Re: Proper attribution of patches

2003-12-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: The following CVS commit, made by Thomas Dickey, has no indication that Thomas was either a) not involved at all in the patch or b) that Thomas found Ralf Habacker's patch and committed a modified version of that patch. The CVS log message says

Re: Proper attribution of patches

2003-12-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Your commit didn't mention this either. Our change log is in our release notes, where the changes were attributed to Ralf Habacker: tsk, tsk: the actual commit on the code change bears only your name. A casual reader of that commit (and of this

Re: Proper attribution of patches

2003-12-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: XFree86 should be taking care not to steal credit for our patches by committing them without proper attribution. your standards are inconsistent: your committing the change rather than offering commit access to someone who solved a problem that

Re: Proper attribution of patches

2003-12-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Eric Anholt wrote: The only responsible thing for you to do would be to correct the ChangeLog to attribute it to the patch's author. well that's polite enough. unlike Harold. no problem. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net

Re: Proper attribution of patches

2003-12-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: No, that is not good enough. You should amend your change log entry to attribute the patch to Ralf and you should apologize to the X community at large for being so sloppy with attributing credit. yes, you're right. now I'll have to scrutinize

Re: Proper attribution of patches

2003-12-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Alan Hourihane wrote: Thomas, If you did get this code directly from Cygwin/X's tree then I'd of expected at least the credit to be apportioned to Harold at the very least, rather than putting your name against it. Ralf's name could have been corrected later, with a

Re: Proper attribution of patches

2003-12-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Thomas Dickey wrote: On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Eric Anholt wrote: The only responsible thing for you to do would be to correct the ChangeLog to attribute it to the patch's author. well that's polite enough. unlike Harold. I have not been

Re: Proper attribution of patches

2003-12-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Eric Anholt wrote: I see only minor inconsitency on his part, that the original commit of that code didn't attribute it to its author in the CVS logs, while at least some other commits do note authors of patches. However, he didn't explicitly take credit for it, like you

Re: Proper attribution of patches

2003-12-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: been corrected later, with a follow email from Harold. It's a simple change to put that right in the CHANGELOG. So I'll do that. I had that on my next set of commits. Then why not say so earlier? There was no point in doing so. -- Thomas

Re: Proper attribution of patches

2003-12-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: a lot of words. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net

Re: Proper attribution of patches

2003-12-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Sure there was: you would not have exposed yourself as a hypocrite by doing exactly that which you denounce on your home page (pointed out by Daniel Armburst). You lambast those egotistical plagiarists that yes, I can imagine that you admire them.

RE: Proper attribution of patches

2003-12-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Armbrust, Daniel C. wrote: I've seen your postings before, and have no use for your opinions. (that seems to be a common trait of Harold's friends - I don't have to address each one of them). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net

website identifiers

2003-12-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
When perusing the website for news, it would be useful if the pages were marked (in their source) as generated or manually updated. For the former (unless they're generated on demand), a modification date would also be useful. For the latter, an RCS/CVS/etc identifier to distinguish successive

Re: website identifiers

2003-12-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Thomas Dickey wrote: When perusing the website for news, it would be useful if the pages were marked (in their source) as generated or manually updated. For the former (unless they're generated on demand), a modification date would also

Re: website identifiers

2003-12-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Would CVS identifiers still be useful for whatever you are trying to do? Maybe I'll start adding them as comments for starters but still keep the hand-modified date for each page. That's what I do, e.g.,

Re: website identifiers

2003-12-27 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Okay. Each page should now have: HEADER MODIFIED: $Date$ $Author$ LEFT SIDEBAR MODIFIED: $Date$ $Author$ BODY MODIFIED: $Date$ $Author$ FOOTER MODIFIED: $Date$ $Author$ that's better. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net

Re: Working with fonts

2003-12-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to setup my xterm with the -fn -fs option in order to increase the font size. I just can't figure out how and which fonts to select, and therefore it always defaults to fixed. Does anybody have a font primer? I'm looking for

Re: Possible to use clipboard with remote/xdm connection?

