[PATCHES] Re: keypad assignments

To Cygwin maintainers:

Attached are two unidiff files for correcting the problem of translating 
numeric keypad navigation keys to editing keypad navigation keys.  
Editing keypad navigation is now only forced in the absence of a scancode.

Paul

Paul Loewenstein wrote:
> Thomas,
>
> I believe I have fixed the problem.  What program do you use for 
> displaying the keycodes so I can test the fix before sending in the 
> patch?
>
> Paul
>
> Thomas Wolff wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I've managed to re-activate my Cygwin/XFree (there had been this 
>> disabled keyboard problem with a non-cygwin XKEYSYMDB variable 
>> setting since some recent release...).
>> So I discovered that, assumedly with that recent major revision, a 
>> keyboard handling deficiency has been introduced:
>>
>> The keys of the right keypad (aka "numeric keypad") do no longer emit 
>> the keysyms KP_Home, KP_Up etc as they used to do but just plainly 
>> Home, Up etc which are also the keysyms of the small keypad (aka 
>> "editing keypad"). This makes them indistinguishable for any 
>> application - even worse, this cannot be fixed by configuration since 

Re: [PATCHES] Re: keypad assignments

Paul Loewenstein wrote:
> Attached are two unidiff files for correcting the problem of translating 
> numeric keypad navigation keys to editing keypad navigation keys.
> Editing keypad navigation is now only forced in the absence of a
> scancode.

Thanks for the patches; I have added these to the queue for
xorg-server-1.6.0.

Yaakov
Cygwin/X

XWin wrong fonts after update

Hallo,

I've been using since ages cygwin and XWin (XWin :0 -clipboard 
-multiwindow) on a Win XP Prof 32bit and I had no problems at all. Last 
update of cygwin I did was some month ago (I do not know exactly when). 
Yesterday afternoon I did again an update (like I always did without 
looking at he home page of cygwin) and I have realized that the X.org was 
updated.
The problem is since then a graphical application which is ssh tunneled 
from a remote linux machine, which was working until the update, now is 
showing up with horrible (almost not readable) text fonts (Is there a way 
to attach a screenshot?). 

I have tried to do a new installation of cygwin on another machine. On the 
fresh installed machine the same application exports fine with the correct 
fonts.

This means that the update is the problem.

So how to get it work now?

Thanks.

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RE: XWin wrong fonts after update

catia.lavalle <at> xxxxxxx.xxx wrote:
> I've been using since ages cygwin and XWin (XWin :0 -clipboard
> -multiwindow) on a Win XP Prof 32bit and I had no problems at all.
Last
> update of cygwin I did was some month ago (I do not know exactly
when).
> Yesterday afternoon I did again an update (like I always did without
> looking at he home page of cygwin) and I have realized that the X.org
> was updated.

You can always tell which packages are going to be updated by clicking
the View button in setup.exe until the label next to it reads "Partial".
In fact, I wouldn't recommend updating without first checking that
list.

You should then read the announcements for the packages about to be 
updated so that you're not surprised by any changes.  The X update was 
a VERY large one and came with quite a detailed announcement.

> The problem is since then a graphical application which is ssh
tunneled
> from a remote linux machine, which was working until the update, now
is
> showing up with horrible (almost not readable) text fonts (Is there a
> way
> to attach a screenshot?).

There's no point.  Anyone subscribed to this list will already know
what your problem is.

'no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH' error message on install

Hello,

when I wanted to install, the program with cygwin (using package for NetBSD), the error message "no
acceptable C compiler found in $PATH" came up.

However, I have installed cygwin directly from web not unsellecting any option, so the instalation should
be complete.  The program is installed in D:\pokus\cygwin directory.

To keep track all the steps I made, I send the picture of 3 screenshot showing all I have done until the error
message appeared. I also attach the log file made by cygwin after the action.

If you need any further information, feel welcome to let me know.

Thank you for your help.

Best wishes
Jaro

      

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RE: XWin wrong fonts after update

I know I can always tell which packages are to be updated, what if I do 
not what to?

I mean I am not installing a beta distribution, so I assume that the 
things are enough tested before they are posted in a repository. Obviously 
it can happen that something is buggy or does not work for one or another 
reason the way it should, but for sure this is to be seen as a bug and not 
as stupidity of the people who install the update.

