hostname command

2010-10-08 Thread Hans Jørgen Aagaard Jensen
Hi "hostname" in cygwin does not accept the normal unix/linux options as "-f", "-d", etc. "hostname -f" gives an error message. We are using "hostname -f" when compiling our quantum chemistry package Dirac, it is used to specify the full domain name in the output of calculations. This is somet

Re: Looking for experienced CygWin Users

2010-10-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 08:32:21PM -0500, mike marchywka wrote: >I have actually thought of starting my own forum for a different field >after contacting the site that inspired my interest, they had no >interest in a forum. My idea was something like wikipedia with more >prominence to the discussi

Re: Looking for experienced CygWin Users

2010-10-08 Thread mike marchywka
On 10/8/10, Al wrote: >> Yep, pretty much all of that. It's not what was said (which sounds >> fine when you paraphrase it as you have), but the way it was said. It >> was my reaction to reading the thread in one sitting, especially as I >> thought the OP had good intentions. >> > > The OP obvious

Re: Can't use mintty instead of rxvt for remote ssh -Y and xserver?

2010-10-08 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 10/08/2010 12:07 PM, Reckoner wrote: > Hi, > > I'm starting my xserver using > >C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe -p /usr/X11R6/bin XWin -multiwindow > -clipboard -silent-dup-error > > and then I do: > >C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -e /bin/xhere /bin/zsh > > when I do > >% ssh -Y h...@remote.edu

Re: Looking for experienced CygWin Users

2010-10-08 Thread Al
> Yep, pretty much all of that. It's not what was said (which sounds > fine when you paraphrase it as you have), but the way it was said. It > was my reaction to reading the thread in one sitting, especially as I > thought the OP had good intentions. > The OP obviously has good intentions, because

Re: trouble posting to cygwin-apps

2010-10-08 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
2010/10/7 SZABÓ Gergely : > Hello, > > The mailing list does not accept html email, that's fair enough. > > The real problem is, it also bounces every email with a company > disclaimer about intentions and original addressees. > > Well, the original addressee is cygwin at cygwin dot com, which is a

Re: cygwin + xwin in win7 as unprivileged user?

2010-10-08 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 06/10/2010 22:15, davidstvz wrote: It's a multiuser windows 7 lab environment where the only thing I can count on is that the individual users will do whatever they want to. I'm having to forcibly kill the x-windows process rather than just use a plain signal termination. It's ignoring a van

Re: rebaseall failures, propsal

2010-10-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 09:43:32AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: >On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 02:51:51PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: >> Jason, could you possibly make sure that rebase (or rebaseall) makes >> all files to be rebased writeable? > >Yes. > >> perlrebase does just that: >> >> cat rebase$su

Re: trouble posting to cygwin-apps

2010-10-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 08:20:42AM +0200, SZAB? Gergely wrote: >The mailing list does not accept html email, that's fair enough. > >The real problem is, it also bounces every email with a company >disclaimer about intentions and original addressees. >Well, the original addressee is cygwin at cygwi

Re: emacs-23.2-3 and DBus

2010-10-08 Thread Michael Albinus
Ken Brown writes: > So I think the bottom line is that, at least under Cygwin, users > should make sure the system bus is running before loading dbus.el. That's recommended under any system. Btw, in order to play with a "real" application, I've tried secrets.el from the trunk, combined with ema

R: gsl linking

2010-10-08 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Ven 8/10/10, Sergey Ivanov ha scritto: > After compiling program that uses gsl > a got linking errors: > ./libs/statistics//libice_statistics.a(iceu_density_correl.o):iceu_density_correl.c:(.text+0xa4): > undefined reference to `_gsl_fft_complex_wavetable_free' > ./libs/statistics//libice_stat

Re: emacs-23.2-3 and DBus

2010-10-08 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/8/2010 8:00 AM, Michael Albinus wrote: Ken Brown writes: Yep. Reading the code, I have the feeling, that the following patch should help: [...] No, I still get the freeze if I load dbus and the system bus isn't running. That's strange. Today, I could test under cygwin. I've recompile

Re: trouble posting to cygwin-apps

2010-10-08 Thread SZABO Gergely
Thanks for the gmane tip! Best regards Gergely Szabó -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: trouble posting to cygwin-apps

2010-10-08 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/08/2010 12:20 AM, SZABÓ Gergely wrote: This policy is OK for most FOSS projects, No, most FOSS projects tend to frown on disclaimers. It's just that cygwin is a bit more pro-active about the frowning, by actually rejecting it up front. > I think Cygwin is used most by 3PPs within bi

Re: rebaseall failures, propsal

2010-10-08 Thread Jason Tishler
On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 02:51:51PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: > Jason, could you possibly make sure that rebase (or rebaseall) makes > all files to be rebased writeable? Yes. > perlrebase does just that: > > cat rebase$suff.lst | xargs chmod u+w > rebase -v -b $baseaddr -T rebase$suff.lst > c

Re: trouble posting to cygwin-apps

2010-10-08 Thread Bill Hoffman
On 10/7/2010 6:15 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: There is no need for arguing about anything. My point (which I guess I didn't make clear) was that the mailing lists at cygwin.com/sourceware.org/gcc.gnu.org do not accept html email, even if there is a pure text component. Thanks, my bad. Thunde

Re: emacs-23.2-3 and DBus

2010-10-08 Thread Michael Albinus
Ken Brown writes: >> Yep. Reading the code, I have the feeling, that the following patch >> should help: > [...] > > No, I still get the freeze if I load dbus and the system bus isn't running. That's strange. Today, I could test under cygwin. I've recompiled the sources from the emacs-23 branch,

Re: How to know if the x11 display uses 24-bit RGB color or instead uses a color palette with a fixed number of colors

2010-10-08 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 08.10.2010 04:50, schrieb Mark Geisert: Tatsuro MATSUOKA writes: On the Linux, the xdpyinfo command can be used. On my cygwin system, xdpyinfo does not exist. However I do not install full components of the cygwin. Does the "xdpyinfo" exist in cygwin? For a while now the X components ha

Re: How to know if the x11 display uses 24-bit RGB color or instead uses a color palette with a fixed number of colors

2010-10-08 Thread Tatsuro MATSUOKA
Hello Marco Thank you for information. I have just installed xdpyinfo (I have just overlooked it and found it after the Mark's advise. ) The way to search the components will be useful so far. Regards Tatsuro --- Marco Atzeri wrote: > --- Ven 8/10/10, Mark Geisert� ha scritto: > > > Tatsu

Re: How to know if the x11 display uses 24-bit RGB color or instead uses a color palette with a fixed number of colors

2010-10-08 Thread Tatsuro MATSUOKA
Hello Thank you Mark. I have installed xdpyinfo and obtained the required information. Regards Tatsuro --- Mark Geisert wrote: > Tatsuro MATSUOKA writes: > > On the Linux, the xdpyinfo command can be used. On my cygwin system, > > xdpyinfo > does not exist. However > > I do not install ful

Re: How to know if the x11 display uses 24-bit RGB color or instead uses a color palette with a fixed number of colors

2010-10-08 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Ven 8/10/10, Mark Geisert  ha scritto: > Tatsuro MATSUOKA writes: > > On the Linux, the xdpyinfo command can be used. On my > cygwin system, xdpyinfo > does not exist.  However > > I do not install full components of the cygwin. > > > > Does the "xdpyinfo" exist in cygwin? > > For a while n