2004-01-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: Chris Green wrote: The xterm that one runs by clicking on the cygwin icon, the standard cygwin (not cygwin/X) terminal window. This is not xterm. This is just a windows console with bash. The windows console talks to the windows clipboard.

Re: Possible to use clipboard with remote/xdm connection?

2004-01-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: Thomas Dickey wrote: The windows console talks to the windows clipboard. Does the X clipboard talk to the windows clipboard (or will it someday)? This thread is all about this. There is the internal clipboard manager and this is also

Re: Possible to use clipboard with remote/xdm connection?

2004-01-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: I understood that, and was hinting that if you chose to make the explanation simple to the point - perhaps to someplace online where it's discussed lucidly - you wouldn't have to exercise the keyboard so much. A detailed write-up does not exist

Re: [OT] Re: Possible to use clipboard with remote/xdm connection?

2004-01-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Chris Green wrote: On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 08:33:41PM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote: Chris Green wrote: The xterm that one runs by clicking on the cygwin icon, the standard cygwin (not cygwin/X) terminal window.

Re: Crashing after two or three server resets

2004-01-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: Takuma Murakami wrote: Another problem on server reset is that Japanese keyboard layout is ignored after server reset in XDMCP sessions. I attach a patch for the problem. The patch looks clean to me and I'll apply it to CVS. Now I'm

Re: Xman and nroff incompatibility

2004-02-22 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 12:57:22PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Rodrigo Medina wrote: understand the old style format. In order to obtain the old style output one has to call nroff with the -c option. Xman calls nroff without the -c option. The man page of xman

Re: MultiWindow Mode: stty speed = 0 on xterm cause rlogin to fail

2004-02-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Danilo Turina wrote: In effect this modification solves the problem for rlogins launched manually by an xterm, but I does not affect at all commands inserted into .XWinrc (they look like xterm -e rlogin machine -l user). I tried several ways to put the speed to 38400 for

Re: MultiWindow Mode: stty speed = 0 on xterm cause rlogin to fail

2004-02-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Danilo Turina wrote: Thomas Dickey wrote: On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Danilo Turina wrote: In effect this modification solves the problem for rlogins launched manually by an xterm, but I does not affect at all commands inserted into .XWinrc (they look like xterm -e rlogin

Re: MultiWindow Mode: stty speed = 0 on xterm cause rlogin to fail

2004-02-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Danilo Turina wrote: In effect opening an xterm within rootless mode I can see from stty that the terminal speed is 38400, while opening the same terminal from multiwindow mode I see that the speed is 0 (the same does not

Re: MultiWindow Mode: stty speed = 0 on xterm cause rlogin to fail

2004-02-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: This issue has to have something to do with the way that commands are launched from the .XWinrc menu, since launching an xterm from another xterm works just fine. Here is the code that launches commands specified in the .XWinrc menus: case

Re: MultiWindow Mode: stty speed = 0 on xterm cause rlogin to fail

2004-02-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: If the stdin for the menu process isn't a tty, the inherited stdin for xterm still won't be a tty. Some stty settings can be set for non-tty's, and some cannot. Usually the differences between xterm and rxvt in this area are related to

Re: Troubles with an xterm

2004-03-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am extremely happy using X and cygwin. I can easily run xterms from Solaris to cygwin. I can easily run xterms from Linux to cygwin. Neither of the above required any configuration on my part. Now, I am trying to run an xterm from an as400(

RE: Troubles with an xterm

2004-03-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah yes The as400 is an EBCDIC system, and cygwin is ASCII How do I fix this ? It hasn't been (I think) recently tested, but there is a port of xterm to os390 which does some translation to/from EBCDIC. There's a README.os390 in the

RE: Troubles with an xterm

2004-03-09 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was able to get my hands on a Solaris running openwindows. The xterm client on the as400 works fine using the Solaris Xserver. The same xterm client on the as400 does not work with cygwin's Xserver. This leeds me to belive

