Postinstal failure for xinit.sh

2013-07-27 Thread Angelo Graziosi
For completenes, I want to flag that on Windows 7 U 64b and Cygwin32 (but should be the same for Cygwin64) xinit.sh (postinstall) fails as follows (from setu.log.full): [...] 2013/07/27 23:41:15 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/xinit.sh" /usr/bin/mkdir: cann

Re: Postinstal failure for xinit.sh

2013-07-29 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Il 28/07/2013 0.23, Angelo Graziosi ha scritto: For completenes, I want to flag that on Windows 7 U 64b and Cygwin32 (but should be the same for Cygwin64) xinit.sh (postinstall) fails as follows (from setu.log.full): [...] 2013/07/27 23:41:15 running: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile

Re: Cygwin 1.7.22 calls dumper when starting X

2013-08-01 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Charles Wilson wrote: Is there a way to test run-2.0? What is the syntax to replace: C:\Cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/bash.exe -l -c /usr/bin/startxwin.exe Sure: and how to replace C:\cygwin-2\bin\run.exe bash -l -c 'rm -rf /tmp/{.X*,dbus*,orbit*,*}; XWin -nowgl -multiwindow -clipboard -sile

Re: Cygwin 1.7.22 calls dumper when starting X

2013-08-01 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Charles Wilson wrote: (I'm not sure why you need & at all; unless it allows the bash shell to exit, where otherwise it would hang around?) Without the "&", there is an extra bash process running: I want just to start XWin... See attached. > http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";;

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Uploads for 12 August

2013-08-13 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Il 13/08/2013 11.52, Angelo Graziosi ha scritto: Yaakov wrote: The following packages (and their subpackages) have been updated for both arches: After this update my GTK builds of Emacs trunk do not work any more. For example, the bootstrap of rev. 113816 I did yesterday and that worked fine

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Uploads for 12 August

2013-08-13 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Ken Brown wrote: Yes. The fix was to add the following for the Cygwin build, very early in main(): Indeed.. I have verified that G_SLICE_ALWAYS_MALLOC is 1 in config.h so that in emacs.c #ifdef G_SLICE_ALWAYS_MALLOC /* This is used by the Cygwin build. */ xputenv ("G_SLICE=always-mall

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Uploads for 12 August

2013-08-14 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Ken Brown wrote: P.S. For anyone (like Angelo) who wants to build the emacs trunk, I need to patch gmalloc.c upstream before the fix will take effect. Thanks, I will wait for your patches and the Cygwin upgrade. Corin.. oops... Mum wrote it will be released tomorrow.. ;-) Ciao, Angelo. --

Re: unable to maximize gtk window

2013-09-01 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Simon wrote: The window fails to maximize on startup Perhaps, there is a similar discussion for GTK builds of Emacs trunk on Cygwin: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2013-08/msg00953.html Ciao, Angelo. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Pr

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-server-1.15.0-1 (TEST)

2014-01-08 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Jon TURNEY wrote: The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** xorg-server-*1.15.0-1 I DO NOT want install this test version, but when I run setup-x86 to update my Cygwin installation (I find only a few GraphicsMagic packages to be updated), it wants install addit

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-server-1.15.0-1 (TEST)

2014-01-08 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Il 08/01/2014 15.03, Jon TURNEY ha scritto: Could you be a bit more specific about the additional dependencies it wants to install? Setup wants install also these packages libxcb-keysyms1 Required by: xorg-server-extra resourceproto Required by: xorg-server-devel scrnsaverproto Required by:

An issue with libX11?

2014-11-09 Thread Angelo Graziosi
From another application I have an issue with libX11 which I can reproduce with the following STC, $ cat getch_test.c /* gcc getch_test.c -lX11 -o getch_test.out DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 ./getch_test.out */ #include #include #include #include #include #include #include Display *dis;

Re: An issue with libX11?

2014-11-09 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Il 09/11/2014 21:16, Jon TURNEY ha scritto: On 09/11/2014 15:38, Angelo Graziosi wrote: From another application I have an issue with libX11 which I can reproduce with the following STC, I don't think this test case is well-formed. int main() { dis = XOpenDisplay(NULL);

Re: An issue with libX11?

