Re: xterm crashing when trying to access Ctrl-mouse click menu items

2014-05-12 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 05/05/2014 19:39, Nem W Schlecht wrote: For over a month now I've been having issues with my xterms in Cygwin. If I try to access *any* menu item under the Ctrl-mouse button menu items (change font, turn on/off scrollbar, redraw window, etc.), my xterm crashes the moment I un-press my mouse

Re: xterm crashing when trying to access Ctrl-mouse click menu items

2014-05-12 Thread Nem W Schlecht
Thanks for the reply, Jon! I'm happy you were able to reproduce the issue - I assumed I had screwed something up in my environment. :) Your attempted fix with rebase worked perfectly - all of my menus are now working correctly. If you'd like me to do any additional testing in the future, don't

Re: xterm title setting breaks when upgrading from 32-bit to 64-bit cygwin

2013-08-01 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 01/08/2013 01:55, Jeremy Elson wrote: I recently upgraded from the 32-bit to the 64-bit build of Cygwin 1.7.22 on Windows 8 x64. For the most part, everything works identically (except faster!). But I have noticed one problem: xterm no longer seems to respond to the magic escape codes that

Re: xterm title setting breaks when upgrading from 32-bit to 64-bit cygwin

2013-08-01 Thread Jeremy Elson
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Jon TURNEY jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk wrote: On 01/08/2013 01:55, Jeremy Elson wrote: I recently upgraded from the 32-bit to the 64-bit build of Cygwin 1.7.22 on Windows 8 x64. For the most part, everything works identically (except faster!). But I have

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 String

Re: xterm and font problems after last update

2013-02-11 Thread marco atzeri
On 2/11/2013 12:42 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote: 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). nice to

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

2012-10-18 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
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 see what type of feedback I'd get first. I like having a specific xterm icon in the taskbar to make it clear which X application is

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 see what type of feedback I'd get first. I like having 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 the

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

2012-10-15 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
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). -- Jim Reisert AD1C, jjreis...@alum.mit.edu, http://www.ad1c.us -- Unsubscribe info:

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 at that,

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

Re: XTerm metaSendsEscape not working

2011-11-10 Thread Jesse Ziser
On 11/9/2011 8:09 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote: 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

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

Re: xterm update

2011-05-19 Thread webmaster
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 .cygport. When I build 269 or 270 the

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

Re: xterm update

2011-05-19 Thread webmaster
perhaps your development environment lacks the FreeType library (that would show up in the configure step) Ah, indeed. Thanks! For anyone who can't wait for xterm 261 to be included, here's version 270: http://www.donsbox.com/~dfelicia/xterm-270-1.tar.bz2 -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: xterm access violations (again)

2011-04-04 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 01/04/2011 17:05, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Could someone try this with the latest snapshot? I haven't made any changes but I just want to confirm that it still fails with

Re: xterm access violations (again)

2011-04-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 02:27:27PM +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 01/04/2011 17:05, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Could someone try this with the latest snapshot? I haven't made any

Re: xterm access violations (again)

2011-04-04 Thread richardvo...@gmail.com
FWIW, I know what is causing the problem but not how to fix it.  It's similar to http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-04/msg1.html Rebasing should fix that particular problem but it's not a panacea. The strace output in that other thread shows that GetLastError of 997 formerly caused some

Re: xterm access violations (again)

2011-04-01 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C jjreis...@alum.mit.edu wrote: On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Could someone try this with the latest snapshot?  I haven't made any changes but I just want to confirm that it still fails with something close to what

Re: xterm access violations (again)

2011-03-27 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Could someone try this with the latest snapshot?  I haven't made any changes but I just want to confirm that it still fails with something close to what will become Cygwin 1.7.9. http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ You just have to

Re: xterm access violations (again)

2011-03-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 01:22:42AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:09:38PM -0600, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:24 PM, webmaster wrote: http://www.donsbox.com/~dfelicia/xterm-269[redacted] Still dumps, but xterm came up anyway: Exception:

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)

