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: [PATCH] Repair '-nolock'

2009-11-30 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/11/30 Fergus: (Sorry to send twice: originally sent yesterday Sunday 0728 GMT but never arrived at cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com; 2nd attempt today Monday 0752 GMT and hope for better progress.) Message was: Thank you. 1 Will this amendment eventually be incorporated into an updated

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: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: xterm-251-1

2009-11-30 Thread Eliot Moss
Thank you, Yaakov -- this definitely fixed my problem, and ldd shows that it requests ncurses, as desired for the future. Best wishes -- Eliot -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

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.