2014-11-09 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Il 09/11/2014 22:16, Jon TURNEY ha scritto: On 09/11/2014 20:49, Angelo Graziosi wrote: ... XMapWindow(dis, win); XSelectInput(dis, win, KeyPress); Oops. I think that should be KeyPressMask. Now, it works as expected. Thanks.. Angelo -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xinit-1.3.4-1 (Major overhaul of X session handling)

2014-11-29 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Nem W Schlecht wrote: Yes, but both of those are applications that have an icon, display a window, etc. I don't want any of that. I just want X11 to *not* launch fbpanel and to *not* quit. I don't know if the following can help.. For years I start the X server with a link whose target is: C

Re: xinit-1.3.4-1: breaking backwards compatibility

2014-12-30 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Laurens Blankers wrote: I noticed that updating to the latest xinit (1.3.4-1) from the previous one (1.3.2 I believe) completely breaks existing configurations. What about changing the way X server is started? I flagged here: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2014-11/msg00040.html my exper

Re: xinit-1.3.4-1: breaking backwards compatibility

2014-12-30 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Laurens Blankers wrote: Then I drag the X icon to my Start-up folder, so that it starts every time my desktop boots The same you can do with the link created as suggested in my previous replay. When I had Win XP I did that way for almost 7 years without tacking care of any configuration and/o

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-server-1.17.1-1 (TEST)

2015-02-18 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Just for completeness... Jon TURNEY wrote: he following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** xorg-server-*1.17.1-1 While installing the TEST version of Cygwin, a "next" was clicked too soon and these 'xorg' packages were installed. OK. The fact is that I have some X

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xorg-server-1.17.1-1 (TEST)

2015-02-18 Thread Angelo Graziosi
sten' option has been > added which can be used to restore the previous behaviour. On 18/02/2015 14:12, Angelo Graziosi wrote: $ DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 ./libXbgi_helios_orbits.out I think you will need to write DISPLAY=:0.0, or add the new '-listen tcp' X server option. OK, $ DI

Non-admin users, /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 permissions

2005-04-26 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Hi, I have the same problem, but I have not understand the solution: wait for a new release of XWin or to change something in conf.? thank you. angelo. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Base-files 3.4-1: Problems for users with Non-Admin. priv.

2005-05-15 Thread Angelo Graziosi
When loging as user without admn. priv. (e.g.: owner= Graziosi, group= Users) the standard bash shell (cygwin.bat) says: chmod: changing permissions of `/tmp': Permission denied This is caused by if [ -d "/tmp" ]; then chmod 1777 /tmp fi in /etc/profile. It assign the permission "

Re: Base-files 3.4-1: Problems for users with Non-Admin. priv

2005-05-16 Thread Angelo Graziosi
I want to call again your attention on the fact that when /etc/profile sets chmod 1777 /tmp the simple user (NOT Admin. priv) receives chmod: changing permissions of `/tmp': Permission denied even if he starts the standard bash-shell without the XServer activated! i.e. the problem rema

RE(Re): Base-files 3.4-1: Problems for users with Non-Admin. priv

2005-05-18 Thread Angelo Graziosi
John, you mailed to Igor that there will be a new release of base-files. Will it fix also /etc/profile? < == As I wrote: the problem of chmod 1777 /tmp is present also for the user (NOT-ADMIN.) th

base-files 3.4-2: Permission denied!

2005-05-18 Thread Angelo Graziosi
With this new release there is a Permission denied when a NOT-ADMIN user starts the X system (startxwin.bat) He has not access to remove .X11-unix (see startxwin.bat) when /tmp has the "t" permission. Every user (or only Administrator?) should rem

Re: base-files 3.4-2: Permission denied! froma startxwin.bat

2005-05-19 Thread Angelo Graziosi
On Thu, May 19,2005 08:34:14 John Morrison wrote >On Thu, May 19, 2005 12:01 am, Angelo Graziosi said: >> >> With this new release there is a >> >>Permission denied >> >> when a NOT-ADMIN user starts the X system (startxwin.bat) >>

Emacs problem with Cygwin 1.5.17-1

2005-05-28 Thread Angelo Graziosi
With Cygwin 1.5.17-1, after starting XWin (startxwin.bat) and Emacs, the Emacs window does not show itself, i.e. $ emacs& [1] 1776 but the emacs window does not appear! The ps command shows: $ ps PIDPPIDPGID WINPID TTY UIDSTIME COMMAND 1380 11380 13

Re: Emacs problem with Cygwin 1.5.17-1 (CGF please comment)

2005-05-30 Thread Angelo Graziosi
I pointed out a problem between Emacs (21.2-13, i.e. curr.) and Cygwin 1.5.17-1. You asked me others informations at which I replied: What are your comments? Thanks angelo.