2011-03-24 Thread webmaster
I just built 269 and will uploaded it with the rest of the X11 updates. Probably in some FAQ and I just can't find it, but where would one get xterm-269.cygport et al. for local building? Some git repository, somewhere? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

Re: xterm access violations (again)

2011-03-24 Thread webmaster
where would one get xterm-269.cygport et al. for local building?Answered my own question: http://cygwin-ports.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cygwin-ports/xterm;a=summary -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: xterm access violations (again)

2011-03-24 Thread webmaster
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=00371D48 esi= edi=0028F9F4

Re: xterm access violations (again)

2011-03-24 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:24 PM, webmaster wrote: http://www.donsbox.com/~dfelicia/xterm-269[redacted] Still dumps, but xterm came up anyway: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION at eip=61020497 eax=00DD00F8 ebx=61246A44 ecx=75570D06 edx=00334118 esi= edi=0028F9F4 ebp=61020BE0

Re: xterm access violations (again)

2011-03-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:09:38PM -0600, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:24 PM, webmaster wrote: http://www.donsbox.com/~dfelicia/xterm-269[redacted] Still dumps, but xterm came up anyway: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION at eip=61020497 eax=00DD00F8 ebx=61246A44

Re: xterm access violations (again)

2011-03-23 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Jim Reisert AD1C jjreis...@alum.mit.edu wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:15 AM, webmaster wrote: After updating to the latest cygwin 1.7.8, today, xterm constantly crashes. cat xterm.exe.stackdump [...] Usually rebaseall fixes this problem, but not this

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

Re: xterm access violations (again)

2011-03-23 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote: #269 is current.  At the moment, the only fixes I've made against that are minor things (an incomplete change for the fullscreen feature, and an obscure case of a control sequence from #251 changes). Thomas, that may well be true, but the

Re: xterm access violations (again)

2011-03-23 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
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 updates. Yaakov Cygwin/X -- Unsubscribe

Re: xterm access violations (again)

2011-03-22 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:15 AM, webmaster wrote: After updating to the latest cygwin 1.7.8, today, xterm constantly crashes. cat xterm.exe.stackdump [...] Usually rebaseall fixes this problem, but not this time. I also tried building xterm with cygport, but same result. This is on

Re: xterm access violations (again)

2011-03-22 Thread webmaster
On my Win7 system, [xterm] crashes about 1/2 the time. Right. Same, here. It used to crash a lot less frequently. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ:

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

Re: xterm access violations (again)

2011-03-22 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Jim Reisert AD1C jjreis...@alum.mit.edu wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:15 AM, webmaster wrote: After updating to the latest cygwin 1.7.8, today, xterm constantly crashes. cat xterm.exe.stackdump [...] Usually rebaseall fixes this problem, but not this

Re: xterm opens two windows

2010-12-19 Thread Andy Koppe
On 18 December 2010 01:33, Marshall, Lee wrote: One has a windows icon and the text Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion The other has the X icon with a menu bar and sh-3.2$. My biggest objection to this is just the clutter of having a second, useless window open

Re: Xterm Title

2010-11-02 Thread Csaba Raduly
Hi Ajay, On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 5:59 AM, Ajay Jain wrote: Hi, I want my Xterm to display a constant title say mercury. So I use: Xterm -T mercury. Further, I have placed the following line in my .Xresources: xterm*allowTitleOps: 0. From my .vnc/xstartup, I also do: xrdb -merge

Re: Re: xterm and 7-bit control codes

2010-08-13 Thread Ryan Johnson
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 applications. So it would have to be enabled by a new

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 applications.

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: 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 to dig up

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

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

RE: xterm faceSize and -fs in version 260

2010-06-27 Thread Joseph Quinsey
Attached are the results of appres XTerm and xterm. appres_XTerm2 Description: Binary data appres_xterm Description: Binary data -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

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 X resource

Re: xterm no longer accepts keyboard input

2010-05-13 Thread Josh
Larry Hall (Cygwin X reply-to-list-only-lh-x at cygwin.com writes: 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 Hi, Larry,

Re: xterm no longer accepts keyboard input

2010-05-06 Thread Jyh-Shyong Ho
Hi, I read a series of discussion on this problem, have you been able to solve this problem? I just had a PC with 64-bit Windows 7 installed, and try to install CYGWIN/X on it, I encountered the same problem: the xterm no longer accepts keyboard input. I tried various methods to solve this

Re: xterm no longer accepts keyboard input

2010-05-06 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
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.

