Re: Problem of Starting Xterm using the System Tray Icon for Xterm for Cygwin64

2014-03-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 08:44:29PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 04:25:44PM -0700, Mark Hansen wrote: > > On 3/19/2014 3:21 PM, Jyhshyong wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > I just installed Cygwin 64 on my 64-bit Cygein 64 PC, and found that

Re: Problem of Starting Xterm using the System Tray Icon for Xterm for Cygwin64

2014-03-19 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 04:25:44PM -0700, Mark Hansen wrote: > On 3/19/2014 3:21 PM, Jyhshyong wrote: > > Hi > > > > I just installed Cygwin 64 on my 64-bit Cygein 64 PC, and found that > > the Xterm in the system tray icon is no longer working. > > > > The Xwin server system tray icon has the

Re: Problem launching XTerm on new Cygwin installation

2014-03-07 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 03:37:36PM -0800, Mark Hansen wrote: > > Okay, this is very strange. As I said before, I have had no problems > launching XTerms > on my desktop running 64-bit Cygwin. I've launched several XTerms today with > no problems > ... until a few minutes ago. I went to launch an

Re: Problem launching XTerm on new Cygwin installation

2014-03-07 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 02:03:57PM -0800, Mark Hansen wrote: > As a result, it is working so I'll leave it alone. :-) > >fwiw, when I compile #301, #302 and #303 for Cygwin, I don't see the bug. > >However, I was able to analyze it on Linux with valgrind... > > Well, I downloaded the Cygwin inst

Re: Problem launching XTerm on new Cygwin installation

2014-03-07 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 11:57:20AM -0800, Mark Hansen wrote: > I just installed the 64-bit version of Cygwin on both a desktop PC and a > laptop PC. > On the desktop, everything worked as expected without problems. On the > laptop, I > have the following problems: > > When I launch a shell windo

Re: Problem with xterm-301-1

2014-02-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 06:05:48PM +, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: > > From: Thomas Dickey [mailto:dic...@his.com] > > > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 06:45:00PM +, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: > > > > From: Ola Strömfors [mailto:ola.stromf...@gmail.com] >

Re: Problem with xterm-301-1

2014-02-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 06:45:00PM +, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: > > From: Ola Strömfors [mailto:ola.stromf...@gmail.com] > > > > After updating from 291-1 to 301-1 xterm starts /bin/sh instead of > > my shell specified in /etc/passwd or in the SHELL environment variable. > > > > The workar

Re: Problem with xterm-301-1

2014-02-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 11:33:22AM -0700, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Ola Strömfors wrote: > > > After updating from 291-1 to 301-1 xterm starts /bin/sh instead of > > my shell specified in /etc/passwd or in the SHELL environment variable. > > I saw the same thing,

Re: xfig: Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion

2013-02-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 05:48:39PM -0500, Jack wrote: > On 2013.02.13 16:47, Thomas Dickey wrote: > >On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:17:07PM -0500, Jack wrote: > >> Note these are after installing the sony font. It looks like a > >> nearly complete list of charsets. I c

Re: xfig: Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion

2013-02-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:17:07PM -0500, Jack wrote: > Note these are after installing the sony font. It looks like a > nearly complete list of charsets. I certainly don't need most of > them. I wonder if there is some Windows setting to trim down the > list even considered on the PC? Probably

Re: Strange xterm scrolling problem introduced in XTerm(289)

2013-02-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 06:50:48PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 04:22:05PM -0700, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > > > Did you run #288 before this update? (288 had several fixes for > &g

Re: Strange xterm scrolling problem introduced in XTerm(289)

2013-02-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 04:22:05PM -0700, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > Did you run #288 before this update? (288 had several fixes for > > Coverity warnings, one of the #289 changes fixed something that > > I b

Re: Strange xterm scrolling problem introduced in XTerm(289)

2013-02-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 02:54:22PM -0700, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: > A strange scrolling problem seems to have been introduced in XTerm(289) > > I have a large scrollback buffer. Now when I scroll back my xterm, > anything that was previously "above" the top of the current screen > appears indente

Re: xterm and font problems after last update

2013-02-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 12:23:43PM +0100, marco atzeri wrote: > after last package update I noticed two issues: > > on .XWinrc I was forced to change The first one was reported a week ago as FreeBSD #175782, and is fixed in #289 (last Friday). > $ xfontsel.exe & > "Warning: Missing charsets in