Re: Emacs problem with Cygwin 1.5.17-1

2005-05-31 Thread Angelo Graziosi
I remember you, that reinstalling Cygwin 1.5-16-1 (and keeping coreutils 5.3.0-6) Emacs works fine. I would keep 1.5.17-1 because it allow me to build CERNLIB-2005 with a limited number of patches (with 1.5.16-1 there is something more to patch) I have also tried XEmacs 21.4.17-1. It starts and

Re: Emacs problem with Cygwin 1.5.17-1 (CGF, a little comment)

2005-06-01 Thread Angelo Graziosi
best regards angelo.

Re: Emacs problem with Cygwin 1.5.17-1 (rebasing)

2005-06-14 Thread Angelo Graziosi
I want to complete the story which has some point of interest. Obviously, you are not obliged to replay, not to take care of problems. As you can see from this mailing list, after installing the cygwin package 1.5.17-1 (26-27 May) I had a problem with Emacs: it took all CPU (100%) and its window

Emacs problem after rebaseall: some progresses?

2005-07-17 Thread Angelo Graziosi
As you can see in the mailing lists, I have posted this question a few times. Now I have discovered somethings at which you can give a more adeguate answer. The problem is that after "rebaseall" Emacs does not works, it takes all the CPU and its window does not appear so that one can only kill

Re: xmkmf resuling in bad search path for std includes?

2005-08-30 Thread Angelo Graziosi
According to Larry Hall on 8/30/2005: > According to Thomas Chadwick on 8/30/2005: >> . >> >> I'm running into trouble at the "make depend" point in the >> process. It's not finding a couple of include files. Here's an example >> message: >> makedepend: warning: x2x.c (reading /usr/include

Re: Emacs problem after rebaseall: some progresses?

2005-09-16 Thread Angelo Graziosi
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Harald Joerg wrote: > Angelo Graziosi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The problem is that after "rebaseall" Emacs does not works, it takes > > all the CPU and its window does not appear so that one can only kill > > its process.

Re: Emacs problem after rebaseall: some progresses?

2005-09-16 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Charles Wilson wrote: > *I* wonder, if xemacs were rebuilt against the CURRENT ncurses > libraries (libncurses8), would it still have similar problems -- e.g. > would you need to rebaseall and then reinstall libncursesEIGHT? > > If so, it's a problem I need to track down, as the ncurses > mainta

Re: Emacs problem after rebaseall: some progresses?

2005-09-16 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Christopher Faylor wrote: > Angelo Graziosi wrote: > >>Even using the snapshots, the problem remains and every time one needs >>to rebase all one must reinstall libncurses7-5.3-4 if one wants Emacs >>to work. > >Since this has nothing to do with Cygwin, AFAICT, the

RE: overlapping windows in cygwin

2005-10-24 Thread Angelo Graziosi
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 23:45:53 +0200 (MET DST) From: Angelo Graziosi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: overlapping windows in cygwin Fabrizio Salvatore wrote: > I also noticed that for some graphical programs (like

Problems using XWin-6.8.99.901-1 (test) for Non-admin users

2005-11-13 Thread Angelo Graziosi
This argument has been discussed many times on these mailing lists (for example : msg00048, Apr 11 2005 in cygwin-xfree ml, etc...) and with the test version of XWin (6.8.99.901-1) it is re-emerged in a more drastic way. If you remember, the problem consists in the fact that Non-admin users canno

GV and ghostscript: problems?