Re: xterm no longer accepts keyboard input

2010-03-15 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 13/03/2010 21:47, Bob Kline wrote: On 3/13/2010 1:05 PM, Bob Kline wrote: I have used X under Cygwin successfully for years. Yesterday I did an upgrade of my Cygwin installation and X stopped working. After struggling to get things working again, I decided to just install Cygwin fresh and

Re: xterm no longer accepts keyboard input

2010-03-15 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 15/03/2010 05:42, David Barr wrote: On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Jeff Spirkospi...@gmail.com wrote: The icon runs from the Windows environment, so the run.exe and bash.exe wrapper programs are needed to set up the proper cygwin environment. Once you're in a cygwin shell, you already

Re: xterm no longer accepts keyboard input

2010-03-15 Thread Bob Kline
On 3/15/2010 1:35 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: ... I'm not sure if the difficulties starting a server mean you have some other problem as well. Thanks for your response, Jon. As you'll see from a more recent post, I was able to solve both problems by going back to using a script instead of the

Re: xterm no longer accepts keyboard input

2010-03-15 Thread David Barr
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Jon TURNEY jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk wrote: No.  startx and startxwin are different tools to solve different problems. I keep adding more text to [1] to clarify this, but this doesn't appear to help, perhaps because nobody actually reads it... [1]

Re: xterm no longer accepts keyboard input

2010-03-14 Thread Jeff Spirko
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Bob Kline bkl...@rksystems.com wrote: Jeff Spirko wrote: If you see different results from running startxwin from the command line vs. the icon, you should check to see if you have an old batch file laying around Thanks for the suggestion.  I looked

Re: xterm no longer accepts keyboard input

2010-03-14 Thread Bob Kline
On 3/14/2010 10:17 AM, Jeff Spirko wrote: The icon runs from the Windows environment, so the run.exe and bash.exe wrapper programs are needed to set up the proper cygwin environment. Once you're in a cygwin shell, you already have the cygwin environment set up. That's why you don't need to

Re: xterm no longer accepts keyboard input

2010-03-14 Thread Bob Kline
On 3/14/2010 12:20 PM, Bob Kline wrote: Attached is the log file from launch of X which does *not* result in the failure dialog window, but whose X session is not able to use input from the keyboard. Sorry, that was the wrong log file (from an attempt to launch X from the shortcut). Here

Re: xterm no longer accepts keyboard input

2010-03-14 Thread David Barr
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Jeff Spirko spi...@gmail.com wrote: The icon runs from the Windows environment, so the run.exe and bash.exe wrapper programs are needed to set up the proper cygwin environment.  Once you're in a cygwin shell, you already have the cygwin environment set up.  

Re: xterm no longer accepts keyboard input

2010-03-13 Thread Jeff Spirko
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Bob Kline bkl...@rksystems.com wrote: On 3/13/2010 1:05 PM, Bob Kline wrote: I have used X under Cygwin successfully for years.  Yesterday I did an upgrade of my Cygwin installation and X stopped working.  After struggling to get things working again, I

Re: xterm no longer accepts keyboard input

2010-03-13 Thread Bob Kline
Jeff Spirko wrote: If you see different results from running startxwin from the command line vs. the icon, you should check to see if you have an old batch file laying around Thanks for the suggestion. I looked again for any old scripts which might be found by the shell, but there

Re: xterm + mc problem: messed up output when running commands

2010-01-07 Thread Andrew Zhezherun
Hi All, Somehow Cygwin mailing list shows #xC2; characters in my previous message; it should have been all spaces instead. Best Regards, Andrew -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: xterm + mc problem: messed up output when running commands