Re: XTerm icon updated? Re: Updated: xterm-283-1

2012-10-18 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 04:35:24PM +, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: > > From: Thomas Dickey > > > > I did consider providing a special resource value that would suppress the > > xterm-specific icon (such as "none" or "default"), but decided to

Re: XTerm icon updated? Re: Updated: xterm-283-1

2012-10-15 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 03:42:02PM -0600, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Matt Seitz wrote: > > > Did this update change the XTerm icon that is displayed in the Windows task > > bar? > > Yes, it reminds me of the Texas Rangers logo (American baseball team). Looking a

Re: XTerm icon updated? Re: Updated: xterm-283-1

2012-10-15 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 05:58:10PM +, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: > Did this update change the XTerm icon that is displayed in the Windows task > bar? > > Previously, when I launched the XWin Server, I would see the x.org logo (a > black X with an orange ring) in the task bar as the icon for

Re: "xterm -si" doesn't hold the line

2012-07-28 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 02:49:22PM +0200, Paul Maier wrote: > Hi, > > xterm -si doesn't work as expected. The short answer is that it's always been that way :-) This refers to the scrollTtyOutput, which in xterm is described: scrollTtyOutput (class ScrollCond) Specifies wh

Re: AW: typo in "man xterm"

2012-07-28 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 02:57:35PM +0200, Paul Maier wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > the word "not" should be added to this description: > > > > > > > > > man xterm > > >[...] > > >+maximized > > >This option indicates that xterm should ask the window > > > manager

Re: typo in "man xterm"

2012-07-28 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 02:24:52PM +0200, Paul Maier wrote: > Hi, > > the word "not" should be added to this description: > > > man xterm >[...] >+maximized >This option indicates that xterm should ask the window manager > to maximize its layout on startup. > >

Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: Can't paste text or type dead keys when mouse is out of the window

2012-07-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 02:26:06AM +0200, Paul Maier wrote: > > > > >>> The problem here is, when running vi in an xterm and the mouse slowly > > >>> (unnoticed) > > >>> moves over the scrollbar or out of the xterm, and you want to jump to > > >>> mark "a, > > >>> you need to enter `a, that is

Re: scrolling xterm with Levovo trackpoint

2011-12-15 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 01:14:34PM +0100, Paul Maier wrote: > Hi there, > > when I reboot my PC, scrolling an xterm with a Levovo trackpoint works > (mostly) fine, very smooth and good speed. > Then I work for a while and some condition, that I couldn't find out yet, > corrupts it. > It then doe

Re: original cygwin console?

2011-12-03 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 01:30:23PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 09:23:38AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > >On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 01:44:59AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 09:30:06PM -0500, wxie wrote: > >>

Re: original cygwin console?

2011-12-03 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 01:44:59AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 09:30:06PM -0500, wxie wrote: > >The new cygwin console use mintty. Is it still possible to change back > >to the orignal console? > > Wrong mailing list but, there was no "cygwin console". That's just

Re: XTerm metaSendsEscape not working

2011-11-09 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 9 Nov 2011, Jesse Ziser wrote: Hello, I find that adding the following: XTerm*vt100.metaSendsEscape: true XTerm*vt100.altSendsEscape: true XTerm*vt100.eightBitInput: false to my .Xdefaults does not seem to change the way XTerm behaves WRT meta-key handling. It still sends 0xF7 for m

Re: Default settings for XTerm

2011-10-31 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 31 Oct 2011, Eliot Moss wrote: On 10/31/2011 3:45 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: I think that's "customization: -color" (note the dash), but yes :-) ... Eliot Moss Sheesh, I also typed it wrong, corrected above! EM :-) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.