2005-12-08 Thread Angelo Graziosi
With ghostscript-8.15-2 there is a stange behaviour of 'gv' in displaying pdf files. If one uses: $ gv foo.pdf & that works fine. But using: $ gv & and then opening 'foo.pdf' with 'Open' menu item, there is an "Unrecoverable error " of GPL Ghostscript 8.15 This 'gv' behaviour was

RE: Running Cygwin on multi-user Windows XP

2006-01-19 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Soong, SylokeJ wrote: > google: > cygwin xp non-administrator account > > result: > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2005-02/msg9.html I think that REM Mount local user %TEMP% as /tmp mount -f -u -t "%TEMP%" /tmp should not work is statxwin.bat is started from a link on deskto

Re: Starting applications from Start | ... | Cygwin-X menu

2006-02-20 Thread Angelo Graziosi
I think that this is not a stricly problem regarding 'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'. It should regard the installation process by setup.exe. At the end of the installation, when one chooses to add links in Start menu, many of those links do not seem to work. Cheers, angelo. &g

Re: Starting applications from Start | ... | Cygwin-X menu

2006-02-21 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Igor Peshansky wrote: > ... > The script that adds the links you're complaining about > (Cygwin-X) belongs to the X-start-menu-icons package, which is > associated with Cygwin/X -- thus the redirection to this list. OK, we have ascertained that this discussion belongs to cygwin-xfree. But wha

Re: Repaint/redraw problems

2006-04-18 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Usually the Repaint problem is solved adding '+bs' (BS = backing store') to XWin command line, e.g. : XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error +bs Angelo. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Docum

Problems between GraphicsMagick and XORG-6.9.99.901-1 (test)

2006-05-16 Thread Angelo Graziosi
I usually use GM to convert JPG file to PS file: gm convert -page A4 p-01.jpg p-01.jpg.ps (This is done, effectively, in a few scripts that convert JPG to PS, link PS in one PS, convert this in PDF) Using the test version of XORG, namely 6.8.99.901-1, it seems that the above commands does

Re: xWin/Startx Messages re-direction

2006-05-27 Thread Angelo Graziosi
If this can help, I have solved running startx from bash (Cygwin.bat) in this way startx 2>/dev/null & Cheers, Angelo. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.co

Re: running CygwinX with a limited user account

2006-08-23 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Igor Peshansky wrote: > For each user, execute "mount -u SOMEUSERSPECIFICDIR /tmp" (as "man > mount" would have told you). Are we sure that this works with startxwin.bat ? Some time ago I tried to mount /tmp in an user directory (I used also %TEMP%, i.e. C:\Doc...\%USERNAME%\..\Temp) but it di

Re: Cygwin/X and emacs always hangs..

2006-09-13 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Joe Bruce wrote: > I can only confirm that it affects Windows XP SP2 as well. I have been > having the same problem (and now wish that I had not upgraded my Cygwin > install). Have you recently 'rebaseall' the system? I have had that Emacs hangs after a 'rebaseall'. The workaround was to rei

Re: Fix your packages! (attention: a2ps, tetex-bin, nfs-server, gv, uw-imap, and xerces-c maintainers)

2006-10-01 Thread Angelo Graziosi
tetex-tiny 3.0.0-3Incomplete ... -- Cheers, Angelo On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, Igor Peshansky wrote: > On Sat, 30 Sep 2006, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > > > Could this be the reason for which I obtain that > > > >

Re: Can't preview postscript files under xdvi

2006-10-16 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Ferran Mazzanti wrote: > I can directly preview .dvi files displaying the postscript figures. I have solved in this way: cd /bin mv gs.exe gs.exe.orig ln -sf /usr/X11R6/bin/gs.exe gs.exe Cygwin, Why there are these two version, X and non-X of ghostscript? Once, someone said th

Problems with rxvt-unicode 7.7-6?

2007-04-06 Thread Angelo Graziosi
I want to flag that with the version 7.7-6 there are problems in typing some character: typing 'ì' it shows 'l' == 'è' == 'h' == 'à' == 'g' and similar. Reinstalling 7.7-5 all characters are shown correctly. Cheers, Angelo. -- Unsubscribe info:

Problems with XPDF on Cygwin with recent snapshots (newlib ?)

2007-05-23 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Using cygwin-inst-20070523.tar.bz2 there is XPDF that core dumps loading a pdf file. The same happens with a cygwin1.dll 1.5.24-2 rebuilt with CVS newlib dated May 18. Instead using cygwin1.dll 1.5.24-2 rebuilt with CVS newlib dated May 01, XPDF works fine. Cheers, Angelo. -- Unsubscribe

Starting X server and checkX

2007-07-24 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Following this discussion http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2006-07/msg00131.html I have tried to modify the script in this way (to start X+urxvt): - #!/bin/bash start_XWin() { #export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 export DISPLAY=:0 #expor