Re: Okay, I feel stupid

2004-03-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Chris Green wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 07:01:06AM -0800, Matthew L. Mandalek wrote: How do I use cygwin to start a X console on my XP machine like I get on the Rad Hat Fedora console? Do you just mean a terminal window or do you mean an X desktop? To me

Re: Upcoming X.org release and splitting packages

2004-03-18 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: What are the main differences between it and XFree86 4.4.0 ? Are things like XTerm 185 included, or everything that goes to XFree86 can't to X.org ? I don't know about XTerm 185 specifically, but this release

Re: Interim source package compilation instructions

2004-03-18 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: 4) If you want to perform a clean rebuild, just run the following command first before repeating step #3. Beware that removing thousands of files on my machine takes between 5 and 25 minutes (it varies for some reason) and could take up to an hour

Re: Upcoming X.org release and splitting packages

2004-03-18 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Thomas Dickey wrote: xterm patch #185 is post-4.4, and according to fd.o's CVS is not in the release-1 branch. It may be worth to make it a separate package and start using your sources from http

Re: Upcoming X.org release and splitting packages

2004-03-18 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: I have this built as a Cygwin package using the default configure options at the moment. The only patch required was to Makefile.in (attached) to get it to stop appending .exe to the uxterm shell script. Thomas, can you recommend any configure

Re: Upcoming X.org release and splitting packages

2004-03-18 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: Thomas, am (are) I (we) missing anything ? Are there any other options that are enabled or disabled in the xc version ? Perhaps --enable-luit (though I don't recall if anyone's mentioned using it with cygwin). -- Thomas E.

Re: Upcoming X.org release and splitting packages

2004-03-19 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: --with-terminal-type=xterm-xfree86 was just so I wouldn't get it set to xterm by default (lynx etc are black and white with it). I'm not

Re: blinking xterm?

2004-03-19 Thread Thomas Dickey
yOn Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Lester Ingber wrote: I just installed the current X packages, noticing that a new xterm package also was installed. I'm getting lots of blinking screens, under mutt, and sometimes just entering simple text? xterm patch #185 implements blinking text. offhand, if you're

Re: blinking xterm?

2004-03-19 Thread Thomas Dickey
to older versions of xterm, otherwise the default is ``false.'' assuming that's what we're talking about, xterm -v would show XFree86 4.4(185) Thanks. Lester On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 12:47:21PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: : Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 12:47:21 -0500 (EST) : From

Re: blinking xterm?

2004-03-19 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Lester Ingber wrote: Never mind re any option to turn off blinking. When I could not get a line in my .Xdefaults file to work: XTerm.showBlinkAsBold: True That would be XTerm*VT100.showBlinkAsBold: true Most of the resources apply to the vt100 widget. -- Thomas E.

Re: uxterm from xterm-185-2 not working and Unicode related craches from xterm

2004-03-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Hi list When running uxterm from xterm-185-2 I get 12:47 PM [126] uxterm xterm: bad command line option -u8 The imake configuration normally enables this code; the configure normally does not. There was some discussion last week about choosing

Re: Xterm on HP-UX

2004-03-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Wright, David L wrote: Hello, I am using cygwin with xfree68 to connect from my Windows XP machine to a HP-UX 11.11 machine. I am doing a rlogin from an xterm window. Whenever I type in a '@' while logged into the HP machine, I also get a new line. This is preventing

Re: [SOLVED] MultiWindow Mode: stty speed = 0 on xterm cause rlogin to fail

2004-03-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Danilo Turina wrote: Hey!! I didn't notice it immediately, but now the problem has disappeared (maybe because the new xterm-185?): speed is now 38400 as it should be. But I didn't change anything in xterm. It would probably be something changed in the environment which

Re: numlock

2004-04-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, J S wrote: Ah, not the answer I was expecting! Are you pulling my leg or was that a serious answer?! This is a serious answer. Numlock is treated as modifier key just like caps lock or control. pressing a key while numlock

Re: /usr/bin/xterm

2004-04-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: All of the old school X guys (Jim Gettys, Keith Packard, I think Kaleb Keithley, etc.) all say that /usr/X11R6 is an abomination and the sooner it goes away the better. It was a fix for the cases where people were running X11R5 and X11R6 clients.