2010-01-07 Thread Andy Koppe
2010/1/7 Andrew Zhezherun: I have a weird problem with the latest Cygwin 1.7. It happens with both a fresh install on a Windows 7 machine and with an upgraded install of Cygwin on a Windows XP machine. When I execute various commands from Midnight Commander when it is running under Cygwin/X

Re: xterm process exists but no window appears when XWin Server launched (current release)

2009-12-31 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 30/12/2009 11:52, Timares, Brian (Harris Corp.) wrote: I checked the FAQ, looked over the XWin.0 log, looked over the cygcheck output which shows: Sonic Solutions burning software containing DLA component Detected: Named process. ZoneAlarm Personal Firewall Detected: HKLM Registry Key, Named

Re: xterm doesn't open on start (was: checkX problems)

2009-12-03 Thread Lothar Brendel
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 12:25:14AM +0100, Lothar Brendel wrote: More information as promised, after getting the new run and checkX (run2) packages announced this morning. $ checkX -v run2 0.3.2 0.3.2 announced? I didn't get any such message, and setup still only

Re: xterm doesn't open on start

2009-12-03 Thread Linda Walsh
Timares, Brian (Patriot) wrote: Any other ideas? I keep updating but so far all I can do is launch an Xterm manually and clean up, then everything seems fine til the next time I relaunch it. --- Do you have DISPLAY=:0 set in your Windows environment? (system properties, Advanced, Env

RE: xterm doesn't open on start

2009-12-03 Thread Timares, Brian (Harris Corp.)
Linda Walsh wrote: Timares, Brian (Patriot) wrote: Any other ideas? I keep updating but so far all I can do is launch an Xterm manually and clean up, then everything seems fine til the next time I relaunch it. Do you have DISPLAY=:0 set in your Windows environment? I didn't, but I do

Re: xterm doesn't open on start

2009-12-03 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
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

RE: xterm doesn't open on start (was: checkX problems)

2009-12-02 Thread Timares, Brian (Harris Corp.)
More information as promised, after getting the new run and checkX (run2) packages announced this morning. $ checkX -v run2 0.3.2 - QUOTE - Lothar Brendel wrote: Timares, Brian (Patriot) wrote: The X window showed up, but it blew up real good (the windows disappeared, then the X icon.

Re: xterm doesn't open on start (was: checkX problems)

2009-12-02 Thread Lothar Brendel
Hi! More information as promised, after getting the new run and checkX (run2) packages announced this morning. $ checkX -v run2 0.3.2 0.3.2 announced? I didn't get any such message, and setup still only offers 0.3.1-1 to me. vhaisbtim...@isb-timaresbrian-lt ~ $ XWin -multiwindow [1]

Re: xterm doesn't open on start (was: checkX problems)

2009-12-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 12:25:14AM +0100, Lothar Brendel wrote: More information as promised, after getting the new run and checkX (run2) packages announced this morning. $ checkX -v run2 0.3.2 0.3.2 announced? I didn't get any such message, and setup still only offers 0.3.1-1 to me.

RE: xterm doesn't open on start (was: checkX problems)

2009-12-01 Thread Timares, Brian (Patriot)
Lothar Brendel wrote: Timares, Brian (Patriot) wrote: Just to be clear from the start, Cygwin 1.7 not 1.5. ACK. *blush* Sorry! ... Thus, once more: What does md5sum /usr/bin/checkX yield? a827086e9cbb331ef49d416b3cb1b135 or a36409714f5ce9d01e8dfb4cb38b7216? The 2nd:

Re: xterm doesn't open on start (was: checkX problems)

2009-12-01 Thread Lothar Brendel
Timares, Brian (Patriot) wrote: Lothar Brendel wrote: [...] Thus, once more: What does md5sum /usr/bin/checkX yield? a827086e9cbb331ef49d416b3cb1b135 or a36409714f5ce9d01e8dfb4cb38b7216? The 2nd: vhaisbtim...@isb-timaresbrian-lt ~ $ md5sum /usr/bin/checkX

RE: xterm doesn't open on start (was: checkX problems)