Re: Default settings for XTerm

2011-10-31 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 31 Oct 2011, Edvardsen Kåre wrote: On Mon, 31 Oct 2011, Edvardsen Kåre wrote: Where do I change the default settings (globally) for the XTerm so I don't have to set it every time from the "VT Options" and "VT Fonts" menus? I tried to change stuff in /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color, b

Re: Default settings for XTerm

2011-10-31 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 31 Oct 2011, Edvardsen Kåre wrote: Where do I change the default settings (globally) for the XTerm so I don't have to set it every time from the "VT Options" and "VT Fonts" menus? I tried to change stuff in /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color, but didn't affect anything. "XTerm-color" in

Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: Can't paste text or type blind keys when mouse is out of the window

2011-10-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011, Paul Maier wrote: The problem here is, when running vi in an xterm and the mouse slowly (unnoticed) moves over the scrollbar or out of the xterm, and you want to jump to mark "a, you need to enter `a, that is in keystrokes I'll experiment to see if I can reproduce this

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xterm-275-1

2011-10-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 4 Oct 2011, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: The following package has been updated for the Cygwin distribution: *** xterm-275-1 xterm is a terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that can't use the window system dir

Re: AW: AW: AW: Can't paste text or type blind keys when mouse is out of the window

2011-10-04 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 5 Oct 2011, Paul Maier wrote: I assume that you see the same behavior with other X applications, i.e. it's not xterm-specific? No, at least xedit works fine on my PC, with blind keys and with mouse text pasting, no matter if the mouse pointer is really inside or on blue window frame

Re: AW: AW: Can't paste text or type blind keys when mouse is out of the window

2011-10-03 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 3 Oct 2011, Paul Maier wrote: I assume that you see the same behavior with other X applications, i.e. it's not xterm-specific? No, at least xedit works fine on my PC, with blind keys and with mouse text pasting, no matter if the mouse pointer is really inside or on blue window frame

Re: xterm update

2011-05-19 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 19 May 2011, webmaster wrote: I'm eagerly expecting an update to xterm 270 which I hope includes the fix for the scrollbar drawing issue You can get 269 from git: http://cygwin-ports.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cygwin-ports/xterm;a=summary To build 270 just modify the 269 .cyg

Re: xterm access violations (again)

2011-03-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, webmaster wrote: I just built 269 and will uploaded it with the rest of the X11 updates. It doesn't help. I built using cygport from what you've got in git and I still get: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION at eip=61020497 eax=00DA80E0 ebx=6124298C ecx=76A10D06 edx=00371D

Re: xterm access violations (again)

2011-03-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 19:16 -0600, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: Thomas, that may well be true, but the latest one in the Cygwin repository reports (261). It shows up as 261-1 in setup.exe I just built 269 and will uploaded it with the rest of the X11

Re: xterm access violations (again)

2011-03-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, webmaster wrote: what is "xterm -v"? $ xterm -v XTerm(261) That's from last June. #263 makes a fix for a problem which might be relevant (and #265 fixes a regression from #263). Note I built myself using cygport so that I could add --disable-narrowproto (See thread w

Re: xterm access violations (again)

2011-03-22 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, webmaster wrote: On my Win7 system, [xterm] crashes about 1/2 the time. Right. Same, here. It used to crash a lot less frequently. what is "xterm -v"? (the last crash-related bug I recall was fixed last spring). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invi

Re: Clear Screen

2010-12-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Andy Koppe wrote: On 1 December 2010 21:24, Thomas Dickey wrote: By the way, the clearing of the screen on ctrl/L is not done by xterm. (PuTTY does this, in case you're mistaking it for xterm, otherwise I'd assume bash is doing it). Yep, bash sends '\e

Re: Clear Screen

2010-12-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Ajay Jain wrote: Hi, I use bash on Xterm. While working you press Ctrl-L, so that the screen gets cleared and you see the currently line only. But you may want to see the last outputs/prints. However, if you do a Ctrl-L/clear command, these prints go away. In that case, what

Re: changing font

2010-09-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
o get the nominal value of the font using an escape sequence in a script or program such as xtermset. On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Mon, 30 Aug 2010, matias kaukonen wrote: The above worked on my previous computer, but now it does not work with my current compute

Re: changing font

2010-08-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010, matias kaukonen wrote: The above worked on my previous computer, but now it does not work with my current computer. This is what I tried: 1. a) Added XTerm[.*]vt100.font:lucidasanstypewriter-10 to .Xdefaults b) typed: xrdb ~/.Xdefaults; xrdb ~/.Xresources next, 2. a) A

Re: Re: xterm and 7-bit control codes

2010-08-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 14 Aug 2010, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 8:59 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote: As far as I know, xterm's never sent more than one byte for either x/y in a button event. Ditto for rxvt. It sounds like a useful idea, except that it would of course be incompatible with the existing applica

Re: xterm and 7-bit control codes

2010-08-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Ryan Johnson wrote: Hi all, I'm running into a strange one... At some point in the past (on linux because I didn't know about cygwin yet), xterm used to send the following control sequence for a mouse click at row 1, col 250 ESC [ M SPC \303\206 ! ESC [ M # \303\206 !