Re: Starting X server and checkX

2007-07-24 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Holger Krull wrote: > My guess is, you have to set DISPLAY before you do checkX. How else > would it know which X11 Server to search if it was not started as a > child? Obviously !!! Now the script sound like this: --- #!/bin/bash ## ## The DISP

Scrollbar background colour for X applications (emacs, urxvt)

2007-08-23 Thread Angelo Graziosi
I have seen that Emacs and URxvt have a gray scrollbar on black background. Usually, all applications (Windows, GNU/Linux) that have a scrollbar, have it as gray on gray (or almost gray). So, is there some Cygwin resource (~/.Xdefaults) to set to have the standard scrollbar background color? Fo

Re: font and screen size

2007-09-05 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Sans Mono XTerm*faceSize: 14 You can try also faceSize 10 or 12. Cheers, Angelo. --- Angelo Graziosi: http://www.webalice.it/angelo.graziosi "...d'orgoglio spezzato inseguendo il desiderio del cuore" Egdar Lee MASTERS, "Anto

Re: font and screen size

2007-09-05 Thread Angelo Graziosi
I do > have a .Xauthority-c file, which is empty. I downloaded it pretty > recently, maybe we are working with different versions. > > On 9/5/07, Angelo Graziosi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > In my $HOME/.Xdefaults I have: > > > > > > ! -[ x

Re: font and screen size

2007-09-06 Thread Angelo Graziosi
know that? Don't worry about these things... step by step you will have all the knowledge of universe! > > On 9/6/07, Angelo Graziosi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Instead, why you cite this ^^ explicitly? You do not know SPAMMERS? Have you asked yourself w

Problems building applications as user with a limited account

2007-09-28 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Hi guys, I have done a fresh installation of Cygwin on a new PC observing the following. Usually I have the habit to build Emacs from CVS. Now I have tried to do the same as an user with limited account (of the group Users), but configure fails in this way: --

Re: Problems building applications as user with a limited account

2007-09-29 Thread Angelo Graziosi
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, d.henman wrote: > >... Try adding--x-includes=/usr/X11R6/include/X11 >to your configure arguments. Now the problems seem desappeared. In any case, I will consider your suggestion. Many thanks, Angelo. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsub

Re: [ITA] xfig/xfig-lib: An interactive drawing tool

2008-04-09 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Dr. Volker Zell ha scritto: I would like to adopt and maintain the 'xfig/xfig-lib' packages from Harold Hunt. The procedure of installing 3.2.4-7 removes the previous 3.2.4-6, so the link app-defaults -> /etc/X11/app-defaults in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ is lost and the new postinstall script (xf

Re: Problems with keyb layout and fonts?

2008-11-13 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Jon TURNEY wrote: Can you check if you have the xkbcomp package installed (the upgrade should have done this automatically), and if xkbcomp is on your path and is runnable? Obviously, it is installed (see attch.) in /usr/bin, and, for example, $ xkbcomp.exe -help Usage: xkbcomp [options] inp

Re: Problems with keyb layout and fonts?

2008-11-13 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Michele Gonfiantini ha scritto: I solve my problems doing a rebaseall Good! at least, it seems, that the keyboard layout problem is solved. Thanks a lot, Angelo. --- Facesti come quei che va di notte, che porta il lume dietro e se' non giova, ma dopo se' fa le persone dotte.

Re: Problems with keyb layout and fonts?

2008-11-14 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Jon TURNEY ha scritto: It's not included in the set of fonts available from X.Org currently, so we don't currently have a package for it. (There may be a couple of other fonts which fall into this category) Please bear with me and I'll try to generate a package for this font. Oh, if you will

Re: Problems with keyb layout and fonts?

2008-11-14 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Jon TURNEY ha scritto: Please bear with me and I'll try to generate a package for this font. Now that font-bitstream-vera-ttf 1.10 is released, I have installed it which seems to work! Thanks. Now I have restored almost the full behaviour which I had with X11R6.99... but I also want to flag

X11R7 and rebasing

2008-11-19 Thread Angelo Graziosi
I have seen that after the release of X11R7, many problems are partially resolved by rebasing. Some time ago, I remember that on cigwin-apps list there was the suggestion that the package maintainer should build their packages adding '-Wl,--enable-auto-image-base' for DLLs. Has this be done for t

