Re: Cygwin X11 Server slow performance

2018-06-05 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 6/5/2018 6:19 PM, Paul Sheer wrote: 20 years ago Linux cult members were using the same "blame-the-user"-type arguments. Nothing has changed. Please refrain from rants. You paid us nothing and we support you on our free time I don't need to do ANY analysis or tests to see that the Cygwin

Re: Cygwin X11 Server slow performance

2018-06-05 Thread Paul Sheer
20 years ago Linux cult members were using the same "blame-the-user"-type arguments. Nothing has changed. I don't use Emacs. I only gave it as an easily-testable example. Try: apt-get install xemacs ; export DISPLAY=windows.mylan:0.0 ; xemacs Professionally, I have been a C++ developer fo

Re: Cygwin X11 Server slow performance

2018-06-05 Thread L A Walsh
Paul Sheer wrote: Maybe you aren't familiar with 'X'. X is just a graphical transport. It doesn't have menus unless some other program puts them up. Try 'X' on linux -- running it from startX from a console and see how easy it is to use. NetSarang commercial X server has configurati

Re: Cygwin X11 Server slow performance

2018-06-05 Thread Paul Sheer
> Maybe you aren't familiar with 'X'. X is just a graphical > transport. It doesn't have menus unless some other program puts them up. > Try 'X' on linux -- running it from startX from a console and see > how easy it is to use. > NetSarang commercial X server has configuration menus to se

Re: Cygwin X11 Server slow performance

2018-06-04 Thread L A Walsh
Paul Sheer wrote: Cygwin/X is most definitely being used, and this might help: https://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-shared-memory.html Being used? I find that very difficult to believe. What type of PC and network do you have? I've been using Cygwin since Windows XP days, and wh

Re: Cygwin X11 Server slow performance

2018-04-30 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Paul Sheer! > 6. cygserver-config does not work. It gives: > [[[ > psheer@psheer-HP ~ > $ cygserver-config > Overwrite existing /etc/cygserver.conf file? (yes/no) yes > Generating /etc/cygserver.conf file > chown: changing ownership of '/etc/cygserver.conf': Permission denied > Warni

Re: Cygwin X11 Server slow performance

2018-04-30 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 4/30/2018 6:48 AM, Paul Sheer wrote: Cygwin/X is most definitely being used, and this might help: https://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-shared-memory.html Being used? I find that very difficult to believe. There are a large number of usability problems I have found and I have only been usi

Re: Cygwin X11 Server slow performance

2018-04-29 Thread Paul Sheer
> > Cygwin/X is most definitely being used, and this might help: > > https://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-shared-memory.html > Being used? I find that very difficult to believe. There are a large number of usability problems I have found and I have only been using Cygwin for a couple of hours. It'

Re: Cygwin X11 Server slow performance

2018-04-29 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2018-04-29 20:58, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On 2018-04-29 21:52, Paul Sheer wrote: >> I am trying to use the Cygwin X11 Server on Windows 64-bit as follows: >> C:\cygwin64\bin>XWin.exe -ac -listen tcp >> (Note this is on a private LAN without Internet access.) >> The X Server renders perfe

Re: Cygwin X11 Server slow performance

2018-04-29 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On 2018-04-29 21:52, Paul Sheer wrote: > I am trying to use the Cygwin X11 Server on Windows 64-bit as follows: > > C:\cygwin64\bin>XWin.exe -ac -listen tcp > > (Note this is on a private LAN without Internet access.) > > The X Server renders perfectly well and my favorite applications do

Cygwin X11 Server slow performance

2018-04-29 Thread Paul Sheer
Hi, I am trying to use the Cygwin X11 Server on Windows 64-bit as follows: C:\cygwin64\bin>XWin.exe -ac -listen tcp (Note this is on a private LAN without Internet access.) The X Server renders perfectly well and my favorite applications do start up and run. However performance is extrem