Re: Problem launching XTerm on new Cygwin installation

2014-03-16 Thread Mark Hansen
On 3/7/2014 11:57 AM, 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 window, I get the following

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 window, I

Re: Problem launching XTerm on new Cygwin installation

2014-03-07 Thread Mark Hansen
On 3/7/2014 11:57 AM, 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 window, I get the following error:

Re: Problem launching XTerm on new Cygwin installation

2014-03-07 Thread Mark Hansen
On 3/7/2014 1:49 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote: 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

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

Re: Problem launching XTerm on new Cygwin installation

2014-03-07 Thread Mark Hansen
On 3/7/2014 2:12 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote: 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...

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 Mark Hansen
On 3/7/2014 4:36 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote: 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

Re: Problem with xterm-301-1

2014-02-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 27 17:00, Thomas Dickey wrote: 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

2014-02-27 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
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] After updating from 291-1 to 301-1 xterm starts /bin/sh instead of my shell specified in /etc/passwd or in the

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] After updating from 291-1 to 301-1 xterm

Problem with xterm-301-1

2014-02-20 Thread Ola Strömfors
Hi, 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 workaround I have found is to create /etc/shells with a list of permitted shells, e.g. /bin/ash /bin/bash /bin/dash /bin/sh /bin/tcsh /bin/zsh

Re: Problem with xterm-301-1

2014-02-20 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
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, but only on my home computer running Windows 7 Pro 64-bit, not on my work

RE: Problem with xterm-301-1

2014-02-20 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
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 workaround I have found is to create /etc/shells with a list of permitted shells, e.g. From

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, but

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 workaround I have

RE: Path problem with xterm

2009-09-29 Thread Mike Ayers
From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree- ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of John Emmas Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 4:43 AM From: Mike Ayers If you set PATH absolutely in .bash_profile, the right thing will happen. You may want to copy the initial value of PATH into

Re: Path problem with xterm

2009-09-28 Thread John Emmas
- Original Message - From: Mike Ayers If you set PATH absolutely in .bash_profile, the right thing will happen. You may want to copy the initial value of PATH into another exported env var, so that you can see if there have been changes to the default path. Hi Mike. If I can find

Re: Path problem with xterm

2009-09-25 Thread John Emmas
- Original Message - From: Ken Brown Most of the extra entries probably come from the various bash startup files (including /etc/profile). These startup files will be invoked every time you start a new bash login shell. It looks like you're right about this Ken. Many of the scripts

RE: Path problem with xterm

2009-09-25 Thread Mike Ayers
From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree- ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of John Emmas Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 2:51 AM It looks like you're right about this Ken. Many of the scripts and batch files just blindly add their directory requirements to my path without

Path problem with xterm

2009-09-24 Thread John Emmas
If I open a bash terminal in cygwin, then I create an xterm (either by running startxwin.bat or by running the relevant lines from it manually) then I type set, my environment settings get listed. Among them is my current PATH variable. However, the displayed path is not the same as the path I

Re: Path problem with xterm

2009-09-24 Thread John Emmas
- Original Message - From: Mike Ayers Subject: RE: Path problem with xterm Are you perhaps modifying PATH in .bashrc? No Mike, not as far as I can tell. In fact it's the original .bashrc that was installed with Cygwin. I haven't edited it and I can't see anything in it that refers

Re: Path problem with xterm

2009-09-24 Thread Ken Brown
On 9/24/2009 12:04 PM, John Emmas wrote: If I open a bash terminal in cygwin, then I create an xterm (either by running startxwin.bat or by running the relevant lines from it manually) then I type set, my environment settings get listed. Among them is my current PATH variable. However, the

problem with xterm

2007-12-06 Thread Pelotudo
port 6000: Bad address X connection to localhost:38.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). [1]Exit 1nedit -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/problem-with-xterm-tf4955613.html#a14190956 Sent from the cygwin-xfree mailing list archive

Re: problem with xterm

2007-12-06 Thread Holger Krull
Pelotudo schrieb: [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ ssh -X network [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Warning: untrusted X11 forwarding setup failed: xauth key data not generated Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. user edt [1] 18207 user connect 127.0.0.1 port 6000:

Re: problem with xterm

2007-12-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 12:56:49PM +0100, Holger Krull wrote: Pelotudo schrieb: [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ ssh -X network [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Warning: untrusted X11 forwarding setup failed: xauth key data not generated Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11

Re: problem with xterm

2007-12-06 Thread Pelotudo
://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/problem-with-xterm-tf4955613.html#a14192361 Sent

Problem with xterm menu displaying too small

2006-09-28 Thread Kris Thielemans
Hi On one of the PCs that I use, I have a problem that the menu that xterm displays if you control-click (left,middle or right), e.g. to change the font-size, is too small. It shows only 2 lines, and not all characters. Anyone knows how to fix this? Thanks Kris PS: I'm pretty up-to-date with

problem with xterm

2005-02-09 Thread Red Herring
Hi, First, I've been running cygwin for a couple years on my XP machine with no problems.I have startxwin.bat startup with windows. Then a couple weeks ago, my xterm window stops opening (though X is still starting fine). I can open xterm from the command line fine. So I start looking into