And at the end of the day what should people do keep the "old" packages 
all life long? sometimes I will be "forced" to trust you and apply the 
update anyway, and the X.org major update is now "old" (November 2008).

If something needs manual "help" before the update procedure can be 
performed (which should never happen if the update procedure is good 
enough), a warning message should pop up.

Even if I accept (which I do not really) that I was not enough careful in 
applying the update what should I do now: kill myself? reinstall the whole 
system or are you willing to give an hint how to restore the 
functionality?

If there is no point in attaching a screen shot and you are soo good in 
understanding what I mean, you would be soo good even in answering right 
away solving the problem instead replying with an useless polemic mail, 
right? 

p.s. I did googled and I did look in the previous threads and I did not 
find any answer to my question, that's why am am asking.

drop-down menu with multiwindow option doesn't work

Hi,
I'm using Tecplot 360, a proprietary program written with a Motif toolkit. It runs on a Linux server and the
display is a win2k PC with cygwin X Server 1.5.3. The problem only happens with the multiwindow option.
	The problem is with the drop-down menu. When I click it, it seems the menu appears behind the window and
immediately disappear. I made a screenshot of it but didn't attached it because I'm not sure about the file
attachment policy of the mailing list. There's a grey rectangle that briefly appears under the window.
It's plain grey, with no text in it.
	I understand that the problem is probably related to the Windows wm, since it doesn't show up without the
multiwindow option, but I was wondering if it's a known bug. Or maybe it's win2k specific?
	I've got a workaround: rootless option and any Unix wm, but I'd like to understand what is causing this problem.
Thanks for your attention.

Raphaël Langella 

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Re: XWin wrong fonts after update

catia.lavalle <at> bechtle.com schrieb:

Please check the FAQ for informations about the update:
   http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#modular

There are some changes in the location of file after the upgrade,
so you have to set up old start scripts for the X server to the new 
structure.

If you can not solve the problem with, the informations in the FAQ,
please follow the instructions for reporting a problem:
   Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
You can check the output of
   cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out
on both computers to see differences.

I think it is important to know how you start the X server on both 
computers and to check for differences in the start up scripts.

Regards
Dirk

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RE: 'no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH' error message on install

Jaroslav Rynik wrote:
> when I wanted to install, the program with cygwin (using package for
> NetBSD), the error message "no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH"
> came up.

This list is for X related questions only, setting the follow-up address
to the main cygwin list.

> However, I have installed cygwin directly from web not unsellecting any
> option, so the instalation should be complete.  The program is
> installed in D:\pokus\cygwin directory.

Only a limited set of packages is installed by default.  You have to
manually select the compiler(s) and other development tools.  Just re-run 
setup.exe and select the appropriate gcc packages.

> To keep track all the steps I made, I send the picture of 3 screenshot
> showing all I have done until the error message appeared. I also attach
> the log file made by cygwin after the action.
> 
> If you need any further information, feel welcome to let me know.
> 

It would have been better if you had followed the instructions in this
link:

> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html


In particular, note the part about *attaching* the output from running
"cygcheck -svr".  That would let us know which packages were actually 

RE: XWin wrong fonts after update

catia.lavalle <at> xxxxxxx.xxx wrote:
> I know I can always tell which packages are to be updated, what 
> if I do not what to?

You click on the second column until it says "Keep".  The interface 
could be more user friendly, but it does the job.  I've not updated 
this PC to X11R7 because I need a server with accelerated GL.  That 
hasn't stopped me from updating the rest of my cygwin packages.

The rest of your response was just a pointless and unwarranted rant.
Just follow the links I gave you, do what they tell you, and if 
you've still got a problem, we can start dealing with it.

> Even if I accept (which I do not really) that I was not enough careful
> in applying the update what should I do now: kill myself?

Erm... only if you really, really want to, and it has to be your own
decision.

> p.s. I did googled and I did look in the previous threads and I did
> not find any answer to my question, that's why am am asking.

I just googled too, for "fonts site:x.cygwin.com", and the first
result was the cygwin X FAQ that I previously listed.  The section on
updates includes what is almost certainly the answer to your problem.

If your problem genuinely is not covered by any of the links I gave 
you, then by all means post a follow-up, but in that case, you should 
tell us exactly what you *have* tried to resolve it, and why your 
problem isn't covered by the existing documentation.  If you don't