Re: Fwd: X session turns white after display is turned back on

2011-03-05 Thread Mark Geisert
Natarajan Murugaiyan writes: > I am using cygwin on a Dell windows 7 laptop, running X windows > through startx command with fvwm2 window manager. [...] Not sure where this was forwarded from. But in any case, X Window issues on Cygwin are handled on a different mailing list named cygwin-xfree.

Re: Windows Shortcut That Runs Cygwin Command

2011-03-05 Thread Keith Christian
Panos, I don't have Windows 7, however, this procedure is generic enough that it should work. Try it and let me know. 1. Create this plain DOS .cmd file in c:\cygwin\usr\local\bin\dos2cygwin.cmd. Line endings should be CRLF so it may be best to create this with Notepad. @echo off echo. echo.---

Debugging help for fork failure: resource temporarily unavailable

2011-03-05 Thread Ryan Johnson
Hi all, I'm hitting the oh-so-delightful fork failures when trying to compile a cross-compiler toolchain, which is a pain because one fork failure makes crosstool-ng start over. I've rebased, I've been over the BLODA (Windows Defender slipped in even after I rejected the download), and while t

1.7.8: write fails with EAGAIN

2011-03-05 Thread Robert Wruck
Hi, recently, I found that cygwin-git was not able to 'cat-file' files that exceeded some size (in my case about 80MB). I tracked this down to the cygwin implementation of write() that behaves quite odd in some cases. I wrote a small program (source attached) that mmaps a given file and trie

Re: Problems with Cygwin-1.7.8 (or snapshot) and TeXLive 2010

2011-03-05 Thread David Rothenberger
On 3/3/2011 9:44 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > After I flagged these problems [*], I chose to do a clean reinstall of > TeXLive 2010 (TL2010). After installed its packages (> 2000!), TL2010 > installation proceeds with its post-install actions, mainly generating > all format files. The installation

ccrypt package upgrade requested

2011-03-05 Thread Charles Russell
ccrypt version 1.9 builds out-of-the box on Cygwin, so if anyone maintains this package the upgrade should be trivial. There are some useful new features. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin

Re: Problems with Cygwin-1.7.8 (or snapshot) and TeXLive 2010

2011-03-05 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Ken Brown wrote: I'm running Win7 in case that makes a difference. Here on Win XP SP3, 32 bit. I haven't W7 :( Corinna, are there changes in the 20100910 snapshot that could explain this? Anyway it would be a remarkable coincidence that 20100910 snapshot ChangeLog says: [...] 2010-09-10

Re: Problems with Cygwin-1.7.8 (or snapshot) and TeXLive 2010

2011-03-05 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/5/2011 5:22 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Since fmtutil-sys is apparently the core of the problem, and given my total lack of knowledge about the Tex/Latex system, is there any simple call to fmtutil-sys with which I can reproduce the problem without having to install t

Re: Detect mintty in .zshrc?

2011-03-05 Thread Andy Koppe
On 4 March 2011 17:02, Rafael Kitover wrote: > When I installed SUA (and haven't played with it yet) it for some reason > set TERM=dumb in my control panel env vars. That's not very neighbourly. > Cygwin apparently only sets > it to 'cygwin' if it's initially unset, which makes sense. Hmm, perha

Re: Problems with Cygwin-1.7.8 (or snapshot) and TeXLive 2010

2011-03-05 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Since fmtutil-sys is apparently the core of the problem, and given my total lack of knowledge about the Tex/Latex system, is there any simple call to fmtutil-sys with which I can reproduce the problem without having to install texlive? It seems too difficult for me. fmtu

Re: Windows Shortcut That Runs Cygwin Command

2011-03-05 Thread Panos Katergiathis
Thank you Eliot. I am afraid that the information you provided is not sufficient for me. I wouldn't know how to proceed. Regards On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 4:10 AM, Eliot Moss wrote: > On 3/4/2011 7:38 PM, Panos Katergiathis wrote: >> >> Hello all. How would i go about creating a shortcut in Win