Still problems starting X

2008-11-21 Thread Angelo Graziosi
On X11R6.99, I start X with a link on desktop, 'XWin Server', whose target is: C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe bash -l start_XWin.sh and in /usr/local/bin, start_XWin.sh is #! /bin/bash export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 export PATH=/usr/bin:"$PATH" # Cleanup from last run. rm

Re: Still problems starting X

2008-11-21 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Jon TURNEY wrote: 'run' can only hide the window of the process it directly starts, I would guess. With X11R7.4 there is a window that seems related to the process which 'run' starts, and a second window related, I think, to the need of writing: The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) re

Re: No Cygwin-X shortcut on fresh install

2008-11-22 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Jon TURNEY wrote: Perhaps we need an xorg-base package or something to pull in xorg-server and xinit on a fresh install ? ... and I would suggest to create the link as /usr/bin/mkshortcut -AP -i /usr/bin/XWin.exe -n "Cygwin-X/XWin Server" -w "" -a /usr/bin/startxwin.bat /usr/bin/run.exe

X, backingstore and opengl

2008-11-24 Thread Angelo Graziosi
I want to flag the following problems I have met with X11R7.4 and the application ROOT [1]. To reproduce them, you should not need to rebuild ROOT under X11R7.4 but it is sufficient to install pre-built binaries, even if they result from a build under the previous X11R6.99: the 'effects' are the

Re: Still problems starting X

2008-11-24 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 04:03:52PM +0100, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Jon TURNEY wrote: 'run' can only hide the window of the process it directly starts, I would guess. With X11R7.4 there is a window that seems related to the process which 'run'

Re: X, backingstore and opengl

2008-11-24 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Regarding the problems I have flagged in [1], the first (related to the option +bs of XWin, i.e. the backing store) is still there, also with the recent xorg-server-1.5.3-4. For the second (that related to OpenGL applications), I have found the workaround described here [2]. Now, if nedit

Re: X, backingstore and opengl

2008-11-25 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Jon TURNEY wrote: tell me if you agree I agree with all BUT NOT with THIS: 1.5.3-4 +bsok (redrawing of area under menus is messed up) In my case (hsimple.C test) 1.5.3-4 +bsGIVES server segfault Are you sure you have started 1.5.3-4 with '+bs'? Indeed I have verified that '1.5

Re: X, backingstore and opengl

2008-11-29 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Jon TURNEY wrote: Ok, I've tried this and a few other things an I can't reproduce this, so I'd like your help to get a backtrace if you are willing: 1. Download http://www.dronecode.org.uk/cygwin/XWin.exe.bz2 (this is a build of XWin with debugging symbols) 2. bunzip2.exe XWin.exe.bz2 3. expor

Re: X, backingstore and opengl

2008-12-01 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Angelo Graziosi ha scritto: Jon TURNEY wrote: Ok, I've tried this and a few other things an I can't reproduce this, so I'd like your help to get a backtrace if you are willing: 1. Download http://www.dronecode.org.uk/cygwin/XWin.exe.bz2 (this is a build of XWin with debug

Re: X, backingstore and opengl

2008-12-02 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Jon TURNEY wrote: I'm sorry, your our previous mail hadn't really made it clear to me that there was problem with glxgears etc. Just for my comprehension, can you explain again what happens if you run glxinfo and glxgears on 1.5.3-4. Really, in my posts, I never cited 'glxgears', 'glxinfo'

Re: X, backingstore and opengl

2008-12-03 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Jon TURNEY wrote: glxgears, glxinfo are GL demo programs which come with mesa (the OpenGL library) It would be useful if you could install the mesa package and check if glxinfo, glxgears work for you. You have ignored my cygchec.out here [1]. I have those packages installed and glxgears, glx

Re: X, backingstore and opengl

2008-12-05 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Jon TURNEY wrote so perhaps you could try ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwinx/XWin.20081204180806.exe.bz2 and see if that one fails for you Now it fails! For the sake of completeness, attached the stackdump files and the GDB infos as requested here [1], cygcheck.out in [2]. Cheers, Angelo. -

Re: [1.7] On checkX

2009-08-29 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Charles Wilson wrote: Unfortunately, I can't reproduce. Ugh! I forgot to say that I start those scripts with links on desktop... For example: mkshortcut -AD \ -n "${urxvt}" \ -a "bash -l start_urxvt.sh" \ -i /usr/bin/XWin.exe \ -d "Console unicode" \ /usr/bin/run.exe Inde

