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Eric S. Johansson | 24 Aug 03:10
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vanishing cursor

every so often, something triggers a bug in Xwin which makes the cursor 
vanish but only over an Xwin window.  Only way to get back is to restart 
the X server (and windows).

another odd bug is that I noticed emacs tends to bleed through and pop 
up either ToolTips messages or menus even though a another (X or MS) 
window fully covers emacs.

thanks for any help that's available
---eric

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bt tan | 24 Aug 05:20
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Newbie seeking help.

Hi, 

    Good day. I am a newbie for cygwinX application. I
was wondering is this the right place to post question
of uncertainty about cygwinX application?

     If no, I would like to address my apologize here.

     If yes, I would like to ask the following
question. I'm currently trying to compile OTCL1.8 and
TK 8.4.5 using cygwin, but somehow rather the message
I have indicating that the X11 library couldn't be
found. Suprisingly I've installed the X windows
components and my Xwindows seems to be running ok.
Here's the details when I was running the make install
for TK 8.4.5 :

Steps taken to compile tk8.4.5 
--------------------------------
./configure
make install

Error displayed:
gcc -pipe  tkAppInit.o \
	-L/home/Administrator/ns/tk8.3.2/unix -ltk8.3 \
	-L/home/Administrator/ns/tcl8.3.2/unix -ltcl8.3 
-lX11   -lc  -o wish

/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.3/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld:
cannot find -lX11
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Michel Bardiaux | 24 Aug 11:48
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Re: Newbie seeking help.

bt tan wrote:

> Hi, 
> 
>     Good day. I am a newbie for cygwinX application. I
> was wondering is this the right place to post question
> of uncertainty about cygwinX application?
> 
>      If no, I would like to address my apologize here.
> 
>      If yes, I would like to ask the following
> question. I'm currently trying to compile OTCL1.8 and
> TK 8.4.5 using cygwin, but somehow rather the message
> I have indicating that the X11 library couldn't be
> found. Suprisingly I've installed the X windows
> components and my Xwindows seems to be running ok.
> Here's the details when I was running the make install
> for TK 8.4.5 :
> 
> Steps taken to compile tk8.4.5 
> --------------------------------
> ./configure

What is the output of 'configure' regarding X11 ?

> make install
> 
> Error displayed:
> gcc -pipe  tkAppInit.o \
> 	-L/home/Administrator/ns/tk8.3.2/unix -ltk8.3 \
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Alexander Gottwald | 24 Aug 12:39
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CYGWIN branch merge

Hi,

After the Xorg X11R6.8 release I'm planning to update the CYGWIN branch
with the X11R6.8 code. The latest changes from CYGWIN are already in 
HEAD.

The CYGWIN branch will be the base for releases. Only bugfixes and small 
features will get in between releases. After every Xorg release the CYGWIN
branch will be updated to that release again.

Development should be done on HEAD. 

Large changes (like working on the GDI engine) should be done in branches
forked from HEAD. After the feature is complete it will get merged back to 
HEAD.

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Boaz Harrosh | 24 Aug 14:26

fonts and symbolic links

As I am trying to pack a minimum X installation 
(see:http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-07/msg00207.html)

I have played around with using windows fonts and only supplying the 
smallest possible fonts in download.
I have done the following:
1) run> mkfontdir -  in the /cygdrive/c/windows/font/ directory
2) run> ttmkfdir.exe >> font.dir - I found ttmkfdir.exe in an old 
cygwin/xfree (not x.org) installation. It is very useful still. I 
suggest someone updates it to the new x.org package or should I have 
used something else?

[Q] if I run> ln -s /cygdrive/c/windows/font/ 
/usr/X11r6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF - On load, XWin.log will still complain 
about /usr/X11r6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF been not loadable.
But if I deep copy > cp /cygdrive/c/windows/font/* 
/usr/X11r6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ - than it is OK. Why would XWin not follow 
the symbolic link prepared by cygwin1.dll? This is Important as it is a 
big Resource and I don't want to duplicate windows font directory.
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Alexander Gottwald | 24 Aug 14:45
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Maintainer back

Hi,

After a longer weekend with much traffic my mailbox was full and 
mails from the mailinglist bounced so I got unsubscribed automaticly
without noticing it. 