Problem Starting Xterm

2004-11-16 Thread Kevin Piotrowicz
Hi, I have just installed cygwin on WIN XP, with the all xorg packages installed. But not the xfree86 ones because they say removed package beside them - which I take to mean they are deprecated? Anyway by using either startxwin.bat startx or startxwin.sh, the xwin program starts and has the

Re: Problem Starting Xterm

2004-11-16 Thread Mark Paulus
How are you starting your xterm? Are you giving it the -display option (xterm -display :0 )? On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 13:40:53 +, Kevin Piotrowicz wrote: Hi, I have just installed cygwin on WIN XP, with the all xorg packages installed. But not the xfree86 ones because they say removed

Re: problem starting xterm (resolved)

2004-08-03 Thread Yadin Y. Goldschmidt
I found out that the problem was that I installed the Nortel remote sslvpn application manager that makes some changes to the system. Once I undid those changes all X programs started to work fine again. It is interesting what kind of changes to the system can interfere with cygwin programs in

problem starting xterm

2004-08-02 Thread Yadin Y. Goldschmidt
I use the startxwin.bat to start x on an xp machine at work. At home it works fine. At work the X icon appears in the tray but the xterm does not open. If I type xterm in a cygwin window it starts. but if I type the full command as in xstartxwin.bat i.e. xterm -sl 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms red -fg

Re: problem starting xterm

2004-08-02 Thread Yadin Y. Goldschmidt
I would like to add that if I try to start rxvt instead I get: $ C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe (964): *** unable to remap C:\cygwin\usr\ X11R6\bin\cygX11-6.dll to same address as parent(0x96) != 0xB6 5 [main] rxvt 316 sync_with_child: child 964(0x120) died before initializa tion with status

RE: problem starting xterm

2004-08-02 Thread Yadin Y. Goldschmidt
I would like to add that if I try to start rxvt instead I get: $ C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe (964): *** unable to remap C:\cygwin\usr\ X11R6\bin\cygX11-6.dll to same address as parent(0x96) != 0xB6 5 [main] rxvt 316 sync_with_child: child 964(0x120) died before initializa tion with status

Re: problem starting xterm

2004-08-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 11:45:41AM -0400, Yadin Y. Goldschmidt wrote: I would like to add that if I try to start rxvt instead I get: $ C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe (964): *** unable to remap C:\cygwin\usr\ X11R6\bin\cygX11-6.dll to same address as parent(0x96) != 0xB6 5 [main] rxvt 316

Re: problem starting xterm

2004-08-02 Thread Yadin Y. Goldschmidt
Rebaseall helped with the rxvt problem but not with the xterm problem. Yadin Y. Goldschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I use the startxwin.bat to start x on an xp machine at work. At home it works fine. At work the X icon appears in the tray but the xterm does

Font problem with xterm in multiwindow mode

2004-05-01 Thread Antony Baxter
Hello, OS: WinXP, Service Pack 1 Cygwin: 1.5.9-1 Cygwin-X11-base: 6.7.0.0-8 Cygwin-X11-bin: 6.7.0.0-4 readline: 4.3-5 I'm having a stange problem with xterm that only manifests itself when XWin is running in multiwindow mode. When I launch an either an xterm or rxvt, the line of the terminal

Re: Font problem with xterm in multiwindow mode

2004-05-01 Thread Antony Baxter
Ah - got it. Its a problem caused by WindowBlinds. Tony. ... Hello, OS: WinXP, Service Pack 1 Cygwin: 1.5.9-1 Cygwin-X11-base: 6.7.0.0-8 Cygwin-X11-bin: 6.7.0.0-4 readline: 4.3-5 I'm having a stange problem with xterm that only manifests itself when XWin is running in multiwindow

Re: Problem with xterm and cygxft-2.dll after update

2004-04-19 Thread Mark Arnold
Harold L Hunt II huntharo at msu.edu writes: You need the libXft and libXft2 packages. I'm not sure why libXft2 was not selected automatically. Harold Hi Harold, Thanks for the tip, after a little rummaging around I found the 2 packages and installed them and all is now back to

Re: Problem with xterm and cygxft-2.dll after update

2004-04-13 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Mark Arnold wrote: Hi All, I was hoping to get some help with a problem I am now having with my installation. Prior to yesterday I hadn't updated my cygwin installation for about about 3 weeks or so. I updated by running the setup application and initially downloaded everything locally from

problem with xterm with 4.2.0 and w2k sp2 current security patches

2002-03-01 Thread Benson Margulies
most attempts to start xterms on my W2K SP2 with current security patches fail with the following Starting from a non-X cygwin window succeeds 0 [main] xterm 1456 sync_with_child: child 1492(0x388) died before initial ization with status code 0x18B00 163 [main] xterm 1456