Re: [1.7] On checkX

2009-09-05 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Charles Wilson wrote: Try this: I have tried your script. It creates 6 logs (attached) and NO stackdump!!. But if one tries to copy/paste something, the 'clipboard'/system hangs... Try adding --notty to each invocation of checkX...that works for me. It seems that it works also for me! It

Emacs-GTK hangs with dialog boxes

2009-09-24 Thread Angelo Graziosi
For completeness, I want to flag that my GTK build of Emacs has the same problem described here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2009-09/msg00051.html. Practically, after starting Emacs, $ G_SLICE=always-malloc emacs -q & its first three icons on tool-bar (new file, read existing file, read

Re: Emacs-GTK hangs with dialog boxes

2009-09-24 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Angelo Graziosi ha scritto: For completeness, I want to flag that my GTK build of Emacs has the same problem described here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2009-09/msg00051.html. Practically, after starting Emacs, $ G_SLICE=always-malloc emacs -q & its first three icons on tool-bar

Re: Emacs-GTK hangs with dialog boxes

2009-09-26 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Angelo Graziosi ha scritto: For completeness, I want to flag that my GTK build of Emacs has the same problem described here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2009-09/msg00051.html. Practically, after starting Emacs, $ G_SLICE=always-malloc emacs -q & its first three icons on tool-bar

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: xinit-1.1.1-5

2009-10-01 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: The following package has been updated for Cygwin 1.7: * xinit-1.1.1-5 This package includes the startx, startxdmcp.bat, startxwin.bat, and startxwin.sh commands for launching the XWin server. This releases fixes a few bugs in startxwin.{bat,sh}: * Launch XWin from w

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: xinit-1.1.1-5

2009-10-01 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Phil Betts wrote: I think Angelo was trying to avoid having an unnecessary bash process hanging around. Indeed! (I think...) I have various links on desktop (to start Emacs, mrxvt, xfig, etc.) like this: C:\cygwin-2\bin\run.exe bash -l -c 'rm -rf /tmp/.X11-unix; XWin -multiwindow -clipboar

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: xinit-1.1.1-5

2009-10-01 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Angelo Graziosi ha scritto: Phil Betts wrote: I think Angelo was trying to avoid having an unnecessary bash process hanging around. Indeed! (I think...) I have various links on desktop (to start Emacs, mrxvt, xfig, etc.) like this: C:\cygwin-2\bin\run.exe bash -l -c 'rm -rf /tmp/.X11

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] X11R7.5 [Emacs-gtk]

2009-10-28 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Cygwin/X has been updated to X.Org X11R7.5. It seems that after this upgrade, my GTK build[*] of Emacs has some problem. First, the link on desktop with which I start Emacs does not work any more. It was created with: - emacs="Emacs-2" emacs_cmd="G_SLICE=always-m

libglib2, Emacs and GTK applications

2010-02-08 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Just for completeness, I want to flag some strange things that I see between a GTK build of Emacs and libglib2.0_0-2.22.4-2 BUT NOT with libglib2.0_0-2.22.4-1! With 2.22.4-2, when I open a dialog box (for example clicking on the tool bar icon "Reading an existing file into an Emacs buffer"), i

Re: libglib2, Emacs and GTK applications

2010-02-09 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: You may want to try these patches and see if they help: My build of Emacs was related to current trunk (precisely, rev. 99467), so, almost surely, those patches are already applied (indeed, I find tracks of them in the current code). The problems seem to be conseque

Re: libglib2, Emacs and GTK applications

2010-02-09 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: 1) rebaseall, as launching gam_server involves a fork(), the failure of which can lead to strange behaviour. Hmm... At the moment my installation is quite stable and I won't rebase without being sure that it really needs a rebase. After all, with Emacs I rarely use d

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {xfig/xfig-lib}-3.2.5b-1

2010-05-27 Thread Angelo Graziosi
After upgrading, when I launch xfig ($ /usr/bin/xfig.exe &) there is this error message (in another x-window): == The app-defaults file (version: 3.2.4) is older than this version of xfig (3.2.5b). You should install the correct version or you may lose

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {xfig/xfig-lib}-3.2.5b-1

2010-05-27 Thread Angelo Graziosi
in '/etc/defaults/etc/X11/app-defaults' belong to 3.2.5b, instead those in '/etc/X11/app-defaults' belong to 3.2.4! Ciao, Angelo. Il 27/05/2010 13.16, Angelo Graziosi ha scritto: After upgrading, when I launch xfig ($ /usr/bin/xfig.exe &) there is this

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {xfig/xfig-lib}-3.2.5b-1

2010-05-27 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > Angelo Graziosi writes: If I read correctly, if Fig* files exist in '/etc/X11/app-defaults', they are not replaced with new. That's correct. If somebody has changed the system defaults I don't want overide these. Hmm... I have not changed t

XFig problems [locale?]