Re: Unable to install X on 64-bit Windows 7 Premium

2010-08-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010, Bob Kline wrote: On 8/10/2010 8:12 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: I'm a bit surprised that gcc4 is a dependency of X. It's a dependency of imake, which is a member of the XWin set. imake uses the C preprocessor... -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-

Re: How to launch an xterm using "Monospace" font

2010-08-06 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 6 Aug 2010, JOHNER Jean 066030 wrote: On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, Thomas Dickey wrote: I would like to launch an xterm terminal using "Monospace" font. Monospace is the font used by default by gvim. I tried: xterm -fn "Monospace" xterm -fa "Monospace" is p

Re: Using "konsole" in Cygwin

2010-08-06 Thread Thomas Dickey
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 shells in the same window in diff

Re: How to launch an xterm using "Monospace" font

2010-08-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, JOHNER Jean 066030 wrote: Hello, I would like to launch an xterm terminal using "Monospace" font. Monospace is the font used by default by gvim. I tried: xterm -fn "Monospace" xterm -fa "Monospace" is perhaps what you meant. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.n

Re: Using "konsole" in Cygwin

2010-08-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, JOHNER Jean 066030 wrote: Hello, I often connect to a KDE Linux server so that I am familiar with "konsole". I tried the "konsole" command on Cygwin, which is unknown. Is there a way to use KDE console on Cygwin. Sorry if my questions look too much elementary. I am new to Cy

Re: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion

2010-08-03 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, Andy Koppe wrote: On 3 August 2010 14:35, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 03/08/2010 10:00, Thomas Dickey wrote: This topic came up last year, iirc the issue was this: http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#slow_menus Could the menuLocale resource setting mentioned there

Re: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion

2010-08-03 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, Ryan Johnson wrote: Hi all, At some point an annoyance appeared with my xterm windows: The first time I use [ctrl]+mouse click in any window, that xterm becomes unresponsive for about 5 seconds with the CPU pegged to 100%. After the five seconds is up, whatever shell spaw

Re: changing font

2010-07-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, matias kaukonen wrote: - Then I changed .Xdefaults to - aterm*font:-adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--17-120-100

Re: Bug: XTerm scrollbar issue

2010-07-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010, Jon TURNEY wrote: I note that the list of platforms for which --enable-narrowproto is the default in xterm's aclocal.m4 CF_ENABLE_NARROWPROTO macro (which includes cygwin) doesn't match the list of platforms which default to narrow prototypes in xproto (which doesn't inclu

Re: changing font

2010-07-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010, matias kaukonen wrote: Based on a previous suggestion: fc-list | less - Luxi Serif:style=Regular LucidaBright:style=Italic Utopia:style=Bold Italic Bitstr

Re: changing font

2010-07-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 12 Jul 2010, matias kaukonen wrote: 1. Could someone pls post instructions about how to reply to an existing post. 2. I have a font I'd like to use and its located at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF with administrator permissions. 3. How can I make this font the default for an xterm? Do I

Re: XTerm scrollbar issue

2010-07-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Wed, 30 Jun 2010, webmaster wrote: All releases of xterm newer that 229 (i.e. since June '08) have a broken scrollbar. It never bothered me enough to post a message, but I've been setting up some new systems and have found it annoying

Re: XTerm scrollbar issue

2010-06-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010, webmaster wrote: All releases of xterm newer that 229 (i.e. since June '08) have a broken scrollbar. It never bothered me enough to post a message, but I've been setting up some new systems and have found it annoying to dig up xterm-229 and manually install it. These image

RE: xterm faceSize and -fs in version 260

2010-06-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010, Joseph Quinsey wrote: Thomas Dickey replied: And I realize -fa also doesn't seem to work for me for 260. thanks - it's some error in the way I added the logic for the renderFont resource. You should be able to work around by adding *renderFont:true to your

Re: xterm faceSize and -fs in version 260

2010-06-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010, Joseph Quinsey wrote: The xterm faceSize resource and the -fs command line option do not seem to work with xterm version 260. Installing the previous Cygwin version, 255, fixes this. hmm - I changed the handling of the renderFont resource, but didn't notice breakage of th