2009-12-01 Thread Timares, Brian (Patriot)
Lothar Brendel wrote: Timares, Brian (Patriot) wrote: Lothar Brendel wrote: $ checkX -v run2 0.3.0 So, you've got the situation I surmised in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2009-11/msg00200.html Grr, I saw that, went and _thought_ I got the right version but it seems the right version

Re: xterm doesn't open on start (was: checkX problems)

2009-12-01 Thread Lothar Brendel
Timares, Brian (Patriot) wrote: Lothar Brendel wrote: Timares, Brian (Patriot) wrote: Lothar Brendel wrote: $ checkX -v run2 0.3.0 So, you've got the situation I surmised in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2009-11/msg00200.html Grr, I saw that, went and _thought_ I got the right version

RE: xterm doesn't open on start (was: checkX problems)

2009-12-01 Thread Timares, Brian (Patriot)
Lothar Brendel wrote: Timares, Brian (Patriot) wrote: The X window showed up, but it blew up real good (the windows disappeared, then the X icon. After a rebootit didn't launch at all. I ran startxwin.sh from the Cygwin Bash Shell, and it started. At least we're getting *somewhere* :-)

Re: xterm not working

2009-11-30 Thread Andy Koppe
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.   Does anyone have a SIMPLE solution

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 Joe Java
Thank you! xterm now works again. The solution was: Run the Cygwin setup program, and on the Select Packages page, choose Utils and within there choose termcap and downgrade to version 20050421-1. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: xterm not working

2009-11-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 29 22:42, Yaakov S 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 nothing seems

Re: xterm not working

2009-11-30 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/11/30 Corinna Vinschen:   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.   Does anyone have a

Re: xterm not working

2009-11-30 Thread Charles Wilson
Thomas Dickey wrote: On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Andy Koppe wrote: The latest termcap, which was automatically generated from terminfo, has entries longer than 1K in it. ok... (I thought cygwin was using GNU termcap, which supposedly works with longer entries - though I recall _that_ being fixed

Re: xterm not working

2009-11-30 Thread Charles Wilson
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Isn't xterm linked against ncurses? The new 1.7 xterm is. The old 1.5 xterm is still termcap based. Why does it break on a termcap file at all? 1.5 only, and it breaks because the termcap file was NOT generated using '-r' to limit the number of allowed ':tc='

RE: xterm doesn't open on start (was: checkX problems)

2009-11-30 Thread Timares, Brian (Patriot)
Just to be clear from the start, Cygwin 1.7 not 1.5. And I tried to make this clear. And I tried to not let Outlook's word-wrap inter- fere. Lothar Brendel wrote: Timares, Brian (Patriot) wrote: Lothar Brendel wrote: Timares, Brian (Patriot) wrote: Lothar Brendel wrote: My guess: It's the

RE: xterm doesn't open on start (was: checkX problems)

2009-11-30 Thread Timares, Brian (Patriot)
I wrote: And I tried to make this clear. email -^ *sigh* Sorry! Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ:

Re: xterm doesn't open on start (was: checkX problems)

2009-11-30 Thread Lothar Brendel
Timares, Brian (Patriot) wrote: Just to be clear from the start, Cygwin 1.7 not 1.5. ACK. [...] i) ```time checkX -t 12'' How long does it take? vhaisbtim...@isb-timaresbrian-lt ~ $ time checkX -t 12 real0m0.098s user0m0.046s sys 0m0.031s And *that* shouldn't happen! I

Re: xterm not working

2009-11-30 Thread Charles Wilson
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 nothing seems to work.

Re: xterm not working

2009-11-29 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
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 nothing seems to work. Does anyone have a

Re: xterm doesn't open on start (was: checkX problems)

2009-11-28 Thread Lothar Brendel
Timares, Brian (Patriot) wrote: Lothar Brendel wrote: Timares, Brian (Patriot) wrote: Lothar Brendel wrote: My guess: It's the old checkX-problem again because you're using version 0.3.0-1 of the run2-package. Do to some reason unknown to me, that's the default version. But we need 0.3.1-1,

Re: xterm doesn't open on start (was: checkX problems)

2009-11-27 Thread Lothar Brendel
Timares, Brian (Patriot) wrote: [...] Nothing works. 1.7 doesn't work for me out-of-the-box (yes, I ripped it all out and tried it fresh :-) I open a DOS box and check processes and see bash running with an l or a 1 in the left columnn, but nothing appears. If I launch an Xterm it opens up.

