What is 'Xwin'

Dear people,

   I have just installed Cygwin and KDE onto my winXP OS. But I can't
open KDE as it says I'm missing 'Xwin'. What is that?

zeallous

Re: What is 'Xwin'

Anson Zeall wrote:

> Dear people,
> 
>    I have just installed Cygwin and KDE onto my winXP OS. But I can't
> open KDE as it says I'm missing 'Xwin'. What is that?

XWin is the main program of the XFree86 package to do all graphical 
output (That is a really short explanation). When installing Cygwin it 
is not selected as default. You should start the Cygwin-installer again 
and select the XFree86 package. That installs the necessary programs.

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Fresh kde-3.1.1-b1 cannot find some dlls

Hi!

I installed "setup-kde-3.1.1-b1.exe" to a cygwin install, on which
no version of kde was installed before.

After adding the kde path by hand (the installer did not do it),
at least some of it runs fine. During startup I get errors from
  kwin.exe (kwin.dll not found)
  kicker.exe (cygkickermain-1.dll not found)
and the desktop does not work (as you can imagine).

>From kde 2 beta, I remember you had to install some kde 1 package,
but I cannot remember which one and I haven't found anything in
the release notes or requirements.

So, what is missing?

BTW: What is the explorer kill and restart during install good for?
If you want to refresh the environment, an api call like this
  SendMessageTimeout(HWND_BROADCAST, WM_SETTINGCHANGE, 0,
                     (LPARAM) "Environment", SMTO_ABORTIFHUNG, 5000,
&dummy);
is more appropriate.

Thanks,
Jan Henrik

msg2qm?

I tried ni qt1_devel, qt2, qt3... is it anywhere?

Or, better, is it a search engine for kde-cygwin packages?
I didn't manage to find it... T_T

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QT-3 with gcc3

Hello.

I've never done this before... anyway, here is it...

I needed QT3 for some application of mine which started off as a
command-line app with gcc3; it only compiles on cygwin with gcc3 (strangely
enough, RedHat's gcc2 does the job pretty well).

So... I started to work on the Cygwin port of QT3. Through minor changes to
the code (it's just a few files) first I managed to compile a debug version,
next I build the whole QT3 with gcc3. Applications linked with libqt used to
crash, but with these changes they seem to run well. On the other hand, I
have barely tested it, but it does the job for me. So... who knows... there
may be some trouble inside.

I have attached the affected files (hopefully all of them) to the message
and a recursive diff (hmmm ... is this what "patch file" means?) - but it
was made between the directory where everything was built and the original
code distribution (i.e. right after cvs co, without make -f Makefile.cvs),
so there is some junk there... Also note that I have modified configure
options to suit my own needs.

Is anyone interested? I am really short on time right now , thus the changes
I made are pretty ugly. For the same reason the patch and everything might
also be sloppy.

Here is a short description of it:

1. getting the debug version to compile: trouble was the QRect::setCoords
was implemented in src/kernel/qrect.cpp and inlined in

kdeinit: Communication error with launcher

Dear all,
kde2 does not launch. I follow the instructions in 
http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/kde2/faq.php :

1. X -screen 0 1024x768x16 -engine 4 -ac -nowinkill -noreset

2. dcopserver --nosid

3. kdeinit --no-dcop --no-kded

So far, every thing is fine and get almost the same
messages in my terminal. But,

4. kwin &
..
..
kdeinit: Communication error with launcher

I have check the mail list archive at
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-cygwin&w=2&r=1&s=DCOP&q=b
but, could not find the solution.

I would be delighted to have any hint.
Thanks,
Ziya

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[PATCH] QCursor improvements in Qt2-win32

Hi!

I am stuck with a windows computer at the moment,
so I wanted to do some improvements to Qt.

This patch adds at least partial support of QCursor,
QWidget::setCursor(...) should work, at least for
those that I could figure out what the Windows
equivalents were. Don't know about overrideCursor,
as I'm not really sure how that works. And also
own bitmap-cursors doesn't work, as I have to
figure out how that works.

Richard Lärkäng

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Can not start KDE 3.1

I've been trying to start KDE 3.1 with the startkde.bat file and it gets 
as far as starting services and then hangs with kconf_update consuming 
almost all of my free CPU time.  I've attached a log of the start up 
hoping someone can help diagnose the problem.  An error that repeats 
multiple times is:

Error reading from /home/KenRoser/.DCOPserver_dellgx1_127.0.0.1_0, 
didn't read the expected 56 bytes

Perhaps this is the root of the problem.  This happens on two different 
machines.

e:\cygwin\opt\kde3>rem  <at> echo off

e:\cygwin\opt\kde3>REM 

e:\cygwin\opt\kde3>REM KDE/Cygwin Desktop starter script 

e:\cygwin\opt\kde3>REM (c) 2003 Ralf Habacker 

e:\cygwin\opt\kde3>REM 

e:\cygwin\opt\kde3>REM $Id:$ 

e:\cygwin\opt\kde3>REM 

e:\cygwin\opt\kde3>REM check kdedir and set to default installation path 

e:\cygwin\opt\kde3>if exist e:\cygwin\opt\kde3 goto NO_SET_KDEDIR

RE: [PATCH] QCursor improvements in Qt2-win32

Hi again!

Now I also have implemented QWidget::raise and lower.

Does anyone know if the qt2-win32 developers are still around?
Otherwise it would be nice to get access to cvs.

Richard Lärkäng

> Hi!
> 
> I am stuck with a windows computer at the moment,
> so I wanted to do some improvements to Qt.
> 
> This patch adds at least partial support of QCursor,
> QWidget::setCursor(...) should work, at least for
> those that I could figure out what the Windows
> equivalents were. Don't know about overrideCursor,
> as I'm not really sure how that works. And also
> own bitmap-cursors doesn't work, as I have to
> figure out how that works.
> 
> Richard Lärkäng
> 

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Re: [PATCH] QCursor improvements in Qt2-win32

Hi,

it is great that also other people are interested in this 
i originally started the port, but now i have a commercial qt license, so i 
can't work on this any more.
ralf habacker is the "master of the cvs accounts". i am sure he reads this, 
and if not, please contact him in private mail.

about the cursor stuff:

perhaps you take the time to have a short look over all the *_win* files to 
get an overview about what is still missing. perhaps the bitmap cursors don't 
work because the bitblt stuff is not finished yet. also the loading ans 
saving of images in QPixmap and/or QImage is mostly unimplemented yet, it 
should not be that hard though.

if you want to work on this for a longer time and have some bucks to spend, i 
would recommend you to buy the book "Programming Windows" from Charles 
Petzold. before i got that book, i couldn't really get a grip at the "windows 
way" of doing things. the book was quite helpful in explaining how things 
work (and why so many things don't work as expected, for some weird examples 
look at the message passing stuff ;-( ... )

happy hacking, Holger

On Saturday 14 June 2003 03:21, Richard Lärkäng wrote:
> Hi again!
>
> Now I also have implemented QWidget::raise and lower.
>