Re: changing font

2010-06-26 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 26 Jun 2010, matias kaukonen wrote: xfontsel seems to work (to change the font). Thanks. A related question is, given an xterm, how can I find out what the current font in use is? there's an escape sequence... and a demo in current xterm sources (a script named query-fonts.pl). vtte

Re: emacs-x11 takes 30-40 sec to open after upgrading to cygwin-1.7

2010-04-14 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Markus Hoenicka wrote: This is where I have seen xterm to spend most of its time. In your log, this block of statements appears to be repeated several times for each font it checks in /etc/fonts. This would explain why it is related somehow to fonts in your case. It's a

Re: Can't use Alt- Commands in xterm

2010-02-18 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Craig Moore wrote: In man xterm, see "eightBitInput" and "metaSendsEscape". Thanks, that lead me to this solution: xterm->Main Menu->Meta Sends Escape and now alt behaves as it should (Why isn't this the default setting?!?) Is there someway to set xterm to always have

Re: Can't use Alt- Commands in xterm

2010-02-18 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Craig Moore wrote: Hi, I cannot execute commands using the Alt key. For example, whenever I press, Alt -. I get a zero instead of the previous command. This is also a problem whenever I run emacs inside xterm. Alt-w produces a ÷ (division symbol) instead of executing a copy

Re: Cygwin 1.7 xterm

2010-01-15 Thread Thomas Dickey
thanks Thomas Dickey wrote: On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Jerry Lowry wrote: After my last install of 1.7 software the X server does start and the blank X windows do go away. But when I start an Xterm the blank X windows stay around. Anyway to start Xterm with them going away once started. Also,

Re: Cygwin 1.7 xterm

2010-01-15 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Jerry Lowry wrote: After my last install of 1.7 software the X server does start and the blank X windows do go away. But when I start an Xterm the blank X windows stay around. Anyway to start Xterm with them going away once started. Also, the Xterm that starts looks lik

Re: Alt key not recognized as Meta in xterm

2010-01-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 1 Jan 2010, Andy Koppe wrote: 2010/1/1 Thomas Dickey: Is Cygwin also specifying a meta key? (some people equate meta==alt, though they're not necessarily the same) I don't know whether there's ever been an official policy decision on that, but I think the general a

Re: Alt key not recognized as Meta in xterm

2010-01-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 1 Jan 2010, Andy Koppe wrote: 2010/1/1 Thomas Dickey: On Fri, 1 Jan 2010, Andy Koppe wrote: XTerm*vt100.metaSendsEscape: true Actually that's not a hack, but the correct solution. I think this needs to be part of the default config in /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm. However

Re: Alt key not recognized as Meta in xterm

2010-01-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 1 Jan 2010, Andy Koppe wrote:    XTerm*vt100.metaSendsEscape: true Actually that's not a hack, but the correct solution. I think this needs to be part of the default config in /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm. However, the reason that it's not is because there's no standard for the meta k

Re: X11R7.5 and C.UTF-8

2009-12-04 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 3 Dec 2009, Eric Blake wrote: Thomas Dickey his.com> writes: This means that characters 0..127 have to be treated as ASCII, but No, it means that portable characters and control characters must be < 128. ASCII meets this characteristic, but so does EBCDIC, as well as UTF-8.

Re: X11R7.5 and C.UTF-8

2009-12-03 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 3 Dec 2009, Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/12/3 Linda Walsh: C.UTF_8 doesn't exist. ... You can't have "C" and "UTF-8", because C means no encoding (default). UTF-8 IS an encoding, so they are mutually exclusive. From http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap07.html, §

Re: xterm not working

2009-11-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/11/30 Thomas Dickey:   Gone for Thanksgiving break, return and update cygwin, and now xterm does not show anymore.  I have not upgraded to the latest 1.7 (I am waiting for the official release).  I read the other messages and nothing seems to work

Re: xterm not working

2009-11-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/11/30 Thomas Dickey:   Gone for Thanksgiving break, return and update cygwin, and now xterm does not show anymore.  I have not upgraded to the latest 1.7 (I am waiting for the official release).  I read the other messages and nothing seems to work