Re: xterm-186 build bustage

2004-04-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: If anyone wants to help me with something, grab the xterm-186 original source (google for 'xterm', you'll find it), grab the -src package for our xterm-185 package, copy and rename xterm-185-*.sh to xterm-186-1.sh and try 'xterm-186-1.sh mkdirs

Re: xterm-186 build bustage

2004-04-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: (you actually need both sets of quotes so that the inner double quotes get propagated to gcc -- same goes for your proposed changes above, and, possibly, for the true clause of the #if statement in the above Imakefile). If it helps, I can submit

Re: Differnce between Xfree and Xorg

2004-05-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 13 May 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: They were based on the XFree 4.3 release. But the hw/xwin part was and still is being extended with a lot of features and 6 months make a big difference between a broken and a much better clipboard integration. particularly when most of the work

RE: problem resizing tunneled xterm

2004-05-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
I'm using is version XFree86 4.2.0(165), while the cygwin is XFree86 4.4(185). Not sure if I can update this right now though, so I won't be able to tell you if that was it. sorry. Maybe the xterm maintainer Thomas Dickey can shed a light on this. I'll CC him. offhand I don't recall any changes

Re: Differnce between Xfree and Xorg

2004-05-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 12 May 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Wed, 12 May 2004, aroushdi wrote: I am a little bit confused I see here that we have moved to Xorg distribution . I took a look at XFree.org and it seems they have Binaries for Cygwin till 4.4 . These binaries are likely to be very

Re: Differnce between Xfree and Xorg

2004-05-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 12 May 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Thomas Dickey wrote: On Wed, 12 May 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Wed, 12 May 2004, aroushdi wrote: I am a little bit confused I see here that we have moved to Xorg distribution . I took a look at XFree.org and it seems they have

RE: problem resizing tunneled xterm

2004-05-17 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 17 May 2004, Kris Thielemans wrote: Well, on the local xterm, I didn't ssh, su, login or whatever. It's just a local terminal. However, typing 'resize' indeed solves the problem. Thanks for the help! a final note. 'resize' works around the problem on the local (i.e. cygwin)

Re: Terminal emulator capable of emulating Sun terminals

2004-05-28 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 28 May 2004, Chris Green wrote: On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 11:20:57AM +0200, Ariel Burbaickij wrote: I suppose what I'm suggesting is that you run cygwin/X and use xdm to display your Sun desktop on your PC, then you can have Sun terminals as you want. dtterm will display remotely - I

Re: Terminal emulator capable of emulating Sun terminals

2004-05-28 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 28 May 2004, Chris Green wrote: On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 06:53:51AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Fri, 28 May 2004, Chris Green wrote: On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 11:20:57AM +0200, Ariel Burbaickij wrote: I suppose what I'm suggesting is that you run cygwin/X and use xdm

Re: beep in cygwin term

2004-05-31 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 31 May 2004, McLaughlin, James S. wrote: Hi, How do I turn off beep in my cygwin term ? I want something like xset b off - is there such a thing ? supposedly (I don't know if the server implements it). If your cygwin term is xterm, you can set the visualBell resource. -- Thomas E.

Re: Fw: 1.5.10: startx hangs intermittently

2004-06-04 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 12:21:02PM -0400, Jerry Moody wrote: Your email server rejects mail 5 bytes (and the required cygcheck.out file is 56506 bytes). So I zip'd it up, but your email server also rejects any mail with an executable (which I

Re: Change in xterm beep behavior

2004-06-09 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Tim Hubberstey wrote: I recently upgraded my Cygwin installation and the new xterm (XFree86 4.4(185)) now beeps when I send it the full reset sequence (\ec) where the previous version I was using (XFree86 4.2.99.903(174)) didn't. Is this expected behavior or a bug? it's

