XWin requires tty for console log output

2008-11-20 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jon, For some reason which I have yet to investigate, XWin requires a tty to the log to the terminal. That means it will output to terminal in VTs, but will not work in ordinary cmd/bash shells without setting CYGWIN=tty; instead you will see a cmd

Re: Small update for X server 1.5.3 patch set

2008-11-20 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jon TURNEY wrote: > Works for me. > > Note that you don't actually need to the formatting of the log file name > yourself, LogInit() already has code to replace "%s" in the log file name with > the display name. I was aware of that, but it wasn't b

Re: Upgrade woes.

2008-11-20 Thread Eric Roode
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:43:19 -0500, cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm wrote: > Eric Roode wrote: > > I updated my cygwin the other day, as I periodically do, and I am very > > sorry I did so. Here are some of the problems I have encountered. > > It has always been the advice of this list that

Problem with OpenGL on new X serverl

2008-11-20 Thread Florent Fievez
Hello, I have a problem running new X server 1.5.3 with openGL. Since this update, X crash when launching an OpenGL client from SunOS server. Since the application we are developing use OpenGL, it's a big problem for me (I have to use an exceed commercial xserver for testing our application). So

Re: cygwin-x-doc refresh

2008-11-20 Thread Jon TURNEY
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 08:14:33PM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jon TURNEY wrote: I've finished off a first pass at updating the cygwin-x-doc package I started some time ago. Updating the text was a bit less trau

Re: Small update for X server 1.5.3 patch set

2008-11-20 Thread Jon TURNEY
Please find at the URL below another small update to the xorg server patch set. http://www.dronecode.org.uk/cygwin/from-xming-patch-set-20081120.tar.bz2 This contains patches taken from the Xming website http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/ Thanks to Colin Harrison for his permission to

Re: Upgrade woes.

2008-11-20 Thread Tim Prince
Back, Michael wrote: > > My point is that relying on a user to have the forethought, time, and > patience to scour through a mailing list archive is probably not the most > effective or convenient form of communicating common upgrade problems and > solutions. > Asking thousands of people to a

Re: Upgrade woes.

2008-11-20 Thread Dont Care
> > > > How does the location of the startup batch file affect the behavior of > > numlock and capslock in xterm? > > > > Yes. The batch file is different. The binary is different. The > environment variables are different. For example this is in the old > batch file but not in the new one. > > SET

Re: Upgrade woes.

2008-11-20 Thread cygwin
Eric Roode wrote: > How amusingly recursive: "It has always been the advice of the > mailing lists that you should check the mailing lists before > upgrading" :-) Somehow you found *this* list to complain to. On that same page, there are two different *-announce lists. What did you think the

Re: Small update for X server 1.5.3 patch set

2008-11-20 Thread Jon TURNEY
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: >> If your going to do a release soon-ish, you might considered disabling the call to winRestoreModeKeyStates() in winmultiwindowwndproc.c. The code which tries to synchronize locking key states (e.g. caps lock, etc.) between X and Windows has broken, so is now togg

Re: cygwin-x-doc refresh

2008-11-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:57:38PM +, Jon TURNEY wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 08:14:33PM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>> Hash: SHA256 >>> >>> Jon TURNEY wrote: I've finished off a first pass at updating the cyg

Re: Upgrade woes.

2008-11-20 Thread Chuck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The problem with googling is it takes a few days or weeks for new > information to make it into google's index. The on-line mailing list > archives are usually only 15 minutes or less behind current activity. > Unless you want to wait a few weeks, scanning the last day o

Re: Problem with OpenGL on new X serverl

2008-11-20 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Florent Fievez wrote: > I have a problem running new X server 1.5.3 with openGL. Since this > update, X crash when launching an OpenGL client from SunOS server. > Since the application we are developing use OpenGL, it's a big problem > for me (I have

Alias problem with bash -l (was Re: New X server)

2008-11-20 Thread Ryan Stewart
Jon TURNEY wrote: [...] > It sounds like you have somehow lost "-multiwindow" from the command used to > start the X server (so the server is operating in the default, windowed mode). [...] > Run xterm +tb, or add "XTerm*toolBar: false" to ~/.Xdefaults Awesome! Those were exactly what I was lookin

new X-server and remote computers

2008-11-20 Thread Jeffrey Forbes
I mostly use the Cygwin X-server when connect to remote unix boxes though SSH. I got the new server working for all of the programs that I use except one. A molecular modelling graphics program called VMD causes the following error. xterm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X serv

Multiple Monitors issue with Xterm

2008-11-20 Thread Jet Wilda
Hi, I just installed cygwin with X on WindowsXP and after making the change to have it starup in C:\cygwin\bin the Xserver starts. I have 3 monitors and even with the multimonitors setting set in the startxwin.bat when I start Xterm it is not reachable unless I right click and have it maximi

Re: cygwin-x-doc refresh

2008-11-20 Thread Jon TURNEY
Christopher Faylor wrote: If you update the documentation in the htdocs/xfree/docs/cg directory they should show up on the web site automatically. In fact, everything under htdocs should work like that. cygwin-xfree/htdocs doesn't exist. The web-pages appear to be in cygwin/htdocs/xfree/, but

Re: Multiple Monitors issue with Xterm

2008-11-20 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Jet Wilda wrote: Hi, I just installed cygwin with X on WindowsXP and after making the change to have it starup in C:\cygwin\bin the Xserver starts. I have 3 monitors and even with the multimonitors setting set in the startxwin.bat when I start Xterm it is not reachable unless I right click

Re: Alias problem with bash -l (was Re: New X server)

2008-11-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:37:51PM -0600, Ryan Stewart wrote: >Jon TURNEY wrote: >[...] >> It sounds like you have somehow lost "-multiwindow" from the command used to >> start the X server (so the server is operating in the default, windowed >> mode). >[...] >> Run xterm +tb, or add "XTerm*toolBa

Re: Upgrade woes.

