Dfficulty with xorg-server-1.17.1-2.

2015-02-24 Thread GEORGE BARRICK
2015.02.24.09:26:38 EST Hey cygwin folks, I've been using xlaunch with a windows desktop shortcut for about a year to start a multi-window instance of xwin on my Win7 computers. This is cygwin32 on an installation of Win7_x86-64. The command within the sh

Re: Dfficulty with xorg-server-1.17.1-2.

2015-02-24 Thread GEORGE BARRICK
2/24/15, Jon TURNEY wrote: > On 24/02/2015 19:35, Jon TURNEY wrote: >> On 24/02/2015 19:05, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: >>> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 11:03 AM, GEORGE BARRICK wrote: >>> >>>> The other notable problem to report is that my X-server now >&

Re: Dfficulty with xorg-server-1.17.1-2.

2015-02-25 Thread GEORGE BARRICK
ere are a lot of desktop tweakers out there who might find it a little bit helpful. George gee_barrick_kent_dot_edu P.S.Thanks_x_10^{12} to cygwin for your great system and service to the FOSS community.

Re: Dfficulty with xorg-server-1.17.1-2.

2015-03-01 Thread GEORGE BARRICK
2015.03.01.09:06:13 EST Hi Jon, Thanks for the tips. George gee_barrick_at_kent_dot_edu On 2/28/15, Jon TURNEY wrote: > On 25/02/2015 14:30, GEORGE BARRICK wrote: >> I have one small note for other folks who migh

Re: Can't start Xwin server using latest Cygwin 1.7, Xorg server, etc.

2009-12-08 Thread George Barrick
2009.12.08.13:41:22 UT Hi Jim, I've been having the same difficulty. I start Xwin via the startxwin.bat script, my xterm is then spawned, but crashes taking Xwin with it. I thought that I had solved the problem last week when I read on the regular cygwin

Re: Can't start Xwin server using latest Cygwin 1.7, Xorg server, etc.

2009-12-08 Thread George Barrick
startup and the xterm invocation in the startxwin.bat file. This worked for me. George gbarr...@walsh.edu "George Barrick" wrote in message news:<4b30ad0bed19e842aae88dc39736493123fdc71...@mail3.walsh.edu>... 2009.12.08

Re: problem with startxwin.exe and a possible solution

2010-02-03 Thread George Barrick
2010.02.03.16:43:56 EST Hi Jim and cygwin-xfree folks, I had the same problem that Jim was experiencing. I had started with cygwin-1.7 back in August, and over the course of the autumn months had my difficulties with startxwin.bat. Among the things that I did to make star

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xterm-255-1

2010-02-08 Thread George Barrick
2010.02.08.07:49:53 EST Hey Jim, I installed the xterm-255-1 this morning, and had no difficulties. My set-up is WinXP Pro. SP3 with CygWin-1.7.1-1. My only scrap of possibly useful information surrounds cygcheck. Try running cygcheck with this parameter list:

CygWin-1.7.3-1 fails to provide pipe.

2010-04-06 Thread George Barrick
CygWin-1.7.3-1 fails to provide pipe. 2010.04.06.11:47:29 UT Hello CygWin folks, I use cygwin to serve as a Win32 platform for GNU Octave, a freeware mathematics program that mimics the functionality of Matlab. The octave program produces graphical output by e

Req: cygwin binary for gnuplot-4.4.

2010-04-29 Thread George Barrick
Req: cygwin binary for gnuplot-4.4. 2010.04.29.12:10:21 UT Hello Cygwin folks, My interest in gnuplot is as a plotting engine for octave. I had noticed that the gnuplot graphing package released its version 4.4 in March 2010. I realize that it is probably easy t

most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken.

2012-02-25 Thread George Barrick
fails to run, outputting the complaint about a missing *.so file. A visual scan of my /var/log/xwin/Xwin.0.log did not reveal anything unusual. I hope that this report contains enough detail for the xorg developers to reproduce and find the problem. If anything more is required, just as

Re: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken.

2012-02-25 Thread George Barrick
Subj: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken. 2012.02.25.20:19:51 UT cygwin-x folks, I mis-typed at the end of my message. I should say something like: "hope that XFIG developers can reproduce and find the problem". I would not want to burden the xorg-guys with triv

Re: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken.

2012-02-27 Thread George Barrick
Subj: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken. 2012.02.27.12:45:48 UT Hi Marco (and cygwin-x folks), I will try the experiment that I think you are suggesting. If the .so is part of an older .dll, then a reinstallation of the packages should clear up the problem. I have

Re: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken.

2012-02-27 Thread George Barrick
> > The message that I get is: > > > > gbarrick@TS207 ~/jpegs/figs > > $ octave > > /usr/bin/octave-3.6.1.exe: error while loading shared libraries: > > ?: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > > now you triggered all my attention as octave package maintainer > > try t

Re: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken.

2012-02-27 Thread George Barrick
Subj: most recent xfig-3.5.2b-2 broken. 2012.02.27.15:00:43 UT > Hi George, > probably octave is just the victim of Avast I suspect that > your antivirus is screwing up cygwin in general. > Probably it tries to inject a dll in the dll chain > > does "D:\Program Files

Re: most recent xfig-3.2.5b-2 broken.

2012-02-27 Thread George Barrick
Subj: most recent xfig-3.5.2b-2 broken. 2012.02.27.16:18:08 UT > > I see no reason to re-install cygwin. It is purely a Avast problem > Hi Marco, I went and re-installed my antivirus so that its files would be stored in a better directory. That has fixed my

Re: xlogo crashes XWin with Fatal Error (Segmentation Fault)

2012-04-26 Thread George Barrick
Re: xlogo crashes XWin with Fatal Error (Segmentation Fault) 2012.04.26.18:13:33 UT Hey cygwin-x folks, I have not had notable difficulties with XWin-1.12.0-4. Just about everything that I have done with it over the past few days has been fine. However, when I re