Re: gv

2004-06-18 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Rohan Shah wrote: OK I'm screwed, when I do: type -a gs i get: $ type -a gs gs is /usr/bin/gs gs is /bin/gs gs is /usr/X11R6/bin/gs gs is ./gs gs is /usr/bin/gs gs is /usr/X11R6/bin/gs gs is ./gs gs is ./gs

Re: conflict (Was Re: gv)

2004-06-18 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Thomas Dickey wrote: Before I reorder $PATH, I generally take a look for conflicts - http://invisible-island.net

Re: conflict (Was Re: gv)

2004-06-19 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 10:45:07PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: One more thing: make check doesn't work when built outside of the source directory (the build itself is fine). I think changing ./run_test.sh to ${srcdir}/run_test.sh should fix it, but I'm not sure, so I'll leave it up to

Re: Cygwin/X Installer

2004-06-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: could could also download the whole release directory from the mirror and then choose install from local directory and specify the directory where you downloaded the files. He could - but a recent posting to this list indicated that isn't the

Re: conflict (Was Re: gv)

2004-06-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: So, when can we expect the new version out? Once the above issues are fixed, I should be able to release the Cygwin package. FWIW, I'll maintain it if you won't. there's a conflict-20040420.tgz in my ftp directory now. -- Thomas E.

Re: conflict (Was Re: gv)

2004-06-21 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: One quick comment: Cygwin is only case-insensitive unless check_case:strict is defined in the CYGWIN environment variable. Your recent changes will cause it to generate some false positives in that case. Just FYI. ok. I was considering whether

Re: fattem xterm mouse cursor?

2004-07-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Lester Ingber wrote: I have software that can give me easily recognizable cursors on non-cygwin windows. However, on my Thinkpad/XPPro, on xterm windows, I often have a terrible time finding/seeing the I-beam mouse cursor. I did not see any option in the xterm manpage

Re: fattem xterm mouse cursor?

2004-07-21 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Tim Hubberstey wrote: --- Lester Ingber wrote: I have software that can give me easily recognizable cursors on non-cygwin windows. However, on my Thinkpad/XPPro, on xterm windows, I often have a terrible time finding/seeing the I-beam mouse cursor. I did not

Re: startx hangs on WinXP, xinit doesn't

2004-08-22 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Ariel Millennium Thornton wrote: Hello, pv. On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 22:29:04 -0700 (PDT) p v wrote: [snip] The only difference in the execution of the two is the environment so I experimented and finally I commented this portion of startx script - if [

Re: tcsh left running after closing down X server

2004-09-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Alexander Gottwald wrote: Jason Farrell Shepherd wrote: Hey guys, I just installed cygwin on my laptop running XP. It seems to be running fine, no problems with the install; however, I noticed that if I start several xterms running tcsh, and then close the XWin,

Re: need xterm to log to a file

2004-12-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Al Goodman wrote: On unix, xterm has an option that will enable it to log info typed and displayed to be logged to a file. I downloaded the xterm source and compiled it. When I enabled the option via Cntl-mouse-left-click the window hung. Any suggestions on how to log

Re: need xterm to log to a file

2004-12-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 06:50:11AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: I see it's a (usually minor) error in xterm, which runs into a cygwin bug. The function creat_as() does a fork/wait, assuming that it has to strip off the setuid/setgid privilges. That's

Re: need xterm to log to a file

2004-12-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Al Goodman wrote: Thomas Dickey dickey at his.com writes: On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Al Goodman wrote: ... Thanks for the quick reply!! Your fix worked, of course. no problem -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net

Re: default font size

2004-12-16 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Josef Dalcolmo wrote: Hello, the default font size within the xterm, that comes up on the default installation of Cygwin is tiny. I would generally prefer a larger size. How do I increase the font size? (there is no XF86Config file any more). The default font size for xterm

Re: I've lost cut and paste - any ideas why?

2004-12-17 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Chris Green wrote: On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 06:57:14AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: I have an impression that Slackware 10 introduced UTF-8 locales. That's the first thing I'd check. How would one check this and, if it's the cause, fix it? If your environment on the other end

Re: X application crush in korean environment. Korean environment is 'LANG=ko'.