2008-11-20 Thread Do Not Reply
Chuck Hamilton-2 wrote: > > Dont Care wrote: >> I have the same Numlock/Capslock issue (see my previous post). >> >> Stop fighting about this, it doesn't help ! Please, does anybody have >> a solution ?? > > Yes. The location of the startup bat files changed from /usr/X11R6/bin > to /usr/bin.

Re: Multiple Monitors issue with Xterm

2008-11-20 Thread Jet Wilda
I did do some googling but must not of had the right keywords (thanks for the link :-). In either case I read that thread and there is only work arounds no solutions. Correct me if I'm wrong but the work arounds are, I can either move my main monitor to the top and left or I can user the arrow ke

Re: cygwin-x-doc refresh

2008-11-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 06:54:42PM +, Jon TURNEY wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: >> If you update the documentation in the htdocs/xfree/docs/cg directory >> they should show up on the web site automatically. In fact, everything >> under htdocs should work like that. > > cygwin-xfree/htdocs

Re: Multiple Monitors issue with Xterm

2008-11-20 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Jet Wilda wrote: I did do some googling but must not of had the right keywords (thanks for the link :-). In either case I read that thread and there is only work arounds no solutions. Correct me if I'm wrong but the work arounds are, I can either move my main monitor to the top and left or I ca

Re: Multiple Monitors issue with Xterm

2008-11-20 Thread Jet Wilda
That is great to hear. Thanks again for the link and the work arounds. I look forward to Jon's fix :-) Thanks, ~Jet On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin X) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jet Wilda wrote: >> >> I did do some googling but must not of had the right keywords (thanks >>

Re: XWin requires tty for console log output

2008-11-20 Thread Jon TURNEY
Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Jon, For some reason which I have yet to investigate, XWin requires a tty to the log to the terminal. That means it will output to terminal in VTs, but will not work in ordinary cmd/bash shells without setting CYGWIN=tty; instead you will see a cmd window briefly fl

Re: cygwin-x-doc refresh

2008-11-20 Thread Jon TURNEY
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 06:54:42PM +, Jon TURNEY wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: If you update the documentation in the htdocs/xfree/docs/cg directory they should show up on the web site automatically. In fact, everything under htdocs should work like that. cygw

Re: Documentation

2008-11-20 Thread Jon TURNEY
Jonathan Johansen wrote: Hi All, I've tried installing the Cygwin X11 server to try to be able to run an X app, but the cygwin installation packages were completely different to the ones mentioned on the website and in the documentation. I had to search the mailing list to get the required pack

RE: Documentation

2008-11-20 Thread Back, Michael
Thanks Jon, Jon TURNEY wrote: >Jonathan Johansen wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I've tried installing the Cygwin X11 server to try to be able to run an >> X app, but the cygwin installation packages were completely different to >> the ones mentioned on the website and in the documentation. I had to >>

Cygwin X-Win scripting help

2008-11-20 Thread tbishop
I have used XP and have used this script for a long time as a bat file to get to my UNIX box: === @echo off C: chdir C:\cygwin\bin bash --login -c "\XWin.exe -query 128.49.000.44 -from 128.23.77.149" ===

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libXaw-1.0.5-1

2008-11-20 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin net distribution: *** libXaw6-1.0.5-1 *** libXaw7-1.0.5-1 *** libXaw-devel-1.0.5-1 This is the latest upstream release. Even though all references to the xaw.m4 macro has been removed upstream

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xtrans-1.2.2-3

2008-11-20 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin net distribution: *** xtrans-1.2.2-3 I added a patch to avoid the bogus error "euid != 0, directory /tmp/.X11-unix will not be created" from the X servers, once they are rebuilt. Yaakov Cygwi

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-server-1.5.3-3

2008-11-20 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin net distribution: *** xorg-server-1.5.3-3 These are the changes in this release: * Log changes: - - In addition to the XWin logs now being found in /var/log (as of the last release), now a sep

multiwindow support for _NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_TASKBAR

2008-11-20 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jon, Following up on our discussion about multiwindow not honouring _NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_TASKBAR. The attached patch was what I had in mind but it has no effect. I'm posting this now to at least start the discussion. You may wish to refer to the FD

Re: libXaw3d7 Package Uninstall Hangs

2008-11-20 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 hughgs wrote: > Any ideas on the problem? I was hoping to find the actual commands that > setup.exe uses during updates to narrow down the actual command that fails > but I wasn't able to find anything on the web. Sounds like something similar to t

Re: libXaw3d7 Package Uninstall Hangs

2008-11-20 Thread hughgs
Thanks, that got me headed down the right path. The libXaw3d7.lst.gz file was corrupted so I replaced it using the local tarball via these instructions (which I'm including since it was on a different thread). http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-01/msg00419.html On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Yaakov (Cygwin