Re: xterm not working

2009-11-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 29 Nov 2009, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 29/11/2009 21:28, Joe Java wrote: Gone for Thanksgiving break, return and update cygwin, and now xterm does not show anymore. I have not upgraded to the latest 1.7 (I am waiting for the official release). I read the other messages and nothi

Re: checkX problems

2009-11-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Lothar Brendel wrote: Thomas Dickey wrote: On Thu, 26 Nov 2009, Lothar Brendel wrote: [...] Hence, to make Cygwin/X+xterm run out of the box (using the start menu shortcut), you have to install the CJK fonts. One more noob-question, otoh, (discarding run-out-of-the

Re: checkX problems

2009-11-26 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 26 Nov 2009, Lothar Brendel wrote: Charles Wilson wrote: Lothar Brendel wrote: Unfortunately the situatiuon with ``startxwin.bat'' is worse now: * ``checkX -t 12'' still doesn't wait (?!?) I can't reproduce this. Stupid me, sorry. When updating to pull in libustr1, run2 was accide

Re: Problem with new xinit - console window doesn't open (but bash starts)

2009-11-22 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 20/11/2009 04:07, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: More info: If I run startxwin.bat from a CMD.exe command line, the bash console xterm opens just fine. I only have problems starting it from the shortcut. This is typical of the current issue we have where 'r

Re: X11R7.5 and C.UTF-8

2009-10-28 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Ken Brown wrote: X11R7.5 doesn't like the (default) locale C.UTF-8. If I start the server technically speaking, there's "no such locale" as C.UTF-8, so I'd not expect portable code to accept it ("C" and "UTF-8" are mutually exclusive). with 'LANG=C.UTF-8 /usr/bin/startxw

Re: Scripting xterm and binding menu items

2009-10-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, phi...@free.fr wrote: Hi, can xterm be scripted, in particular the menus? I would like to associate a key bind to the "Clear Saved Lines" menu item. How can I do that? That would be done via resource settings (not exactly a script), using the translations resource. --

Re: xterm utf8 cyrillic

2009-08-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, KMiller wrote: I'm trying to set up xterm to handle output from mysql queries that contains cyrillic. I had success when I 1) did not specify a font in .Xdefaults 2) selected UTF-8 under VT FONTS Under those conditions, the cyrillic characters print and all is good. But,

Re: Audible bell broken in bash/xterm

2009-07-16 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 16/07/2009 16:42, Thomas Dickey wrote: What's "xterm -v" say? Audible bell was broken in #242, and fixed in #243. Looks like I missed that. I'll upload 243-1 soon. thanks. The only other regression that I know of

Re: Audible bell broken in bash/xterm

2009-07-16 Thread Thomas Dickey
though). On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, j...@asyn.org wrote: I've installed Cygwin/X on both XP Pro and laVista Home Basic systems and the bell doesn't work. The bell does work in a console window but not in an xterm. Am I missing someth

Re: Audible bell broken in bash/xterm

2009-07-16 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, j...@asyn.org wrote: I've installed Cygwin/X on both XP Pro and laVista Home Basic systems and the bell doesn't work. The bell does work in a console window but not in an xterm. Am I missing something or is this a bug? How is the char [supposed to be] routed through bash/x

Re: Cannot convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct, was: post-upgrade problems

2009-06-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 28 Jun 2009, Tom Roche wrote: Despite installing package=font-misc-misc (recommended by http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=nil2 ) via setup.exe, everytime I start an xterm I get Warning: Cannot convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct nil2 is used for the pointerMode

Re: xterm Home/End keycodes

2009-03-14 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/3/15 Thomas Dickey : I'm a bit confused about those. They didn't change during the xorg transition, did they? I could have sworn they sent VT220-style ^[[1; and ^[[4; but actually they send PC-style ^[[H and ^[[F. Of course I should hav

Re: xterm Home/End keycodes

2009-03-14 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Andy Koppe wrote: I'm a bit confused about those. They didn't change during the xorg transition, did they? I could have sworn they sent VT220-style ^[[1; and ^[[4; but actually they send PC-style ^[[H and ^[[F. Of course I should have realised this when I changed F1 to F4 to

Re: Saving all xterm output to a file

2009-02-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, Gary Johnson wrote: ../run 1 Joiner default 2>&1 > results.dat I think that has to be written this way: ../run 1 Joiner default > results.dat 2>&1 But if you (the OP) wants to see what's going into that file, you should tee, like this: ../run 1 Joiner default 2>&1