2004-12-18 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, KuYa White wrote: I'm a newbie and korean. A few days ago, I installed cygwin and cygwin-xfree package. And then, I changed locale 'LANG=ko' for korean. Simply, I executed xterm. LANG=ko xterm -e vim I executed vim to write a document in xterm. When I tried to type any key in

Re: Cannot Start XFree version 4.4.0

2004-12-22 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Terrence White wrote: I have cygwin installed, and now I am installing XFree 4.4.0. I don't believe you need to run the -configure, since the cygwin X server does not (unlike the Unix server) contain a variety of loadable drivers. XFree86 -configure -- Thomas E. Dickey

Re: New setup.exe snapshot - please test

2004-12-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Max Bowsher wrote: Version 2.457.2.1 - Fix setup keeping open handles to every tarball it installs during a run. (Which appears to have been indirectly responsible for the weird hangs people have been experiencing.) Is there a bugzilla or other tracking tool for setup.exe

Re: xterm

2005-01-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Meadows, Marty wrote: I've downloaded cygwin/x to my windows xp platform. In /usr/X11R6/bin I see the following x clients: xhost, xdpyinfo, xclock, xeyes ... but I don't see xterm. Shouldn't I have an xterm? I also don't see a startx or startxwin.bat file anyplace in the

Re: right click paste in rxvt

2005-01-14 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Akash Jauhar wrote: hi list i have a question for which i have been trying to find an answer for a long time I normally use a windows machine but sometimes need the power of unix and hence have installed cygwin on my machine. when i connect to any linux machine using putty i

Re: Hungarian keyboard under cygwin-X

2005-01-26 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, [iso-8859-2] Szabó Bence wrote: Hello, I tried to set up hungarian keyboard under cygwin/X in my winXP box. After trying start X server, in xterm window it doesn't work correctly. If I use latin1 font, the 'Odoubleacute' and

Re: Problems with arrow keys and delete

2005-04-22 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Mika Lindman wrote: In Cygwin arrow keys and delete work fine, but in Cygwin/X I just get 2A, 2B etc. codes when pressing these keys. When I start X Server ( xwin -indirect ip ), arrow keys work in shifted mode, meaning that when I move with arrow keys in app (OOo or

Re: Problems with arrow keys and delete

2005-04-22 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Mika Lindman wrote: In Cygwin arrow keys and delete work fine, but in Cygwin/X I just get 2A, 2B etc. codes when pressing these keys. When I start X Server ( xwin -indirect ip ), arrow keys work in shifted mode, meaning that when

Re: Bold Double Strike vs. Bold different color

2005-05-07 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 11:30:00AM -0400, jose isaias cabrera wrote: I am running xterm and I would like to use a different color instead of bold. I have set all the options and I still get bold double strike instead of a different color. Any ideas where to change this? My cygwin bat

Re: good .Xdefaults

2005-05-07 Thread Thomas Dickey
a symbolic link, rgb-rgb.txt. showrgb should print a lot of entries if everything is ok. It does. $ showrgb | grep black 0 0 0 black Still, I get Warning: Color name black is not defined. Attention Thomas Dickey: By the way, there's a wrap-around error when that message is printed

Re: Bold Double Strike vs. Bold different color

2005-05-07 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 07:43:59PM -0400, jose isaias cabrera wrote: Here is my XWin call from startxwin.bat: run XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -emulate3buttons -silent-dup-error Here is my xterm call: xterm -geometry 80x60 -sl 5000 -bg black -fg grey -fbb -fb font2 -display

Re: Bold Double Strike vs. Bold different color

2005-05-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 7 May 2005, jose isaias cabrera wrote: Thank you Thomas! Sometimes, well, you try too hard. I have been through these and kept trying different settings. I appreciate your help, folks! yes - I run into that problem (thinking I've tried all of the combinations). Thanks. no problem --

Re: TrueType problem + question

2005-06-07 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Alexander Gottwald wrote: Other programs (like xterm, gvim and other gtk2 based programs) use client side fonts which are named with the true font name. In xterm: xterm -fn -microsoft-tahoma-bold-r-normal--24-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 xterm -fa Tahoma 24 -fs 24