No I'm available again and want to apologize for being not available for
two weeks now. 

I'll work through the old mails right now and try to give advice where 
possible.

bye
	ago 
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Alexander Gottwald | 24 Aug 14:49
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Re: Why doesn't "run XWin" show a window?

On Sun, 8 Aug 2004, Weeble wrote:

> The subject line says most of it really. When I "run XWin" no window 
> appears even though the X appears in the tray. I've seen this on every 
> machine I've tried it on.
> 
> "XWin" alone will show the window as well as the console that opens with 
> it.  Passing a parameter like  "run XWin -nodecoration" does have the 
> expected effect of showing the XWin window but hiding the console. But 
> why isn't the main window displayed if the parameter is missing when the 
> command is used with run ?

We had reports of this before. Unfortunately the only difference between
XWin and XWin -nodecoration is one flag in window creation which must cause
the problem. But the different behaviour is not documented in any of
Microsoft Windows API documentation and we know of no other solution than 
running with -nodecoration instead.

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Alexander Gottwald | 24 Aug 14:56
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Re: Help! TOO MANYlocalhost:loopback connections, slow performance.

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, goodwill wrote:

> Hi, I am using Xwin to access my linux machine KDE over a SSH tunnel.
> I ran into a interesting problem.
> Xwin seems to open HUGE amounts of localhost:loopback on many consecutive 
> ports (seem liek the whole tempt port range and more) and I mean like hundreds of
> these loopback connections.
> 
> They actually look very strange.
> there are hundreds of these connections doing this
> localhost:4818 connecting to localhost:4819
> localhost:4819 connecting to localhost:4820
> localhost:4820 connecting to localhost:4821
> .... and so on.
> basically its like they are playing "call the next port" game.
> 
> So my firewall (Agnitium Outpost Pro 2.1.xxx starts to lag my Windows comp.
> Its configured to allow xwin thru, in fact everything necessary is in the
> trusted zone, so it connects and works (lagging though). When I stop the
> firewall everything is ok.
> 
> After perusing the cygwin/x mailing lists, I could not find much to help me, 
> short of comments, to remove the firewall.
> Since it is not an option (no way should anyone be running windows with out a 
> firewall even if they are behind a router already like I am).
> 
> Why in the world dow xwin need to open so MANY loopback connections 
> in such a way.  
> Is there anyway to fix this?
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Alexander Gottwald | 24 Aug 15:08
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Re: XWin and xauth

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Rayman, Louis wrote:

> I'm having the weirdest time getting XWin to grant my solaris/linux login
> display rights.
> 
> first, my host PC translates its own name differently than the unix machines
> do, so I get something like this:
> cygin$ xauth list
> nyfitw957952.leh.lbcorp.lehman.com:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
> 081b3d50145b5525317315327a715f62
> 
> but:
> 
> solaris$ xauth list
> nyfitw957952.lehman.com:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
> 081b3d50145b5525317315327a715f62
> solaris$ echo $DISPLAY
> nyfitw957952.lehman.com:0
> solaris$ xterm
> Xlib: connection to "nyfitw957952.lehman.com:0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
> xterm Xt error: Can't open display: nyfitw957952.lehman.com:0
> 
> 
> then, if by some  miracle I get past that, after a certain amount of time,
> the connection stop working, even if I already have an xterm running, I
> can't start another!!?!
> 
> what's a poor boy to do?
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Alexander Gottwald | 24 Aug 15:13
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Re: [Fwd: Cygwin-X+15.4" display]

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Flavio Elias wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I've tried running Cygwin-Xfree on my Toshiba M35 laptop (15.4" 
> display), and cannot get it to work. After the startx command, there is 
> some output (attached), and then the shell freezes. Any thoughts about 
> what might be going on?

You're using ZoneAlarm 5, right? Get rid of it it breaks the cygwin network
layer.

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