2010-06-05 Thread Angelo Graziosi
It seems that I have discovered some problems with XFig. :( I have tried this simple test. $ /usr/bin/xfig & then I have drawn a box with 'Rectangular BOX drawing (b)'. After this, I have saved the figure (with: File | Save 'test.fig', it is attached). Now if I exit from XFig and restart it

Re: XFig problems [locale?]

2010-06-06 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Il 06/06/2010 2.55, Angelo Graziosi ha scritto: It seems that I have discovered some problems with XFig. :( Just for completeness, adding xfig() { LANG=''\ /usr/bin/xfig -specialtext -latexfonts -startlatexFont default \ "$@" 2>/dev/null } to my .bas

Re: Slow response to keypresses in xorg-server-1.8.0-1

2010-07-19 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Simon Marlow wrote: I use the VirtuaWin virtual-desktop tool, and found that often when switching to a desktop with XWin windows on it, the windows would remain blank until I right-clicked on the XWin icon in the tray, when they would refresh. Strange. It is more than an year I use VirtuaWin

Re: Slow response to keypresses in xorg-server-1.8.0-1

2010-07-19 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Il 19/07/2010 17.45, Simon Marlow ha scritto: On 19/07/2010 15:51, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Simon Marlow wrote: I use the VirtuaWin virtual-desktop tool, and found that often when switching to a desktop with XWin windows on it, the windows would remain blank until I right-clicked on the XWin

Re: Slow response to keypresses in xorg-server-1.8.0-1

2010-07-20 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Il 20/07/2010 10.07, Simon Marlow ha scritto: On 20/07/2010 00:00, Angelo Graziosi wrote: VirtuaWin comes in two 'flavors': *with* and *without* unicode support. Which are you using? Have you tried the other? That seems like a long shot to me. Do you have reason to believe it woul

Fwd: Bootstrapping Emacs (trunk) with GCC >= 4.5.1 [Cygwin]

2010-08-03 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Messaggio originale Oggetto: Bootstrapping Emacs (trunk) with GCC >= 4.5.1 [Cygwin] Data: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:50:09 +0200 Mittente: Angelo Graziosi A: Emacs On Cygwin, I have tried to bootstrap Emacs-trunk using gcc-4.5.1 (just released) and gcc-4.6-20100731 (snapshot),

Problems with URXVT [Perl]

2010-10-11 Thread Angelo Graziosi
I have noticed that when I put: URxvt*perl-ext-common: default,tabbed to ~/.Xdefaults URXVT does not work right: $ urxvt& $ urxvt: perl hook 0 evaluation error: no such resource 'perl_ext_2,-tabbed', requested at /usr/lib/urxvt/perl/tabbed line 64. urxvt: Can't call method "parent" on an und

Re: complains about the cygwin/gcc binaries

2011-01-27 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Marco Atzeri wrote: In the gcc-3 era the C++ timing performance were really poor, gcc-4 solved a lot such problem. I guess the situation is improved in the meantime but of course cygwin is slower than an equivalent native build as he try to replicate the UNIX/Posix enviroment in an unfriendly MS-

On xkb_* in /tmp

2011-07-06 Thread Angelo Graziosi
After the last upgrade to xorg-server I find in /tmp: ...316 Jul 7 02:06 xkb_H2DcsY ...316 Jul 7 02:06 xkb_PTGhAv Is this to be expected? Ciao, Angelo. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentat

Re: On xkb_* in /tmp

2011-07-06 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Il 07/07/2011 2.12, Angelo Graziosi ha scritto: After the last upgrade to xorg-server I find in /tmp: ... 316 Jul 7 02:06 xkb_H2DcsY ... 316 Jul 7 02:06 xkb_PTGhAv Is this to be expected? Now I have seen that /tmp is filling od xkb_* files each time I login (i.e. XWin starts)... :( Ciao

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