Re: TrueType problem + question

2005-06-07 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Alexander Gottwald wrote: Other programs (like xterm, gvim and other gtk2 based programs) use client side fonts which are named with the true font name. In xterm: xterm -fn

Re: Cygwin dtterm

2005-06-15 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Thontesh Renukarya wrote: Hi, I need dtterm for Cygwin to run test cases. Can I know is it available? If available please let me know the location for downloading the dtterm setup. I don't believe it is available. xterm should work. -- Thomas E. Dickey

RE: cygwin-xfree Digest - How do I change colours in Xterm etc.

2005-06-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Baksik, Frederick (NM75) wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 1:23 PM To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin-xfree Digest - How do I change colours in

Re: Running Commands with xterm -e

2005-08-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Paul Atzberger wrote: When using xterm to run a command such as: xterm -hold -e man ls cygwin reports the error message: no absolute path found for shell : man ls However, if the command is run with: xterm -hold -e man ls everything appears to work fine. That

Re: Page Up and Page Down

2005-09-16 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Mike Hicks wrote: Hi. I have what appears to be a plain US 104-key keyboard manufactured by/for Compaq. Using xterm, when I press the Pg Up key on the number keypad, I get the character sequence ^[[5~ and I get ^[[6~ for Pg Dn (^[ is actually a single character, escape).

RE: Page Up and Page Down

2005-09-16 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Reid Thompson wrote: if nothing else, remap the sequences in your .[g]vimrc file(s). that's a backwards solution (but as a last resort ;-) Also, use setup to download rxvt and see if that provides you a better 'terminal' no - just to refresh my memory I ran it just

Re: Page Up and Page Down

2005-09-17 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, Mike Hicks wrote: [whoops, forgot to CC: this to the list] On 9/16/05, Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Mike Hicks wrote: On my Linux box at home, I believe xterm always produces ^[[5~ and ^[[6~ It sounds like your Linux system is running

Re: xterm pointer color

2005-10-17 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Jack Tanner wrote: Thomas Dickey, if you happen to catch this thread, please consider changing the manpage for xterm so that the -ms switch refers to the pointerColor resource. ok -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net

Re: web browser for cgywin

2005-10-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 23 Oct 2005, Eliah Kagan wrote: On 10/23/05, Reid Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles Li wrote: Can someone recommend a decent, and easy to build, web browser for cgywinX? Or, if you're willing to expend a bit more effort, you could compile Firefox against cygwin.dll (this

Re: port existing x windows application to win32

2005-11-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Michel Bardiaux wrote: Eliah Kagan wrote: There is of course a cygwin port of the X11 *client* libraries, but what if you cant put your app under GPL? Is there a pure mingw port of the X11 client lib? The X11 client libraries aren't GPL. -- Thomas E. Dickey

Re: port existing x windows application to win32

2005-11-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Michel Bardiaux wrote: Thomas Dickey wrote: On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Michel Bardiaux wrote: Eliah Kagan wrote: There is of course a cygwin port of the X11 *client* libraries, but what if you cant put your app under GPL? Is there a pure mingw port of the X11 client lib

Re: port existing x windows application to win32

2005-11-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Michel Bardiaux wrote: Thomas Dickey wrote: I assume you refer to the cygwin FAQ: I'm aware of it. Looks like you read this, but still don't understand it. (Perhaps you should discuss this on the regular cygwin mailing list). But I am not sure it can be applied

Re: port existing x windows application to win32

2005-11-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Michel Bardiaux wrote: So, I was right (rather than 'disregardable'). And that's from the horse's mouth, so to speak. Which brings back my query: is there a free but not GPL version of the X client libraries for Win32? rofl I have a better suggestion: since you don't

Re: port existing x windows application to win32

2005-11-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I'm really wondering what you're up to. Michel's choice of words might You shouldn't have to wonder if you read my response rather than cut/paste from a boilerplate response regarding the cygwin dll. The X library source is not GPL. Likewise

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