Re: cygwin ports

2016-08-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 11 08:39, Franz Fehringer wrote: > Am 11.08.2016 um 08:33 schrieb Franz Fehringer: > > [...] Additionally gmane has shut down its web > > interface so i cannot access the cygwin ports mailing lists any more. Is > > there any advice / help on this? > [...] > This also means that the newsgroup

Re: Ubuntu on Windows against Cygwin X server

2016-08-10 Thread Franz Fehringer
Am 10.08.2016 um 18:02 schrieb Andrey Repin: > Greetings, Franz Fehringer! > > >> Thanks much better now. >> Do you have an additional hint about >> (gvim:359): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon: >> Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote applicat

Re: cygwin ports

2016-08-10 Thread Franz Fehringer
Am 11.08.2016 um 08:33 schrieb Franz Fehringer: > Dear cygwin community, > > Since yesterday the setup.ini from the cygwin ports site as well as from > all mirrors ceases to verify. Additionally gmane has shut down its web > interface so i cannot access the cygwin ports mailing lists any more. Is

cygwin ports

2016-08-10 Thread Franz Fehringer
Dear cygwin community, Since yesterday the setup.ini from the cygwin ports site as well as from all mirrors ceases to verify. Additionally gmane has shut down its web interface so i cannot access the cygwin ports mailing lists any more. Is there any advice / help on this? Thanks and best regards

Re: Postinstall script errors on cygwin x86 install

2016-08-10 Thread Brent
Achim wrote: >You are obviously not using the R that comes with Cygwin My R is the Windows version of the program. I am not sure what you mean by "the R that comes with Cygwin". I do not think that cygwin comes with its own version R installed by default, like it default installs perl. In f

Re: chere mintty window position

2016-08-10 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 11.08.2016 um 00:53 schrieb Brian Mathis: Are you seeing this on Windows 10? I have noticed a lot of other apps do this as well on Windows 10, such as Evernote and Firefox. It seems to be caused by the invisible window border that Windows 10 puts on everything to make it appear that apps hav

Re: chere mintty window position

2016-08-10 Thread Brian Mathis
Are you seeing this on Windows 10? I have noticed a lot of other apps do this as well on Windows 10, such as Evernote and Firefox. It seems to be caused by the invisible window border that Windows 10 puts on everything to make it appear that apps have no border, but still give you enough pixels t

Re: PATHEXT is fundamental to Windows and Should be recognised by CYGWIN

2016-08-10 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Hans-Bernhard Bröker! > Am 10.08.2016 um 03:01 schrieb Andrey Repin: >> PATHEXT tells the shell to consider these file extensions executable. Erik: > PATHEXT is very simply a list of extensions CMD.EXE will automatically > append to the given filename when searching the PATH for a com

Re: PATHEXT is fundamental to Windows and Should be recognised by CYGWIN

2016-08-10 Thread Hans-Bernhard Bröker
Am 10.08.2016 um 03:01 schrieb Andrey Repin: PATHEXT tells the shell to consider these file extensions executable. No. That's what file associations do. cygstart will apply those where needed, so let's consider that aspect of the case closed, shall we? PATHEXT has just _one_ job, in those

Re: Ubuntu on Windows against Cygwin X server

2016-08-10 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Franz Fehringer! > Thanks much better now. > Do you have an additional hint about > (gvim:359): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon: > Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application > did not send a reply, the message bus security po

Re: Ubuntu on Windows against Cygwin X server

2016-08-10 Thread Eliot Moss
On 8/10/2016 10:46 AM, Franz Fehringer wrote: Dear Cygwin community, Is it possible to launch Ubuntu on Windows X11 clients agianst the Cygwin X11 server? A first shot was not a success: franz@FEHRINGER:~$ sudo xdpyinfo -display :0 xdpyinfo: unable to open display ":0". but on the other hand th

Re: Ubuntu on Windows against Cygwin X server

2016-08-10 Thread Franz Fehringer
Thanks much better now. Do you have an additional hint about (gvim:359): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeou

Re: PATHEXT is fundamental to Windows and Should be recognised by CYGWIN

2016-08-10 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 9:01 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Erik Soderquist! > >> PATHEXT looks for *executable* files, not file association. I warned >> previously in this thread about getting the two confused. > > Your statement is confusing. If not contradictory. > PATHEXT tells the shell

Re: Ubuntu on Windows against Cygwin X server

2016-08-10 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 10/08/2016 16:46, Franz Fehringer wrote: Dear Cygwin community, Is it possible to launch Ubuntu on Windows X11 clients agianst the Cygwin X11 server? A first shot was not a success: franz@FEHRINGER:~$ sudo xdpyinfo -display :0 xdpyinfo: unable to open display ":0". but on the other hand ther

Ubuntu on Windows against Cygwin X server

2016-08-10 Thread Franz Fehringer
Dear Cygwin community, Is it possible to launch Ubuntu on Windows X11 clients agianst the Cygwin X11 server? A first shot was not a success: franz@FEHRINGER:~$ sudo xdpyinfo -display :0 xdpyinfo: unable to open display ":0". but on the other hand there are already success stories for U on W again

Re: PATHEXT is fundamental to Windows and Should be recognised by CYGWIN

2016-08-10 Thread cyg Simple
On 8/9/2016 9:11 PM, Warren Young wrote: > On Aug 9, 2016, at 7:01 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: >> >>> PATHEXT looks for *executable* files, not file association. I warned >>> previously in this thread about getting the two confused. >> >> Your statement is confusing. If not contradictory. >> PATHEXT t

Re: symbolic linls

2016-08-10 Thread David Macek
On 10. 8. 2016 12:46, Andrey Repin wrote: >>> Windows' symbolic links are typed: they need to know whether they point to >>> a directory or to a file > > This is of no concern for an application. This is actually the worst problem with NTFS symlinks. The symlink becomes unreadable/untraversable

Re: symbolic linls

2016-08-10 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, David Macek! As i understand Cygwin will soon no longer support Windows XP resp. 2003. This means that only Windows versions with native symbolic link functionality will be supported after that. Would it be possible to use only native symbolic links throughout esp. d

Re: symbolic linls

2016-08-10 Thread David Macek
On 10. 8. 2016 3:16, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, David Macek! > >>> As i understand Cygwin will soon no longer support Windows XP resp. >>> 2003. This means that only Windows versions with native symbolic link >>> functionality will be supported after that. Would it be possible to use >>> onl

Re: PATHEXT is fundamental to Windows and Should be recognised by CYGWIN

2016-08-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 10 03:44, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > > >> As for PATHEXT we can do the following scenario instead. > >> > >> export PATHEXT="$PATHEXT;.TXT" > >> vi foo.txt > >> :set ff=dos > >> i > >> a > >> b > >> c > >> > >> :wq > >> cmd /c foo > > > As you show here, the PAT

Re: PATHEXT is fundamental to Windows and Should be recognised by CYGWIN

2016-08-10 Thread Warren Young
On Aug 9, 2016, at 6:10 PM, Warren Young wrote: > > On Aug 4, 2016, at 5:43 PM, Michel LaBarre wrote: > >> Three isolated *nix-like environments have died under Windows - Interix, >> POSIX subsystem under NT, and I expect Ubuntu under Win10 because of the >> lack of integration with Win32. > >