I don't suppose you could express that in ISO format? :-)
Since you've asked this on multiple lists, I'm going to assume this is more than
just a humorous comment that you don't
On 10/27/2009 06:21 PM, Quinn wrote:
I am running Cygwin-X on Windows XP, connecting to a Gentoo workstation
via xdmcp. If I connect to a session running Gnome one processor on my
Windows machine spikes to 100% usage and stays there. Memory use
appears to remain constant and the X-session is
On 10/27/2009 11:02 PM, Joel Gwynn wrote:
So it looks like if I first start up the multiwindow window manager
like so: xwin -multiwindow, then I can run xterm, but I have to
specify the display. What's the typical way of automating this?
startxwin.bat or startxwin.sh.
--
Larry Hall
On 09/09/2009 08:56 PM, coo...@dog.net wrote:
I have an unusual problem that only occurs when I run my HP laptop in
the XB4 docking station. I run startxwin.bat and the xterm window
starts but there is a repeating b that I cannot stop. If I unplug
the Expansion port 3 cable from the laptop
On 09/09/2009 09:47 PM, andreaphus wrote:
I'd like to set it so that when I run cygwin it automatically launches an
xterm shell but Im having problems.
I normally run cygwin and then run startxwin.bat (which works fine). I can
not just put startxwin.bat in .bash_profile because it will loop
On 8/18/2009 1:46 PM, Mike Ayers wrote:
Well that was it, thanks, but why is ssh looking there? I thought it
(and all other apps) used HOME on cygwin?
Nope. But if you think about it, if $HOME doesn't equal ~ for Cygwin,
something has gone awry. Given that as context, it really wouldn't
On 8/18/2009 6:57 PM, Harry Zisko wrote:
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:10 PM,cygwin-xfree-digest-help at cygwin dot
com wrote:
cygwin-xfree Digest 18 Aug 2009 22:10:38 - Issue 2688
snip
Harry,
Any reason you chose to spam this list with your digest and expose raw
email addresses for
On 07/29/2009 09:39 AM, Ed Gatzke wrote:
Alister Hoodalister.hoodat synergine.com writes:
Hi,
I've found that -clipboard clashes with Windows clipboard history
managers such as Ditto. Does anybody know of a clipboard manager with
which it does work?
I have had awful troubles using XWin
Pietro Federico Bianchi wrote:
I'm trying to install x11 for Windows but the site ask me for a Server
Authorization Password Why. Do I have to register something somewhere??
Cygwin-X requires no authorization password. Please read and follow the
problem reporting guidelines found at the URL
jose isaias cabrera wrote:
snip
By the way, this is the same problem that the previous version of cygwin
had. But, since Mr. Turney said to give it a try with the new version, I
did. :-) Is this going to ever be fixed?
Nah. It's been there so long that it feels like an old friend.
Tom Roche wrote:
Tom Roche Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 02:29:30PM -0400
Since I'm not seeing this in the FAQ, I wanted to propose the
following item: what would be required to go from zero to xterm?
I.e. from a Cygwin-less windows box (windows = 2k) to getting a
Cygwin/X xterm up on one's screen?
Michael Winkler wrote:
Hi,
I installed cygwin today and I have problems is starting X as a user.
Installation was done as Admin - and I can open X-Windows shells and
programs as administrator. But when I try the same as Windows user I get
error messages.
Unfortunately, my UNIX knowledge is
Kim Goldov wrote:
I downloaded Cygwin-X per the instructions in
http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/setup-cygwin-x-installing.html
When selecting Cygwin-X - XWin Server in the start menu, X does not
start and I get the following /var/log/XWin.0.log ...
/usr/bin/XWin -multiwindow -clipboard
samuel wrote:
Hi. I have just installed xinit on my vista laptop. When I typed in 'xinit' in
the cygwin console, I got a BIG BIG annoying X window which occupied all the
space of my desktop and cannot be resized. When I started other programs in
xterm, the new program just covered up the space
km4hr wrote:
I've found an article on the internet that explains
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/842242 how to open ports in Windows.
I'll try it tomorrow even though I don't know if it's necessary.
If you are confident that you turned the Windows firewall off and you
have no other firewalls
John Emmas wrote:
Jon - I just realised that I don't seem to have the source for X11
(which is
presumably what I need before applying your patch). I've looked on my
usual
Cygwin mirror (ftp://mirrors.xmission.com) as well as looking in
Cygwin-Ports (ftp://sourceware.org) but I couldn't see
Jeffrey A Delinck wrote:
I did one thing to my startxwin.bat file to make it work. I commented out
the set commands thus:
rem SET XAPPLRESDIR=
rem SET XCMSDB=
rem SET XKEYSYMDB=
rem SET XNLSPATH=
I am not sure if this is what really made it work because it didn't work
with the startxwin.sh
Linda Walsh wrote:
The startxwin.sh script works, but startxwin.bat does not work if
your Cygwin installation isn't in the default location.
You could use mount -p (presuming your cygwin\bin is in your windows
path, as mine is).
If not, need to look in the registry:
Linda Walsh wrote:
Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote:
Linda Walsh wrote:
The startxwin.sh script works, but startxwin.bat does not work if
your Cygwin installation isn't in the default location.
You could use mount -p (presuming your cygwin\bin is in your
windows path, as mine is).
If not, need
Linda Walsh wrote:
Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote:
Linda Walsh wrote:
Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote:
Linda Walsh wrote:
The startxwin.sh script works, but startxwin.bat does not work if
your Cygwin installation isn't in the default location.
You could use mount -p (presuming your cygwin\bin
teddybouch wrote:
Jon TURNEY wrote:
If you really want to prove this is an xterm issue (which seems unlikely
to me
as this really revolves about what bash is doing), you should compare the
behaviour between running the command under an xterm and running it under
some
other terminal
teddybouch wrote:
That's it! If I just throw some of the fflush commands in here and there in
strategic places, I get all the output I am looking for up to those
statements. Why would this be needed sometimes and not others?
It's always needed if you must have output at a particular point in
Rajesh Advani wrote:
If someone can tell me how to retrieve a list of all installed packages
on my system,...
This link is a hint:
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
But if you just want a list (with versions), cygcheck -cd is what you're
looking for.
--
Larry Hall
jchas5 wrote:
I have been looking through the cygwin mirrors for the last two days trying
to find the X11R7 packages via setup.exe. When I go to the X11 tab, I can
not find any X11R7 packages. I have tried to install them twoce and all I
get is X11R6.
Sorry if this a lame question, I just do
Bouat, Jerome wrote:
Hello,
After updating cygwin,
I'm not able to start X.
---
bo...@rfideleg99 /cygdrive
$ startx
/usr/bin/startx: line 37: [: too many arguments
/usr/bin/startx: line 106: [: too many arguments
xauth: (argv):1: unknown command and\
giving up.
xinit: Connection refused
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