Re: xterm doesn't open on start (was: checkX problems)

2009-11-27 Thread Lothar Brendel
Timares, Brian (Patriot) wrote: Lothar Brendel wrote: [...] My guess: It's the old checkX-problem again because you're using version 0.3.0-1 of the run2-package. Do to some reason unknown to me, that's the default version. But we need 0.3.1-1, which you only get when explicitely

RE: xterm doesn't open on start (was: checkX problems)

2009-11-27 Thread Timares, Brian (Patriot)
Lothar Brendel wrote: Timares, Brian (Patriot) wrote: Lothar Brendel wrote: My guess: It's the old checkX-problem again because you're using version 0.3.0-1 of the run2-package. Do to some reason unknown to me, that's the default version. But we need 0.3.1-1, which you only get when Tried

Re: Xterm hangs with latest Cygwin (-62?)

2009-10-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 5 17:46, Yaakov S wrote: On 05/10/2009 13:47, Corinna Vinschen wrote: --- sys.c.ORIG 2009-10-05 19:23:58.0 +0200 +++ sys.c2009-10-05 19:18:34.0 +0200 @@ -408,7 +408,11 @@ openTty(char *line) int rc; int tty = -1; +#ifdef __CYGWIN__ +tty =

Re: Xterm hangs with latest Cygwin (-62?)

2009-10-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 4 17:06, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: On 10/4/2009 1:52 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Stracing shows that luit is called with `luit -argv0 -tcsh', but nowhere in the strace tcsh is actually started. Rather, it looks like luit starts /bin/sh with argv[0] set to -tcsh instead. Interesting.

Re: Xterm hangs with latest Cygwin (-62?)

2009-10-05 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/10/5 Corinna Vinschen: There's a difference, though, when starting xterm via the `run -p xterm -ls' shortcut.  With Cygwin -61, xterm just starts tcsh and it works, with Cygwin -62, xterm tries to start the shell via luit, and that fails.  If luit is missing on the system (renamed), xterm

Re: [Fwd: Re: Xterm hangs with latest Cygwin (-62?)]

2009-10-05 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 05/10/2009 11:30, Fergus wrote: The only difference is the Cygwin version. -61 works, -62 hangs. Likewise. But this is not the same problem. Being unable to start the Xserver is not the same as being unable to start an Xterm. With everything up to date (cygwin, luit, xorg-server, ...

Re: Xterm hangs with latest Cygwin (-62?)

2009-10-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 5 10:20, Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/10/5 Corinna Vinschen: There's a difference, though, when starting xterm via the `run -p xterm -ls' shortcut.  With Cygwin -61, xterm just starts tcsh and it works, with Cygwin -62, xterm tries to start the shell via luit, and that fails.  If luit

Re: Xterm hangs with latest Cygwin (-62?)

2009-10-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 5 20:47, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Unfortunately, luit has no alternative way to make the new tty the controlling tty. What we need is a patch like this in luit: --- sys.c.ORIG2009-10-05 19:23:58.0 +0200 +++ sys.c 2009-10-05 19:18:34.0 +0200 @@ -408,7

Re: Xterm hangs with latest Cygwin (-62?)

2009-10-05 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
I start my xterms this way: xterm EXEC xterm -e /usr/bin/tcsh Is there an inherent problem with this? - Jim -- Jim Reisert AD1C, jjreis...@alum.mit.edu, http://www.ad1c.us -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: Xterm hangs with latest Cygwin (-62?)

2009-10-05 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 05/10/2009 13:47, Corinna Vinschen wrote: And here's the problem. Cygwin doesn't have TIOCSCTTY, and the only way to make a terminal a controlling tty in Cygwin is to call open() on it, which tcsh misses to do. Bash, however, calls open(/dev/tty, O_RDWR), so bash doesn't have this problem.

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