Re: Saving all xterm output to a file

2009-02-07 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, teddybouch wrote: I am trying to automate a simulation process, and part of this involves capturing the output that is written to an xterm window when a particular process is run. I thought that I had this figured out using the following command: ../run 1 Joiner default > re

Re: xterm line wrapping

2008-12-09 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 10:57:53AM -0500, Gustavo Seabra wrote: > Hi All, > > I wonder if anyone else sees this. When I open an xterm, it all works > fine with the default dimensions. But if I resize the terminal, line > wrapping stops working until I return to the initial size. This was > present

Re: Bad XTerm Vim coloring

2008-11-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Nick Deubert wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 6:44 PM, Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Rereading your email, I also tried with .vimrc having just set syntax=on set background=dark but aside from seeing that the syntax coloring went away, didn't see an

Re: Bad XTerm Vim coloring

2008-11-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Thomas Dickey wrote: I'd expect that vim is asking xterm for the strings that correspond to different function-keys. In ctlseqs.txt this text covers the response: ...reading vim's source code (7.1 at hand...), there doesn't seem to be an obvious way

Re: Bad XTerm Vim coloring

2008-11-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Nick Deubert wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Nick Deubert wrote: Hey everyone, First off thanks for your hard work on cygwin/X it is very appreciated. I upgraded to the new Xorg last week and

Re: Bad XTerm Vim coloring

2008-11-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Nick Deubert wrote: Hey everyone, First off thanks for your hard work on cygwin/X it is very appreciated. I upgraded to the new Xorg last week and I have had one really annoying issue ever since. Something about the new XTerm is messing up vim syntax coloring. With vim I hav

Re: libXaw8 replacement

2008-11-22 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Ken Brown wrote: On 11/22/2008 10:30 AM, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Ken Brown wrote: How important is it to run autoreconf? Could the fact that the package uses an old version of libtool explain the segfault that I reported in http://cygwin.com/ml

Re: libXaw8 replacement

2008-11-22 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Ken Brown wrote: On 11/14/2008 1:20 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: BTW, this looks like the package is using a VERY old version of libtool. I strongly recommend using the current version, which generally can be pulled in with autoreconf. I tried autoreconf --force in

Re: Fixing problems with new X11

2008-11-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:49:20PM -0500, Chuck wrote: > Thomas Dickey wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Chuck wrote: > > > >> Second, I want to get rid of the toolbar/menu at the top of every xterm. > >> What config file change to I need to make to get rid of it

Re: Fixing problems with new X11

2008-11-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Chuck wrote: Second, I want to get rid of the toolbar/menu at the top of every xterm. What config file change to I need to make to get rid of it permanently. I don't want to have to specify +tb every time I run an xterm. I tried adding "xterm*toolbar: false" to my ~/.XDefaul

RE: Windows Vista

2008-08-26 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Phil Betts wrote: Monson Hayes wrote on Sunday, August 24, 2008 12:51 PM:: [snip] Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' It's pretty obvious that this is the reason it's failed, and googling for this would have found the answer. Whilst I could give

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

2008-04-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Siegfried Heintze (Aditi) wrote: But I have this ugly console hanging around. When I kill it, it kills X as well. Is there a way to have an icon that does not create a superfluous console window? You could start an application (including xterm) which is initially iconifie

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

2008-04-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Siegfried Heintze (Aditi) wrote: Thank you for the responses regarding "-sb -sl 6000". I had a quick launch icon that would execute "startx" in bash but that does not seem to use the startxwin.sh or startxwin.bat files. So I change my icon in my quick launch bar to this:

RE: FW: How to get scroll bars on initial xterm instance?

2008-04-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Siegfried Heintze (Aditi) wrote: On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 12:23 -0700, Siegfried Heintze (Aditi) wrote: When I run startx it creates an xterm for me. But this xterm does not have a scroll bar. I like to create xterms with "-sl 3000 -sb" so I get lots of history. How can I make

RE: FW: How to get scroll bars on initial xterm instance?

2008-04-07 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Crider, Joseph A wrote: Or create a .Xresources file in your home directory that includes Xterm.*.saveLines: 3000 Xterm.*.scrollbar: true perhaps you meant XTerm*saveLines: 3000 XTerm*scrollbar: true (the class name is "XTerm", and the "."

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